263 Brain Busters: Just How Smart Are You, Anyway?

by Louis Phillips

Book Overview

"This collection of questions that stimulate thinking is a combination joke book, logic book and puzzle book . . .The verbal questions that rely on word plays are particularly entertaining and sure to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140318755
• ISBN13: 9780140318753
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

I LOVE THIS BOOK!

This book is full of so many riddles (both easy and challenging) that really make you think. The answers are at the back of the book, so you don't go crazy trying to answer a riddle. The answers are so obvious, it makes you want to laugh for not thinking about it before. Great buy! Great for road trips, plane trips, or just any spare moment!

Wonderful for school!!

I love this book! I got it for my third grade class. We break into teams and I'll give them a question. They love trying to come up with a creative answer the other groups don't figure out. These are great "thinking outside the box" kind of questions. By the end of year, the kids no longer look to the obvious answers. It's great!

very challenging and funny

This book consists of, as the back of the book says, "tricky teasers, verbal vagaries, and mathematical mind manglers." There are also many funny brain vacation jokes. As you can tell from the title, this book has 263 challenging riddles or questions that really make you to think. For ex, one of the questions is: Why didn't Beethoven finish the Unfinished Symphony? The answer is: The Unfinished Symphony was started by Schubert, not Beethoven!! Some of the puns are corny but it's still very enjoyable. It's a good book to read when you want to take a break from work and just laugh. Personally, I liked it a lot and I still take it out sometimes to re-read some of the riddles. I highly recommend it

Great Mind-Bogglers

This book is really neat for those of you trying to boggle yourmind with brain puzzles. One of my favorites is "If King Midassits on gold, who sits on silver?" (You'll have to figure that out on your own) Anyway, it is very funny and makes you laugh at yourself when you see the answers to some!