This collection of more than one hundred original and highly sophisticated puzzles presents challenges that require creative, outside of the box thinking. Many different types of puzzles are included, such as word, number, logical, visual, spatial, dissection, dividing, dot-connecting, matchstick, coin, and more. Each aesthetically appealing puzzle is designed to improve problem solving skills; train geometric, combinatorial, and spatial imagination; bolster visual perception and logical reasoning; and foster the development of a perseverant and self-confident approach to challenges.
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The Grabarchuk family-father and sons-make some of the most original and ingenious brain teasers in the world. I could happily spend weeks with this book. --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times
The talented Grabarchuk family have produced a tantalizing collection of highly original puzzles, each with its own set of rules (or rules you have to find yourself). Often geometrical in character, these puzzles are always entertaining and sometimes fiendishly difficult. The sudoku player in the airplane seat next to you will be green with envy! --Peter Winkler, author of Mathematical Mind-Benders and Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur s Collection
An excellent collection of 108 puzzles from an Eastern European perspective, a counterpart to the Oriental flavor of Nob Yoshigahara's Puzzles 101. --Andy Liu
The talented Grabarchuk family have produced a tantalizing collection of highly original puzzles, each with its own set of rules (or rules you have to find yourself). Often geometrical in character, these puzzles are always entertaining and sometimes fiendishly difficult. The sudoku player in the airplane seat next to you will be green with envy! --Peter Winkler, author of Mathematical Mind-Benders and Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur s Collection
An excellent collection of 108 puzzles from an Eastern European perspective, a counterpart to the Oriental flavor of Nob Yoshigahara's Puzzles 101. --Andy Liu
About the Author
Serhiy Grabarchuk ran the Puzzles.COM website for almost three years. Since August 2005 he has run the Age of Puzzles project. His sons, Peter and Serhiy, Jr. support him in his puzzle work and are accomplished puzzlers in their own right. The Grabarchuk's live in Uzhgorod, a small town in the Western part of Ukraine.
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Great Puzzle Book,
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This review is from: The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles (Paperback)
These puzzles are highly original, and quite different from what you find in most puzzle books. I was impressed with the large variety of challenges presented. Why do word puzzles all day when you can cross train your brain with spatial, math, visual, and logical problems? This book has them all. The illustrations that accompany each puzzle are also very nice. Get your thinking caps on, though-these highly enjoyable puzzles are "Not-So-Simple"!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The puzzling equivalent of a "Fudgehammer", look so simple hit so hard,
By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles (Paperback)
The title is the perfect description for the brain-cramping contents of this book. These puzzles are the intellectual equivalent of the beautiful flowers in the movie, "The Wizard of Oz." They look so sweet and innocent, yet they can have serious affects on your mental state. Solutions to all of the puzzles are included. As I read through them I solved approximately 10% immediately, another 10% after some serious thought and had no idea and would never have had the right idea on many of the others.
Which is the beauty and charm of the best puzzles; they look easy yet are not. Then, when you give up and read the solution, your first reaction is to slap yourself on the forehead. This is one of the more pleasant ways to generate a headache.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Simply Innovative,
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Unlike many puzzle books out there, this one contains all original and never-before-seen puzzles only. A treat the most avid puzzle fans may expect from any book by the Grabarchuk family of puzzle designers.
108 entertaining puzzles with detailed solutions from a diverse range of disciplines: Visual problems, mind benders, coin/matchstick puzzles and word challenges. A significant number of puzzles also include unexpected tricks to be discovered. Simply innovative, and not-so-simple indeed.
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Puzzle Card, Coin Upside-Down, Bottom Sum, Horizontal Street, Top Sum Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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