Can You Solve My Problems? (Logic Lover’s Puzzle Books)

“Skull-warping brainteasers . . . skillfully curated.”―Simon Singh, author of The Code Book

“A delightful book, filled with the perfect selection of puzzles. Alex Bellos is a wizard.”―Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist

Puzzle lovers, rejoice! Bestselling author Alex Bellos has a challenge: 125 of the world’s best logic puzzles and brainteasers from the last two millennia.

Armed with logic alone, you’ll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then―with just a dash of high school math―you’ll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50.

As you solve, Can You Solve My Problems? also reveals the story of the puzzle―from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan.

Alex Bellos presents Serious Puzzles for Serious Puzzle Solvers.

180 B&W illustrations

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.