Brainstrains(r) Eye-Popping Puzzles

by Peter De Schepper, Keith Kay, Frank Coussement

Book Overview

These challenging and brilliantly colorful puzzles will work out the brain and amaze the eye. Many of the pictures have a trick to fool the puzzler, from vivid optical illusions to 3-D effects that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402709900
• ISBN13: 9781402709906
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A dumbbell for your mental muscle

The puzzles in this collection are very hard, it took me a great deal of time to think my way through some of them and many of them I just did not get. Of course, like all good puzzles, the solution was understandable once I looked at it. Each of the puzzles is visual, demonstrated in a diagram with excellent coloration. Many involve the computation of missing numbers, some are pattern (mis)matching and others involve following a maze. While the puzzles are always challenging and frequently frustrating, they are enjoyable. Many studies have proven that the brain is just like a bicep, the more you flex it the stronger and more functional it becomes. In that context, the puzzles in this book are like a dumbbell, although sometimes they will make you feel like one.

Puzzles that look easy but are often quite difficult

This is a terrific book. If you take your time - perhaps a lot of time - you can figure out these puzzles. There is a logic behind them. On the other hand, it can be frustrating! But it is definitely worth it!