Author : Jerry Slocum
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780716723561
Shows how to make a variety of puzzles out of wood, string, and wire, and includes solutions
Author : Jerry Slocum
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780295965796
Shows a variety of antique and modern puzzles, including puzzle locks and rings, and folding, impossible object, vanish, dexterity, sequential movement, disentanglement, interlocking, and take-apart puzzles
Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135963568
With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to possess: the affinity between the meanings of paintings and jigsaw-puzzles; the contemporary interest in ambiguity and 'levels of meaning'; and the penchant many have to interpret pictures by finding images hidden within them. Elkins explores a wide variety of examples, from the figures hidden in Renaissance paintings to Salvador Dali's paranoiac meditations on Millet's Angelus, from Persian miniature paintings to jigsaw-puzzles. He also examines some of the most vexed works in history, including Watteau's "meaningless" paintings, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, and Leonardo's Last Supper.
Author : Peter Grabarchuk
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Logic puzzles
ISBN : 1402748086
Created by an art director at the Puzzles.COM website, these phenomenal original brainbusters-more than 200 of them-will stimulate your potential for thinking outside the box. Arranged from easiest to hardest, they're especially devised for mind-expanding visual solving. And all it takes to crack their mysteries are a pencil, an eraser, patience, and, of course, boundless imagination! Arrange a hinged chain of 11 squares of different sizes into one large square-without overlapping them. Play two-hole billiards on the page, sending two balls into their respective pockets in just two strokes. Figure out how eight patterned cars fit into a checkered parking lot so their colors match the background exactly. Floor plans, tangrams, matchstick puzzles: the variety is amazing.
Author : Tim Dedopulos
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Logic puzzles
ISBN : 9781787390973
A superb variety of taxing teasers, including the world's oldest puzzle!
Author : Mike Lowery
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761187189
Pure interactive fun between two covers! A book that begs to be doodled in with 96 wacky prompts, games, and crafts, and adorable creatures to boot, The Kid’s Awesome Activity Book is packed with activities that take delightful twists and turns, inviting kids to design, draw, and dream—and encouraging creativity on and off the page. Enter an ancient cave to decode a mummy’s message. Find your way through a beehive maze. Write a song for a cat rock band. Design a personalized spaceship—and so much more. Plus, plenty of goodies to return to again and again for hands-on play: paper dolls, finger puppets, bonus stickers, and a giant pullout poster designed to kindle curious minds and active imaginations. A great boredom-buster for travel or rainy days, and a fun birthday or holiday gift. From the author and illustrator of the Doodle Adventures® series and based on the Kid’s Awesome Activity Calendar, the book showcases Lowery’s inimitable quirky style and humor that clicks with all ages—get the whole family in on the fun!
Author : William Hartston
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1786494280
From ancient riddles to modern Sudoku, people have been fascinated by puzzles. Whether they are seen as a glorious waste of time, a harmless way to spend a train journey or a valuable way of exercising the mind, the lure of puzzles has been irresistible. By using over a hundred of examples of the most mindbending, the most challenging, the most satisfying, or simply the most humorous of puzzles throughout the ages, William Hartston traces the development of brainteasers of all varieties and the increasing ingenuity of puzzle setters from ancient civilisations to modern puzzle crazes.
Author : Graham Burgess
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781906454289
Solving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your chess. This convenient book provides 300 exercises, with instructive points highlighted in the solutions. There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances - there is an innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the reader must decide how to punch home an attack. Later chapters help readers develop a vital skill: the ability to make tough chessboard decisions. Attack, sacrifice, grab material, defend or simplify - it's for you to decide! Principles and guidelines are emphasized, together with common sources of error. The final section of puzzles will prove a stern challenge even for the best players, with the reader exposed to the full complexity of modern chess - with a few helpful hints along the way.
Author : Gerald L. Kaufman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1957-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486203447
Original puzzles for both beginners and experts: chess word puzzles, design-onyms, rhymed double crostics, addle letter anagrams, silly syllables, quadruple triplets, double horizontals, alphagram puzzles, linkogram lapwords, lapword triplets, dual lapword sixes, more. Most solutions can be written directly in the book. Full solutions. 196 figures.
Author : Jack Frohlichstein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486207896
Brush up on your math skills with fun games and puzzles.
