Puzzlebook Trilogy: 303 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!) [Kindle Edition]

The Grabarchuk Family (Author)

Book Description

Discover a trilogy of the Top Rated Puzzlebook: Puzzle Quizzes series - a compilation of three books: 100 Puzzle Quizzes, 101 Puzzle Quizzes, and 102 Puzzle Quizzes. In this puzzle collection you will find 303 pictorial, hand-crafted puzzle quizzes in different themes: logic, visual, spatial, counting, geometry, matchstick, coins, searching, and much more.

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Novelty
All puzzle quizzes are original creations by the Grabarchuk Family and delivered exclusively for Kindle.

Interactivity
You can interactively answer and check a puzzle quiz by clicking the respective answer button. Only the correct answer leads to the solution page.

Ranking
The collection is specially created for all kinds of solvers - beginners, skillful, and expert alike. The puzzles are arranged so that you start with the easy (*) puzzles and progress to the hard (*****) puzzles.

Enjoy it in Color Too!
The book is created in full-color. Enjoy a colorful experience playing it on Kindle Fire or in a Kindle app on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, etc.

Happy Puzzling!

Product Details

• File Size: 7763 KB
• Publisher: Grabarchuk Puzzles; 1 edition (February 28, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007F81DJM
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,619 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #62 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Quizzes

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Deal! June 12, 2012

By Acroluvr98

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I got this product on my Kindle when it was the WHOLE trilogy for free! I don't always like to spend money on something that I don't really know what it is so this workede out nicely. THe pictures are very nicely detailed and it's just one of those cool things to take in the car that everyone wants to help you solve. It's nice being the kind of center of attention :)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Review: Trilogy 303 Puzzle Quizzes by the Grabarchuk Family May 17, 2012

By Mark G. Jones

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

(I published earlier and slightly different versions of this review on Triond's Quazen website on 8 May 2012 and on May 9 2012 on Expertscolumn)

The members of the Grabarchuk family, for those unfamiliar with them, make puzzles for Puzzles.com. "Trilogy 303 Puzzle Quizzes" collects into one omnibus volume their three previous Kindle books : "Puzzlebook: 100 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!)," "Puzzlebook: 101 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!)" and "Puzzlebook: 102 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!)." The puzzles are colorful, geometric and ingenious.

Puzzles

The puzzles are indeed colorful. Most of the puzzles are graphic and geometric, so color helps the solver visualize. Moreover, color gives the puzzle creator an additional tool. The 19th century puzzler Sam Loyd once wrote: "By giving no two pieces the same shape, other ways of doing the puzzle are prevented, and the feat is more difficult of accomplishment." Similarly, giving the pieces of a geometrical puzzle different colors and then making the solution depend on putting the right colors together offers another way for a puzzle creator to make a puzzle with a unique solution.

The Grabarchuks' collection is varied, but the puzzles fall into a number of types. Here are descriptions of a few to give readers a taste:

Counting

A number of puzzles require the solver to count the number of times a given geometrical figure or letter appears in a complex design.

Geometry

Plenty of puzzles present the solver with views of four very similar geometrical figures and ask which one isn't like the others.

Matchsticks

In these puzzles, the solver is presented with matchsticks placed in a geometrical array.... The puzzle is to remove as few as matchsticks possible to change the diagram in some way.

Coins

The solver is asked how many ways there are to form a geometric figure, say a square or an equilateral triangle, by placing coins on the vertices of a geometric figure.

Double Letters

The solver is presented with a number of pairs of double letters. To solve the puzzle, the letters must be arranged--with a few overlapped--to form a word. A semantic clue is also given.

Viewing

I read plenty of Kindle books, but I don't have a Kindle. I used to read with Kindle for PC, but I switched to the Kindle Cloud Reader and have never gone back. Using Kindle Cloud Reader, I worked through these puzzles on a large laptop PC with a 17" diagonal screen. A brief note below the copyright notice in "Trilogy 303 Puzzle Quizzes" explains how this collection may best be viewed:

Optimized for 3rd font size; "sans serif" typeface; "medium" line spacing; "default" words per line; and "portrait" screen rotation.

The settings I used were nothing like the recommendations. I prefer large letters, wide margins and sepia pages. I didn't find my unusual choices interfered with my enjoyment of the puzzle collection.

Navigation

Each volume has a visual table of contents. Puzzle elements are used as icons. To go to a puzzle, click on the icon. Below each icon is a descriptive title. For example, the first puzzle in the collection has an icon of yellow arrows on a white field. The arrows point in different directions. The name of the puzzle is "Nine Arrows." Thus, the solver has a visual and verbal hint about what the puzzle is like.

