Here is a puzzle book that will have even the masters begging for mercy--and for more. Almost Impossible Number Puzzles has more than 275 puzzles offering a variety of challenges including Sudoku and Kakuro. It's a perfect take-along for brave men and women. CAUTION: Almost Impossible Number Puzzles may strain the brain and induce pleasure.
What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time. It contains brain-busting challenges of almost every type: math logic problems for the numerically inclined; absolutely amazing lateral thinking conundrums; really great critical thinking bafflers; and mind-boggling word puzzles. Here's just a small sample of what's inside: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so? Stumped? That's because it's one man--Grover Cleveland--who was reelected after skipping a term. And that's just an easy warm-up!
Here is a puzzle book that will have even the masters begging for mercy--and for more. Almost Impossible Word Puzzles has more than 180 puzzles that will have puzzlers doing a one-eighty and rethinking the way they tackle puzzles. Challenges include anagrams, cryptograms, Wordoku, soundalikes, coded crosswords, and much more. CAUTION: Almost Impossible Number Puzzles may strain the brain and induce pleasure.
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.
This book contains a multitude of challenging problems and solutions that are not commonly found in classical textbooks. One goal of the book is to present these fascinating mathematical problems in a new and engaging way and illustrate the connections between integrals, sums, and series, many of which involve zeta functions, harmonic series, polylogarithms, and various other special functions and constants. Throughout the book, the reader will find both classical and new problems, with numerous original problems and solutions coming from the personal research of the author. Where classical problems are concerned, such as those given in Olympiads or proposed by famous mathematicians like Ramanujan, the author has come up with new, surprising or unconventional ways of obtaining the desired results. The book begins with a lively foreword by renowned author Paul Nahin and is accessible to those with a good knowledge of calculus from undergraduate students to researchers, and will appeal to all mathematical puzzlers who love a good integral or series.
"Twelve-year-old William Wenton is a puzzle-solving genius. He lives with his family in a quiet Norwegian town. They used to live in England, but eight years ago his family suddenly packed up, moved away, and even changed their last name. Neither of his parents will offer an explanation or tell William why he has to keep his talent for solving codes and puzzles a secret. But then a special exhibit comes to the local museum: the Impossible Puzzle. The experts say it is unsolvable, but William's sure that he can crack it if he gets a chance"--Amazon.com.
60-Second Brain Teasers Pencil-Free Puzzles contains 201 no-pencil-required brain twisters that take one minute or less. These completely original puzzles range from easy to near-impossible!
A brand-new collection of Killer Sudoku puzzles, the Sudoku variation that has sold over 45,000 copies in the Pocket Posh® series. Our second collection of Pocket Posh Killer Sudoku presents 100 puzzles in four difficulty levels. In addition to the rules of traditional Sudoku, the sum of the digits in each inner cage must equal the number in the top left corner of the cage. This portable package is part of a best-selling series featuring highly stylized, embellished covers and boasting 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.
Our 6th collection of Pocket Posh® crossword puzzles featuring 75 puzzles of medium-level difficulty packaged in our signature, trademarked style. The number 6 symbolizes beauty; in math, it's the first perfect number. Pocket Posh® Crosswords 6 is both beautiful and perfect for hours of puzzling fun. This portable package is part of a best-selling series featuring highly stylized, embellished covers and boasting 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.
Fifth in the series, this Word Roundup collection presents 100 puzzles designed with the flair of our best-selling Pocket Posh style. More than 330,000 Pocket Posh Word Roundup books have sold across the series! We present our 5th Pocket Posh Word Roundup collection for anytime fun and all-around gift giving. Word Roundup™ puzzles are even more popular than word search. Unlike traditional word searches, Word Roundup™ gives clues to the words hidden within the puzzles. The words themselves are for solvers to figure out. This attractive package is sized for portability and is part of our best-selling series of puzzle books that feature highly stylized, embellished covers and boast 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.