Full-colour, Perfect-bound Paperback, 210 x 148mm, 36pp

A jump search is a new type of puzzle in which a word is concealed within a maze grid of letters and numbers. It is a synthesis of a word search and a number maze and it explores some of the formal possibilities of word search and number maze design.

“Lori Wike's puzzles are fresh and thoughtful ... and only experts will solve her final challenge.” — Will Shortz 

“From our most ancient poetic puzzle predecessors to the time-killing word larks of the modern age, our capacity to deduce and depuzzle has been a process of constraint and concept — of poetry, that is, as much as of game and play. Lori Wike's Jump Search is ground-breaking, genre-leading, completely remarkable and wonderful and playful and dense, sitting within and expanding this grand human tradition. It is for the intrigued and the afficionado, and it is resolutely the creation of a master poet puzzler.” — Steven J Fowler