The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time

The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time

by Marcel Danesi
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 14/01/2025

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Put your noggin to the test this holiday season with the most famous brain games of all time!


Puzzles and brainteasers can be found throughout history and around the world (did you know that coded messages date all the way back to 2500 BCE?). This book collects 125 of the most popular and challenging mind-benders for hours of fun-filled entertainment that can sharpen your creative thinking skills.


Get ready to dive into famous math, logic, and word puzzles like Odd One Out, Fibonacci's Legacy, the Polybius Cipher, and more. Bring it on road trips, to family game night, or give it as a stocking stuffer or Christmas gift, and get everyone involved in the puzzle-solving fun!


Fun for anyone—You don't need any special skills to solve these puzzles, and clues and answer keys are there to help you if you get stumped.


5 challenge levels—A wide variety of puzzle types and challenge levels ensures there's something to solve for puzzle masters of all ages and skills.


Hints of history—Every time you tackle a new puzzle, you'll learn fun facts about where it comes from and how long it's been around.


Perfect for holiday entertaining—Keep kids and adults entertained throughout the holiday festivities with an activity that groups of any size can do together!


Get ready to sharpen your mind with the ultimate book of mind-blowing brain teasers.

ISBN:
9781641520096
9781641520096
Category:
Jokes & riddles
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-01-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sourcebooks
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.

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