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Excellant practice for "thinking" problems
You can teach your child to add and subtract, multiply and divide without workbooks. But the schools now insist on what they call "thinking" problems. These types of problems ususally are justconfusing to kids because they are hard to understand. But the problems inthis book really do stimulate thinking and they also offer the"confusion" factor that comes in trying to figure out what theywant. Hey, we are stuck with these types of problems in the schools,whether you like them or not.This book has excellant problems and theyhave the answers in the back of the book. My daughter is 8 years old andshe has found this a challenge. You still need to drill your child in thebasic math facts, and this book does not do that, but you don't need a bookfor that. You do need a workbook of "thinking" problems. I thinkthe teachers' colleges have lost their minds. This whole approach isflawed, but this workbook will help you teach your child how to cope withthis goofy stuff. I highly recommend this book. And, wow, it's cheap! ... Read more

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About this Brain Teaser Book:

This Book has been optimized for Easy Kindle Navigation with a hyper-linked Table of Contents.

Note: This book goes beyond just throwing a bunch of puzzles and games together for you to solve. If you are searching for just games to solve without any explanation, this book is not for you.
However if you are looking to learn how to create and solve puzzles along with many brain teasers, etc., then this is the book for you. This is not for the simple minded.

If this describes you, then please read on:

If you are one of those people who takes great pleasure in playing games, and also happens to be extremely competitive, you know how frustrating it can be to fail at solving a game or puzzle.

There are so many great benefits to brain games, besides pure enjoyment, it seems a shame to miss out of them.

Take a look:

Wakes up the brain

Helps you to learn new skills

Aids you in staying active

Makes it easier to solve problems

Expand your mind

Explorer inner skills and abilities

Without the right tools and information, it could take you longer than you want to figure out the secrets to successful brain games. Instead of spending a fortune on so-called experts or knocking yourself out with the old trial and error method, there is an easier way to learn everything you need to know about brain games.

A few years ago I found myself in a similar situation. I had always had an interest in brain game and really wanted to get started with it as a hobby after I retired in order to keep my mind active. After the first week I was so confused and frustrated; however, because there was simply so much to learn!

What I discovered completely changed the way I approached brain games.

How did I do it?

I would love to share my secrets with you and my new special report on brain games does just that!

Introducing ...

Puzzles, Math Games, and Brain Games: APuzzle Book, Quiz Book, and Trivia Book All in One

Everything you need to know about the success coaching is included in this special report:

How to find brain games

How to create brain games

Using creative skills in solving brain games

Types of brain games

I leave absolutely nothing out! Everything that I learned in order to begin successfully solving brain games, I show you.

This is the most comprehensive report on brain games you will ever read! This comprehensive special report covers the following topics:

Solutions in problem solving

Understanding vocabulary brain games

Prompting the brain with brain games

Scientific reasoning in brain games

The science behind brain games

How to use both sides of the brain

How to memorize with brain games

No stone is left unturned in this comprehensive report!

P.S. You’ll be amazed at how simple and easy it is to learn how to begin successfully solving mind puzzles with Brain Games. You will feel more confident and secure when you master the incredible techniques presented in this special report.

Get Your Copy Today and Start Stimulating Your Mind in ways you never have before... ... Read more

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Disappointing
Thought this would be a puzzle book, but it's a book ABOUT puzzles.I didn't see that information anywhere until I bought the book.Should have gotten the sample, i guess.

Same Best Selling Book, Just Better Navigation and Hyper Links for brain games and brain teasers
Same Best Selling Book, Just Better Navigation and Hyper Links for brain games and brain teasers.So if you don't mind paying the xtra 2 bucks, and won't easier navigation, this would be for you. I think it's worth it, up to you.

Mush Better Format of this Best Selling Brain Games Book
Much better format and navigation.Worth the 2 bucks in my opinion for the table of contents and hyper-linked chapters.
Same book as the cheap brain games book one, if you don't won't navigation.
Brain Exercise Book that gets into details of problem solving etc. and hot to solve problems.Brain Book for people who like quizzes etc. but not a bunch puzzles. More of a how to solve problems rather than a book full of problems.

