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Award-winning author Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner's first collection of one-minute mysteries has sold more than 100,000 copies, and now the two offer more fun thinking puzzles for super-sleuths of all ages. It's an entertaining book for the whole family.
Each one-page mystery is illustrated with a hilarious cartoon that presents an obvious (and obviously incorrect!) solution. Readers can turn to a page of clues, each one revealing more information...
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Do you like to play head games? Do brain teasers tickle your mind? Well if yes then test your mathematical skills with Mathemagic Puzzles & Brain Drainers. Puzzles and Brain teasers are fun ways to get students enjoying and thinking about maths. The think smart puzzles in this book are designed to sharpen the creativity and problem solving skills and challenge and entertain the students likewise. The book is loaded with perplexing puzzles for every...
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The Candyman's Treasure Hunt The Orb Travelers will award the finder a $100,000 annuity paid out over 20-years.
This Treasure Hunt is NOT, designed for the amateur. This treasure hunt will take great solving skills and boots on the ground somewhere within the continental USA. Please be aware that this could be, solved in a weekend or could take years. It is not in a dangerous location.
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Pet Rescue Saga is a puzzle game that is available on Facebook. It is a game that requires the player to remove blocks of the same color to be able to rescue pet animals hence it was named Pet Rescue Saga. The game is available for free. If you have a Facebook account, you can play it as you chat or view your newsfeed on the site. The game is also available through apps so that you can play it via an iPhone, an iPod Touch or through an iPad. There...
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A smart way to teach children to think logically and creatively
One of the most precious gifts you can offer a child is a sharp mind. The 56 puzzles in this delightful collection were passed down through generations of Chinese families who wanted their children to develop concentration and mental agility. Baifang spent hours enjoying them with her family and friends as she was growing up in the north of China. Now living in San Francisco, Baifang...
106) Thoth's Tangram
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The Tangram has seven pieces. If you take the square piece to have an area equal to one, then the area of all the pieces is eight. The Tangram is not unique, but one of many variations - many being ancient. One of note is Archimedes' Stomachion. The Tangram Book by Jerry Slocum makes a persuasive case that its origin is Chinese dating to around 1800; the book also provides an excellent history of the Tangram. For those interested, another good book...
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.
-Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four.
Pit your wits against the greatest detective of them all with this collection of fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles and enigmas. Some involve riddles, some plays on words, and some rely on mathematical principles. Use your powers of logical...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The World Chess Championship has existed since 1886. But with this final, it became a front-page story for the first time. The games made news on television and stars of commentators. The meaning of the confrontation seemed clear to Western commentators: a lone American star was challenging the long Soviet grip on the world title.
#2 The end of the cold war has allowed...
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With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing... presently... details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold-everywhere the glint of gold.
Howard Carter
Lost to antiquity, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was rediscovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Its hidden location in the Valley...
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Thorough, systematic introduction to serious cryptography, especially strong in modern forms of cipher solution used by experts. Nihilist, grille, U. S. Army, key-phrase, multiple-alphabet, Gronsfeld, Porta, Beaufort, periodic ciphers, and more. Simple and advanced methods. 166 specimens to solve - with solutions.
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Learn how to take the "tease" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your...
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Divide a rectangular cake into five even pieces, calculate the cost of running a successful casino, figure out the maximum number of losses on the road to winning the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, and solve other amusing and challenging puzzles - including a mathematical brainteaser involving a couple of holes of golf on the surface of the moon. In addition to logical puzzles and mathematical paradoxes, this original collection features a variety...
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Travel with Alice down the rabbit hole into the fantastic world of Wonderland, and help a cast of extraordinary characters solve these tantalising puzzles and enigmas.
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, was a huge fan of puzzles and was said to have invented the word ladder. In this book you can deduce the card hand of Tweedledee, decide which bottle contains the growing potion and calculate...
114) 75 Mind Bogglers
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Chronicle Books is pleased to continue the Puzzlemaster Deck line with this new deck from acclaimed NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times. Packed with 75 verbal brainteasers each, this deck will challenge all who enjoy wordplay. None of the puzzles require pen or paper, making them perfect for playing while standing in line, commuting to work, or hanging out with friends.
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Pit your wits against the greatest detective of them all with this collection of fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles and enigmas. Featuring the original Sherlock Holmes illustrations by Sidney Paget and George Hutchinson, it contains a great mix of conundrums to keep the most ardent puzzle and Sherlock fan entertained and challenged.
116) Cross Number Puzzle
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For many years, you have heard about puzzles such as CrossWord, WordSearch, Trivia, WordFit, Maze, and Sudoku. These CrossNumber puzzles differ from the usual types of crossword puzzles, acrostics, cryptograms, and logic puzzles. They are based on elementary mathematics and logic. To be successful in solving them, you should use your logic and wits, not your luck! These puzzles can be easily translated into other languages, as their composition is...
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Frame games, as seen in USA WEEKEND magazine and read by more than 48,000,000 people in 600 newspapers weekly, are an extremely popular and amusing form of word puzzle that represent a famous phrase, song, person, place, or movie. By looking at the way the letters are formed and where they are placed in relation to the other letters, you can piece together a solution. These artfully constructed brainteasers are a favorite among teachers, travelers,...
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Sharpen Your Sleuthing Skills with These Super Brain-Strainers
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A burglar robs many homes throughout the day. At the last house, he breaks in through the back door. This house has more valuables than any of the other houses, and nothing is there to stop him from taking them, but he doesn't take anything. How come?
Put on your detective hat and prepare to solve the best mindbenders from the popular puzzle book series One-Minute Mysteries....
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Use your sleuthing skills to unveil the secrets of the labyrinth or your mathematical prowess to help the Greeks win the Trojan War in this engaging Mythology Puzzles book! With more than 100 puzzles to complete, you'll use your wit and reasoning just like legendary heroes such as Perseus or Theseus.
This collection will strengthen your logic and intelligence through challenging puzzles to engage your deductive, mathematical, and critical reasoning...
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