Alzheimer's Association Presents The Big Brain Puzzle Book [Paperback]

Terry Stickels (Author)

Book Description

Series: Alzheimers Association | Publication Date: September 15, 2009

Solving puzzles are a fun way to stimulate your brain. The Big Brain Puzzle Book does just that, with over 150 Alzheimer's Association- approved puzzles from renowned brain teaser Terry Stickels. Stickels writes STICKELERS, a puzzle column, appearing in over 200 local and national newspapers daily.

Here is a sampling of the types of mind bending, brain exercising puzzles inside:

Frame Games
Find an every day phrase hidden inside words or drawings of rebus puzzles.

Spatial Visual
Answer questions while looking at 3-dimensional objects on a 2 dimensional page.

Squeezers
Fill in the blanks with letters in the middle of two words creating two 2-syllable words.

Word Search
Find words within blocks of letters going horizontally, diagonally or vertically.

Trivia
Answer questions to seemingly obvious questions and learn something new in the process.

Trickledowns
In five steps, changing one letter at a time, come up with a whole new word.

Readers will enjoy this great variety of puzzles from renowned puzzle creator Terry Stickels, while benefiting a great cause.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stickels is well known for his three internationally syndicated columns. "FRAME GAMES", seen in USA WEEKEND magazine, is read by over 48,000,000 people in 600 newspapers weekly. He concurrently writes STICKELERS for King Features, appearing in over 200 newspapers daily. This column appears in such papers as The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun - Times, The Denver Post, and The Toronto Star. He also is the featured puzzle columnist for The Guardian newspaper, London's largest newspaper

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Time Home Entertainment (September 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1603208208
• ISBN-13: 978-1603208208
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.4 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #69 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Logic & Brain Teasers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Alzheimer's Association Presents the Big Brain Puzzle Book, January 9, 2010

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Ann B. Pezzoli (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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I was surprised and a bit disappointed at the difficulty level of the puzzles in this book. Since Alzheimer's was part of the title, I somehow thought the puzzles would be geared more toward elderly people. I bought it for my 87-year-old mother-in-law and I doubt she will be able to do many of them, even though she was sharp as a tack and an accountant all of her life. The book is great if you are still normal in all your faculties and want something to challenge you mentally.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Steve's (Hubby) Thoughts, October 27, 2009

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365andMe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alzheimer's Association Presents The Big Brain Puzzle Book (Paperback)

"The BIG Brain Puzzle Book", by Terry Stickels, is a puzzlers' delight. It has three levels of difficulty with seven different types of puzzles. The types are; creative thinking (thinking outside the box), mathematics (computational skills), logic (analysis and deduction), language (definitions, usage, and sentence structure), visual (observation, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition), wordplay (word and letter manipulation), and knowledge (book smarts and memory).

The book's cover says "over 200 puzzles that make you think," and that it does! Also, the book comes with the answers and many of the answers have brief explanations, so you can understand how to solve them. This really comes in handy when you go to level 2. I am not a big puzzler, with cryptograms being my favorite, but some of these I have not seen before. Others were new takes on old style puzzles.

"BIG brain" is an enjoyable, thought provoking, and mentally exercising book. Lots of these puzzles took time for me and that was only Level 1. This book is sponsored by the Alzheimer's association and includes the ten signs to be aware of and where to get more information. This was a most enjoyable way to spend time exercising the mental muscles.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank You, Terry Stickels!, September 26, 2009

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H. M. Smith (Potomac, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alzheimer's Association Presents The Big Brain Puzzle Book (Paperback)

Puzzle Master Terry Stickels has accomplished two very important things with his new book of mindstretching exercises.

1. He has created an entertaining and challenging collection of brain teasers that everyone will enjoy; and

2. He has collaborated with the book's sponsor, the Alzheimer's Association, to present a series of mental gymnastics designed specifically to stimulate the minds of older readers to help them keep their thinking skills agile and young. What a great accomplishment that is!

Thank you, Terry, for all the good work you do.