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Title: Sit & Solve - Lateral Thinking Puzzles by Paul Sloane, Des Machale, Claire Bazinet, Paul Sloane ISBN: 0-8069-5705-0 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There's always an answer
Comment: This is a brilliant little book that can be used for party games or just to while away the time if you enjoy puzzles. It has something for everyone and apart from the entertainment value I have also found some of the puzzles to be quite educational. What is most fascinating is that although many of the puzzles seem to be impossible to solve there is always an answer. A little gem and an ideal fun gift.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful brain challenger
Comment: If you are a fan of lateral thinking puzzles, this is a wonderful book you can take anywhere to tantalize your brain.
Lots of fun to try to solve these intriguing challengers! Be a logic detective to come up with a solution. A true delight for fans of all ages who love lateral thinking puzzles!
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of oldies, but still a good collection
Comment: This is a collection of puzzles designed to be solved quickly using only thought. While it is true that for some it may help to construct a diagram or write options down, for most the answer is just a matter of using the right approach. Most of the puzzles are not new, I recognized over fifty percent as having appeared elsewhere. Examples of such puzzles are:
1) If you are in a boat and throw something overboard which immediately sinks, does the boat rise or fall?
2) When in the last 200 years has there been a year that reads the same upside down?
3) A woman has five children and half of them are boys. How is this possible?
4) There are several problems where matches are to be moved.
5) The problem of a three-cornered duel where the odds of each hitting their target are different and the poorest shot shoots first.
6) How to arrange five circular coins so that they all touch each other.
7) If everybody in a family always votes Republican, then how come one person did not last election?
Nevertheless, I read through it with interest, even when I was only checking my memory rather than my wits. Solutions to all puzzles are in the back and there are some real sneaky ones. It is a good book for the beginning puzzle solver, although veterans may not be impressed.
Published in the recreational mathematics e-mail newsletter, reprinted with permission.
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Title: Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone by Pasqual J. Battaglia, Pat Battaglia ISBN: 0970825307 Publisher: Intl Puzzle Features Pub. Date: 27 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Pocket Puzzlers) by Paul Sloane, Des MacHale ISBN: 0806936738 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: Games Magazine: The Book of Sense and Nonsense Puzzles by Ronnie Shushan ISBN: 089480930X Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Brain Busters: Mind-Stretching Puzzles in Math and Logic by Barry R. Clarke ISBN: 0486427552 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles) by Martin Gardner ISBN: 0486281523 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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