Author: Peter Grabarchuk
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402748086
Category : Logic puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
Modern Classic Puzzles
Author: Peter Grabarchuk
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402748086
Category : Logic puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402748086
Category : Logic puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
New Book of Puzzles
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9780716723561
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Shows how to make a variety of puzzles out of wood, string, and wire, and includes solutions
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9780716723561
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Shows how to make a variety of puzzles out of wood, string, and wire, and includes solutions
Soma Puzzle Book, The: A New Approach To The Classic Pieces
Author: Goodman David Hillel
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813275332
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A NEW TWIST ON A POPULAR PUZZLE CUBE! Invented by Piet Hein, the Soma cube is one of the most famous mechanical puzzles in the world. The traditional challenge and outcome is to build a cube or other structures from all seven pieces.CHANGE THE RULES, CHANGE THE OUTCOME! The puzzles in this unique Soma-inspired collection are no longer predicated upon using all seven pieces at one time! By varying the number of pieces, there are many new and versatile puzzle challenges, from all types of recreational mathematics fields. For example, you will find symmetry puzzles, cover-up puzzles, and even fraction puzzles. The chapters are divided according to the number of pieces used; from single-piece puzzles to puzzles requiring a complete set.WHY USE THE SOMA CUBE? From the moment our creative team changed their rules of engagement for this new collection, the potential puzzle challenges and their solutions became nearly limitless! There is something magical and enchanting in those seven pieces that enabled us to find many puzzles and challenges!NEW CHALLENGES Most of the puzzles demonstrated within the book are original. Some are based on classic puzzles, as well as more modern ones, modified and presented by using the set of Soma pieces.LOW COST AND HIGH INTEREST FOR HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT WITH INCREASING COMPLEXITY! This is a unique collection of puzzles — all you need is a set of the Soma cube. The puzzles range from easy to difficult and they appeal to a wide audience — all within the reach of the general public. It presents many geometrical and mathematical principles, and makes them easier to understand. However, no special knowledge in mathematics or geometry is required.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813275332
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A NEW TWIST ON A POPULAR PUZZLE CUBE! Invented by Piet Hein, the Soma cube is one of the most famous mechanical puzzles in the world. The traditional challenge and outcome is to build a cube or other structures from all seven pieces.CHANGE THE RULES, CHANGE THE OUTCOME! The puzzles in this unique Soma-inspired collection are no longer predicated upon using all seven pieces at one time! By varying the number of pieces, there are many new and versatile puzzle challenges, from all types of recreational mathematics fields. For example, you will find symmetry puzzles, cover-up puzzles, and even fraction puzzles. The chapters are divided according to the number of pieces used; from single-piece puzzles to puzzles requiring a complete set.WHY USE THE SOMA CUBE? From the moment our creative team changed their rules of engagement for this new collection, the potential puzzle challenges and their solutions became nearly limitless! There is something magical and enchanting in those seven pieces that enabled us to find many puzzles and challenges!NEW CHALLENGES Most of the puzzles demonstrated within the book are original. Some are based on classic puzzles, as well as more modern ones, modified and presented by using the set of Soma pieces.LOW COST AND HIGH INTEREST FOR HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT WITH INCREASING COMPLEXITY! This is a unique collection of puzzles — all you need is a set of the Soma cube. The puzzles range from easy to difficult and they appeal to a wide audience — all within the reach of the general public. It presents many geometrical and mathematical principles, and makes them easier to understand. However, no special knowledge in mathematics or geometry is required.
Classic Puzzles
Author: Tim Dedopulos
Publisher: Carlton Books
ISBN: 9781787390973
Category : Logic puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A superb variety of taxing teasers, including the world's oldest puzzle!
Publisher: Carlton Books
ISBN: 9781787390973
Category : Logic puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A superb variety of taxing teasers, including the world's oldest puzzle!
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486256375
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Combines two previously published works, resulting in ninety-three brain-teasing puzzles, riddles, and questions with an emphasis on humor.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486256375
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Combines two previously published works, resulting in ninety-three brain-teasing puzzles, riddles, and questions with an emphasis on humor.
Puzzles Old & New
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295965796
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295965796
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320324
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320324
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.
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.
The Classic FM Puzzle Book 365
Author: Classic FM
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9781788403382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
*** With a foreword by Alexander Armstrong. Do you know your Chopin from your Schubert? Your concerto from your cadenza? The Classic FM Puzzle Book 365 will test your musical knowledge to the very core, with a fiendishly difficult puzzle to challenge you every single day of the year. From quizzes to wordsearches, logic tests to missing symbols - via emojis, sudoku, crosswords and more - our classical music experts have created a compendium of puzzles to keep you guessing the whole year round.
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9781788403382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
*** With a foreword by Alexander Armstrong. Do you know your Chopin from your Schubert? Your concerto from your cadenza? The Classic FM Puzzle Book 365 will test your musical knowledge to the very core, with a fiendishly difficult puzzle to challenge you every single day of the year. From quizzes to wordsearches, logic tests to missing symbols - via emojis, sudoku, crosswords and more - our classical music experts have created a compendium of puzzles to keep you guessing the whole year round.
New Classic Word Search Puzzles 3
Author: J. Lubandi
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512027259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Welcome to this New Classic Word Search Puzzles 3, this is a cool collection of 100 thematic enjoyable puzzles - it's educational, it's fun, it's challenging - it's hard to put down! The object of this puzzle book is to provide endless entertainment at all age levels. Words are placed forward, backwards, up, down, diagonally in any of the four diagonal possibilities. This puzzle craze! is portrayed with a professional layout of clearly visible content, perfectly distributed puzzles with solution at the end providing hours of challenging fun for all ages and ability levels. WISH YOU LUCK!
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512027259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Welcome to this New Classic Word Search Puzzles 3, this is a cool collection of 100 thematic enjoyable puzzles - it's educational, it's fun, it's challenging - it's hard to put down! The object of this puzzle book is to provide endless entertainment at all age levels. Words are placed forward, backwards, up, down, diagonally in any of the four diagonal possibilities. This puzzle craze! is portrayed with a professional layout of clearly visible content, perfectly distributed puzzles with solution at the end providing hours of challenging fun for all ages and ability levels. WISH YOU LUCK!