Deviously Difficult Mind-Bending Puzzles


Book Description

Play supergames for the super-smart. These mind-blowing, brain-bending puzzles use a deviously tricky mix of geometry and combinatronics (the different ways objects can be arranged), and emphasize structure, pattern, and colour. Everything's visual and as enticing to the eye as to the wits. Try to solve the Impossible Domino Bridge Problem: at first glance, the top-heavy structure looks as if it would just tumble. But give it some thought and you'll realize that not only can it be built but that you can build it yourself. Take the Ingenious Tangram Challenge; put together a Stars Puzzle; and Draw, Halve, and Quarter all the rooms in a house into equal-size spaces. There's illuminating background information on the puzzles' origins, too.




Fiendishly Frustrating Brain-Twisting Puzzles


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Jumping Coins, Cubes and Routes, Find the Polygons, and Distortrix: these are just a few of the incredible brain-twisting conundrums in this colorful, super-fun compilation by puzzle whiz Ivan Moscovich. Sample games give a hint of what's to come and prime your mind for the challenges you'll face. Inside a hexagon, a continuous path connects 19 different nodes: find that trail, navigating a series of pointing arrows and visiting each node only once. On the Rebound features tricky little problems involving a pool ball on a table and the best way to shoot it. A Piece of Cake is no piece of cake: arrange the segments so that no two colored or numbered ones touch another of the same color or number. You'll think your brain really is twisted once you solve all of these.




Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?


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You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions. The book covers the importance of creative thinking, ways to get a leg up on the competition, what your Facebook page says about you, and much more. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? is a must-read for anyone who wants to succeed in today's job market.




Disney's Big Bad Book of Puzzlers


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More than 100 picture and word puzzles, mazes, logic and memory games, and number and letter problems featuring 17 of Disney's most popular villains come together in a hefty volume filled with illustrations of the bad guys and gals. Villains from such timeless classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and recent hits like Pocahontas will provide children with countless hours of mind-bending entertainment.176 pp.




Tangrams


Book Description

Use the tans to make pictures and you will improve your lateral thinking and creativity. Now you can stretch the visual side of your brain – whatever your age! * Over 200 puzzles for children and adults. * Have fun developing your visual–spatial skills. * Play at home or on the move.




Tangrams Book


Book Description

Stretch your brain with shape puzzles! Use the tans to make pictures and you will improve your lateral thinking and creativity. Based on the best-selling Book-in-a-Box kits, the Tangrams Book will help you stretch the visual side of your brain—whatever your age! First solve the puzzle by creating the shape shown, and then change it into the new shape with only the number of moves indicated.




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.




The Pocket Book of Frame Games


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Frame games, as seen in USA WEEKEND magazine and read by more than 48,000,000 people in 600 newspapers weekly, are an extremely popular and amusing form of word puzzle that represent a famous phrase, song, person, place, or movie. By looking at the way the letters are formed and where they are placed in relation to the other letters, you can piece together a solution. These artfully constructed brainteasers are a favorite among teachers, travelers, and puzzle-lovers alike. Terry Stickels has authored eleven similar collections in the past, and has had bestsellers with Scholastic (over 70,000 sold), Pomegranate, and St. Martin's Press.