The Fantasy Puzzle Book: 100 fiendishly fantastical puzzles involving dragons, magic, swords and spells

by Dr Gareth Moore

Pit your wits against dangerous dragons, malevolent witches, and deceitful sorcerers in this fantastically inventive collection of one hundred original puzzles.

In The Fantasy Puzzle Book you will join Miralda and Orien on their epic quest as they journey to the fabled kingdom of Ellamir, and attempt to take back what's rightfully theirs. Together, the outcasts must rescue the Crystal of Divinair from the ancient sorcerer Nefaron, before their kingdom is lost forever to eternal darkness.

Along the way, you'll be dodging hostile weapon-forgers by moonlight, navigating mystical mazes, cracking cryptic incantations, and much more besides. These brain-teasers include logic, word, and number puzzles and will provide hours of entertainment.

Written by puzzle-masters Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, this is the perfect book to satisfy all fantasy fans by putting your knowledge and imagination to the ultimate test.

Praise for the

'Britain’s King of Puzzles' – The Sun
'One of Britain's most trusted brain-trainers' – The Sunday Telegraph

Genres: Puzzles, Fantasy

320 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2024

Reviews

[Britt Borchert-jørgensen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very repetitive puzzles, it’s the same puzzles over and over and over and over, and none of them are strictly necessary to follow the very predictable, and very recognisable, story.

[Amy Stocker · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a fun time!
It's a fantasy story with dragons, trolls, lost family, crystals and everything else in between, plus puzzles that pair alongside such as letter sudoku (I love sudoku), working out the order of events and names for critical parts later on. This is the first time I've done a puzzle book like it and have to give props to my friend Ruth for buying it for me. Thank you, Ruth, it was great.

4.3/5.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Silly fun to add a shallow fantasy narrative to the puzzles. The story is completely unrelated to the puzzles; you can complete all of the puzzles independently from the story. The book provided a nice way to relax in the evenings after work and I appreciated the fact that they did not get increasingly harder. Most puzzles were on the easier side, as I was able to complete a handful of them quickly in one sitting.

[testatrailibri__ · Rating 3 out of 5]

enigmista carina e intrattenitiva, ma nulla di straordinario, e la storia non ha bisogno di essere letta velocemente per ricordarsela (io l'ho iniziato il 25 aprile 2025 e finito il 5 agosto 2025).

ammetto che per un paio di "enigmi" mi sono aiutata con le soluzioni.

la cosa più pesante è che alla fine sono sempre gli stessi enigmi in chiave diversa per adattarli a quel momento nella storia.

[Boo Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first narrative puzzle book I have ever done and I loved it! A few mistakes like names changing halfway through the book and mistakes in the wording of some puzzles. But overall a really fun and stimulating read.

[Cecilia Spjuth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read and reasonably good puzzles, challenging but not frustrating.

[Yole Borgonjon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Qua verhaal: matig
Het spelelement in het verhaal maakt het heel leuk

[Toa Boers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Does this book do anything new, interesting, or particularly smart? No. But did I have a good time nonetheless? I sure did! It's just good, silly fun

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Opzich wel fun even wat nieuws maar niet heel bijzonder