Contemporary Brainteasers


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How many cards do I have to deal before I know for certain that you have a straight? If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages? How many days are in five million seconds? If you think these are good questions, this is the book for you! Over two hundred entertaining puzzles involving mathematical and mechanical calculations include challenges to your lateral thinking and logical reasoning. When your brain's tired of being teased, you can consult the complete solutions.




The Sunday Times Brain Teasers Book 2


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Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.200 taxing brain teasers and riddles, demanding lateral thinking skills to solve. Ingenious challenges - some just a paragraph long, others with an accompanying diagram. You will need mathematical or logical reasoning to solve these.These teasers are for puzzlers of all abilities, no formal knowledge is required, just application and imagination.Some demand a logical approach, others a good mathematical mind; an agility with words will solve a handful more, but all demand a logical approach and lots of lateral thinking.Answers are given at the back of the book.Now get your thinking cap on!




The Total Brain Workout


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Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you’ll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.




Book of Puzzles and Enigmas


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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.




Brain Teasers for Adults


Book Description

Give your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest. Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn't throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet "doable" puzzles to help build your logic, math, and wordplay. The unique skills derived from solving brain teasers helps put you in a better position to resolve important problems from work to daily life. Go in order of difficulty or skip around—the decision is yours! Solve all 75 brain teasers and stand tall, knowing you have outsmarted the puzzle-maker himself. Inside Brain Teasers for Adults, you'll find: Choose your difficulty—Moving from simple Duck Soup Puzzles to Head Scratchers, engage your brain on different levels, with each riddle labeled by difficulty. 5 Categories—Filled with brain teasers categories such as Wordplay, Logic, Card puzzles, and more are meant to stimulate your thoughts in different ways. Clues to use—An optional clues section has been provided for each question in case a little extra help is needed! Time to discover how fun and rewarding puzzle-solving can be with Brain Teasers for Adults!




The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time


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Put your noggin to the test with the most famous brain games of all time! Puzzles and brainteasers can be found throughout history and around the world (did you know that coded messages date all the way back to 2500 BCE?). This book collects 125 of the most popular and challenging mind-benders for hours of fun-filled entertainment that can sharpen your creative thinking skills. Get ready to dive into famous math, logic, and word puzzles like Odd One Out, Fibonacci's Legacy, the Polybius Cipher, and more. Bring it on road trips, to family game night, or give it as a gift, and get everyone involved in the puzzle-solving fun! Fun for anyone—You don't need any special skills to solve these puzzles, and clues and answer keys are there to help you if you get stumped. 5 challenge levels—A wide variety of puzzle types and challenge levels ensures there's something to solve for puzzle masters of all ages and skills. Hints of history—Every time you tackle a new puzzle, you'll learn fun facts about where it comes from and how long it's been around. Get ready to sharpen your mind with the ultimate book of mind-blowing brain teasers.




60-Second Brain Teasers Crime Puzzles


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60-Second Brain Teasers Crime Puzzles tests your crime scene investigation knowledge with 65 criminal mysteries to solve. If you think you've got what it takes to be a crime scene investigator, then buy this book and consider yourself hired! The worst of society is getting away with murder and only your keen sense of logic and sharp eye for suspicious details can stop them. As the chief crime scene investigator, you must correctly determine the answer to the question at the end of each of the 65 crime stories inside the book. In it you will peer over the medical examiners shoulder as an autopsy is performed, you will listen carefully to the testimony of a toolmark expert, you will evaluate all of the gory details in front of you until you're sure that you can solve the puzzle. Each of the crime stories will test your knowledge of DNA analysis, suspect identification, forensic pathology, toxicology, and more. If you're any good, you'll catch the perpetrator before they can get away with more crimes!




The Very Best One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers


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Sharpen Your Sleuthing Skills with These Super Brain-Strainers Mystery: A burglar robs many homes throughout the day. At the last house, he breaks in through the back door. This house has more valuables than any of the other houses, and nothing is there to stop him from taking them, but he doesn't take anything. How come? Put on your detective hat and prepare to solve the best mindbenders from the popular puzzle book series One-Minute Mysteries. This collection of crazy conundrums will keep you guessing until the final page and provide hours of entertainment for detectives of all ages. Are you up for the challenge? Let's find out. Solution: The burglar broke into his own house because he'd accidentally locked himself out.




Brain-Compatible Mathematics


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Students' brains are wired to make them natural, curious learners. The mathematical world around them offers a vast classroom, filled with textiles, shapes, spaces, quantities, and experiences to discover and explore, all leading to the construction of understanding. Teachers can use this natural curiosity to tap the inborn neural mechanisms that motivate students to learn--to make relevance and meaning of their surroundings. Brain-Compatible Mathematics, Second Edition bridges the findings from the realms of brain research and improved mathematics instruction through teaching samples, standards, newest research findings, and integration to other content areas.




The Moscow Puzzles


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A collection of math and logic puzzles features number games, magic squares, tricks, problems with dominoes and dice, and cross sums, in addition to other intellectual teasers.