Modern Classic Puzzles (Mensa) (Paperback)

~ Peter Grabarchuk (Author)

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Product Description

Created by an art director at the Puzzles.COM website, these phenomenal original brainbusters—more than 200 of them—will stimulate your potential for thinking outside the box. Arranged from easiest to hardest, they’re especially devised for mind-expanding visual solving. And all it takes to crack their mysteries are a pencil, an eraser, patience, and, of course, boundless imagination! Arrange a hinged chain of 11 squares of different sizes into one large square—without overlapping them. Play two-hole billiards on the page, sending two balls into their respective pockets in just two strokes. Figure out how eight patterned cars fit into a checkered parking lot so their colors match the background exactly. Floor plans, tangrams, matchstick puzzles: the variety is amazing!

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (October 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402748086
• ISBN-13: 978-1402748080
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,041,722 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Puzzle Book!, April 5, 2009

By	R. L. Kaplan (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Terrific Book. These puzzles don't require any advanced mathematics to solve. Rather, they are fascinating visual-spatial constructions. The book starts off presenting easy ones, but they do gradually get harder. Toward the end, many of them are quite challenging. I usually try to do a couple a night; makes for great brain exercise!

Very nice illustrations with a clean layout. Overall, I really enjoyed this book and hope Peter Grabarchuk continues to make more more of these great puzzles.

5.0 out of 5 stars mind exercise for mind excellence, June 12, 2009

By	André Silva (Estarreja, Portugal) - See all my reviews

These days you can find plenty of puzzles and teasers online. However some included in this book are simply the most amazing and tricky i've ever seen. It has some easy ones (by easy i mean puzzles that are not solved right away but, with a bit of reasoning, are easy to solve) as well as almost impossible ones: you will never feel it to be too easy or too hard.

As Clinical Psychologist i can say for sure that a puzzle featuring in this book once a day will help keeping your brain in shape. So, get started!