Don't think too hard or you'll never solve these logic puzzles and riddles. The answers to all 187 are easy once you catch the tricky wording. How can you tie a knot in a napkin by holding one end in each hand without letting go of it? Impossible, you say (or your friends will say, if you bet them). But: Cross your arms and hold a tip of the napkin in each hand. When you uncross your arms, the knot will be formed! Now try this riddle: I climbed up a cherry tree, where I found cherries. I did not pick cherries, nor did I leave cherries. How can you explain this? Answer: I climbed up a cherry tree with two cherries in my hand. I picked only one. I left the other one on the tree. I did not "pick cherries," because I "picked a cherry." Take this dare: My bird can fly faster than any supersonic plane. Here's how: If you put my bird inside any plane and make it fly in the same direction as the plane, it will go faster than the plane. 96 pages, 52 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
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An excellent way to keep your mind agile and thinking originally,
By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Quick-to-Solve Brainteasers (Mensa) (Paperback)
This collection of "simple" puzzles requires that you consider the problem from all angles, at times including dissections of figures. For example, problem number 2 is:
"What number do you subtract half from to get zero?" The answer is 8 because if you take the top half off, a zero is left. This kind of sideways thinking is very good mental gymnastics that will keep your brain sharp, something that is even more essential in the modern world. I read a recent article where workers that suffered through extended layoffs that are going back to work are finding that they are suffering from a collective "skill rot" in the sense that the skills now needed to perform the job have changed. It is very difficult to predict what skills will be needed a few years from now, so the only general protection against individual obsolescence is to maintain a sharp and agile mind. Books like this are known to aid that process, so this one can be recommended both as a source of fun and amusement as well as an aid against unemployment.
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