Increase Your Puzzle IQ: Tips and Tricks for Building Your Logic Power - Softcover

Danesi, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471157252 ISBN 13: 9780471157250

Publisher: Trade Paper Press, 1997

Synopsis

Learn how to take the ""tease"" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your Puzzle IQ gives you the know-how you need to decipher even the most puzzling of puzzles.

Why are 1997 dollar bills worth more than 1980 dollar bills?

In a box there are 20 balls, 10 white and 10 black. With a blindfold on, what is the least number you must draw out in order to get a pair of balls that matches?

Which clock keeps the best time? The clock that loses a minute a day or one that doesn't run at all?

I have two current U.S. coins in my hand. The two coins add up to 15?. One of the coins is not a nickel. What two coins do I have?

How much dirt is there in a hole that is 1 foot wide by 1 foot long by 1 foot deep?

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Review

Are there games that keep tripping you up? Puzzles that make you want to kick yourself when you discover the answer? Marcel Danesi's book can change all that. He walks you through the most common types of puzzles and shows you how to navigate the pitfalls of each so that you can avoid being taken in by misdirection. You'll learn how to systematically work out solutions as you follow him step by step through detailed examples and then practice on puzzles that will make you feel like your genius self again. But if you're already a master, just buy this for the puzzles themselves--they're terrific!

From the Publisher

This entertaining and educational guide exposes readers to the basic principles and techniques of puzzle solving and provides hours of fun, amusement and mental challenge. Consists of 105 puzzles spread over 10 instructional chapters and a review chapter. There are also two fully explained and solved illustrative examples in each instructional chapter. Contains the 10 most common types of logic puzzles, from basic deductive logic to more complex mathematical bafflers. Includes 20 test puzzle questions which enable users to test their "Puzzle IQ."

Edition details

• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0471157252
• ISBN 13: 9780471157250
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201