Download or read book Cunning Mind Bending Puzzles written by Terry H. Stickels and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mind bending Classic Logic Puzzles written by Jenny Lynch and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book Mind Bending Lateral Thinking Puzzles written by Des MacHale and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Logic Puzzles to Bend Your Brain written by Kurt Smith and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book IQ Mindbenders written by Joe Cameron and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book True Detective written by Cider Mill Press and published by Applesauce Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mesmerizing Mind bending Puzzles written by Terry H. Stickels and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The World s 200 Hardest Brain Teasers written by Gary Gary Gruber and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book Mind Bending Puzzles written by Terry H. Stickels and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Puzzlelopedia written by Robert Leighton and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-Z collection of more than 200 quirky, brain-bending, endlessly fun, and unusually unusual puzzles for kids aged 8-12. All you need are a sharp pencil and sharper wits! (An eraser wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.) Solve word searches with themes like Spies, Movies, or the Wild West—and when you’re finished, write out the leftover letters to discover a hidden message. Can’t get enough of the addictive fun of Sudoku? Introducing Dicedoku, which uses dice to represent numbers. Just try saying (or even reading) this tongue twister three times fast: Guy gargoyle, girl gargoyle! Plus hidden pictures, crosswords, spot the mistakes, and many kinds of puzzles you’ve never seen before. Puzzlelopedia also contains special “Puzzle Breakers” for reading about anagrams, code breaking, oxymorons, palindromes, and other bamboozling conundrums.
Download or read book Mind Bending Puzzles written by Terry H. Stickels and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Deviously Difficult Mind Bending Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play supergames for the super-smart. These mind-blowing, brain-bending puzzles use a deviously tricky mix of geometry and combinatronics (the different ways objects can be arranged), and emphasize structure, pattern, and colour. Everything's visual and as enticing to the eye as to the wits. Try to solve the Impossible Domino Bridge Problem: at first glance, the top-heavy structure looks as if it would just tumble. But give it some thought and you'll realize that not only can it be built but that you can build it yourself. Take the Ingenious Tangram Challenge; put together a Stars Puzzle; and Draw, Halve, and Quarter all the rooms in a house into equal-size spaces. There's illuminating background information on the puzzles' origins, too.
Download or read book The Big Book of Mind Bending Puzzles written by Terry Stickels and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mind Bending Puzzles written by Terry H. Stickels and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IQ Challenge written by Joe Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'IQ Challenge' is a mindbending, entertaining and sometimes baffling test of your mental powers. Arranged in levels of ascending difficulty, the puzzles pose a range of problems that will stretch your skills and sharpen your thinking
Download or read book Einstein s Twin written by Jeremy Stangroom and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Einstein’s Riddle comes a collection of ingenious puzzles that will stimulate your brain while also introducing you to science’s most intriguing concepts, paradoxes, and unsolved conundrums. How can a cat be both dead and alive? Can you travel back in time to kill your own grandfather? How can a particle also be a wave? And where are the aliens? After guiding readers through warm-up logic puzzles designed to sharpen the wits, Jeremy Stangroom tackles time dilation, wave-particle duality, time travel, and quantum entanglement, along with many other scientific phenomena. Engaging your critical thinking skills while at the same time challenging your sense of reality, Einstein’s Twin is a must-have for any avid puzzler’s library.
Download or read book Mind Bending Puzzles written by Terry H. Stickels and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
