Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781454911678
Category : Lateral thinking puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of mathematical conundrums with a twist. It presents you with mathematical conundrums, but instead of requiring brute calculating power, each puzzle relies upon a clever insight or unexpected shortcut.
Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781454911678
Category : Lateral thinking puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of mathematical conundrums with a twist. It presents you with mathematical conundrums, but instead of requiring brute calculating power, each puzzle relies upon a clever insight or unexpected shortcut.
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781454911678
Category : Lateral thinking puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of mathematical conundrums with a twist. It presents you with mathematical conundrums, but instead of requiring brute calculating power, each puzzle relies upon a clever insight or unexpected shortcut.
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.
Super Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806944708
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806944708
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
Lateral Thinking Puzzlers
Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806982274
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Puzzles - Clues - Answers_
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806982274
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Puzzles - Clues - Answers_
Puzzles in Math and Logic
Author: Aaron J. Friedland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486222561
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Selected brain teasers requiring geometric, algebraic, and logical solutions
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486222561
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Selected brain teasers requiring geometric, algebraic, and logical solutions
Math and Logic Puzzles for PC Enthusiasts
Author: J. J. Clessa
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486291925
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Treasury of 135 bafflers (70 "quickies" and 65 "micropuzzles") specially designed for computer hobbyists. Puzzles range from relatively simple exercises in logic to daunting mathematical brainteasers. Although a computer is helpful, many can be solved with pocket calculator, pen-and-paper or just plain brain-power. Introduction. Answers.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486291925
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Treasury of 135 bafflers (70 "quickies" and 65 "micropuzzles") specially designed for computer hobbyists. Puzzles range from relatively simple exercises in logic to daunting mathematical brainteasers. Although a computer is helpful, many can be solved with pocket calculator, pen-and-paper or just plain brain-power. Introduction. Answers.
Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402703805
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402703805
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486252116
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem. Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed. Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked." Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486252116
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem. Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed. Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked." Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Mathematical Puzzles and Curiosities
Author: Barry R. Clarke
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631572X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Intriguing collection features recreational math, logic, and creativity puzzles. Classic and new puzzles include The Monty Hall Problem, The Unexpected Hanging, The Shakespeare Puzzles, and Finger Multiplication.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631572X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Intriguing collection features recreational math, logic, and creativity puzzles. Classic and new puzzles include The Monty Hall Problem, The Unexpected Hanging, The Shakespeare Puzzles, and Finger Multiplication.
Mensa Math & Logic Puzzles
Author: Dave Tuller
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9780806941998
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"These visually unique braintwisters will put your puzzle-solving abilities to the ultimate test!"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9780806941998
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"These visually unique braintwisters will put your puzzle-solving abilities to the ultimate test!"--Page 4 of cover.