Increase Your Puzzle IQ

Increase Your Puzzle IQ

by Marcel Danesi
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 24/08/2007

Share This eBook:

  $22.99

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?

ISBN:
9780470255469
9780470255469
Category:
Puzzles & quizzes
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
24-08-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Turner Publishing Company
Marcel Danesi

Marcel Danesi is a professor at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively about puzzles, including this trilogy published by Harlequin Books: Total Brain Workout, Extreme Brain Workout, and Complete Brain Workout. He also creates puzzles for the Toronto Star's "That's Puzzling" weekend supplement and he composes brainteasers for the Canadian edition of Reader's Digest.

In addition, he writes a puzzle blog for Psychology Today. He has also published academic books on puzzles: The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life and The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time. He appears frequently on major media, such as CBC and NPR, to discuss puzzles and their meaning for brain health. He has founded a research center at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences to explore the use of puzzles in education.

This item is delivered digitally

Reviews

Be the first to review Increase Your Puzzle IQ.