The Big Book of Riddles, Conundrums and Enigmas


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With illuminated lettering, old-style fonts, paper and language, this book looks like an ancient tome that has been sitting on a castle shelf for centuries. It includes more than 200 puzzles set in days of old.




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.




Book of Riddles


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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.




Mind Benders Brain Teasers & Puzzle Conundrums


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Enjoy mental workouts? Use maths occasionally? Like numerical brain teasers? Accept intellectual challenges?Dabble in solving puzzles? Love solving Riddles?Answer "e;YES"e; to any of these questions, and this is the right book for you! If you want to test your logic skills and have fun, then read this collection of brain teasers and mind benders and check out how smart you are!! #v&spublishers




Einstein's Puzzle Universe


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Step into the mind of the greatest physicist of all time Try to think like Einstein as you come to grips with 120 enigmas, quizzes, and tests of logic based on his greatest work: the theory of relativity, E=mc2, Brownian Motion, zero-point gravity, and many other groundbreaking ideas, all woven into some of the best puzzles ever. With so many incredible discoveries to draw on, plus a selection of Einstein's most illuminating quotes and over 200 illustrations, this lavishly produced book will open the door to a range of stunning scientific concepts. As the great man once said: "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else"--a challenge that all puzzle enthusiasts will find irresistible.




The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles


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What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time. It contains brain-busting challenges of almost every type: math logic problems for the numerically inclined; absolutely amazing lateral thinking conundrums; really great critical thinking bafflers; and mind-boggling word puzzles. Here's just a small sample of what's inside: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so? Stumped? That's because it's one man--Grover Cleveland--who was reelected after skipping a term. And that's just an easy warm-up!




Einstein's Riddle


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A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind. Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience. Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.




Sherlock Holmes' Book of Conundrums


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Sherlock Holmes' Book of Conundrums provides a uniquely absorbing experience quite unlike any other puzzle publication: all material is themed around Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian era, and early 20th century, and backed-up with rich and carefully chosen illustrations. Each puzzle's solution can be found in the back of the book, but a mysterious sealed page contains the answers to the three most fiendish puzzles. There's something for every puzzle lover, which difficulty ranging from simple puzzles to challenging conundrums designed to challenge even puzzle aficionados. 200 puzzles are held within these pages and they work a variety of different parts of your brain. The puzzles cover a diverse range of topics, and include a generous selection of lateral thinking teasers. You'll also enjoy challenges for perception, memory, creativity, problem solving, math, and logic conundrums. Complete these mental work outs and become as sharp as the Great Detective himself.




The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums


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This exclusive companion book to the bestselling Mysterious Benedict Society series is a mind-bending collection that will put YOU to the test! With full-color artwork throughout, this companion features ingenious new puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers compiled by Mr. Benedict himself, with the help of Reynie, Kate, Sticky, Constance, and other Society associates. Think you have what it takes to join the Mysterious Benedict Society? Open this book and find out!