Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles: Challenge the Way You Think & See [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: August 2000 | Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up

Along with Lateral Mindtrap Puzzles, try some that are even tougher, because you've got to rely on your powers of observation, not just your talent for detecting verbal clues. Photos show close-ups of ordinary objects, and offer a tantalizing clue in words, often a taunting rhyme or quotation. The answers appear on another page, where you see the objects the way you usually look at them. Have you ever really looked at a single red-and-white spiral on a candy cane? Could you recognize a notch on the gear of a can opener? Or, a pair of kernels of corn? Of course you've seen them all before. They're so familiar, they're almost impossible to recognize! In addition, there are lots of trick questions: Is there a Fourth of July in Canada? Yes! It's the day after July 3!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Puzzlewright; First Printing edition (August 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806944889
• ISBN-13: 978-0806944883
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #373,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great bargain, February 20, 2001

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This review is from: Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles: Challenge the Way You Think & See (Paperback)

For its price I definitely recommend all the puzzle lovers out there to get it. It's got some tantalizing, original puzzles in it, like they'll show you a close-up of an object and ask you to identify it. This is much harder than you think, but very entertaining. The "nursery rhyme" puzzles are truly one of its kind. They paraphrase a nursery rhyme into a mad-scientist's language and ask you to identify the jumbled nursery rhyme. Too bad there're only four such puzzles in it... And then there's also the silly "does canada have a july 4th" type of puzzles. This brings down the score, but really this puzzle book is as original as well as fun as one could possibly hope for.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasurable mental stimulation, April 1, 2006

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles: Challenge the Way You Think & See (Paperback)

There are two types of puzzles in this book. On each page there is a close up photo of a common object with a short textual clue underneath. For example, on page 37 there is a photo of two batteries and the caption is "Cell mates." Most of the time these puzzles are easy to solve, but there were some that I just could not get. One in particular was a paper towel with the caption, "Dam the flow."

The other puzzles are textual and some are tricky, but easy to solve if you are careful. For example, there is the question regarding what historical event occurred on November 31, 1793. Of course, with 30 days in November, there was no such day. My favorites were the garbled nursery rhymes. I found them easy to decipher, but I admired the cleverness that went into creating them.

This is an enjoyable collection of puzzles, they provided me with a great deal of relaxing mental stimulation, which is always a pleasure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, November 2, 2006

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J. Taura (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles: Challenge the Way You Think & See (Paperback)

It was all the book described it would be, it was fun and tricky and even my employer bought one for her son!