Challenging Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book)

Clarke, Barry R

ISBN 10: 1402705417 / ISBN 13: 9781402705410

Published by Union Square & Co., 2003

About this Item

All pages and cover are intact. Dust jacket included if applicable, though it may be missing on hardcover editions. Spine and cover may show minor signs of wear including scuff marks, curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages may contain limited notes or highlighting. "From the library of" labels may be present. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set packaging may be missing. Bundled media e.g., CDs, DVDs, access codes may not be included.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book)
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402705417
• ISBN 13: 9781402705410
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Collinet, Rob
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

How strong are your logical-thinking skills? Find out now, with these stimulating puzzles! Over 90,000 copies sold!

So, you think you've got the brain-power to tackle tough logic puzzles? Well, try this extraordinary assortment of challenges, including Mix-and-Match logic puzzles and "Find the Liar" type puzzles. Some puzzles have tables that can be used to deduce relationships between people or items, some use word-play to present the problem, and still others use illustrations to highlight the challenge. Whatever their form, each is designed to stretch your mind to the max. And the level of difficulty increases as you move through the book, concluding with a series so diabolical, even the most expert puzzle sleuths may have to beg for mercy! Fortunately, solutions for every puzzle are included, along with explanations of how the answers are determined, so you'll even be able to build your puzzle-solving skills. An increasing number of schools are now using it to develop the minds of their students. 

About the Author

Dr Barry R. Clarke has written over 1,000 math and logic puzzles for The Daily Telegraph (UK) and is enigmatologist for Prospect magazine (UK). His book Challenging Logic Puzzles Mensa has sold over 90,000 copies. As well as his puzzle work being featured on BBC TV Mindgames, his conundrums have appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, New Scientist, and he has published books of original puzzles for Cambridge University Press and Dover, NY. With a research degree in theoretical physics, his academic treatise The Quantum Puzzle sets out his new theory of the mass vortex ring. His latest book Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare, with a Foreword by Sir Mark Rylance, is based on his PhD in Shakespeare studies, and argues that Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) is the work of many hands.