Author: Jenny Lynch Publisher: ISBN: 9781899712182 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
Crammed with a wide range of colourful, inventive and perplexing puzzles, this neat little book will engage even the least logical of minds. (From back cover).
Author: Terry H. Stickels Publisher: Sterling ISBN: 9780806988030 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Try any of these 150 word, number, and logic puzzles, and you'll encounter some surprising new ways to analyze, observe, and decide. You've been warned, so don't get frustrated when you feel yourself getting pushed out of the ruts of your usual problem-solving skills. Try these sample warmup exercises: 1. If Molly's daughter is my daughter's mother, what am I to Molly? 2. Which is larger, one-third times one-third of a dozen dozen, or one-third dozen halved and cubed? 3. How old is the man who told his friend, "Four years from now I'll be twice as old as I was fourteen years ago"? Answers: 1. I am Molly's daughter. 2. The first calculation is larger. 3. He's 32 years old.
Author: Des MacHale Publisher: ISBN: 9781899712236 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Part of a fun range of pocket-sized puzzle books for adults. The lateral thinking puzzles in this book were compiled by Des MacHale, an expert in the field of lateral thinking, who has published more than 50 books in a range of subjects from humour to puzzles. The cryptic conundrums he has put together in this book are designed to trip you up and catch you out. Some are relatively easy, others are decidedly difficult but all are perfectly possible - if you think laterally!
Author: Kurt Smith Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9780806980126 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Logic, math, and fun come all wrapped up in one tricky puzzle package. Each little story gives you just enough information to determine what's bigger, who weighs more, how much gets sold, and lots of other confounding braintwisters. To make it just a little easier, every puzzle has a chart to help you organize and work out the all facts in your possession.
Author: Joe Cameron Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated ISBN: 1402709641 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
Find out what it takes to become a puzzle master. More than 500 IQ brainteasers--some of the most devious ever published--offer a challenge that will stretch anyone's analytic and lateral thinking abilities to the limit. The requirements for cracking these puzzles include a sharp mind, keen mathematical skill, and a supremely logical approach. Go through a group of grids, determine the logic in their organization, and decipher the missing pattern in the final one. Check out the time on four different watches, and then figure out what hour the fifth watch should read. Look at dominoes lined up side by side, and calculate what number should appear on the last domino to complete the series. Every puzzle is brainy fun.
Author: Gary Gary Gruber Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402257511 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
FLEX YOUR brain power like never before! From acclaimed author Dr. Gary Gruber, whose proven critical-thinking methods have sold more than seven million books, this collection of mind-bending brain teasers is sure to challenge even the most experienced problem solver. Inside are logic puzzles, riddles, maddening math problems, mental games, and more! A ship is twice as old as the ship's boiler was when the ship was as old as the boiler is. The ratio of the boiler's age now to the ship's age now is what? What English word contains all the vowels, in alphabetical order? What is the three-digit number that can be made from the digits 2, 3, 5, and 7 where no two digits in the three-digit number are alike, and where the three-digit number is a multiple of each of the digits chosen? Stumped? Dr. Gruber reveals the fascinating explanations and detailed strategies for solving even the trickiest problems using his exclusive Gruber Method. DISCLAIMER: The brain teasers in this book may get you so wrapped up in critical thinking that you may not be able to do your regular work until you solve them! Any abrupt or gradual increase in creativity, intelligence, or motivation to get a better job suited to your newfound talents is strictly the reader's responsibility. For more than thirty years, Gary R. Gruber, PhD, has been recognized as a leading expert on the SAT, test-taking methods, and critical-thinking skills. His methods have been used by PBS, Sylvan Learning Centers, Grolier's Encyclopedia, and school districts throughout the country. Dr. Gruber's innovative problem-solving strategies make up the heart of the new MyMaxScore's online test prep (www.mymaxscore.com).
Author: Terry H. Stickels Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9780806987743 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
This puzzle book tests and increases your deductive skills figuring out the Frame Games, puzzles that ask you to count lots of trangles inside a larger one, and other types of visual-letter-number mind-benders.
Author: Cider Mill Press Publisher: Applesauce Press ISBN: 1646430913 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
True Detective features a portable magnifying glass that will allow readers to unlock their inner Sherlock and riddle their way through mind-bending visual puzzles! There is just one difference between each set of like objects. It’ll take a true detective to solve these mysteries! Use the enclosed magnifying glass to sleuth your way through these unicorns, race cars, dogs, dinosaurs, and more. With a wide range of puzzles from beginner sleuth to super sleuth, there is something fun to amuse detectives of all ages. Stumped? Solutions are included in the back of the book for those puzzles you just can’t solve.
Author: Terry Stickels Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402732553 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
Brainiacs on the prowl for challenging fun will find everything they're looking for in these cunning conundrums. Puzzle master Terry Stickels has created a mind-melting collection filled with hundreds of diverse and fiendishly tricky problems--including wordplay, math, analytic reasoning, logic, visual dilemmas, and code breaking. Figure out the next number in a series, find hidden phrases, and determine what a three-dimensional object would look like from two-dimensional drawings. Every puzzle provides a workout that strengthens mental muscles. And while these brainteasers do require concentration, they don't demand any special training or high-level math skills. A little practice, patience, and imagination are all it takes.
Author: Terry H. Stickels Publisher: Pomegranate Communications ISBN: 9780764906916 Category : Logic puzzles Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Puzzle Paragons will find themselves in paroxysms of pleasure when they peruse Terry Stickels's Mind-Bending Puzzles. Each book features 150 unique spatial/visual challengers, Frame Games, and cryptograms, as well as math, word, and logic problems to bewilder the most byzantine of brains. Lest cognition fatigue set in, the puzzles' answers appear in the back of each book.