It is not necessary to go to the page of icons to move from puzzle to puzzle. You can also move through the book by clicking on answers. The puzzles are multiple choice with two to four answers for each puzzle. To select an answer, the solver clicks a button. If the answer the solver selects is incorrect, the button leads him to a page with the emoticon ;( and the message "Your answer is incorrect. Please try again." Below the statement is a button marked Return to puzzle. If the answer is correct, the button takes the solver to a page where the solution is shown. This page has two buttons: Back to Puzzle and Next Puzzle. To skip a puzzle, simply click on the right arrow to go to the next one.

The puzzles in each volume are numbered and rated as to difficulty with one to five stars. Easier puzzles come first. At the end of volumes one and two is a five star puzzle. Solving that puzzle correctly takes you to an answer page with Back to Puzzle and Next Puzzle buttons. Clicking Next Puzzle takes you to the first puzzle of the next volume. The end of volume three doesn't work the same way. The answer page for the last five star puzzle in the collection has no Next Puzzle button, and absentminded solvers who click the right arrow on the screen to move along will go to the section of "Wrong Answer" pages. This was the only problem with navigation I found.

Recommendation

I recommend buying this volume if you enjoy working geometric and logic puzzles. I worked through this puzzle collection in less than a month. There are more than 300 in the collection, so I have to admit to an addiction to these puzzles. I'm looking forward to purchasing the fourth volume in the series, which the Grabarchuk family recently released.

You can find more information about Trilogy 303 Puzzle Quizzes on the Grabarchuk family website: [...]
Please note that some Kindle devices do not have color screens. The owners of such devices may not be satisfied with this Kindle book. Read more ›

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hours of fun! March 19, 2012

By Amitabh Mukherjee

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

The puzzlebook was available for free for a limited number of days. I was fortunate to pick this up then. I absolutely love the puzzles. All the puzzles are rated as per perceived difficulty. The solution is not visible when you click on the wrong answer - that is good. My 11 year old son and I often do the puzzles together. We just love these. All the puzzles we have attempted so far are unique (in the sense that I have not come across these before). I have not yet finished the book, but I would recommend this to everyone, not just those who love puzzles, even if it is no longer available for free.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of new puzzles February 29, 2012

By Ed Pegg TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition

"What number, when you add a quarter of itself, gives fifteen?" Back in 1650BC, the scribe Ahmes commented "This is a really old puzzle". Many puzzle books tend to recycle old problems. Rosa's Puzzles, for example, has mostly 100+ year old puzzles.

The Grabarchuk family has creative talent that puzzle book collectors crave. The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers is the best puzzle book of the last decade. The Grabarchuks also wrote New Puzzle Classics and Modern Classic Puzzles for Mensa, and LetsTans, Cut The Shapes, and Strimko for Kindle apps.

This is a collection of their Puzzlebook series, with 100, 101, and 102 puzzle quizzes, all collected together. All are beautifully presented, and will give your brain a workout. Most of them deal with shapes of some sort. At the start, the puzzles are rated (*) and tend to be easy, but the (*****) challenges at the back of each book are tough.

This large collection will last for awhile for anyone.... You won't find old, old problems here. Highly recommended. Read more ›

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars puzzles July 19, 2012

By bunny

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Excellent for us seniors to keep our minds sharp. Don't always know how I got the answer but makes me feel good when I get it right.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun to pass the time June 15, 2012

By Teresa

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

There are some challenges in this book. It has a variety of different brain teasers. Some are fairly easy while some are fairly difficult. I like it because I can keep it on my phone and have something pass the time while waiting for something (e.g. doctor's office, automobile, etc.)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a Mensa I'm having fun June 10, 2012

By QTZMUM

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is the first puzzle book I have come across for my kindle. I find it enjoyable. I am not one to want to know how the correct answer was achieved; that is what my brain function is meant to accomplish.
This book is not meant for a one time sitting - ENJOY

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Family Fun! April 17, 2012

By goulash

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Somehow I accidentally downloaded this product onto my Kindle, thinking that it was free. In spite of the fact that it wasn't my original intention to buy this item, I was happy with my purchase. It is a fun thing to do, for both my son (10) and I when we have a little time to spare. It's a great thing to be able to challenge the mind in interesting ways.

More About the Author

During many decades our family is working in the Puzzle World. We create various puzzles; make their designs and carefully test them; bring them to the market; compile and publish our puzzle creations in different books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web; produce interactive puzzles; solve hundreds of puzzles a year; make puzzle researches and historical studies; and are involved into many other puzzle activities all over the World.