Download or read book The Giant Book of Optical Puzzles written by Keith Kay and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical illusions trick your mind and confound your perception, and that's why these images--including three-dimensional mazes--will drive you crazy in the best of ways. Stare at a circular checkerboard closely; it will seem to pulsate and shimmer. And do those black-and-white patches actually link up to form the petals of a flower? Determine which twin brother has a bigger appetite by glancing at a drawing of both. (These guys don't look the same...or do they?) The only thing that won't be an illusion is the fun you're having.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Optical Puzzles written by Keith Kay and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical illusions trick your mind and confound your perception, and that's why these images--including three-dimensional mazes--will drive you crazy in the best of ways. Stare at a circular checkerboard closely; it will seem to pulsate and shimmer. And do those black-and-white patches actually link up to form the petals of a flower? Determine which twin brother has a bigger appetite by glancing at a drawing of both. (These guys don't look the same...or do they?) The only thing that won't be an illusion is the fun you're having.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Optical Tricks written by Keith Kay and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look closely at each illustration--what do you see? Are you sure? Don't trust your eyes too quickly, because every picture here has an optical trick to fool you. Some- times you'll find "two objects in one"; sometimes you have to rotate drawings to solve the puzzle. Among the forms of visual magic: a bird that "flies" into a cage and a boy who changes into a monkey when the page is turned upside down. More than 300 engrossing optical illusions.
Download or read book Giant Book of Optical Puzzles written by Keith Kay and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giant Book of Pencil Puzzles Giant Book of Optical Puzzles Two Books in One written by Peter Gordon and published by Main Street Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no illusion: here are two kinds of fun, one to look at and the other to play with First, blast your senses into the next dimension with some of the most awesome 3-D mazes, visual tricks, optical illusion designs, and see throughs ever. One image features a practical-looking contraption--but can you really build it, or is it an impossible construction? Another picture features three men walking into the movie theater, one after the other; can you figure out who's tallest? Gaze into a circular checkerboard closely could it possibly be pulsating? Or perhaps you'd prefer to grab a pencil and try some tricky trios, solitaire battleships, whodunits, word searches and wordworks, story builders, and other puzzles. Whichever you choose, a good time is assured.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Brain Twisters written by Adam Ward and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get smart--give your brain a super-sized workout that's fun, challenging, and mind-expanding! You'll really have to keep your wits about you as you tackle six big sections filled with puzzles and tricks of every sort, from the visual to the verbal. Try critical thinking and lateral thinking questions, where you'll have to "work outside the box," forget your assumptions, and look at the problem from a fresh viewpoint. Whodunits have all the pleasures of a mystery--but you're the detective trying to figure it out! Be "number one" at math conundrums, and open your eyes and look sharp when you tackle the picture puzzles and optical illusions. Give this a shot and find out if you can be a "toothpick architect"! Build a house using 11 toothpicks as shown in the diagram. See if you can make the house face the opposite direction by moving only one toothpick. Answer: Move one of the toothpicks in the roof.
Download or read book Visual Tricks written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of over one hundred and eighty optical illusions with the answers presented at the end.
Download or read book Giant Book of Puzzles Games written by Sheila Anne Barry and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains hundreds of indoor activities, including brainteasers, optical illusions, calculator and card tricks and games, quizzes, party games, contests, and psychological games.
Download or read book Super Little Giant Book of Picture Puzzles written by Trevor Bounford and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of color puzzles to trick the eye and boggle the mind. Includes seven different types of brain bafflers.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Visual Tricks written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible selection of visual trick puzzles and oddities. You'll never trust your eyes anymore after looking through this incredible selection of the world's finest vision-tricking puzzles and oddities! There are hidden objects and lost people to find, mazes to unravel, double meanings to decode, and impossible objects to comprehend-as well as spatial confusions, optical distortions, and "warped" pictures. For example: one picture shows a disk with 13 baseball players drawn on the edge. Tilt it slightly and there are only 12! Brain-bending, mind-blowing, and out-of-this-world unbelievable: you'll never trust your eyes anymore after looking through this incredible selection of the world's finest vision-tricking puzzles and oddities. There are hidden objects and lost people to find, mazes to unravel, double meanings to decode, and impossible objects to comprehend--as well as spatial confusions, optical distortions, and "warped" pictures. For example: in one puzzle, you'll see a disk with 13 baseball players drawn on the edge. Tilt it slightly and guess what--there are only 12! Another shows a variety of lamps the shop assistant has said they're all different, but if you check carefully you'll discover that two of them do have the same shape and pattern.
Download or read book Puzzling Optical Illusions written by Thomas Crawford and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-02-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich assortment of visual mind-bogglers, including "impossible objects" — constructions that look fine on paper but can't possibly exist in reality — as well as pulsating patterns, vanishing spots, pictures that suddenly change into other configurations as you're looking at them, and much more. 60 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Amazing Mazes written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a little book with hundreds of pages of amazing fun--in fact, some of the most incredible and detailed mazes you'll ever see. Will you go astray in the middle of the "serpents' circle"--or will you work your way out? Or, as you look into the swirling black-and-white funnel, can you find the lines that lead from top to bottom? If you get lost along the way, the answers are your map out.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Eerie Thrills and Unspeakable Chills written by Ron Edwards and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts, specters, and spooksoh my! These scary, creepy, spine-chilling, and thrilling tales will turn Halloween into a real fright nightbut theyre also great any time a kid craves a little hair-raising amusement. With more than 350 pages, there are plenty of otherwordly shivers to please any daring and wide-eyed young reader.
Download or read book Brainstrains written by Frank Coussement and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These challenging and brilliantly colorful puzzles will work out the brain and amaze the eye. Many of the pictures have a trick to fool the puzzler, from vivid optical illusions to 3-D effects that dazzle. Other problems feature a mathematical component—but even before doing the arithmetic, you’ve got to figure out the logic behind the question. So it’s important to look hard and pay close attention. Five bright soccer balls look almost the same. Which ball isn’t like the others? A group of bike racers ride across the page in an astounding array. But wait: one of the riders is wearing the wrong number. Hint: the colors of the shirts are the key to the answer.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Dominoes written by Jennifer A. Kelley and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rules, strategies, history. Master Chickenfoot, One-arm Joe, Seven-toed Pete, and many other games."--Cover.
Download or read book Kids Games written by Glen Vecchione and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No kid in your house will ever say, "I'm bored" again. So much fun from such a little book! Over 200 wild and exciting games for kids of all ages, both indoors and out, feature: Dozens of games with balloons and soap bubbles, hiding games and relay races. Blindfold games. Guessing games. Many variations on Musical Chairs and Simon Says. Games with ping-pong balls and electric fans. Lots of concentration and memory games. Eight different Frisbee games. Fifteen relay races. Eight marbles competitions. 21 games you can play with a basketball or baseball. Novelty games using simple but fun streamer balls and twister sticks. Games with names like Cape in the Mud, Dizzy Race, Giggle Ball, Punch Ball and Swamp Monster. With so many games for one or two and for groups up to a dozen, you can turn your house and garden into a magical world with hours of fun from ordinary tables and chairs, soda straws and coins, balls and bats, bowls of water and cardboard boxes. Every game comes complete with instructions, rules, tactics and techniques for winning. They're perfect for parties and picnics and rainy days--and just for times when kids need to stretch their muscles and exercise their brains and learn the fun of teamwork.
Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions written by Al Seckel and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains color and black-and-white illustrations of over three hundred optical illusions, each with brief, explanatory text.
