Giant Book of Hard-to-Solve Word Puzzles/Giant Book of Hard-to-Solve Mind Puzzles


Book Description

Look: You see one book. Flip it over: Now you've got two. They're giant, they're fun, they're two volumes in one! From math and mazes to science and word searches, these great collections offer a big bang for the buck and hundreds of cool puzzles and games to keep you busy for hours. These mind-bending brainteasing puzzles will show you how smart you really are. For a stimulating word workout, begin with some quick, one-minute puzzles; try a Vowel Exchange, Where you have to complete a sentence by finding back-to-back words with the same number of letters and that are spelled alike except for one vowel. Move on to Split Decisions (where only two different letters are needed to complete miniature crisscross puzzles), Mixagrams, Clueless Crosswords, and other vocabulary busters. Now flip the book and tickle the mind with some tricky, intriguing, and entertaining math and logic puzzles. There's some strange multiplication, very peculiar number sequences, and Egyptian fractions. Make a spiral of 35 matches change direction by moving just four of the matches. Examine astounding coincidences. Before long, your brain will be sizzling hot.







The Giant Book of IQ Puzzles


Book Description

Welcome to David J. Bodycombe's carnival of puzzles for cerebral champions. Grab your ticket and take a tour round the stalls: Verbal Vault - word and letter puzzles for the linguistic genius. Picture Palace - visual vexations to confound your eyes and brain. Number Cruncher - the fun house for figures. Logic Lounge - riddles and problems to push your lateral thinking to the limits. Mystery Box - where anything goes!




Giant Logic Puzzles for Geniuses


Book Description

Are you a genius? This book features 96 full-page Japanese logic puzzles, eight each of 12 different types, to test your solving skills. Even seasoned sudoku experts will take a satisfyingly long time to complete these oversize and beautiful puzzles--many of which have elegant designs and even hidden images in the clues.




The Little Giant Book of Brain Twisters


Book Description

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.




The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!


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Fully illustrated in color, this treasure trove features 250 puzzles on every imaginable theme and subject. The book is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more.




The Giant Book of Masyu


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✓ Great gift for family, friends or work colleagues Masyu is a logic puzzle with simple rules and challenging solutions. It is played on a rectangular grid of squares, some of which contain circles; each circle is either "white" (empty) or "black" (filled). This Logic Puzzles book is packed with the following features: ① 1000 Masyu (9x9) Puzzles for everyone in 3 Difficulty Levels: 333 Easy, 334 Medium, 333 Hard. ② Answers to every puzzle are provided. ③ Each puzzle is guaranteed to have only one solution. ④ Six puzzles per page (8.5 x 11 inches). ★★★ Includes free bonus puzzles you can download book (Logic Puzzles & Brain Games for Adults) ★★★ ♥♥♥ The Giant Book of Masyu offers hours of entertainment for adults of all ages, from young adults to seniors ♥♥♥




The Giant 1001 Puzzle Book


Book Description

No fewer than 1001 mind-bending puzzles have been specially created for this book. From quick puzzles that will take a couple of minutes to logic problems that will need hours of work, each puzzle is graded into three levels of difficulty. Attractively presented in full color, the book includes picture puzzles, mazes, math tests, lateral thinking and visual reasoning puzzles, plus spatial problems. This is a cornucopia of conundrums that includes a special selection of tsunami puzzles by a famous japanese puzzle constructor that will have you racking your brain for hours.




The Little Book of Big Mind Benders


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Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain—here, in the irresistible 4" x 6" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It’s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim—a contributor to Games and Discover magazines—and adapted from the bestselling Amazing Mind Benders Page-A-Day Calendar, The Little Book of Big Mind Benders is a cornucopia of spatial puzzles, number challenges, wordplay, visual conundrums, and more. The puzzles are categorized by type but distributed throughout the book in a mixed fashion (i.e., a word puzzle next to a number puzzle next to a visual stumper). Readers can move page by page, working different parts of the brain—or easily find their favorite type of puzzle, going from easy to challenging. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap, or untangle the mangled phrases of Lost in Translation. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, and number crunches. Answers are included in the back of the book.




The Giant Book of Suguru


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✓ Great gift for family, friends or work colleagues Playing logic puzzle is not just a fun way to pass the time, due to its logical elements it has been found as a proven method of exercising and stimulating portions of your brain, training it even if you will and just like training any other muscle regularly you can expect to see an improvement in cognitive functions. Some studies go as far as indicating regular puzzles can even help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and other health problems in later life. This Logic Puzzles book is packed with the following features: ① 1000 Suguru (10x10) puzzles for everyone in 3 Difficulty Levels: 333 Easy, 334 Medium, 333 Hard. ② Answers to every puzzle are provided. ③ Each puzzle is guaranteed to have only one solution. ④ Six puzzles per page (8.5 x 11 inches). ★★★ Includes free bonus puzzles you can download book (Logic Puzzles & Brain Games for Adults) ★★★ ♥♥♥ The Giant Book of Suguru offers hours of entertainment for adults of all ages, from young adults to seniors ♥♥♥