Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles [Paperback]

Michael A. DiSpezio (Author), Myron Miller (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 1998

Finish layouts, do tricky calculations, and solve the complex mysteries of visual designs. Take a scissors and try to duplicate a "mind-bending" curved design with just a few snips. For a change of pace, find the identity of 30 coins that equal $1.00. (25 pennies, 1 nickel, 2 dimes and 2 quarters.) Answers are in the back--in case you're tearing your hair out in frustration!

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (June 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806931868
• ISBN-13: 978-0806931869
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,150,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging Book towards Great Critical Thinking, July 19, 2006

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David De Sousa "The Automation and Control Guy" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles (Paperback)

Great Book towards Great Critical Thinking

This book is not only a Challenging, Entertaining and Instructive Collection of 83 perplexing puzzles, but also a tool to discover and develop your critical thinking skills.

Psychologist and educators refer to critical thinking as a variety of higher-level thinking strategies that can be used to analyze, solve and evaluate all sort of things, such as facts, theories, statements, and of course, puzzles. The array of brain-bending puzzles presented in this book will engage many of these skills.

This book represents the third installment of Critical Thinking Puzzles Books by the same author; the previous titles were "Critical Thinking Puzzles" and "Great Critical Thinking Puzzles".


Absolutely a must for anyone who loves solving Critical Thinking Puzzles.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mind Bender, July 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles (Paperback)

I love puzzle books and this one gave me a few of them to think about. A great book for a great price.

4.0 out of 5 stars Veteran puzzlers will find it routine, novices will find it interesting and entertaining, June 4, 2009

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles (Paperback)

Puzzles are an excellent and stimulating way to pass the time when waiting for something. These puzzles will do that, although if you are a veteran puzzler, you will recognize these problems as a recast of many you have seen before. There are paths to visit locations, placing numbers in locations, the concentration of a drink, moving objects to create one configuration from an initial one, magic squares, the denomination of coins when the value is a certain amount, using a balance scale and detecting patterns inside a pattern. Therefore, if you are a veteran puzzler, you will find it routine, the novice interested in puzzles will find it interesting and entertaining. Solutions to all of the puzzles are included.