Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles [Mass Market Paperback]

Puzzle Baron (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 3, 2010

The brain is a wonderful thing to tease.

Two hundred grid-based logic puzzles from Puzzle Baron, the mega-popular online puzzle site! For each puzzle, readers are given a background story and a list of clues and then left with only pure logic to arrive at the correct answer. Unlike other logic puzzle books, every puzzle includes statistics-such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people to complete the puzzle-to bring out the competitor in each puzzler and better inform them on how easy or dif­ficult each puzzle is.

?Features 200 grid-based logic puzzles

?Includes puzzles statistics for added excitement

?Ideal for kids and adults

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (August 3, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1615640320
• ISBN-13: 978-1615640324
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #16 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Logic & Brain Teasers
  • #40 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Puzzles

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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Puzzles aren't well written, will occupy your time, though, November 15, 2010

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CarrieTown "crafty bon-vivant" (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles (Mass Market Paperback)

I was first introduced to grid-logic puzzles through the Puzzle Society's Pocket Posh series. The questions were challenging, every clue had one or two facts contained in them, with some intuitive guesses necessary to solve the puzzle. This book however seems like it is written for those who want to solve the puzzle quickly rather than methodically. Some of the facts given are provided twice through the process, which makes you wonder why they told you the same thing twice. The authors also have not taken the time to tell you a story, instead they take three disparate facts, and that you have to solve. For example, name, type of camera owned & favorite candy bar. What do those have in common? The authors are also big on "of the five choices, one is this, another is that, etc." I find this kind of writing lazy in a logic puzzle. When I work logic puzzles, I want to feel like Poirot solving a mystery through the process of elimination, not a waitress trying to serve a drink order.

However, if you are looking for a logic puzzle book where time is of the essence, this is the book for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great logic book., December 18, 2010

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Tatiana - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles (Mass Market Paperback)

Great book. The puzzles start off easy and then get more challenging. I only like the kind of logic puzzles that the puzzle baron puts out, and this book delivered hours of fun. The only drawback is that the pages are a little too small...making the box/grid really small.
I would buy something from this company again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nearly Perfect, December 21, 2011

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C. Nabinger "devilotx" (Haverhill, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles (Mass Market Paperback)

Purchased for my wife who enjoys the grid style logic puzzles, all the logic books in book stores are a mashup of different logic style problems, this book however, pages and pages of logic problems in the grid style and she loves it.

The only complaint is they all have the same amount of parts, nothing more, nothing less, she'd love to sink her brain into something with a lot more choices and options.