Test Your Creative Thinking: Enchance Your Lateral Thinking; Learn to Think Outside the Box (Times (Kogan Page)) [Paperback]

Lloyd King (Author)

Book Description

Series: Times (Kogan Page) | Publication Date: August 2004

"This is the best source we've come across for [lateral thinking] puzzles and should be on the shelf of anyone who wants to improve personal creativity." Creativity Unleashed --Business creativity consultants (www.cul.co.uk)

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About the Author

Lloyd King is a renowned lateral thinking expert who has been designing puzzles for over 10 years. A prolific writer he has contributed to numerous books and is the author of the best-selling Puzzles for the High IQ.

Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Kogan Page Business Books (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074944004X
• ISBN-13: 978-0749440046
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,669,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the Best Puzzle Book I Have Ever Worked Through, July 6, 2004

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William Bultas (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Test Your Creative Thinking: Enchance Your Lateral Thinking; Learn to Think Outside the Box (Times (Kogan Page)) (Paperback)

And I have worked through dozens. As a professional puzzle writer/creator, I get to see a lot of "old chestnuts" that are repackaged versions of puzzles written decades or even centuries ago. Lloyd's book is quite different. There are a few authors (who I will not name) who have given "lateral thinking" something of a bad reputation. By comparison, Lloyd uses excellent illustrations (he is a painter and artist, btw), and really fun teasers that will have you scratching your head until you have that "aha!" experience and KNOW the answer. At first I couldn't make heads or tails of his puzzles, but once you get inside his head, it is quite enjoyable. I have now spent far too many hours on this book, and plan to spend many more. Fun stuff.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow. Really forces the reader to "think outside the box"!, June 3, 2004

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Clifford A. Pickover (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Test Your Creative Thinking: Enchance Your Lateral Thinking; Learn to Think Outside the Box (Times (Kogan Page)) (Paperback)

Lloyd King has created a fantastic book of puzzles that coax the reader to use lateral thinking and to break out of standard patterns of thought. This book is an incredible mind expander. The puzzles are original and hugely rewarding and will make a difference in the way you look at the world. The ultimate brain work out. Buy the book and feed your head.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Into The Mind of a Puzzle Wizard, July 14, 2005

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Jonathan Wai (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Test Your Creative Thinking: Enchance Your Lateral Thinking; Learn to Think Outside the Box (Times (Kogan Page)) (Paperback)

The best puzzles are not always the ones with the most logical solution, but oftentimes those that stimulate your brain to make connections in an entirely new manner. Just as there are multiple proofs to mathematical problems, there are many novel ways to solve creative thinking puzzles that require various mixtures of convergent and divergent thinking. In Test Your Creative Thinking, Lloyd King brings together an adequate balance of intelligence, creativity and humor that pushed me to invent new patterns of thought.

One of the features I appreciated most about the book is the way it progresses evenly from low to high degrees of difficulty in a continuous development. Many of the items are deceptively easy, or seem to have no solution at all, but that is because the solution is typically a creative twist that is completely unique to Lloyd King. The advanced test will be a challenge to even the best puzzle solvers, and will without a doubt be a mental exercise worth engaging in.

What I enjoyed most about this book, as well as Lloyd's other books and creations, is the humor and easy going fun tone throughout the book. Many of the puzzles are indeed out of the box and the stories and settings that accompany them are no exception. I have purchased many puzzle books, and spent countless hours solving puzzles that seem canned or derivations of many others I had seen before. In Test Your Creative Thinking, this is definitely not the case, as puzzle wizard Lloyd King provides an opportunity to experience the workings of his equally divergent and convergent mind.