From krazydad, constructor of the wildly popular and addictive puzzles published in The New York Times as Two Not Touch, here are 360 of your favorite Star Battle puzzles. These puzzles will provide a healthy diversion for you in these challenging times, and help you make it to the other side with your sanity intact! Includes an instructive and pithy tutorial.
Build on your maze solving skills! This book allows you to work your way from easy maze puzzles to the more difficult versions All the mazes fill up the page with a rectangular style design and so are a little different from usual maze puzzles. You can start anywhere in the book depending on your difficulty choices. If this is your first time solving mazes then it would be a good idea to start from the first maze and work your way up the levels. If you get stuck you can always look at the solutions at the back of the book. Variety Maze Puzzle Book Details> Book is printed on 8" x 10" pages. Features 20 Easy puzzles, 20 Medium puzzles, 20 Hard puzzles and 10 Impossible puzzles. There are markers to signify the start and end points to each maze. Printed on high quality paper.
Forty challenging mind-benders for older children, ranging from easy to difficult, include over-and-under puzzles such as Pipe Path #1, flat mazes —nbsp;It'snbsp;Your Choice and Decisions...Decisionsnbsp;—nbsp;and the bewildering brain-teaser, Mirror Image. An entertaining introduction to maze travel. Solutions included.
Stretch your brain up, down, and sideways with addictive area mazes! Introducing a new puzzle obsession for sodoku lovers . . . amazing, absorbing area mazes. First invented for gifted students, area mazes blend grade-school math with genius logic. Put down that calculator! You can always find "?" using simple, whole numbers, your wits—and a pencil. Already hooked on area mazes? Venture into the third dimension with 100 3D puzzles, included here for the first time by creator Naoki Inaba. With 300 perplexing problems in all, The Big Puzzle Book of Area Mazes offers hours of brain-building fun, from scratching your head to shouting "aha"!
The rules are simple . . . The math is easy . . .The puzzles get harder and harder! Once you match wits with area mazes, you’ll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value. Just Remember: Area = length × width Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships Whole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractions! Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro), have taken all of Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic? Do you play brain games to stay sharp? Did you love geometry . . . or would you like to finally show it who’s boss? Feed your brain some area mazes—they could be just what you’re craving!
Created by an art director at the Puzzles.COM website, these phenomenal original brainbusters-more than 200 of them-will stimulate your potential for thinking outside the box. Arranged from easiest to hardest, they're especially devised for mind-expanding visual solving. And all it takes to crack their mysteries are a pencil, an eraser, patience, and, of course, boundless imagination! Arrange a hinged chain of 11 squares of different sizes into one large square-without overlapping them. Play two-hole billiards on the page, sending two balls into their respective pockets in just two strokes. Figure out how eight patterned cars fit into a checkered parking lot so their colors match the background exactly. Floor plans, tangrams, matchstick puzzles: the variety is amazing.
The path least traveled makes all the difference in this volume, especially when you find yourself crossing bridges, escaping from caves, lighting firecrackers, spelling out passwords, and untangling snakes. These 50 challenges include classic, solid, and ripple mazes, along with short-path and avoidance labyrinths and other intriguing problems. Solutions.
When I started my mazes I just did them to pass the time away. People would stop and look at them and ask me how they worked. So I decided to do some easy mazes so they could understand them more. Once they understood the concept it would be easier for them to finish. They would be so excited about them, they would want me to make more. It became the challenge of the minds, I would make the mazes harder so they wouldn't bug me so soon for another. My mazes have some easy, some harder and then they get crazy. Will I be preached to, about making a maze puzzle book. I was told "this was the greatest thing since the wheel." Ha ha ha. I don't think it's all that, but I'm very proud of it. Please call me anytime for your opinions. 1-734-732-2048. John Tittensor Jr.
A Classroom-Tested, Alternative Approach to Teaching Math for Liberal Arts Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problem Solving: An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking uses puzzles and paradoxes to introduce basic principles of mathematical thought. The text is designed for students in liberal arts mathematics courses. Decision-making situations that progress from recreational problems to important contemporary applications develop the critical-thinking skills of non-science and non-technical majors. The logical underpinnings of this textbook were developed and refined throughout many years of classroom feedback and in response to commentary from presentations at national conferences. The text’s five units focus on graphs, logic, probability, voting, and cryptography. The authors also cover related areas, such as operations research, game theory, number theory, combinatorics, statistics, and circuit design. The text uses a core set of common representations, strategies, and algorithms to analyze diverse games, puzzles, and applications. This unified treatment logically connects the topics with a recurring set of solution approaches. Requiring no mathematical prerequisites, this book helps students explore creative mathematical thinking and enhance their own critical-thinking skills. Students will acquire quantitative literacy and appreciation of mathematics through the text’s unified approach and wide range of interesting applications.
