The Curious Book of Mind-boggling Teasers, Tricks, Puzzles & Games

The Curious Book of Mind-boggling Teasers, Tricks, Puzzles & Games
Author: Charles Barry Townsend
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781402702143

Mathematical dupes, sleights of hand, shady shuffles, and impossible predictions: these are just a few of the 80 ways to use a pack of cards to dazzle and baffle everyone.

Book Review Index

Book Review Index
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Total Pages: 1320
Release: 2004
Genre: Books
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Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

The Book on Games of Chance

The Book on Games of Chance
Author: Cardano, Gerolamo
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486797937

Mathematics was only one area of interest for Gerolamo Cardano ― the sixteenth-century astrologer, philosopher, and physician was also a prolific author and inveterate gambler. Gambling led Cardano to the study of probability, and he was the first writer to recognize that random events are governed by mathematical laws. Published posthumously in 1663, Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae (Book on Games of Chance) is often considered the major starting point of the study of mathematical probability. The Italian scholar formulated some of the field's basic ideas more than a century before the better-known correspondence of Pascal and Fermat. Although his book had no direct influence on other early thinkers about probability, it remains an important antecedent to later expressions of the science's tenets.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture
Author: Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

An encyclopedia describes all aspects of world culture, broken down into six regional categories, discussing the art, dance, fashion, food, pastimes, periodicals, recreation, and transportation of each region.

Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes

Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-02-20
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486493512

Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous with difficulty? This original collection of mathematical puzzles and paradoxes proves that things aren't always what they seem! Readers will discover that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it looks and that puzzles can have one, several, or no solutions. The fun-filled puzzles begin with The Tricky Hole, a challenge that involves pushing a large coin through a small hole in a sheet of paper without ripping or making any cuts in the paper. Advance to the Elastic Playing Card, in which it's possible to cut a hole into a playing card big enough for someone to climb through. Other incredible puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.

Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids

Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids
Author: M. Prefontaine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2017-05-17
Genre: Lateral thinking puzzles
ISBN: 9781546595908

Brain Teasers for Kids - Riddles for the Whole Family "The mind once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." Ralph Waldo Emerson This kids book is a collection of 300 brain teasing riddles and puzzles. Their purpose is to make children think and stretch their minds. They are designed to test logic, lateral thinking as well as memory and to engage the brain in seeing patterns and connections between different things and circumstances. They are laid out in three chapters which get more difficult as you go through the book, in the author's opinion at least. The answers are at the back of the book if all else fails. These are more difficult riddles for kids and are designed to be attempted by children from 10 years onwards, as well as participation from the rest of the family. It is a perfect activity book for kids who like problem solving. These activities can be shared with the whole family. This book is one of a series of puzzle books for kids. The aim of all of them is to stretch children's brains through kids riddles and puzzles. They are kids books designed to challenge children to think laterally and more creatively. Tags: Riddles and brain teasers, riddles and trick questions, riddles book, riddles book for kids, riddles for kids, riddles for kids aged 9-12, riddles and puzzles, jokes and riddles, jokes book, jokes book for kids, jokes children, jokes for kids, jokes kids, activity book, activities

Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic

Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1958-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486204928

Over 350 ingenious problems involving classical logic: logic expressed in symbols; syllogisms and the sorites diagrammed; logic as a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters.