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Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery

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The author starts out this book of logic puzzles with fairly easy stuff and moves the reader along so gradually that you are able to figure out solutions you never thought you could. But it gets REALLY complex toward the end and in fact lost me part of the time. So don't get too frustrated if you can't figure them all out. If you like logic puzzles, you don't want to miss this one.

This is one book of logic which is not for the weak-minded. Nineteen chapters of themed puzzles and challenges, the great majority of which have never before been published. I personally have never read a better book of logic puzzles --- even the easy ones require some thought, and the impossible ones are brilliantly explained at the end of each chapter. But if you aren't ready to analyze Smullyan's devious logic, turn your eyes elsewhere.

I read this book 20 years ago when I was a plain physics student. Know with my son (8) I bought again and we both enjoy a good time exercising our brains and, besides, my son develops logic reasoning to solve many problems. This book is excelent to prevent Alzheimer.

If you're a fan of logic & puzzles, this is definitely worth picking up. It starts simple and works its way up to nearly impossible, so there should be something on everyone's level. The book is kind of a narrative, but its main purpose is to display and explain more and more advanced logic.

I first found this book when I was 15 or so among my Uncle's things when I was visiting. I stayed up half the night working through the puzzles, but after about halfway through the book, I was completely lost. Years later, after studying symbolic logic in college, I go back and the book gives me new pleasure, though I still can't get through 'all' of it - not quite ;P Its somewhat of a Logic Quest, really.

If you enjoy a challenge, definitely pick this one up.

This is a fine book with independent chapters that can be dipped into when you want some good intellectual company. The first few puzzles got me hooked. Smullyan is very good at giving a new twist to old puzzles.

Great book of puzzles. Perfect for the whole family. It begins with simple yet confusing conundrums and progresses onto complex and more confusing ones! Great way to exercise those little gray cells.

this book of logic puzzles is a highly intriguing story, will the prisoners get eaten... or married?

this book is great for a classroom full of kids, each one has a different talent for solving these difficult puzzles, even if you some 8 yr olds and some paper and some time, I highly reccomend this book to any one with knack for puzzles

Dr. Raymond Smullyan once again spins a yarn, in which professional logic and tantalizing puzzles blend seemlessly into his tasteful story-line, taking us from King X and his logical/macabre sense of humour, to the insane assylums of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather, then onward to Transylvanyia and the Mysterious Islands, finally to stand along-side Craig as he faces his most challenging puzzle yet in the Mystery of the Monte Carlo Lock (which I am still solving). A must-read.

This book is a beauty. A must have if you're into mind-boggling stuff

I was very disappointed after browsing through a few chapters. For example the 2nd chapter, "Ladies or tigers?", is just way too easy and not much creativity is involved at all. Many puzzles are just some old junk. It's no fun to solve things like those.