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by: Norman D. Willis, Paul Sloane, Des MacHale, Michael A. DiSpezio, Kurt Smith, Martin Gardener, Tim Sole, Rod Marshall

: The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.73
EAN: 9781402733727
ISBN: 1402733720
Label: Sterling
Manufacturer: Sterling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: October 28, 2006
Publisher: Sterling
Sales Rank: 55484
Studio: Sterling



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Product 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!




Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Good Service, Stupid Book
This book was not what i was hoping to expect, but service was great and item arrived on time.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - a must buy for logic lovers
I just love logic problems that are challenging, yet solvable. This book is really great since it has a variety of math and thinking problems. It is very thick and sure to keep you occupied for a while. I'm not an expert, but I have several very difficult logic books and this one seems fun and not way to hard.It is a good buy. I am really glad I got it.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Disappointing
"The World's Biggest Book of Brainteaser and Logic Puzzles" has almost 600 pages of puzzles. The puzzle sections include: "The World's Most Amazing Logic Puzzles"; "The World's Most Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles"; "The Word's Most Nearly Impossible Brain Bafflers"; "The World's Most Intense False Logic Puzzles"; "The World's Most Taxing False Logic Puzzles"; "The World's Most Mystifying Logic Puzzles"; "The World's Most Daunting Math Puzzles"; "The World's Greatest Critical Thinking Puzzles"; and "The World's Most Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles". The solutions are in the back of the book directly after the puzzles.

"The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers and Logic Puzzles" is a mixed bag. For starters, I didn't realize when I ordered it that the book didn't have new puzzles but instead consists of puzzles from previously published books, which was a huge disappointment, especially since I already owned some of the books included. This is also problematic since some of the puzzle sections, like the Lateral Thinking ones, have no explanation on how to solve the puzzles which might confuses solvers not familiar with that type of puzzle. The book contains logic, math, and word puzzles with a heavy emphasis on the logic puzzles. Many of the logic puzzles are the type where you have to decide who is telling the truth and who is lying. My favorite puzzles in the book are the word puzzles, several of which are difficult but far too many of them give away the answer in either the name of the puzzle or the description of the puzzle. While the solution selection gives detailed answers to each puzzle, I found it extremely frustrating that the answers did not list the number of the page the puzzle was on which made it difficult to find the answer if you skip from puzzle to puzzle.

While "The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers and Logic Puzzles" had some challenging puzzles, I was ultimately disappointed in it.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It was fun
Although I just a fan of the critical thinking problems, all of the others were quite interesting. All I know is that I suck at lateral thinking problems.



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