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Highlights
- Learn how to take the ""tease"" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles.
- About the Author: MARCEL DANESI, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Toronto.
- 201 Pages
- Games, Logic & Brain Teasers
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Book Synopsis
Learn how to take the ""tease"" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your Puzzle IQ gives you the know-how you need to decipher even the most puzzling of puzzles. Why are 1997 dollar bills worth more than 1980 dollar bills? In a box there are 20 balls, 10 white and 10 black. With a blindfold on, what is the least number you must draw out in order to get a pair of balls that matches? Which clock keeps the best time? The clock that loses a minute a day or one that doesn't run at all? I have two current U.S. coins in my hand. The two coins add up to 15?. One of the coins is not a nickel. What two coins do I have? How much dirt is there in a hole that is 1 foot wide by 1 foot long by 1 foot deep?From the Back Cover
Learn how to take the "tease" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your Puzzle IQ gives you the know-how you need to decipher even the most puzzling of puzzles.Why are 1997 dollar bills worth more than 1980 dollar bills?
In a box there are 20 balls, 10 white and 10 black. With a blindfold on, what is the least number you must draw out in order to get a pair of balls that matches?
Which clock keeps the best time? The clock that loses a minute a day or one that doesn't run at all?
I have two current U.S. coins in my hand. The two coins add up to 15?. One of the coins is not a nickel. What two coins do I have?
How much dirt is there in a hole that is 1 foot wide by 1 foot long by 1 foot deep?
About the Author
MARCEL DANESI, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of Language Games in Italian and Italian the Easy Way.Dimensions (Overall): 9.94 Inches (H) x 7.01 Inches (W) x .66 Inches (D)
Weight: .87 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Logic & Brain Teasers
Genre: Games
Number of Pages: 201
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Marcel Danesi
Language: English
Street Date: April 1, 1997
TCIN: 88264238
UPC: 9780471157250
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-1994
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.87 pounds
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