Author: Karen C. Richards
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402710674
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
There's nothing better than a tricky brain teaser to test your intellect and satisfy your quest for mental challenge. The search ends with this colossal assortment of classics.
Classic Brainteasers
Author: Karen C. Richards
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402710674
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
There's nothing better than a tricky brain teaser to test your intellect and satisfy your quest for mental challenge. The search ends with this colossal assortment of classics.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402710674
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
There's nothing better than a tricky brain teaser to test your intellect and satisfy your quest for mental challenge. The search ends with this colossal assortment of classics.
Classic Brainteasers
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806912615
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A collection of tricky teasers, quirky questions, science stumpers, and logic puzzlers.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806912615
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A collection of tricky teasers, quirky questions, science stumpers, and logic puzzlers.
Ancient Puzzles
Author: Dominic Olivastro
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Comprising the entire brainteasing spectrum from the silly and quirky to the clever and profound and drawing on classic wisdom from around the world and from as far back as 7,000 B.C., this collection features puzzles via Hebrew mystics, medieval Muslims, Benjamin Franklin, Sun Tsu, and more.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Comprising the entire brainteasing spectrum from the silly and quirky to the clever and profound and drawing on classic wisdom from around the world and from as far back as 7,000 B.C., this collection features puzzles via Hebrew mystics, medieval Muslims, Benjamin Franklin, Sun Tsu, and more.
Brainteaser Physics
Author: Göran Grimvall
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801885112
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Does a glass of ice water filled to the brim overflow when the ice melts? Does the energy inside a sauna increase when you heat it up? What's the best way to cool your coffee—adding the creamer first or last? These and other challenging puzzlers provide a fresh—and fun—approach to learning real physics. Presenting both classic and new problems, Brainteaser Physics challenges readers to use imagination and basic physics principles to find the answers. Göran Grimvall provides detailed and accessible explanations of the solutions, sometimes correcting the standard explanations, sometimes putting a new twist on them. He provides diagrams and equations where appropriate and ends each problem by discussing a specific concept or offering an extra challenge. With Brainteaser Physics, students and veteran physicists alike can sharpen their critical and creative thinking—and have fun at the same time.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801885112
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Does a glass of ice water filled to the brim overflow when the ice melts? Does the energy inside a sauna increase when you heat it up? What's the best way to cool your coffee—adding the creamer first or last? These and other challenging puzzlers provide a fresh—and fun—approach to learning real physics. Presenting both classic and new problems, Brainteaser Physics challenges readers to use imagination and basic physics principles to find the answers. Göran Grimvall provides detailed and accessible explanations of the solutions, sometimes correcting the standard explanations, sometimes putting a new twist on them. He provides diagrams and equations where appropriate and ends each problem by discussing a specific concept or offering an extra challenge. With Brainteaser Physics, students and veteran physicists alike can sharpen their critical and creative thinking—and have fun at the same time.
Mind-bending Classic Logic Puzzles
Author: Jenny Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899712182
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Crammed with a wide range of colourful, inventive and perplexing puzzles, this neat little book will engage even the least logical of minds. (From back cover).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899712182
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Crammed with a wide range of colourful, inventive and perplexing puzzles, this neat little book will engage even the least logical of minds. (From back cover).
The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1641520086
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Solve history's greatest puzzles with this classic collection of brain teasers from The Best Brain Teasers of All Time. The best brain teasers are those that have challenged and captivated the attention of puzzle lovers throughout time. Collected here to keep your wits sharp, The Best Brain Teasers of All Time features the cleverest brain teasers from around the world and throughout history. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time gives you hours of fun-filled entertainment with brain teasers that develop your problem-solving skills in math, logic, and wordplay. Organized as an integrated challenge, these brain teasers build in momentum as they increase in difficulty from classic nursery rhymes to the riddle of the sphinx. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time puts your mind to the test with: 125 Brain Teasers that require no special skills to solve. Plus, each question comes with an optional clue in case you get stumped and a handy answer key in the back to test yourself or play with friends Brain Teasers for Every Level that cater to beginners and advanced masterminds alike, with brain teasers organized by level of difficulty to improve your skills as you move forward Hints of History that provide fun facts and background information for every brain teaser Get ready to sharpen your wit with every "aha" moment. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time is a go-to source for timeless fun and mind-blowing challenges.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1641520086
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Solve history's greatest puzzles with this classic collection of brain teasers from The Best Brain Teasers of All Time. The best brain teasers are those that have challenged and captivated the attention of puzzle lovers throughout time. Collected here to keep your wits sharp, The Best Brain Teasers of All Time features the cleverest brain teasers from around the world and throughout history. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time gives you hours of fun-filled entertainment with brain teasers that develop your problem-solving skills in math, logic, and wordplay. Organized as an integrated challenge, these brain teasers build in momentum as they increase in difficulty from classic nursery rhymes to the riddle of the sphinx. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time puts your mind to the test with: 125 Brain Teasers that require no special skills to solve. Plus, each question comes with an optional clue in case you get stumped and a handy answer key in the back to test yourself or play with friends Brain Teasers for Every Level that cater to beginners and advanced masterminds alike, with brain teasers organized by level of difficulty to improve your skills as you move forward Hints of History that provide fun facts and background information for every brain teaser Get ready to sharpen your wit with every "aha" moment. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time is a go-to source for timeless fun and mind-blowing challenges.
Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Edward J. Harshman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402710629
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, too--you'll have to really fire up your brain and imagination. At first, it may not seem as if there's enough information to come up with a solution. But look more closely; there's always more than meets the eye. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, retune your mind, separate the facts from the red herrings, and the answers will come.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402710629
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, too--you'll have to really fire up your brain and imagination. At first, it may not seem as if there's enough information to come up with a solution. But look more closely; there's always more than meets the eye. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, retune your mind, separate the facts from the red herrings, and the answers will come.
Math Puzzles Volume 1
Author: Presh Talwalkar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517421625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
You want to cut a tortilla into 8 pieces. What's the minimum number of cuts you need to make? Is it statistically harder to guess an iPhone password that uses 3-digits or one that uses 4 unique digits? Two friends agree to meet up in a bar between midnight and 1 am. Each arrives at a random time and will wait 10 minutes for the other to show before leaving. What is the probability the two will meet at the bar? What if they are playing strategically? The YouTube channel and blog Mind Your Decisions has millions of views for math videos and posts. This book is a compilation of 70 of the best puzzles, divided into 25 classic puzzles in counting and geometry, 25 probability puzzles, and 20 game theory puzzles.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517421625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
You want to cut a tortilla into 8 pieces. What's the minimum number of cuts you need to make? Is it statistically harder to guess an iPhone password that uses 3-digits or one that uses 4 unique digits? Two friends agree to meet up in a bar between midnight and 1 am. Each arrives at a random time and will wait 10 minutes for the other to show before leaving. What is the probability the two will meet at the bar? What if they are playing strategically? The YouTube channel and blog Mind Your Decisions has millions of views for math videos and posts. This book is a compilation of 70 of the best puzzles, divided into 25 classic puzzles in counting and geometry, 25 probability puzzles, and 20 game theory puzzles.
Learn to Think Using Riddles, Brain Teasers, and Wordplay: Develop a Quick Wit, Think More Creatively and Cleverly, and Train your Problem-Solving instincts
Author: Patrick King
Publisher: PKCS Media
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Learn how to ask the right questions, solve problems, and think more clearly. In traditional education, you're taught to recite and regurgitate. But there is rarely application, and information just becomes information for information’s sake. Does this actually make us smarter and more clever, or do we just get better at taking tests? Test yourself with over 30 maddening riddles and brain teasers designed to make you think outside the box. Learn to Think Using Riddles, Brain Teasers, and Wordplay is about how to think backwards, forwards, and sideways. Starting with a conclusion and finding the possible causes forces you to analyze, investigate, draw connections, and hypothesize. You need to explore all angles and let no stone remain unturned. This is exactly what real life requires. This book will confuse, frustrate, and ultimately improve your thinking prowess like nothing else, on account of being thrown into the mental deep end. Challenge yourself and you will grow. Think like Sherlock Holmes and quickly cut to the core of an issue. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. Become more naturally curious, inquisitive, and insightful. - What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? - A woman gives birth one day to two sons; they are both born in the same hour, in the same day, in the same year. However, they are not twins. How? - A man hears his name spoken and is immediately taken away by two other men. Some time later, the man dies under the care of others. What happened to this man? - A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for just three nights and then leaves on Friday – how is this possible? Apply your new mental models in all facets of life. Everyone loves riddles, and they enable us to explore more abstract situations and reason through them. Master riddles and you can master simply dealing with difficult, uncertain, impossible, or confusing questions and situations. Scroll up the click the BUY NOW button.
Publisher: PKCS Media
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Learn how to ask the right questions, solve problems, and think more clearly. In traditional education, you're taught to recite and regurgitate. But there is rarely application, and information just becomes information for information’s sake. Does this actually make us smarter and more clever, or do we just get better at taking tests? Test yourself with over 30 maddening riddles and brain teasers designed to make you think outside the box. Learn to Think Using Riddles, Brain Teasers, and Wordplay is about how to think backwards, forwards, and sideways. Starting with a conclusion and finding the possible causes forces you to analyze, investigate, draw connections, and hypothesize. You need to explore all angles and let no stone remain unturned. This is exactly what real life requires. This book will confuse, frustrate, and ultimately improve your thinking prowess like nothing else, on account of being thrown into the mental deep end. Challenge yourself and you will grow. Think like Sherlock Holmes and quickly cut to the core of an issue. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. Become more naturally curious, inquisitive, and insightful. - What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? - A woman gives birth one day to two sons; they are both born in the same hour, in the same day, in the same year. However, they are not twins. How? - A man hears his name spoken and is immediately taken away by two other men. Some time later, the man dies under the care of others. What happened to this man? - A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for just three nights and then leaves on Friday – how is this possible? Apply your new mental models in all facets of life. Everyone loves riddles, and they enable us to explore more abstract situations and reason through them. Master riddles and you can master simply dealing with difficult, uncertain, impossible, or confusing questions and situations. Scroll up the click the BUY NOW button.
The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers
Author: The Grabarchuk Family
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781402777288
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers visual puzzles of various types, shapes, and sizes, all in colour. This title offers solvers: cube puzzles, construction problems, puzzles with patterns, mazes, paper clip teasers, and more.
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781402777288
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers visual puzzles of various types, shapes, and sizes, all in colour. This title offers solvers: cube puzzles, construction problems, puzzles with patterns, mazes, paper clip teasers, and more.