My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles)
by Martin Gardner
from Dover Publications
Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All (Mensa)
by Peter Gordon
from Sterling
Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone
by Pasqual J. Battaglia
from Intl Puzzle Features
Are You Smart, or What? is the most entertaining book of word games, ever! It combines clever challenges and surprising answers with playful innovations to both amaze and amuse readers of all ages. All puzzles are concise and uncomplicated. They are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so the entire family can enjoy them.
The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science
by Ivan Moscovich
from Workman Publishing Company
An obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, and illusions--originals as well as must-do classics. It's like popcorn for the brain with jam-packed pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, this book is a call to action. Twelve basic catagories including Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back crossreference the puzzles. The answers are included too. 432 pages. 9 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches.
Sudoku Easy to Hard Presented by Will Shortz, Volume 3: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles (Sudoku Easy to Hard)
by Will Shortz
from St. Martin's Griffin
From puzzlemaster and New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz comes sudoku, the new “wordless crossword” puzzle that’s taking the world by storm! Once you start, you won’t want to stop. These addictive puzzles are easy to understand---just fill the grid with numbers according to the few simple rules---but incredibly fun and engaging to complete. You don’t need any mathematics knowledge: Just supply a pencil and an inquisitive mind.
This brand-new collection features original sudoku ranging from effortlessly easy to devilishly difficult, along with an introduction from Will Shortz that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. Plus, the last five bonus puzzles in the book are giants---more than 50 percent larger and correspondingly more fun to solve! If you’re a crossword fan, a fan of logic puzzles, or just a puzzle lover in general, you will be engrossed and delighted with sudoku!
Foodie Fight: A Trivia Game with Gameboard and Cards
by Joyce Lock
from Chronicle Books
Calling all food lovers! This addictive trivia game allows players to strut their culinary stuff and prove who is the smartest foodie of them all. With over 1,000 questions on topics ranging from culinary science and celebrity chefs to food history and exotic cuisine, each player is bound to get a full serving of food knowledge. But think fast, because the first player or team to fill in their game board wins!
Includes:
- Deck of trivia cards
- Six game boards
- Color die
Life: The Ultimate Picture Puzzle: Can You Spot the Differences? (Life (Life Books))
by Editors of Life Magazine
from Life
Mensa Absolutely Nasty Sudoku Level 4 (Mensa)
by Frank Longo
from Sterling
Mensa Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles (Mensa)
by Dave Tuller
from Sterling
Mensa Exercise Your Mind Math & Logic Puzzles (Mensa)
by Dave Tuller
from Sterling
And the puzzles are fantastic: they're the kind of challenge found at the World Puzzle Championships, and they require no language to solve. For example, you are given a grid of dots that has some numbers (0, 1, 2, or 3) in them. You need to connect the dots in one continuous path so that each number is surrounded by that many lines. So a "3" means that three of the four sides around it must be connected. All the puzzles are similar abstract exercises, and all have unique solutions that can be reached using pure logic. They're difficult--and really satisfying exercise for your brain.
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