Erwin Brecher, "The Ultimate Book of Puzzles, Mathematical Diversions, and Brainteasers: A Definitive Collection of the Best Puzzles Ever Devised

EBook Description: Long-time puzzle buffs have yearned for a one-volume collection of the best brain-twisters ever devised. Here are 360 carefully constructed exercises that use words, numbers, and diagrams to test logic, numeracy geometry, physics, intuition, common sense, and imagination.

There is little that I need say by way of introduction to this
collection of puzzles. They are all strictly "mathematical,"
though the mathematical knowledge necessary for solving
them is, in all but a handful of cases, elementary. That is
because these puzzles have all been published serially in
various newspapers and magazines, and their appeal would be
negligible if their solution demanded advanced mathematics.

They appear here, with their original wording unchanged,
except that, where puzzles involve monetary calculations,
I have converted pounds, shillings, and pennies into dollars
and cents. The factual basis of many of these puzzles is derived
from various games, e.g., contract bridge. A good many are
based on Britain's national game: association football
("soccer"). You don't need to know this game to tackle the
puzzles based on it. Its scoring is simplicity itself: each side,
if it scores at all, merely scores one, two, or more goals.

Curious and Interesting Puzzles

Curious and Interesting Puzzles, The Penguin Book of (Penguin science) by David Wells
Publisher: Penguin | 1993 | 400 pages | DJVU | English | ISBN-10: 0140148752

A companion to the same author''s "Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers" and "Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry", this book covers mathematical and logical puzzles from the Ancient Greeks to the present day.

Vocabulary Puzzles: The Fun Way to Ace Standardized Tests, ebook

This book will help you master vocabulary words with celerity, brandish them impressively, and achieve a quantum increase in your score. Vocabulary Puzzles helps you learn more than 300 key vocabulary words to help you score higher on the SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, or other standardized tests. It incorporates a variety of vocabulary-acquisition tools, including crossword puzzles, matching-column exercises, and sample sentence fill-ins.

Creative Puzzles of the World

Creative Puzzles of the World Key Curriculum | 1993 | ISBN: 1559531169 | 200 pages | PDF | 56 MB
Review: If you are interested in puzzles ....mechanical and manipulative ....paper, wood, wire, string, puzzles, mazes, ... look at this book ..beautifully produced, fantastic pictures and complete solutions .... make your own puzzles and get hooked. An exquisite gem of a book !!!

Pierre Berloquin, "The Garden of the Sphinx: 150 Challenging and Instructive Puzzles"

These mathematical puzzles have appeared in the newspaper
Le Monde during the past few years. A number of readers have
responded to the challenge by offering not only original solu-
tions and modes of attack but also by stating new problems
related to those proposed. A dialogue was thus initiated in
which my problems or those I reproduced from the literature
generated a new set by stimulating the minds of my corre-
spondents. This book presents a collection resulting from the
fruitful exchange.

101 Puzzles in Thought and Logic

Solve murder problems and robberies, see which fishermen are liars and how a blind man can identify color � purely by reasoning! Hours of mind-strengthening entertainment.

Puzzles for Pleasure

Puzzles for Pleasure

Barry R. Clarke, "Puzzles for Pleasure"
Cambridge University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0521466342 | Pages: 132 | PDF | 2,5 MB

Millions of people throughout the world are fascinated by puzzles, conundrums, and brain teasers. These amusing twisters from Barry Clarke are based on his extensive experience writing for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and New Scientist. The author has gathered together a variety of posers including several examples of a brand new type of puzzle, The Word Bandit. Hints and full solutions are included for all puzzles. Wittily written and illustrated with delightful cartoons by the author, there is something for everyone here: puzzles for children, for the family, for members of Mensa, but above all puzzles for pleasure.

"...The author, who has a degree in quantum mechanics and has worked as a comedy writer for the BBC, creates novel and funny situations for each of his problems. Approximately half of these puzzles appeared as brain twisters in the Daily Telegraph newspaper in London." David J. Hildreth, The Mathematics Teacher

"...a lot of problem-solving puzzles in it [that are] hard yet fun..." Andrew Wood, American Scientist

"Challenging yet extremely accessible..." The Reading Lamp

"Written in a light humorous style, and delightfully illustrated by this multi-talented author, the puzzle assortment includes logic problems, word conundrums, algebraic teasers, visio-spatial puzzles, lateral mind benders and other brain twisters." Cryptologia

ierre Berloquin, "The Garden of the Sphinx: 150 Challenging and Instructive Puzzles"

These mathematical puzzles have appeared in the newspaper
Le Monde during the past few years. A number of readers have
responded to the challenge by offering not only original solu-
tions and modes of attack but also by stating new problems
related to those proposed. A dialogue was thus initiated in
which my problems or those I reproduced from the literature
generated a new set by stimulating the minds of my corre-
spondents. This book presents a collection resulting from the
fruitful exchange.

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