Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) [Spiral-bound]

Dave Tuller (Author), Michael Rios (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005 | Series: Official Mensa Puzzle Book

Give your brain a workout on the type of brainteasers that challenge the best solvers at the World Puzzle Championships. They're tough, but fun, and the feeling of satisfaction you get when you succeed is simply unbeatable. Some of the puzzles are oldies but goodies, like battleships--and its many variants--where you search for a fleet hidden within a grid. In "Eminent Domain," try to determine which blanks cells are owned by the numbered ones. For "Hex Loops," locate a path that travels through adjacent hexagons: the trick is, it has to end where it started, and the lines can't touch or cross. From Snaky Tiles to Spiral Galaxies, these Mensa-level conundrums will get your mind in shape.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402714491
• ISBN-13: 978-1402714498
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great workout!, August 13, 2007

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Lazar Lashev (Sofia, Bulgaria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) (Spiral-bound)

A great book for those of you who are preparing for a puzzle competition and are looking for an exercise book (as I was when I bought this one). Despite it is only 96 pages, it has a great variety of puzzles, mostly contest types.

There are around 10 to 20 puzzles of each type, and these are:

- Alternate corners

- Battleships (classic, crowded, hexagonal, minesweeper, numerical, ocean view, semicircular)

- Corral

- Deja Vu

- Dominoes (domino hunt)

- Eminent domain

- End View (like ABCD)

- Fences (including big field fences and pentomino fences)

- Hex Loops

- Lighthouses

- Minesweeper

- Number place

- Nurikabe

- Oxtails

- Clouds

- Skyscrapers (only the 'number of buildings' type)

- Snaky tiles

- Spiral galaxies

- Spokes

- Square Roots

- Tents

The level of difficulty is pretty good, at least for the puzzles I tried.

The only drawback is that most of the puzzles are too small, especially the Fences. I've seen books where the puzzles on the answer pages are bigger than these ones. It's not like they are so small that makes it impossible to work them out, but still pretty small. What I'm doing on other books and will on that one too is to scan the puzzles, cut the white spaces and print them back again on larger sheets. This way you are not ruining your book when drawing and erasing and you can print (and solve) certain pages as many times as you like.

Highly recommended.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Puzzle Book I've Ever Worked!, February 9, 2007

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Kelly McCants (Frisco, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) (Spiral-bound)

If you love puzzles, this book is a **must have**! This is hands down the best puzzle book I have ever worked. There is a wide variety of puzzles and they are all unique, not your standard logic problems. Prepare to be challenged, these puzzles are definitely for the puzzle solver at heart! What a great mental workout!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent variety of puzzles, December 19, 2010

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Paul Hartzer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) (Spiral-bound)

I had added this to my wish list as something of a filler, because my wife had asked for about ten puzzle titles to choose from, and I have to say, this book is amazing. The Amazon description simply doesn't do it justice. If you're looking for a survey of the variety of grid-based puzzles (other than Sudoku, which is almost grudgingly included under its original name of Number Place, and Kakuro, which is absent), this is excellent.

It contains several puzzle types I know and love, and many others I haven't seen before. The book contains nearly 400 puzzles distributed among about 20 genres. Battleships has a heavy presence, with 39 total puzzles across 7 variants (plus 20 Rain Cloud puzzles, a close cousin). Sudoku itself is represented by a mere 21 puzzles, 3 which are 6x6 and 18 which are 9x9 Irregular Sudoku (hence, no standard 9x9 puzzles).

This book is highly recommended.