Challenging Optical Picture Puzzles

By Irit Adler and Shem Levy

Tired of the same old picture puzzles? Looking for a new twist on brain teasers? Then try these on for size! These puzzles challenge your ability to perceive and manipulate forms and shapes. Learn to use logical deduction and spatial perception as puzzle-solving weapons! "...true brain food..."-- Chicago Tribune.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806994401
• ISBN13: 9780806994406
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Puzzles that will challenge those who enjoy this type

This collection of picture puzzles contains some very hard ones. Visual puzzles can be very difficult because there is usually more than one way to interpret the characteristics of the diagram. In these puzzles, you are given a sequence of images and your goal is to select what should be the next one from a list of options. While in some cases this is rather easy, there are many cases where I found it difficult. The solutions are included and while I did not find a case where I believed that the answer was wrong, at times I remained convinced that my choice was also correct. Like all collections of good puzzles, this book contains some frustrations. Nevertheless, I enjoyed working through them and recommend it to anyone with a penchant for puzzles based on sequences of images.

The "challenge" is to pick out the errors in the book

The first page introduces the puzzles with a simple example. In explaining the logic, the book claims that when the long hand on a circular clock moves a quarter of an hour, it's a 45-degree turn. Not in my world - that's a 90-degree turn. A cirlce is 360-degree's, and a quarter of that is 90.