“A brilliant collection of puzzles. Never has getting the answer wrong felt so good!”―G. T. Karber, author of Murdle
Put your logical thinking to the test with 70 puzzles most people get wrong!
Bestselling author Alex Bellos is back to tie readers’ brains into pleasurable knots―with logic and word puzzles, card games, optical illusions, and more. His perplexing questions pose every kind of logical trap, but they all have one thing in common―a wrong answer that seems so right!
In Puzzle Me Twice, you’ll have to think―and think again―to overrule your first instinct and uncover the truth. It’s a merry tour that will keep solvers scratching their heads―and help them be more fool-proof in the future. Puzzle on!
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Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here’s Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja,Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in commona wrong answer that seems so right! In Puzzle Me Twice, youll have to thinkand think againto overrule your first instinct and uncover the truth. For example:If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs do half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?*Bestselling author Alex Bellos wrangles math and physics, logic and wordplay, optical illusions, card games, and more to tie readers brains in pleasurable knots. Its a merry tour of the many ways our reasoning can go wrongand how we can be more fool-proof in the future. Puzzle on!*Four times as many hens, over four times as many days, lay 16 times as many eggs: 1.5 16 = 24 eggs. A brilliant collection of puzzles. Never has getting the answer wrong felt so good!G. T. Karber, author of MurdleMost people get these puzzles wrong. Will you beat the odds? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798893030280
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