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Outside-the-box Lateral Thinking Puzzles (paperback)
Outside-the-box Lateral Thinking Puzzles (paperback) - By Paul Sloane,des Machale
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Super Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Stand out from the pack--don't think conventionally, think laterally! And, you can start developing well-honed mental skills with more than 80 braintwisting puzzles that test your creativity and smarts. At first it might not seem as if there's enough information to solve them, but if you just persist, you'll come up with the logical answers. Some of the conundrums come from real life: try to figure out how the Greek playwright Aeschylus could have been killed by a tortoise or how the truth about Mary Queen...
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The latest in the hugely popular series of think-out-of-the box brainteasers, including Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges and Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles . Here's how you play the game and figure out these perplexing puzzles: take one of the scenarios, and with the help of a friend who looks at the answer, pose a series of yes and no questions until, by a process of elimination and deduction, you arrive at the solution. If you get stuck--and everyone does from time to time--there are additional...
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Normal situations veer off into the bizarre, confounding, and surreal, and it’s left to you to figure out why. Welcome to the world of perplexing lateral thinking puzzles. The puzzles are great fun to solve yourself, but they also make perfect party games, providing hours of debate and discussion.
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Tricky Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Description: A series of riddles challenges the reader think laterally to get to the right answer. Not only fun, these thinking puzzles help develop skills in questioning, deduction, logic, and, of course, lateral thinking. 25 illustrations.
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Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Finally, a puzzle book as “bright” as its readers. Not only will puzzle-doers find wickedly tricky brainbusters on every page, but all the accompanying illustrations are in brilliant color too. And that makes unraveling these challenging conundrums even more fun. It will take some real smarts to figure this out: Diamonds are for never : Robbers knew that a woman had some very valuable diamonds. They waited until she was away on holiday and then burgled her house. They searched high and low but they could...
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Expand your mind and have lots of fun in the process. Lateral Thinking Puzzles is the original and BEST of all the lateral thinking books. Lateral requires "right" brain (the creative side) to solve the riddle. These puzzles are just the opposite of LOGIC (which requires processing and manipulating a lot of data). Imagination is the main resource. These puzzles are perfect for travel and group activities (as well as solo play). Each puzzle is presented in one or two paragraphs. Hints are...
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Brain-Busting Lateral Thinking Puzzles
These are think-out-of-the-box brainbusters, lots of fun for anyone who enjoys a challenge. Some of the situations presented may seem really strange, and almost impossible to solve, but once the obvious assumptions are discarded, the answers begin to come into focus. The key lies in being creative, and getting into the groove by trying the easier puzzles before moving on to the super-hard ones. The collection includes problems that use visual clues, timed questions, and thorny conundrums that ask...
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Lateral thinking is the key to solving these tantalizing puzzles. Packed with hundreds of brain teasers and mathematical problems, the book will test kids' powers of logic, and patience! "The logic, reasoning, and calculating required by the problems...will delight and torment puzzle fans." Booklist . "Ninety-one `how come' mysteries....We never get enough of these." Games . 96 pages, 20 b/w illus., 5 3/8 X 8 1/4.
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Pub. Date: December 1999. Publisher: Sterling Publishing. Format: Paperback, 95pp. Sales Rank: 462,515. Age Range: 12 and up.
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Sometimes an unsolvable problem requires a new way of thinking. It is a process and willingness to look at things in a different way. And this process is called lateral thinking. It calls on you to look at a situation from many different angles. The ability to become an excellent lateral logician will sharpen your mind and expand your brain power. Challenge your lateral thinking skills with over 90 puzzles. Don't trip over to tricks as you try to figure these out. The answers are simple: it's the...
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Captivating Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Mensa)
Paperback: 96 pages. Publisher: Sterling; 2008-01-01. Label: Sterling. Studio: Sterling. ISBN: 1402732767. Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews. Sales Rank in Books: #186022.
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Average Some spine creasing and edgewear. Daily shipping, large selection! ! ! $2.27 add to cart
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Great Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Paperback: 96 pages. Publisher: Sterling; 1994-06-30. Label: Sterling. Reading Level: Young Adult. Studio: Sterling. ISBN: 0806905530. Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews. Sales Rank in Books: #703092.
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May 08, 2009: I am something of a puzzle junkie. I won't go so far as to say I'm brilliant at solving these entertaining logic puzzles, but on average I fare rather well. A good lateral thinking puzzle should challenge the user into thinking in ways that are unorthodox, uncomfortable and sometimes new. The best puzzle writers understand if the puzzle is too long it becomes too convoluted and too short is either pretentious or childish (depending on the puzzle). I've gone through nearly...
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Think smart--but not like you do every day. To solve these demanding puzzles you can't look for the obvious. Take a different approach and examine them from a new perspective. Most are tricky little mysteries that will test your assumptions and encourage creative questioning. You may think you don't have all the information you need to arrive at an answer, but keep trying and you'll come up with it. Try this one: Why has no one climbed the largest known extinct volcano? (See page 90 to see if you...
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Sterling Pub Co Inc ; ISBN-10: 1402732767 ; ISBN-13: 9781402732768 ; Dimensions (in inches): 8.25 x 8.28 x 5.44 ; Weight (in pounds): 0.26 Contributors
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The latest in the hugely popular series of think-out-of-the box brainteasers, including Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges and Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles . Here's how you play the game and figure out these perplexing puzzles: take one of the scenarios, and with the help of a friend who looks at the answer, pose a series of yes and no questions until, by a process of elimination and deduction, you arrive at the solution. If you get stuck--and everyone does from time to time--there are additional...
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Lateral thinking is the key to solving these tantalizing puzzles. Packed with hundreds of brain teasers and mathematical problems, the book will test kids' powers of logic, and patience! "The logic, reasoning, and calculating required by the problems...will delight and torment puzzle fans."-- Booklist . "Ninety-one `how come' mysteries....We never get enough of these."-- Games . ...
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Lateral thinking experts, prepare yourself for two wickedly tricky puzzle books. In “Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles,” not only will puzzle-doers find brainbusters on every page, but all the accompanying illustrations are in brilliant color too. And that makes unraveling these challenging conundrums even more fun. In “Outside The Box Lateral Thinking Puzzles,” you’ll find several mini-scenarios, and it’s up to you to discover the secret twist. Thinking outside the box has never been so much fun...
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“We never grow tired of good new ‘how come’ mysteries of this kind. These story brainteasers are often solved in groups...with solvers asking yes-or-no questions of the puzzle poser (the one holding this book, perhaps). A novel feature of this volume is a ‘Clues’ section containing sample questions and answers, allowing you to play along solitaire.”— Games World of Puzzles.
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