Same Brain Games Book and Quiz Book but Better Navigation
Same Brain Game Games Book and Quiz Book as the original but Better Navigation. Everything is the same as the original best selling brain games book but the navigation is hyperlinked. For an extra 2 bucks it's worth it to be able to navigate the hot buttons and chapters in my opinion. ... Read more

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Updated with fun, colorful pages and engaging art, the best-selling HomeWorkbooks series is a favorite for both parents and teachers! This bookoffers educational and entertaining activities, puzzles, and games basedon academic standards and provides the early learning skills childrenneed to be successful in school. Skills cover addition and subtraction,problem solving, comparing numbers, and more. An incentive chart and 140stickers are included. Perfect for home, school, summer breaks, and roadtrips!

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Enjoy building basic skills with Home Workbooks! Filled withage-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games, this teacher-approvedbook is perfect for extra practice at home or school and during travelor school breaks. Children will love the 140 full-color stickersincluded in each book! An incentive chart is also provided to helpparents or teachers track the progress of young learners.

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Grades 2–9 • Strengthen students’ logical-thinking andspatial-relationship skills! Set includes 48 challenging puzzles and twosets of Pentominoes.

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Pentomino Puzzles
This is an excellent challenge for your Pre-schooler (PK4) or Kindergartner to strengthen their mathematic and analytical skills.The puzzles can be difficult even for an adult, so they may need supervision.There could be some easier entry sheets in my opinion, but overall a good buy ... recommended by my son's teacher. ... Read more

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highly recommended
First off, as other reviews have stated, very little math is required to solve these puzzles.There is one puzzle specifically that is a sort of numerical crossword puzzle, but that's about it.Certain theorems from geometry might be useful in developing strategies to solve some of the puzzles, but they are not required.For example, one fact that might be useful is that if you draw a line through a closed loop in a plane that does not touch the loop tangentially, then the line intersects the loop at an even number of points.

Secondly, these puzzles will require you to develop innovative processes and strategies for solving them, otherwise they will be complete guesswork (and will be no fun at all).There are at least 10 (sometimes 20+) puzzles of a given type, so once you get your strategy down you should be able to solve most of the rest without too much of a headache.

The puzzles themselves are deceptively simple in principle.Some of them involve placing objects within a grid (battleship-style), some involve drawing a loop through a triangular, square, or hexagonal grid to satisfy certain requirements, others involve dividing up a region into pieces, etc.The "Black and White" puzzle that you can see in "Look Inside!" is fairly representative of what they're like.Developing the solution strategies is where most of the fun (and challenge) lies.Some tend to be comparatively easy in my opinion (e.g. End View, Snake Tiles), others are extremely difficult (e.g. Half Dominoes, Skyscrapers).

Warning: There is at least one puzzle that has more than one solution, although the authors don't claim that all of the solutions are unique.That bugged me though.

All in all, definitely worthy of praise.If you are mathematically and logically minded, you won't be disappointed.Otherwise, you'll probably be frustrated.

Excellent logic puzzles
I had a great time completing these puzzles. There are twenty different types of puzzles in this book. Some of the puzzles were old favorites - Battleship, Dominoes and Number Place, but most of them were new to me. This was a welcome change from the same old puzzles I had been doing for years.

Some of the puzzles can be found in Games Magazine or Dell's Math and Logic Problems magazine. If you like those magazines, but crave a little more variety, then you'll love this book.Unlike those magazines, there are no word problems in this book. In fact, none of the puzzles required any reading at all. No real math is required either. They all used some type of square grid format that is appealing to mathematical and logical minds.

This is a really high quality puzzle book, with great puzzles, good quality paper (you can erase puzzles and redo them later), and spiral binding. You get a lot of puzzles for your money. I wish the authors would create a second edition! The other Mensa books just don't compare. If you like this book, you'll probably also like Mind Sharpening Pixel Puzzles and Perplexing Pixel Puzzles.

Very satisfying puzzles
When I finished the last puzzle in this book, I felt quite proud of my skills in the puzzles I'd solved through logic only, and proud of my perseverance in the puzzles I couldn't get through logic and had to guess on. In some cases, like in Black And White and Dominoes, I was able to discover a certain technique in the first few of the set that I could apply to the rest. In this respect, I think the book made me better at logic puzzles.

