The best puzzle books for adults to test your brain

Attend your very own Rover's pub quiz with this Coronation Street Puzzle Book. Available to pre-order now - come October, you can test your knowledge of TV's longest-running soap.

Customer Review: "Bought as a little gift for someone. The book is quite thick and has a lot of different Puzzles, Quizzes, Test Your Knowledge and Coronation Street facts."

The puzzles in this Alan Turing Codebreaker Puzzle Book become progressively harder, but if you are in need of a little help, there's a unique hints section, and the solutions lead you step-by-step through the logic of every puzzle.

Customer Review: "Really imaginative. Not just the usual word searches - they actually were about films, books and really cleverly written.'

Test your word-puzzling, map-reading, general knowledge and problem-solving skills with 400 mind-stretching questions from the AA British Road Map Puzzle Book.

Customer Review: "One reviewer said: 'Bought this for my grandpa who is obsessed with maps, brings one out at every family visit. He's enjoying it so much my dad has even joined in regular quizzing!"

Full of mathematical puzzles that will test your number knowledge to help keep the cogs turning. From starter puzzles to perplexing Olympiad problems, The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge kicks your brain into gear.

Customer Review: "I spotted this book mentioned on social media and had to order it immediately. My 11 yr old and I dived straight in. This is a well-chosen set of problems from Maths Challenges and Olympiads with what looks like a good proportion accessible to the younger end of the secondary school age range and a nice selection of other puzzles scattered between the weekly sets of problems. We've tried some together and some separately and have enjoyed all of them so far. Well-explained solutions are given - a lovely present for a keen mathematician."

Think you're green-fingered? Test your plant knowledge and grow your gardening skills. The RHS Gardener's Quiz and Puzzle Book is designed to test your horticultural and botanical knowledge with puzzles to delight and challenge.

Customer Review: "I bought this as a Christmas present for my wife, a keen gardener. It is a well-produced book with beautiful plant illustrations. The expected standard of knowledge is very high! Unless you are a real geek on Latin names, etc. you should expect to use it as a source of knowledge by looking up most of the answers. Some of the puzzles are doable, however, so don't give up."

London cab drivers have no need for sat navs, they have to learn all the routes to get where you need to go in the Capital. But can you? The A-Z Puzzle Book will help you unlock the secrets of Britain’s streets.

Customer Review: "As I love both maps and puzzles, I couldn't resist this book and I'm really enjoying the challenge of the puzzles as well as the factual information which precedes each map. The quality of the book is very good. It's proving to be a good test of my newly acquired reading glasses and a magnifying glass also comes in useful for some of the London maps."

The brains at Bletchley Park cracked one of the biggest puzzles of all time. With puzzles in a range of difficulty levels, let's see how you get on with the Bletchley Park Brainteasers!

Customer Review: "Bought this for Christmas for my dad who loves stuff like this. He's enjoyed it so much that he's also lent it to one of his friends to challenge him with the puzzles. The history of what they did at Bletchley was also intriguing and interesting."

The Mindful Puzzle Book is perfect for those who prefer a gentle cerebral stretch rather than a full-on high-intensity brain workout. It includes a wide range of standard puzzles, alongside new and exciting ones - to avoid repetition.

Customer Review: "This is a great book for anyone who enjoys puzzles but nothing too taxing. It's got a good variety but does become repetitive in the type of puzzle as the book goes on. Would make a good gift as is very pretty. I did find it helped me relax but would have been better if there were mindfulness exercises included as it is called The Mindfulness Puzzle Book."

This Extra Large Print Sudoku Puzzle Book makes a gorgeous gift for someone who loves a Sudoku challenge. With 90 puzzles to try, this will keep your mind occupied and relaxed for hours. And to make this book even better, it's in large print with easy-to-hard levels.

Customer Review: "My 91-year-old Dad has macular degeneration and is really struggling with his eyesight now. However, this book (along with similar) is enabling him to still engage and do the puzzles he loves. The print is large and bold so helps him massively."

A classic puzzle book of Sudoku for everyone to enjoy - you might need to find your glasses for this one! Where's Wally offers hours of fun and games await...

Customer Review: "Yep a classic. Hard enough for me."

Even if you can't get out as much as you'd like to, you can explore our green and pleasant land virtually. The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book makes a great gift for the walkers in your life.

Customer Review 'My wife and I love this book, the quiz is a nice mix of easier and more challenging questions. Should keep most people going for a good few days. Makes a great gift for people that love books and quizzes… I'd recommend it.'

Need a new puzzle every month? Why not sign up for a subscription to Take a Puzzle Subscription? All puzzles and brain teasers are in large print, bold type making them ideal, easy to read, puzzles for adults. With puzzles including crossword puzzles, brain games, logic puzzles and more puzzle types, this is your one stop game book.

Bookworms rejoice! Indulge your passion for literature with these fun quizzes and discover how much you really know about your favourite characters. The Penguin Book Quiz has 400 questions covering iconic literary classics to children's books and more. How fun does that sound?

Customer Review: "A very fun and sublimely informative book. Great to leaf through randomly and a great party game."

Keep little ones busy (and out of trouble) with a puzzle pad that will help their educational development. The Little Children's Puzzle Pad is jam-packed with simple word, number and picture puzzles for little children to enjoy.

Customer Review: "Amazing book for my 5-year-old. Worth its weight in gold when we were travelling. Not too hard but enough to keep him interested. I had to read the instructions though. Bought more like this in the same series of books."

Are you new to puzzle books? Do you want to learn how to master sudoku? If the answer is yes, this The Guardian Killer Sudoku 1 is the one for you.

Customer Review: "Others have mentioned that a lot of these puzzles are fairly basic, so here's the thing: If you're new to killer sudoku, get this book, it's right for you. If you've done a few and want to improve your speed, technique, and confidence, this book will likely help with that. If you've been doing killer sudoku for some time and like a complex technical challenge, you might want to look elsewhere, you'll likely find most of the puzzles in this book a little below your current standard."