Paperback Book gloss cover Puzzle Book

Ticket to Heaven: And Other Superior Puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Sole, Tim

Puzzles & Games

Penguin??Books

Take the Mensa challenge! These extraordinarily entertaining puzzles can confound even those with high IQs-and that's what makes them such delightfully tricky fun. A few can be solved relatively quickly, but the hardest may seem nearly impossible to crack. Give your skills a real workout on numerical conundrums, word games, lateral thinking problems, and riddles. Brainteasers, arranged in order of difficulty, train the mind and provide a good time all at once. The most complex bafflers include chess, logic, and spatial puzzles. Here's a small sampler of what's inside! · A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? · Which three boys' names are anagrams of one another? Answers: 1. Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows. 2. Arnold, Roland, and Ronald.

Giant Book of Mensa Mind Challenges

Fernández, J.J. Mendoza

Marshall, Rod

Poniachik, Jaime

Poniachik, Lea

Main Street

If you answer all 167 of these tricky number, word, chess, logic, and spatial games, you must be impossibly smart. Here are some samples: 1. Find the next term in this series: 1248, 1632, 6412, 8256 2. Discover the word, expression, or name depicted by these letters: T _RN. 3. If 89 players enter a single elimination tennis tournament, how many matches would it take to decide the winner, excluding byes? 4. "Bookkeeper" has three consecutive double letters. What common two-word phrase, if you remove the space, also has three consecutive double letters? Along the way you'll try to decipher a Top Forty song chart. Decide whether you'd rather a tiger chase you or a zebra. Give three boys' names that are anagrams of each other. And...figure out who we're talking about if the mother is three times as old as the daughter was when the father was the same age as the mother is now. Fortunately, the answers are provided. Answers: 1. Regrouping the sequence as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256, the next two terms in this sequence are 512 and 1024. The answer to the question is 5121. 2. No U-turn. 3. Each match will eliminate one player, so starting with 89 players will require 88 matches to decide the winner. 4. Sweet tooth. 96 pages, 77 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Nearly Impossible Brain Bafflers (Mensa®)

Sterling

MENSA

Richards, Karen C.

Train the brain while having fun at the same time. These puzzles go by order of complexity, from quick teasers to twisters, and up to bafflers, and they're all enjoyable to solve. The middle section, Tough Twisters, has some hints at the section for a little extra help. "Climb" a word ladder, converting the word PASSER into SPARSE by switching just two letters at a time. Figure out what's next in the following sequence of numbers: 17, 19, 23, and 29. But watch out, because there are two possible answers. Other problems use diagrams, poker card layouts, and grids.

Classic Brain Twisters

Niederman, Derrick

They’re tough, they’re tricky, they’re thought-provokingand they’re almost impossible to solve! And that’s why people who love puzzles will snatch up this Mensa-level collection to assess their solving skills. It’s the ultimate challenge, the best test of mental agility and stamina ever. The brain-wracking selection includes logic problems, lateral thinking, mathematic computations, word games, pattern and theme recognition, and conundrums. Some have grids to fill in; others have charts for working things out; and still more have a visual component (including drawings, diagrams, and geometric figures). With more than 100 puzzles, hours of entertainment lie ahead. And while all the answers are included, the order in which they appear is scrambledto discourage peeking!

Almost Impossible Brain Bafflers (Mensa)

Puzzlewright

What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time. It contains brain-busting challenges of almost every type: math logic problems for the numerically inclined; absolutely amazing lateral thinking conundrums; really great critical thinking bafflers; and mind-boggling word puzzles. Here’s just a small sample of what’s inside: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so? Stumped? That’s because it’s one manGrover Clevelandwho was reelected after skipping a term. And that’s just an easy warm-up!

The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles

DiSpezio, Michael A.

Willis, Norman D.

Sloane, Paul

MacHale, Des

SMITH, KURT

Gardener, Martin

Namaste! There’s nothing better than these soul-satisfying brain bafflers for staying mentally supple and fit.
Exercising the mind is as important as training the body, and this challenging mental workout will do the trick. It takes real cerebral power to unlock the secrets of these artfully crafted conundrums, which deal with everything from math and language to chess strategies and logic dilemmas. Find number and letter patterns, solve spatial problems, decipher devious anagrams, and much more. They may seem impossiblebut solvers who stay fully engaged and focused will find success!

Yoga for Your Brain

Designed to sharpen different puzzle-solving skills, Brain Boost is a great cross-training workout for the mind. From teasers that can be finished in just minutes to bafflers cleverly constructed as a super challenge, there’s something here for every level, interest, and occasion! At the core of the program, you’ll focus on a mix of number, word, chess, logic, spatial, and visual thinking puzzles. For a change of pace, try the sudoku that start out easy but then become cranium-crushing. And when you’re on the gowhether it’s on a lunch break or a vacationstay fit with the handy-size optical illusion and lateral thinking puzzle cards. Includes:·         Brain Boost puzzle book·         Mind Strengthening Sudoku puzzle book·         100 Optical Illusion and Lateral Thinking puzzle cards

Brain Boost: Strengthen Your Mind Power & Memory

Longo, Frank

Union Square & Co.

People who enjoy puzzles, including all the millions who play sudoku every day, will love The Strange and Infinite World of Numbers. Tim Sole has been publishing puzzle books since 1988 and three of his titles have won the accolade of being Official American Mensa Puzzle Books. The 28 chapters of this book are self-contained so you can start anywhere and still enjoy the recreational mathematics you'll find in each. The puzzles and facts here cover such curiosities as the fundamental constant of music, descriptions of unexpected lotto results, the so-called German Tank problem, and Einstein's most famous equation. All in all, it's a treasure of number fun and puzzles.

The Strange & Infinite World of Numbers

Science & Math

Mathematics

Arcturus

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