The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles

Author: Norman D. Willis
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402733727
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 708

Book Description
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 man--Grover Cleveland--who was reelected after skipping a term. And that's just an easy warm-up!

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)!

National Geographic Kids Puzzle Book - What in the World?

Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008267735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
A fact-packed fun book of world travel themed puzzles. Test your knowledge and get thinking with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids fun book of world travel themed puzzles. Inside are brain-tickling quizzes as well as number games, crosswords and word searches, with fascinating facts along the way.

National Geographic Kids Puzzle Book: Space

Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: Ngk Puzzle Books
ISBN: 1426335512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Challenge your brain with tons of do-it-yourself, interactive fun! These crosswords, sudokus, word searches, and other boredom busters will keep you entertained for hours. Blast off to the most fascinating places in our solar system! You'll get to know the planets, moons, and rockets of outer space--and test your puzzle chops while you're at it. This activity book is brimming with out-of-this-world facts, awesome photos, and endless entertainment. (Where else can you learn about space exploration AND master a crossword puzzle--all in the same book?) Plus, all this fun is packed into a handy, portable size, perfect for tossing into a backpack or taking on the road.

The 15 Puzzle Book

Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890980153
Category : Board games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years? The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.

The Times World Atlas Puzzle Book: Put your knowledge of the world to the ultimate test (The Times Puzzle Books)

Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008382956
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. This e-book is best viewed on Kindle Fire in landscape view to optimise your experience. The ultimate geographical challenge from the world’s leading atlas makers. World mapping quizzes and puzzles to test how well you know your countries, flags and capital cities

National Geographic Kids Puzzle Book: Animals

Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: Ngk Puzzle Books
ISBN: 1426335504
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Banish boredom with tons of crosswords, sudoku, word searches, and other games to challenge your brain and indulge in hours of interactive, do-it-yourself fun. Big cats and elephants, sharks and green tree frogs--the whole animal kingdom is in on the fun! You'll explore the jungle, the ocean, and everywhere in between as you test your puzzle chops. This activity book is brimming with wild facts, awesome photos, and endless entertainment. (Where else can you learn about a pangolin AND totally crush a sudoku puzzle in the same book?) Plus, all this fun is packed into a handy, portable size, perfect for tossing into a backpack or taking it on the road.

The Potato Chip Puzzles

Author: Eric Berlin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142416371
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Winston and his friends enter a puzzle contest to win fifty thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning, in a book that includes puzzles for the reader to solve.

What in the World?

Author: Julie Vosburgh Agnone
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN: 9781426316081
Category : Optical illusions
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Offers a series of diverse types of picture puzzles intended to strengthen visual skills, cognitive skills, and memory.

Catan Puzzle Book

Author: Richard Wolfrik Galland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787393905
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The Catan Puzzle Bookis the perfect gift for fans of the Catan franchise who want to expand beyond the wildly popular board game experience. The timeless world of Catan is waiting for you to explore, build, settle... and solve! Inside the Catan Puzzle Bookare 100 original puzzles based on the wildly popular board game, providing a narrative adventure that allows you to discover the unsettled island of Catan. Alongside original artworks from Settlers of Catan, each puzzle contains its own pleasures and solving them allows you to win resources. Resources lead to victory points... and victory points lead to success! Contents: This book includes 10 chapters of puzzles, each containing 10 puzzles set in the Catan world. The puzzles may be solved on their own or as part of a narrative that runs through the book. Each correctly answered puzzle awards the reader resources, which can eventually be converted into achievements and victory points. Upon earning enough victory points, the reader wins the book! Catan Puzzle Bookis also fantastically illustrated throughout with more than 150 in-world artworks.