Dr. Broth and Ollie's Brain-Boggling Search for the Lost Luggage: Across Time and Space in 80 Puzzles

by Michael Abrams

The editors of "Discover" magazine's popular "Bogglers" page knit together puzzles of every kind to create a zany adventure story that challenges readers to solve the puzzles along with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684870010
• ISBN13: 9780684870014
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Fireside Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

FIRST RATE WINNER FOR MICHAEL ABRAMS

Michael Abrams has an excellent puzzle book for lovers of puzzles of all ages. Along with a very pleasing and amusing story line, Michael offers up puzzles from easy to difficult, and always fun.Being the puzzle editor for DISCOVER magazine's BRAINBOGGLERS column has served Michael well in capturing the right puzzle at the right time to make the reader fully engaged . . . and then realizing the answer in one of those AHA! moments. Thank you, Michael, and I hope there are more adventures on the way.

brain-boggling is right!

although the puzzles really drive me nuts...i love this book! the quirky illustrations match the clever, playful storyline. a friend left the book at my house and i won't let him have it back until i'm done reading it! my mom just lOves puzzles... guess what she's getting for Christmas!

A "Must Have" for Puzzle Lovers

Our two teen-age sons, my husband and I made a game out of reading this delightful book. When we discovered "Dr. Broth and Ollie's Brain-Boggling Search for the Lost Luggage, we began to play 'puzzle-a-day', fashioned after public radio's "chapter-a-day". Each evening after dinner, we read another section of the charming story and challenged one another to be the first to solve the puzzle. The puzzles spanned the difficulty continuum. Some we solved so quickly, we had to do another right away. Many were quite challenging to our tired 'end-of-the-day' minds. There were even a few we had to 'sleep-on'. Thanks to Michael Abrams and Jeffrey Winters for many hours of family fun. And 'hats-off' to Marc Rosenthal for his wonderful illustrations!

Bran Boggling while Tummy Joggling

Dr. Broth, Ollie and a host of other really odd characters not only succeeded in boggling my mind(I have solved about half the puzzles over the past three weeks), they also provoked some amusement and out loud laughter. If I found myself stumped on any of the harder puzzles, my clenched jaw soon loosened at what I think is a really delightful and amusing story. My ten year old daughter is now begging for an Alpaca doll for Christmas! (anyone know where to get one?) So, I definitely recommend this new puzzle and story book to anyone who enjoys challenging their brains and having a good laugh at some cleverly imagined, nutty adventures though space and time.

Most of all it's funny

I thought this book was a laugh riot! The story is hilarious and the puzzles are a lot of fun, though some are very hard. You don't exactly have to do the puzzles to enjoy the book though.