Download or read book Puzzles Problems and Enigmas written by John M. Ziman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-10-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the human side of science, originally published in 1981.
Download or read book Book of Puzzles and Enigmas written by Fabrice Mazza and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun for the whole family, the book contains more than 100 superb puzzles. Merlin the Magician, Avalon, King Arthur, and other mythical people and places feature prominently.
Download or read book Loopy Logic Problems and Other Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calculate velocity; explain the Maltese cross mechanism that's the basis of the motion picture projector; and work out the ways different pendulums (including Foucault's famous version) swing. Every attractive page in master Ivan Moscovich's eleventh collection of brain-busters offers a tricky puzzle pleasure. Sixteen tiles show either a crowned frog or a crown prince: distribute them randomly on a game board, face down, and then see if you can come up with a configuration that will allow you to flip them so that all frogs or all princes will turn up. Discern the logic of a number pattern in a partially filled-out grid and discover the missing numerals. From gnomic expansions to infinity and limit, these dilemmas demand a smart solver.
Download or read book The GCHQ Puzzle Book written by GCHQ and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** WINNER OF 'STOCKING FILLER OF THE YEAR AWARD' GUARDIAN ** Pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma in the official puzzle book from Britain's secretive intelligence organisation, GCHQ. 'A fiendish work, as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas' Guardian 'Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle' Daily Telegraph If 3=T, 4=S, 5=P, 6=H, 7=H ...what is 8? What is the next letter in the sequence: M, V, E, M, J, S, U, ? Which of the following words is the odd one out: CHAT, COMMENT, ELF, MANGER, PAIN, POUR? GCHQ is a top-secret intelligence and security agency which recruits some of the very brightest minds. Over the years, their codebreakers have helped keep our country safe, from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day threat of cyberattack. So it comes as no surprise that, even in their time off, the staff at GCHQ love a good puzzle. Whether they're recruiting new staff or challenging each other to the toughest Christmas quizzes and treasure hunts imaginable, puzzles are at the heart of what GCHQ does. Now they're opening up their archives of decades' worth of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try. In this book you will find: - Tips on how to get into the mindset of a codebreaker - Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending - A competition section where we search for Britain's smartest puzzler Good luck! 'Ideal for the crossword enthusiast' Daily Telegraph
Download or read book The Monty Hall Problem Other Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzlers will feel fit to be tied - Dog Tied: If Fido is tied to a 10-foot-long rope, and his bone is 15 feet away, how is it possible that he can reach and enjoy his bone without breaking or stretching the rope? (And yes - the rope IS tied to something.) There's fun in finding the answer to this and other cool number-based problems. Dust off your mathematics and get solving. The intriguing enigmas include questions on interstellar communications, ancient geometry (Pythagoras and Plato), and even traffic patterns in gridlock city. Or play the grasshopper jumping game. It's all fascinating.
Download or read book The Great Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Book written by Gareth Moore and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. -Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four. Pit your wits against the greatest detective of them all with this collection of over 130 fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles and enigmas.Some involve riddles, some plays on words, and some rely on mathematical principles. Use your powers of logical deduction, and see if you can match the towering intellect of Sherlock Holmes. Not only does this collection include brilliant puzzles to ponder over, but it presents these quandaries within exchanges between Holmes and Watson. In this way, this puzzle book retains the same cosy Victorian charm that Holmes' tales are so loved for. Featuring the original pen and ink illustrations by Sidney Paget and George Hutchinson, this gorgeously designed puzzle book will immerse you in Holmes's mysteries and keep you entertained for hours!
Download or read book Book of Riddles written by Fabrice Mazza and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book of Riddles is loaded with new and classic mind bending logical conundrums, number puzzles, visual tricks, and more fun for the whole family.
Download or read book The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems written by Martin Gardner and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned provocateur of popular math presents a collection of his widely recognized short puzzles--along with a few new ones--that explore chess, physics, probability, and topology, among other topics.
Download or read book Number Enigmas written by L. B. Lang and published by Thunder Bay Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 100 exercises, Number Enigmas challenges even the cleverest number crunchers. For fun or for sport, these puzzles are perfect for car trips or airplane rides or even to find out who is the real puzzle wizard in the family. Puzzlers used to those old-fashioned black-and-white enigmas will be happy to move up to this techno-colorful puzzle book.
Download or read book Puzzle Baron s Logic Puzzles written by Puzzle Baron and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!
Download or read book The Nikola Tesla Puzzle Collection written by Richard Wolfrik Galland and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based around Tesla's life and times as well as his inventions, this book is filled with many different puzzle types: riddles, logic puzzles, lateral thinking, spot-the-difference, mathematical challenges and more.
Download or read book The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems written by Henry Ernest Dudeney and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems" by Henry Ernest Dudeney. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Big Book of Riddles Puzzles and Enigmas written by Fabrice Mazza and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enigma written by Gareth Moore and published by Michael O'Mara. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interspersed with background information on the history of puzzles, Enigma: Crack the Code is perfect for anyone who enjoys being challenged. With over 300 puzzles to solve, including some that can truly be described as enigmas.
Download or read book The Puzzle Universe written by Ivan Moscovich and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A renowned puzzle master and game inventor presents 315 new and traditional puzzles. The Puzzle Universe is intended for general readers and devoted puzzlers. It is about the latent beauty of mathematics, its history, and the puzzles that have advanced and emerged from the science of numbers. It is full of challenging historical facts, thinking puzzles, paradoxes, illusions, and problem solving. There are 315 puzzles in this book. Extended captions explain in easy terms the value of the puzzles for mathematical and educational purposes, particularly in light of the findings of recent research. This historical and pedagogical dimension sets The Puzzle Universe apart from similar books. The puzzles appear in a dynamic layout for a visual experience that is Ivan Moscovich's trademark. There are ten chapters complete with answers. Icons show the challenge rating and the tools needed (pencil, scissors, ruler, and of course, brain) to solve the puzzle."--
Download or read book The Canterbury Puzzles written by Henry Ernest Dudeney and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Leonardo Da Vinci Puzzle Codex written by Richard Wolfrik Galland and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes inspiration from hundreds of paintings, sketches, diagrams and writings to provide more than 150 puzzles and enigmas. Spot-the-difference, logic reasoning, riddles, codebreaking challenges and more are all beautifully illustrated with drawings, sketches, paintings and diagrams in the style of the master himself.
