Cover of The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics Science

The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics Science

About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Timessaid it best: "The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzlesalmost a century ago." Inside The Big Book of Brain Games, you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions—originals as well as must-do classics—it's like salted peanuts for the brain. With jampacked pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is a call to action. (And it's guaranteed to make you smarter.) Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back cross-reference the puzzles. (You'll find the answers back there, too.)

Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
long · 420 pages

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