Improve Your IQ: Over 500 Mind-Bending Puzzles [Hardcover]

Deborah Hercun (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1999

Sharpen your mind and blitz your brain with a workout of more than 500 challenging puzzles. These tricky numeric and alphabetic questions will stimulate your smarts as never before, and help your IQ climb higher and higher. And the puzzles are fun too, because some of them involve unfolded cubes, aliens, watches, and matchsticks. Rev up that logic, steady that concentration, and get going on 20 levels of ascending difficulty. Assess your progress in the art of problem solving, and gather your wits at every stage. Which letter is the odd one out in a pattern? What shape continues a sequence? Which of five cubes can be made from a template? Test your lateral thinking abilities, try out mathematical teasers, play letter and word games, figure out visual and spatial problems, solve riddles, and above all...watch out for the unexpected. Hours of entertainment lie ahead.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: MetroBooks (November 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586637614
• ISBN-13: 978-1586637613
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,023,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Develop mathematical reasoning and lateral thinking, March 13, 2003

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US_infidel (Rockville, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Improve Your IQ: Over 500 Mind-Bending Puzzles (Hardcover)

My personal opinion is that the book is great. I enjoyed it immensely.

Required math skills are minimal--the book shines in how it requires you to combine +, -, x, and division.

It's variety ensures you don't settle into a comfortable pattern. Sometimes you have to treat letters as numbers (A=1, B=2, etc), sometimes you have to treat them as symbols with straight lines (e.g. A, E, etc.) or curves (e.g., O, C, etc.), and sometimes you have to treat them as vowels or consonants. Some problems throw in a variety of textures and shapes to throw you off, whereas all you need to do is just count the shapes. All these obstacles serve to teach you to think truly laterally and always be alert.

Most problems provide as a starting point some series, table, diagram, etc., and require you to identify a pattern, and complete missing blanks with numbers, letters, or shapes.

This book is an excellent preparation for the mathematical portions of an IQ test.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just do it!, November 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Improve Your IQ: Over 500 Mind-Bending Puzzles (Hardcover)

A well-stocked, thoughtfully presented collection of puzzles. A well-ordered progression of difficulty. Flex that i.q. with this joyous/painful/gainful workout!