Devious Mind-bending Puzzles


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The more time you give to performing some mental gymnastics with these puzzles, the more creative and inventive you'll become. All you need to know is a little basic arithmetic-plus how to pay close attention so you don't get misled by the tricky, devious instructions. 1. What is 1,449 in Roman Numerals? 2. Unscramble this word into a familiar one: CRICKARFREE 3. What three letters can you add to form a new word from each of these words: RACKS, FLY, RAGE, BELL? Answers: 1. MCDXLIX. 2. FIRECRACKER. 3. BAR.




The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles


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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.




More Puzzles


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Here are over 300 tantalizing puzzles, brain teasers and riddles by one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the twentieth century, Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the 'human computer'. The puzzles include every possible type of mathematical recreation, time and distance problems, age and money riddles, puzzles involving geometry and elementary algebra, and just plain straight thinking. Often entertaining, but always stimulating, the puzzles included in the book offer hours of fun and relaxation.




Entertain Your Brain


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A collection of brain teasers, puzzles, optical illusions, IQ tests, trivia challenges, and math tests designed to help people improve their brain power.




IQ Mindbenders


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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.




Brain Teasers


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Think you're a genius? Take this test and find out! A collection of ingenious puzzles designed to delight even the most devious mind, Brain Teasers is sure to whip your gray matter into shape. From maddening Mondrians to complex cryptomath, these challenges work both the left and right sides of your brain, and everything in between. Starting out slowly, Brain Teasers warms up those thinking muscles before gradually descending into mind-boggling, multistep logic puzzles that will have your brain muscles burning. If you intend to keep your wits sharp, then grab a pencil, a timer, crack open this book, and start weaving your way through this maze of riddles, enigmas, and brainteasers, keeping score as you go. By the end, you'll know how big your brain is (or isn't), and how much fun it is to exercise your mind.




Mind-bending, Challenging Logic Puzzles


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Part of a fun range of pocket-sized puzzle books for adults. Designed to test your powers of deduction, determination and diligence, the cryptic codes, conundrums and sequence puzzles in this book could drive even the most determined of puzzlers to distraction!







Mind-Bending Puzzles


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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.




The Big Book Of Mind-Bending Puzzles


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Perplexing Puzzles for Every Interest and Skill LevelIf variety is the spice of life, then this humongous collection of diverse puzzles will add gusto to your days. It s filled with ten different types of conundrums, from world brain-teasers to visual bafflers, from math cranium crushers to logic mind bashers.Take your time and enjoy the challenges inside. You might want to develop expertise at one puzzle category at a time before moving on. Or maybe you d prefer to skip around randomly. Either way, you ll never grow bored.