If anyone can get through every puzzle in this book without having to guess, that person is truly a super-genius. It seems to me like the authors' main goal was to include just enough clues so that the solution would be unique. This is admirable in a way, as picking the right clues to include seems like quite a formidable task, and the authors have done it well. Lighthouses #10 is the only puzzle with more than one solution (one ship can be placed in either of two locations), and only a couple others seemed to have extraneous clues. However, this minimal clue-giving makes a logical breakthrough that much harder.

That said, this is a great book to keep a puzzle solver occupied. Enjoy it!

Challenging, creative variety of puzzles
I'm not even a big fan of math and logic puzzles, but there was enough variety in here that I was entertained for a long time.And it won me over to a number of puzzle types that I wouldn't have guessed I'd have liked.

The puzzles are very well-made -- trial and error plays little role in most of the solving, and you won't find unintended solutions.

Misleading but...
The puzzles included in this book contain require no math and only a little logic.A more appropriate title would be "Guessing Puzzles" because solving them requires a lot of luck.

Other than the misleading title and content, I found that the puzzles themselves lacked true variety; they all require the same basic skills. The only true difference between them is the format.

I have seen better books of this nature.The puzzles from the World Puzzle Championships, by Will Shortz, although not my cup of tea, are authentic, and require a wider spectrum of skills.

In addition, for those looking for actual mathematical puzzles, consider anything by Martin Gardner or H.E. Dudeney.

With all of this said, the only reason I give this book a passing grade is for its reasonable price and large volume of puzzles.If you enjoy "lateral logic" and possibility, then you may get more from the book than myself. ... Read more

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This brilliant new puzzle collection from the creators of the hugely successful The Mammoth Book of Puzzles and The Mammoth Book of Astounding Puzzles features a cumulative IQ scoring system based on the new Haselbauer-Dickheiser Test for Exceptional Intelligence, recently used to find the world’s smartest person. Included are five hundred new IQ puzzles. Formulated in association with the International High IQ Society and covering a broad spectrum, the puzzles range from surprisingly easy to a level of difficulty that will challenge even the sharpest minds. Theoretically, all are capable of being solved mentally in just a few minutes. The puzzles vary from math and logic problems to word games, with the emphasis throughout on clarity of presentation and elegance of answer. The collection is endorsed by the new and highly popular International High IQ Society—the second-largest and most rapidly growing high IQ society in the world, with a membership across seventy-five countries. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Explanations Please!
No complaints about the puzzles being challenging, but I bought this not only to be challenged but to learn.If you don't understand why you got a question wrong, you are out of luck because there is now explanation why the answer is the answer..... for all I know Nathan Haselbauer (author) doesn't know either, but he doesn't want to let me know.

I've decided the author is more lazy than smart-- otherwise he would have provided a way for me to learn instead of just trust him.

Difficult Fun
This book is enjoyable if you like a mental challenge.You get a good idea of how well you did against others who answered the same questions.

Fantastic Puzzle Collection!
I've ordered two puzzle books from Nathan Haselbauer and can categorically state that his books are the best!

The Mammoth Book of IQ Puzzles is a great collection of puzzles of all kinds. It's both fun and maddening to figure out - or TRY to figure out, in many cases - the variety of puzzles you'll find in this book.

I especially liked the difficulty rating of each puzzle; readers can target the difficulty level they like and gain great satisfaction as they solve more and more difficult puzzles.

Also pleasing is the wide variety of puzzles in this book. Whether you enjoy math, logic, or word puzzles the most, you'll find something here to challenge you and to enjoy.

As a member too of Mr. Haselbauer's International High IQ Society, I can confirm that this book is a great extension of theoriginal puzzles you'll find on the Society website. If you've enjoyed this book, please visit the group at www.highiqsociety.org and try your hand at the puzzles there; perhaps you'll become a member! ... Read more

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In Monster Math Puzzles and Games, children learn and practice basic math concepts as they complete thought-provoking pencil activities. the book fosters confidence by helping kids master math fundamentals and improves youngsters' creative thinking skills. Illustrations throughout. ... Read more

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Captivates a child's analytical side!
The math problems in this workbook extend basic math skills to fairly complex analytical situations, challenging the child and making them really understand their math skills. More suitable for first or second graders. ... Read more

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math puzzles
The item arrived on time, but it was a bit more used than I thought it would be.But was still in good enough condition. ... Read more

