The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books)

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615198059
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting: boru niko = two balls tsuna nihon = two ropes uma nito = two horses kami nimai = two sheets of paper ashi gohon = five legs ringo goko = five apples sara gomai = five plates kaba goto = five hippos Now, how do the Japanese say “nine cucumbers”?* a) kyuri kyuhon b) kyuri kyuko c) kyuri kyuhiki d) kyuri kyuto Bellos finds the intrigue—and the human element—in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and even invented tongues, from hieroglyphs to Blissymbolics, Danish to Dothraki. Filled with unusual alphabets, fascinating characters, and intriguing local customs for time-telling, naming children, and more, this is a bravura book of brainteasers and beyond—it’s a globe-trotting, time-traveling celebration of language. *The word endings depend on shape: Flat things end in -mai and spherical things end in -ko. Cucumbers are long things (like ropes and legs), so they end in -hon. The answer is (a)!

Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation

Author: Dragomir Radev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642343724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This is the second volume of a unique collection that brings together the best English-language problems created for students competing in the Computational Linguistics Olympiad. These problems are representative of the diverse areas presented in the competition and designed with three principles in mind: · To challenge the student analytically, without requiring any explicit knowledge or experience in linguistics or computer science; · To expose the student to the different kinds of reasoning required when encountering a new phenomenon in a language, both as a theoretical topic and as an applied problem; · To foster the natural curiosity students have about the workings of their own language, as well as to introduce them to the beauty and structure of other languages; · To learn about the models and techniques used by computers to understand human language. Aside from being a fun intellectual challenge, the Olympiad mimics the skills used by researchers and scholars in the field of computational linguistics. In an increasingly global economy where businesses operate across borders and languages, having a strong pool of computational linguists is a competitive advantage, and an important component to both security and growth in the 21st century. This collection of problems is a wonderful general introduction to the field of linguistics through the analytic problem solving technique. "A fantastic collection of problems for anyone who is curious about how human language works! These books take serious scientific questions and present them in a fun, accessible way. Readers exercise their logical thinking capabilities while learning about a wide range of human languages, linguistic phenomena, and computational models. " - Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute

Puzzle Masterpieces

Author: Patrick Berry
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402760655
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Words, prepare to meet your master--and sophisticated solvers, prepare for a treat. Patrick Berry's puzzles are unparalleled; whether in the "New York Times" or "Games Magazine," everything he touches turns to mind-stretching gold. And now he has created the most eye-catching crosswords ever seen, in a collection that's as visually gorgeous as it is mentally stimulating. The grids in these puzzles don't look anything like typical crosswords--instead, they come in a variety of shapes, each with its own unique twist. Of course, these attractive challenges are all filled with the freshest words and phrases, and clued with a wicked sense of wordplay. This handsome volume would make the perfect gift for any word lover.

Can You Solve My Problems?

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN: 9781783351145
Category : Mathematical recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A high-class puzzle book from the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland; organised from easy-peasy to ninja level - with stories of puzzle mysteries, histories and scandals along the way this book will make your hippocampus happy.

So You Think You've Got Problems?

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN: 9781783351909
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?

The Everything Travel Word Search Book

Author: Charles Timmerman
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 9781598697179
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Solving puzzles is a great way to pass time on a train, in an airport, or in the back seat of a car. Puzzlers young and old will love this collection. It?s the perfect traveling companion for word search fans. Each puzzle has a fun and clever theme: road trips; vacation destinations; adventure travel; favorite museums and tourist attractions; national parks; and more. Packed with 150 addictive and entertaining puzzles, this word search collection provides vacationers, business travelers, or commuters with portable entertainment that makes any trip more enjoyable.

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.

Puzzle Books for Adults

Author: Callisto Media
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646114085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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RHS Gardener's Quiz & Puzzle Book

Author: Simon Akeroyd
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN: 9781784726324
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'Who is the patron saint of gardeners? Which leafy South American herb, 200 times sweeter than sugar, has no calories? These are just two of the knotty brainteasers in this fun book for gardening know-it-alls, ideal for those wanting to test the limits of their botanical knowledge. And if you were wondering, the answers are: St Fiacre and stevia.' - Mail on Sunday Ever wanted to show just how much you know about roses? Or see if you can remember the Latin name for Japanese Maple? RHS Gardener's Quiz & Puzzle Book is designed to test your horticultural and botanical knowledge with puzzles to delight and challenge. Featuring more than 400 lavishly illustrated questions, from anagrams to garden history, from obscure tools to identifying plants based on their leaves - there are questions for every level of gardening knowledge. Including... - Solve anagrams to improve your knowledge of Latin names - Test your ability to identify plant anatomy with annotated diagrams - Feature pages contain quizzes on specific themes such as botany, vegetables, houseplants, pests and plant care ...and much more.

Tetris Puzzle Book

Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787392366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description