Mind-Bending Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Mind-Bending Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Des MacHale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1999-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781899712236

Part of a fun range of pocket-sized puzzle books for adults. The lateral thinking puzzles in this book were compiled by Des MacHale, an expert in the field of lateral thinking, who has published more than 50 books in a range of subjects from humour to puzzles. The cryptic conundrums he has put together in this book are designed to trip you up and catch you out. Some are relatively easy, others are decidedly difficult but all are perfectly possible - if you think laterally!

Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Edward J. Harshman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402710629

A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, too--you'll have to really fire up your brain and imagination. At first, it may not seem as if there's enough information to come up with a solution. But look more closely; there's always more than meets the eye. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, retune your mind, separate the facts from the red herrings, and the answers will come.

Mind-bending Classic Logic Puzzles

Mind-bending Classic Logic Puzzles
Author: Jenny Lynch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1994
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781899712182

Crammed with a wide range of colourful, inventive and perplexing puzzles, this neat little book will engage even the least logical of minds. (From back cover).

Logic Puzzles to Bend Your Brain

Logic Puzzles to Bend Your Brain
Author: Kurt Smith
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2001
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806980126

Logic, math, and fun come all wrapped up in one tricky puzzle package. Each little story gives you just enough information to determine what's bigger, who weighs more, how much gets sold, and lots of other confounding braintwisters. To make it just a little easier, every puzzle has a chart to help you organize and work out the all facts in your possession.

Mind-bending Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Mind-bending Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Jenny Lynch
Publisher: Lagoon Books
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1994
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781899712069

Part of a fun range of pocket-sized puzzle books for adults, this book is especially for people who are tired of being logical! Made up of engaging questions that make you avoid the obvious and the orthodox, this book will give even the most tired minds a refreshing rubdown

Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Puzzlewright
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Lateral thinking puzzles
ISBN: 9781454909897

A selection of thought-provoking, mind-bending puzzles designed to get your synapses sizzling. Each mental teaser presents a mini-scenario, and it's up to you to tease out the secret twist.

Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Author: Paul Sloane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1993
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806986715

Lateral thinking is the key to solving these tantalizing puzzles. Packed with hundreds of brain teasers and mathematical problems, the book will test kids' powers of logic, and patience! "The logic, reasoning, and calculating required by the problems...will delight and torment puzzle fans."--Booklist. "Ninety-one how come' mysteries....We never get enough of these."--Games.

Mind-Boggling One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers

Mind-Boggling One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers
Author: Sandy Silverthorne
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0736939725

More than 100,000 copies of One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers and Return of the One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers have been sold (combined), and now Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner offer an all-new collection of family-friendly lateral thinking puzzles. Each page includes an unusual scenario that ends with a question for readers to answer as well as a delightful cartoon that depicts a laughably incorrect assumption. To find the one satisfying answer for each puzzle, readers must throw out all preconceived notions and be open-minded, flexible, and creative. Increasingly revealing clues for each puzzle are included in the back of the book, as are the solutions. These riddles are challenging enough for adults yet appropriate for detectives of all ages. Individual readers, families, and groups can enjoy hours of fun solving them and learning to think outside the box.

Brain Busters!

Brain Busters!
Author: Barry R. Clarke
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780486427553

Fifty-one original puzzles include complex crosswords, a collection of amusing stories with a series of clues that lead to a single solution at the end, and an advanced series of math and logic puzzles — no skills beyond high school algebra needed. Most puzzles include hints; solutions are provided for all.

Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles

Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles
Author: Terry H. Stickels
Publisher: Sterling
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806988030

Try any of these 150 word, number, and logic puzzles, and you'll encounter some surprising new ways to analyze, observe, and decide. You've been warned, so don't get frustrated when you feel yourself getting pushed out of the ruts of your usual problem-solving skills. Try these sample warmup exercises: 1. If Molly's daughter is my daughter's mother, what am I to Molly? 2. Which is larger, one-third times one-third of a dozen dozen, or one-third dozen halved and cubed? 3. How old is the man who told his friend, "Four years from now I'll be twice as old as I was fourteen years ago"? Answers: 1. I am Molly's daughter. 2. The first calculation is larger. 3. He's 32 years old.