Puzzles for Adults: 50 Brain Teasers with Step-by-Step Solutions

Puzzles for Adults: 50 Brain Teasers with Step-by-Step Solutions
Author: Atanu Chaudhuri
Publisher: Atanu Chaudhuri
Total Pages: 271
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

This book is for the smart and curious mind at any age like yours. It should also go a long way to improve performance of young minds—in higher Schools, Colleges and Work environments. It contains hand-picked 50 brain teasers and the solutions. None of the puzzles are too easy or for that matter too difficult that you won't be able to solve. The puzzles are of mixed variety - intriguing riddles, logic puzzles, river crossing puzzles, and ball weighing puzzles. Most of the puzzles are uncommon but all are interesting. No math puzzles, you don't need any prior knowledge to solve the puzzles. Puzzle solutions are hand-crafted using innovative problem solving techniques. The new methods used for solving the puzzles will surprise and enrich you. To add value to the work, a few of the Innovative problem solving techniques used in solutions, namely, Working backwards, End state analysis, Property change analysis, Question Analysis Answer are collected in brief as Appendix. These are general problem solving techniques you may use for solving not just puzzles, but other types of problems also. It is a book of 50 puzzles that you will enjoy solving. It also is the book that will show you new ways to solve problems.

Chess

Chess
Author: László Polgár
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781579129507

Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

Have Fun with Math

Have Fun with Math
Author: Louis Grant Brandes
Publisher: Walch Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1988
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780825113093

This book contains reproducible puzzles, picture graphs, mazes, brain teasers, puns, coded messages, and number oddities. Topics in this book cover whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, powers and roots, metric measures, perimeters, areas, and volumes, miscellaneous questions, problems, tests and pre-algebra.

The Crosswords Club Collection

The Crosswords Club Collection
Author: Will Weng
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780812934335

The Crosswords Club Collection returns with more of the puzzles enjoyed by the subscribers of the exclusive mail-order service that provides original Sunday-size crosswords. In addition to these special puzzles, there is a unique Answers section, which provides interesting tidbits about each crossword.

Cunning Combination Problems & Other Puzzles

Cunning Combination Problems & Other Puzzles
Author: Ivan Moscovich
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Logic puzzles
ISBN: 9781402723469

There's magic in these brainteasers. Most of them play variations on the magic square, among the oldest puzzles that exist. These cubes or other shapes are made up of groups of cells, each cell containing one of a set of numbers. The set generally corresponds with the number of cells, so, for example, a five-by-five magic square would contain numbers from 1 to 25. The trick: the sum of the numbers in any one row or column (and sometimes diagonal) must be the same. It's pure mathematical beauty. Examine and attempt to figure out the workings of a "diabolic" version created by D�rer, an early variation by Lo-Shu, and variants that use colors, different shapes, and hinged tiles.

100 Puzzles

100 Puzzles
Author: Anthony S. Filipiak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1942
Genre: Mathematical recreations
ISBN:

Numerical Brain Teasers

Numerical Brain Teasers
Author: Erica Sadun
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-12-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Challenge your brain with math! Using nothing more than basic arithmetic and logic, you'll be thrilled as answers slot into place. Whether purely for fun or to test your knowledge, you'll sharpen your problem-solving skills and flex your mental muscles. All you need is logical thought, a little patience, and a clear mind. There are no gotchas here. These puzzles are the perfect introduction to or refresher for math concepts you may have only just learned or long since forgotten. Get ready to have more fun with numbers than you've ever had before. Engage your analytical side with these numerical brain teasers. Math and logic puzzles help you stretch your mind to think in new ways. They flex your lateral thinking as you work through fresh problem styles. Each puzzle type comes with an explanation, a method for solving them, and solutions if you get stuck. The puzzles in this book are short, self-contained, and "gritty." They offer an enjoyable challenge and are designed to be solvable within a few minutes. You only need basic arithmetic to solve these puzzles; no advanced math required. There's plenty of variety to keep things fresh. From wandering digits to magic triangles, from summing grids to water pails, you'll find something that catches your interest. Each puzzle is brief, so use them as a warm-up to your daily work, for a delightful diversion on your coffee break, or solve a few while you wind down for the day. Grab a pencil and your thinking cap, and get solving!

The Greatest Puzzles of All Time

The Greatest Puzzles of All Time
Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1996
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486292258

Challenging collection includes some of the worldrsquo;s most perplexing brain-teasers by such masters as Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck and Henry Dudeney. Also, the stories behind the creation of the puzzles, the worldrsquo;s earliest riddles, the birth of the crossword puzzle, much more. Introduction. 146 illus.

Mathematical Puzzles

Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Peter Winkler
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0429557973

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. Features A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.