Mind Benders and Brainteasers Puzzles Page-A-Day Calendar 2010 [Calendar]

Scott Kim (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2009

It's like popcorn for your brain! Jampacked with hundreds of ingeniously designed conundrums, games, and brainteasers in full color, this lively calendar gives puzzle lovers a stimulating new challenge to wrap their minds around, every day. Add up the triangles in Count Me In. Find the twins in Perfect Match. Decipher the word in Lost Letters. Plus Mental Blocks, Hidato, Secret Word, mind-bending ambigrams, spatial games, and lots more. From puzzle master Scott Kim, a frequent contributor to Games magazine and puzzle columnist for Discover magazine.

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About the Author

Scott Kim is an independent game designer who designs original visual thinking puzzles for the web, computer games, magazines and toys. Major projects include puzzles for web sites Adobe.com and Juniornet.com, computer games Obsidian and Escher Interactive, magazines Discover and Games, and physical toy Railroad Rush Hour. His interest in puzzles sprang from an early interest in mathematics, education and art. His first puzzles appeared in Scientific American in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column. Other pursuits include creating "inversions" (words that read in more than one way), and creating educational dance performances about mathematics. He was born in 1955, raised in Los Angeles, and attended Stanford University, where he received a BA in music and a self-designed PhD in Computers and Graphic Design. He currently lives in El Granada, California, near San Francisco, with his wife Amy (online community strategist and author of Community Building on the Web) and his son Gabriel.

Product Details

• Calendar: 320 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Pag edition (July 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761153004
• ISBN-13: 978-0761153009
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #959,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not quite mind bending, February 10, 2010

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This review is from: Mind Benders and Brainteasers Puzzles Page-A-Day Calendar 2010 (Calendar)

We ordered this calendar thinking it was a successor to "Mind-Bending Puzzles" by Nathan Haselbauer 2009, published by Pomegranate Communications Inc - but it was not the same thing at all. The 2009 calendar was a great mix of mathematical puzzles; this 2010 puzzle is from Workman Publishing, and is a very repetitious mix of mainly graphical puzzles. When the same puzzle comes up week after week it's rather boring and not very challenging - we need a challenge every breakfast to wake us up!