The Amazing 1000 Puzzle Challenge: A Fantastic Treasury of Mind Bending Puzzles, Games, and Experiments for All the Family

Test your brain power -- or that of your friends, co-workers, and family members. From the simple to the extremely challenging, The Amazing 1000 Puzzle Challenge offers page after page of fun for all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552978575
• ISBN13: 9781552978573
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

Amazing!

I love this book because it has puzzles, riddles and mind challenges that you'd never think about.

Think hard, but on several different tracks

The 1000 puzzles in this book are some of the most challenging, entertaining and frustrating that you will ever find. Reading through the book is addictive, once you start on a puzzle, it is hard to put it down. I spent hours reading and trying to solve the puzzles, occasionally I would solve one, but most of the time I was forced to read the solution. Like all good puzzles, the answer is obvious once you know what it is. However, I must confess that I would never have solved many of them on my own. The solution was so far out of my circle of thought patterns that I never would have landed there. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend the book as a source of intellectual play, but only if you can tolerate an increase in your frustration level.

Give your brain a workout

This challenging oversized book is full of colorful illustrated brain-benders of all sorts that range from the simplistic to the mind numbing. It includes a good variety of spatial, visual, logic, word, lateral thinking, and number puzzles. The solutions sometimes involve a trick of some kind. The format would have been improved if it had a spiral binding so it could lie flat. It is difficult to work the puzzles in a book this thick without one. According to the introduction, there are few puzzles in this collection that children under 10 could not solve. I doubt that is true, because many of the puzzles are super-tough and require out-of-the-box thinking. It would make a good gift for an experienced puzzle solver.