Mystifying Logic Puzzles

Mystifying Logic Puzzles
Author: Norman D. Willis
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806997216

Your brain will go into a tizzy solving these twisted, perplexing logic puzzles! But untangling them will challenge your mind, expand your knowledge, and develop your powers of deduction and reasoning. Success begins with a process of trial and error: examine the propositions, and logically test one against the other. Some will cancel each other out. Others point to additional information that helps you arrive at the correct answer. Give the six sections a shot: each one contains a different type of puzzle, starts with the simplest, and becomes increasingly intricate. Here's just a sample of what you'll find! By looking at the five statements, figure out in which subject Prince Tal excelled, and in which he did especially well: 1. If he excelled in chivalry, he did especially well in horsemanship. 2. If he excelled in horsemanship, he did especially well in fencing. 3. If he did especially well in horsemanship, he excelled in fencing. 4. If he excelled in fencing, he did especially well in chivalry. 5. If he did especially well in chivalry, he excelled in horsemanship. The answer is number two. Can you figure out why? 96 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles

Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Joseph S. Madachy
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-05-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486825078

"Fans will find this volume indispensable; casual readers will find it an attractive nuisance," observed The Scientific American of this challenging compilation of conundrums, diabolic squares, flexagons, geometric dissections, other puzzles.

The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!

The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!
Author: Robert Leighton
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761143864

Fully illustrated in color, this treasure trove features 250 puzzles on every imaginable theme and subject. The book is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more.

Mystifying Math Puzzles

Mystifying Math Puzzles
Author: Steve Ryan
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1996
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806913049

You don’t have to be a math genius to solve these. Most just ask you to apply basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—they’re intended to trick your thinking, not your math. So come on in, and play your way through dozens of magic squares, mazes, devious dissections, logic problems, weight and date puzzles, coin and matchstick maneuvers, and numerical word games.

The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles

The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles
Author: Norman D. Willis
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2006
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402733727

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!

The Great Houdini's Puzzle Vault

The Great Houdini's Puzzle Vault
Author: Tim Dedopulos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781780979564

The Great Houdini's Puzzle Vaultcontains 100 puzzles inspired by the greatest escapologist ever to have lived. With puzzle chains where one wrong answer can leave you locked in a never-ending circle of puzzles, and logic problems designed to confound the mind, this puzzle book is an enjoyable test for all. From spotting patterns in order to unlock safes, to figuring out what is wrong with the Vaudeville theatre audience, these puzzles each follow the life and times of Houdini and his mystifying counterparts in the early-twentieth century magicians' world.

Martin Gardner's Table Magic

Martin Gardner's Table Magic
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486318923

Step-by-step instructions and nearly 200 simple diagrams show beginners how to make cards vanish and reappear, get coins to pass through solid objects, make articles mysteriously travel from one location to another, and more.

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You
Author: Deborah J. Bennett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2005-07-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0393347613

"The best introduction to logic you will find."—Martin Gardner "Professor Bennett entertains as she instructs," writes Publishers Weekly about the penetrating yet practical Logic Made Easy. This brilliantly clear and gratifyingly concise treatment of the ancient Greek discipline identifies the illogical in everything from street signs to tax forms. Complete with puzzles you can try yourself, Logic Made Easy invites readers to identify and ultimately remedy logical slips in everyday life. Designed with dozens of visual examples, the book guides you through those hair-raising times when logic is at odds with our language and common sense. Logic Made Easy is indeed one of those rare books that will actually make you a more logical human being.

Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology

Lewis Carroll's
Author: Francesca Arnavas
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110689278

We live in an age that is witnessing a growing interest in narrative studies, cognitive neuroscientific tools, mind studies and artificial intelligence hypotheses. This book therefore aims to expand the exegesis of Carroll's "Alice" books, aligning them with the current intellectual environment. The theoretical force of this volume lies in the successful encounter between a great book (and all its polysemous ramifications) and a new interpretative point of view, powerful enough to provide a new original contribution, but well grounded enough not to distort the text itself. Moreover, this book is one of the first to offer a complete, thorough analysis of one single text through the theoretical lens of cognitive narratology, and not just as a series of brief examples embedded within a more general discussion. It emphasises in a more direct, effective way the actual novelty and usefulness of the dialogue established between narrative theory and the cognitive sciences. It links specific concepts elaborated in the theory of cognitive narratology with the analysis of the "Alice" books, helping in this way to discuss, question and extend the concepts themselves, opening up new interpretations and practical methods.