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Following the fortunes of a prehistoric family, these books bring math into amusing everyday situations and will help children to absorb the rules of math in a way that clearly demonstrates their practical usefulness. ... Read more

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Illustrated.PRESS OPINIONS ON "THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES.""It is a book of remarkable ingenuity and interest."—Educational Times."The most ingenious brain in England ... a fascinating new book."—Evening News."A capital book of posers."—Daily News."The Puzzles ... reach the limit of ingenuity and intricacy; and it is well for the sanity of his readers that the author gives a list of solutions at the end of the book."—Observer."A book that will provide much entertainment for Christmas gatherings ... ingenious puzzles and problems invented by 'Sphinx,' the Puzzle King."—The Captain."Mr. Dudeney, whose reputation is world-wide as the puzzle and problem maker of the age ... sure to find a wide circulation ... as attractive in appearance as its contents are fascinating."—English Mechanic and World of Science."An exceedingly ingenious constructor and solver of fascinating puzzles, mathematical and otherwise."—School Guardian."A book which ought to be highly popular ... it is all mighty ingenious, and very intelligently put before the reader."—Sheffield Telegraph."It is matter for delight that Mr. Henry E. Dudeney has collected into a volume those mysterious puzzles of his which have appeared in many journals ... contains quite a number of ingenious new mental problems ... a valuable introduction."—The Lady."For the long winter evenings Mr. Dudeney's book of puzzledom is to be recommended. Mr. Dudeney has made a study of every kind of puzzle there is ... he supplies you with every kind of brain-twister."—The Daily Chronicle."Took up more of the reviewer's time than he could well afford to give it; he wanted to solve some of the curious problems that it contains, and for ingenious persons who want employment on a wet day, he promises from it abundant scope."—Yorkshire Post."A well-known master puzzler ... provides an abundance of seasonable occupation for the ingenious, with an introduction on the general question of puzzles, which is one of the most interesting parts of the book. He is a skilful inventor."—Nottingham Guardian."Will enjoy the entertainment provided ... ingenious and witty."—The Guardian."Extremely ingenious book, which abounds in problems that will keep the reader busy for hours—until in despair he turns to the answers at the end."—Manchester Guardian."The setting of these perplexities is novel ... a dramatic background being thus provided which prevents too great aridity.... The book should be much in request."—The Morning Leader.CONTENTSPREFACEINTRODUCTIONTHE CANTERBURY PUZZLESPUZZLING TIMES AT SOLVAMHALL CASTLETHE MERRY MONKS OF RIDDLEWELLTHE STRANGE ESCAPE OF THE KING'S JESTERTHE SQUIRE'S CHRISTMAS PUZZLE PARTYADVENTURES OF THE PUZZLE CLUBTHE PROFESSOR'S PUZZLESMISCELLANEOUS PUZZLESSOLUTIONS ... Read more

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A collection of over 70 brain-bending maths teasers, from grid and dot games to stretchy shapes and squiggly lines, mechanical and calculation puzzles to magic squares, and from vanishing tricks to amazing maps and mazes. The games and tricks featured include: fitting your entire head through a 3 x 5-inch postcard; calculating the duration of Big Ben's chimes; creating a deluxe Mobius strip; and escaping from rope handcuffs. There is a special chapter of mathematical puzzles and teasers created by Lewis Carroll, and 21 pages of answers are provided. ... Read more

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After Math: Puzzles and Brainteasers is an elegant and entertaining book of recreational mathematics problems. Anyone with a taste for mathematics just for fun will enjoy these gems. ... Read more

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Treasury of 100 brain-twisters includes board games, map games, word games, variations of chess and checker games, "life games," and scores of other recreations. For 80 problems, full solutions included. Remaining 20 unsolved will definitely challenge serious gamesters. 115 illustrations. Introduction.
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Challenge yourself while developing your math skills with the Building Blocks Math Puzzles.Three different puzzle formats, including equation search, number block, and equation block - over 100 puzzles!If you like sudoku you will love these new puzzles. ... Read more

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Multiply the fun! Kids love puzzles!
Fun-to-solve practice puzzles help kids build multiplication and division skills! ... Read more

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A collection of mathematical riddles involving people, animals, coins, or food. ... Read more