Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles

by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806986719
• ISBN13: 9780806986715
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

Don't take this book too laterally ;-)

I got this book, along with 3 other Sloane & MacHale lateral thinking puzzle books for Christmas one year. At first it seemed like a sorry excuse for a gift, but as I read this one first, I found that it was a challenging endeavor of the mind. Lateral thinking, it seems, is taking a situation and finding a solution that is not the most obvious, but usually the most logical. That said, this is challenging to say the least. A good book for people who enjoy mind games.

great for car trips and party games

I gave this book to my son about a year ago. It has provided hours of fun and good growth in logic. Our whole family has gotten smarter I think by doing these brain teasers.

Thinking puzzles that will keep you in suspense!

This book holds 91 thought-provoking puzzles. They're separated into several categories for their difficulty, and for each problem there is a series of clues, then the surprising answer. You can tell Paul Sloane put a lot of thought into his puzzles because they're simple but never what you'd guess.For example, an "easy" question is, "There were six apples in a basket and six girls in the room. Each girl took one apple, yet one apple remained in the basket. How come?" This question alone got me hooked because the problem-solving is so far out! Tell your friends these puzzles and keep them guessing for hours!