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Author: Karen C. Richards
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781402710674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere's nothing better than a tricky brain teaser to test your intellect and satisfy your quest for mental challenge. The search ends with this colossal assortment of classics.
Author: Derrick Niederman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781402723605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo solve these tantalizing teasers, you'll need to think carefully and logically. No special knowledge is required ... just common sense.
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780806912615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of tricky teasers, quirky questions, science stumpers, and logic puzzlers.
Author: Dominic Olivastro
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1993-11
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising the entire brainteasing spectrum from the silly and quirky to the clever and profound and drawing on classic wisdom from around the world and from as far back as 7,000 B.C., this collection features puzzles via Hebrew mystics, medieval Muslims, Benjamin Franklin, Sun Tsu, and more.
Author: Göran Grimvall
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780801885112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes a glass of ice water filled to the brim overflow when the ice melts? Does the energy inside a sauna increase when you heat it up? What's the best way to cool your coffee—adding the creamer first or last? These and other challenging puzzlers provide a fresh—and fun—approach to learning real physics. Presenting both classic and new problems, Brainteaser Physics challenges readers to use imagination and basic physics principles to find the answers. Göran Grimvall provides detailed and accessible explanations of the solutions, sometimes correcting the standard explanations, sometimes putting a new twist on them. He provides diagrams and equations where appropriate and ends each problem by discussing a specific concept or offering an extra challenge. With Brainteaser Physics, students and veteran physicists alike can sharpen their critical and creative thinking—and have fun at the same time.
Author: Jenny Lynch
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781899712182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrammed with a wide range of colourful, inventive and perplexing puzzles, this neat little book will engage even the least logical of minds. (From back cover).
Author: David Adam
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0819218650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlimpses of Glory is the second in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources based on the New Common Worship Lectionary used widely around the world. Written in the Celtic style for which the author is well-known, and linked to the Sunday readings, these prayers and intercessions may be used by congregations for the Prayers of the People, as well as by individuals seeking to supplement their personal devotions.
Author: Presh Talwalkar
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781517421625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou want to cut a tortilla into 8 pieces. What's the minimum number of cuts you need to make? Is it statistically harder to guess an iPhone password that uses 3-digits or one that uses 4 unique digits? Two friends agree to meet up in a bar between midnight and 1 am. Each arrives at a random time and will wait 10 minutes for the other to show before leaving. What is the probability the two will meet at the bar? What if they are playing strategically? The YouTube channel and blog Mind Your Decisions has millions of views for math videos and posts. This book is a compilation of 70 of the best puzzles, divided into 25 classic puzzles in counting and geometry, 25 probability puzzles, and 20 game theory puzzles.
Author: Presh Talwalkar
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781517531621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a better fit: a square peg in a round hole, or a round peg in a square hole?Your music player seems to be playing the same songs over again. Is there something wrong with the shuffle feature, or might the songs be playing randomly?You have 100 dimes, and I have 99 pennies. At the same time, we will toss our coins in the air and let them fall on the floor. Then we meticulously count the outcomes of our tosses. You win if you show more heads than I do. What's the probability that you will win?The YouTube channel and blog Mind Your Decisions has blog posts and original videos about math that have been viewed millions of times. The problems in this book are based on some of the best puzzles in counting, geometry, and probability and game theory.
Author: Publications International Ltd.
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781645580607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlay detective and crack these cold case puzzles! Solve more than 100 brain teasers that will test your verbal, visual, memory, and logic skills. Track criminals down through mazes and logic puzzles. Unscramble anagrams and decode cryptograms related to historic cold cases. Compare DNA sequences to see if they're a match. Test your memory with crime scene photos and true crime accounts. Solve verbal puzzles such as word ladders themed around crime. Spiral-bound 192 pages A perfect gift for the true crime fan in your life!
