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Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615197192 |
Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 161519388X |
Puzzle lovers, rejoice! Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world’s best brainteasers from the last two millennia. Armed with logic alone, you’ll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then—with just a dash of high school math—you’ll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!) The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, Can You Solve My Problems? also tells the story of the puzzle—from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10-15 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
Most people are fooled by these deceptive puzzles where the wrong answer seems so obviously right! Will you beat the odds? From Alex Bellos—puzzle-setter to the Guardian—here are 70 irresistible challenges that have stumped the sharpest minds he knows, even when warned! For example, how many mistakes are there in the following sentence? This sentence is kurious because it it only contayns three misteaks.* Bellos wrangles math and physics, logic and wordplay, optical illusions, card games, and more to tie readers’ brains in pleasurable knots. These puzzles are quick to browse and simple to state, but look out: Each one has a right-looking wrong answer to lead you astray. Suitable for novice and “pro” puzzlers of all ages, Puzzle Me Twice is the perfect diversion for your brainiest friends. Being wrong has never been so much fun! — * There are five mistakes: Kurious, contayns, and misteaks are misspelled, the word it is repeated, and three is miscounted.
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : Guardian Faber Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Mathematical recreations |
ISBN | : 9781783351145 |
A high-class puzzle book from the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland; organised from easy-peasy to ninja level - with stories of puzzle mysteries, histories and scandals along the way this book will make your hippocampus happy.
Author | : Naoki Inaba |
Publisher | : The Experiment |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615194223 |
Perfect for sudoku fans—the rules for these 100 logic puzzles are simple, and the math is easy. But the puzzles get harder and harder! Once you match wits with area mazes, you’ll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value. Just Remember: Area = length × width Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships Whole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractions! Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro), have taken all of Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic? Do you play brain games to stay sharp? Did you love geometry . . . or would you like to finally show it who’s boss? Feed your brain some area mazes—they could be just what you’re craving!
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615198059 |
100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting: boru niko = two balls tsuna nihon = two ropes uma nito = two horses kami nimai = two sheets of paper ashi gohon = five legs ringo goko = five apples sara gomai = five plates kaba goto = five hippos Now, how do the Japanese say “nine cucumbers”?* a) kyuri kyuhon b) kyuri kyuko c) kyuri kyuhiki d) kyuri kyuto Bellos finds the intrigue—and the human element—in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and even invented tongues, from hieroglyphs to Blissymbolics, Danish to Dothraki. Filled with unusual alphabets, fascinating characters, and intriguing local customs for time-telling, naming children, and more, this is a bravura book of brainteasers and beyond—it’s a globe-trotting, time-traveling celebration of language. *The word endings depend on shape: Flat things end in -mai and spherical things end in -ko. Cucumbers are long things (like ropes and legs), so they end in -hon. The answer is (a)!
Author | : Richard Manchester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780884867470 |
Are you ready to give your mind the ultimate and exhaustive mental workout? Well if you answered a resounding yes, then get set to enjoy hundreds of challenging puzzles that will surely boost your brain power every day of the year!
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2016-11-29 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615193677 |
Peek “behind the scenes” of the universe—and see math in brilliant color! For curious minds throughout history, math was truly an art. In Visions of the Universe, you can pick up right where Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, and other luminaries left off—by coloring 58 exquisite patterns inspired by great discoveries in math: Intricate geometric designs like those that grace the mosques of Mecca Felix Klein’s astounding diagram—drawn in 1897—of light reflecting between five mirrored spheres A mind-bending puzzle so beautiful it once hung outside a Japanese temple, and more! Plus, in the Creating chapter, you’ll help complete 10 additional images by following simple steps that give spectacular results. No math knowledge is required: Anyone can be an artist in Numberland!
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615193235 |
"A coloring book that reveals math's hidden beauty and contemplative power as never before with 78 coloring designs and games that explore symmetry, fractals, tessellations, randomness, and more."--
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : Mathematical recreations |
ISBN | : 9781783351152 |
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way. Pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved be 2 per cent of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling!