Yes-No Puzzles & Games


Book Description

This unique book makes solving problems and puzzles a game and fun. It contains about 100 non-standard puzzles and games, which can be solved by asking an unlimited number of yes/no questions. This new approach how to developing and mastering your critical thinking and problem-solving skills does not require any specific knowledge of science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. Most problems are new and some are inspired by well-known problems, but formulated in a new form. Additionally, the book includes some jokes, visual exercises, funny tests, and over 50 color illustrations that make it enjoyable to read and play games with your friends or with family, during parties, or in class for educational purposes. Thus, the book is the best gift for children and adults. Note that there is one last section with problems suitable only for adults. This book is written in a fashion that is easy to understand. The author is a well-known scientist, inventor, educator, and entrepreneur, who himself has used the technique described in the text to his benefit.




Super Lateral Thinking Puzzles


Book Description

Stand out from the pack--don't think conventionally, think laterally! And, you can start developing well-honed mental skills with more than 80 braintwisting puzzles that test your creativity and smarts. At first it might not seem as if there's enough information to solve them, but if you just persist, you'll come up with the logical answers. Some of the conundrums come from real life: try to figure out how the Greek playwright Aeschylus could have been killed by a tortoise or how the truth about Mary Queen of Scots' baldness was finally revealed. Or, give this a shot: A runner was awarded a prize for winning a marathon. But, the judges disqualified him when they saw a picture of his wristwatch. Why? Happy puzzling! Answer: A picture of the runner early in the race showed him wearing his watch on his right wrist. When he crossed the finishing line it was on his left wrist. The judges investigated and found that one man had run the first half and his identical twin brother ran the second half of the race.




Great Lateral Thinking Puzzles


Book Description

"We never grow tired of good news how come' mysteries of this kind....These story brainteasers are often solved in groups...with solvers asking yes-or-no questions of the puzzle poser (the one holding this book, perhaps). A novel feature of this volume is a Clues' section containing sample questions and answers, allowing you to play along solitaire."--Games World of Puzzles. 96 pages, 24 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.




Puzzle Games For Kids


Book Description

This unique book makes solving problems and puzzles a game and fun. It contains about 100 non-standard puzzles and games, which can be solved by asking an unlimited number of yes/no questions. This new approach how to developing and mastering your critical thinking and problem-solving skills does not require any specific knowledge of science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. Most problems are new and some are inspired by well-known problems, but formulated in a new form. Additionally, the book includes some jokes, visual exercises, funny tests, and over 50 color illustrations that make it enjoyable to read and play games with your friends or with family, during parties, or in class for educational purposes. Thus, the book is the best gift for children and adults. This book is written in a fashion that is easy to understand. The author is a well-known scientist, inventor, educator, and entrepreneur, who himself has used the technique described in the text to his benefit.




Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles


Book Description

Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!




Lateral Thinking Puzzlers


Book Description

Puzzles - Clues - Answers_




Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles


Book Description

Lateral thinking is the key to solving these tantalizing puzzles. Packed with hundreds of brain teasers and mathematical problems, the book will test kids' powers of logic, and patience! "The logic, reasoning, and calculating required by the problems...will delight and torment puzzle fans."--Booklist. "Ninety-one how come' mysteries....We never get enough of these."--Games.




Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles


Book Description

The latest in the hugely popular series of think-out-of-the box brainteasers, including Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges and Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Here's how you play the game and figure out these perplexing puzzles: take one of the scenarios, and with the help of a friend who looks at the answer, pose a series of yes and no questions until, by a process of elimination and deduction, you arrive at the solution. If you get stuck--and everyone does from time to time--there are additional clues to push you along. Keep trying and you will reach that glorious "aha!" moment when everything becomes crystal clear. In no time at all you'll have sharpened your wits...and become an accomplished lateral thinker.




Computer Games


Book Description

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th Workshop on Computer Games, CGW 2018, held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2018. The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics related to video games; general game playing.- machine learning and Monte Carlo tree search.




The Very Best One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers


Book Description

Sharpen Your Sleuthing Skills with These Super Brain-Strainers Mystery: A burglar robs many homes throughout the day. At the last house, he breaks in through the back door. This house has more valuables than any of the other houses, and nothing is there to stop him from taking them, but he doesn't take anything. How come? Put on your detective hat and prepare to solve the best mindbenders from the popular puzzle book series One-Minute Mysteries. This collection of crazy conundrums will keep you guessing until the final page and provide hours of entertainment for detectives of all ages. Are you up for the challenge? Let's find out. Solution: The burglar broke into his own house because he'd accidentally locked himself out.