Brainteasers, Mind Benders, Puzzlers, Mazes & More Page-A-Day Calendar 2008 [Calendar]

Scott Kim (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2007

Twist it, turn it, flip it, stretch it, work it! Your mind, that is. Featuring a totally fun, totally stimulating full-color puzzle on every page, here is a veritable playground for the neurons. Decipher the phrase in Lost in Translation. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, physical puzzles using fingers and other props, and more. For people who love to throw their brains a curve, it’s a year of pure ingenuity from puzzle master Scott Kim, contributor to Games magazine and puzzle columnist for Discover magazine.

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Push it, stretch it, work it! Your mind, that is. Predict patterns in Dot Matrix. Add it all up in Can you Digit? Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap. Check your eye for detail with—what else?—Details. Plus hilarious translations to decipher, tricky variations on Sudoku, a dance game for your hands, Word Find, ambigrams, and more. Lots more.

With a totally fun, totally stimulating full-color puzzle on every page, this calendar is a veritable playground for the neurons. From puzzle master Scott Kim—contributor to Games magazine and puzzle columnist for Discover magazine

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. You can read more about his work on his web site scottkim.com.

Product Details

• Calendar: 320 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Pag edition (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761144811
• ISBN-13: 978-0761144816
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,429,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars decent, January 7, 2008

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This review is from: Brainteasers, Mind Benders, Puzzlers, Mazes & More Page-A-Day Calendar 2008 (Calendar)

This calendar is not a tear-off but the pages are pulled out. Don't care for the difference one way or the other. The puzzles are not terribly challenging or stimulating but it's only a week now and still time left for some real good, fun puzzles.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars got here, January 27, 2008

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It took longer than expected, but I was kept alert of the delay of recieving my order..