USA TODAY Everyday Logic: 200 Puzzles from The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper makes every day much more fun. It also makes every day a little more challenging--which is a must for any puzzle master. Puzzlers get a unique collection of 200 logic puzzles to flex their brains and to amuse themselves for hours. The challenges include domino search, battleships, cellblocks, codewords, totalized, and wordwheel, as well as longer story puzzles. It's all skill levels for all sorts of fun.
Puzzlesmiths of all skill levels will find original logic puzzles that will flex the brain, challenge assumptions, and entertain for hours. In addition to offering 200 logic puzzles, this puzzlebook includes a short tutorial on how to play each game, along with a complete back-of-book answer key.
Not since the Rubik's Cube has a puzzle been this hot. . . . It can lower your blood pressure, relieve stress-even make you smarter. It might just be the least-harmful addiction around." -Newsweek * The nation's number-one newspaper offers puzzlers the ultimate Sudoku compilation, featuring 200 puzzles for five different skill levels. The first newspaper in the United States to publish addictive Sudoku puzzles, USA TODAY continues to satisfy puzzle lovers with this second Sudoku book collection, USA Today Everyday Sudoku: 200 Puzzles from The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper. * Features include an introductory how-to section followed by two hundred 9 x 9 Sudoku puzzles targeting five different levels of difficulty. A comprehensive answer key completes the collection.
The nation's no. 1 newspaper, USA TODAY, presents 200 brand-new logic puzzles for enthusiasts of all skill levels. The USA TODAY brand reaches over 6 million people daily. USA TODAY Lazy Day Logic features all-new original logic puzzles that will flex the brain, challenge assumptions, and entertain for hours. This collection is all about variety--including mind-stretching puzzles such as Battleships and Domino Search, and beloved story puzzles that are certain to exercise your brain and boost your IQ. Grab a pencil and begin strengthening your puzzle-solving skills with USA TODAY Lazy Day Logic.
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.
USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is a new puzzle book concept based on the hit puzzle featured each day in USA TODAY. In Up and Down Words Infinity, the second half of an answer becomes the first half of the next answer. Once started, Up and Down Words Infinity don't stop. The last half of the answer on the bottom of a page becomes the first half of the next answer on the following page. The book becomes one connected puzzle that can be played in sections. Solvers can work forward or backward from anywhere in the book. Packaged in a compact 4 x 6 trim size, USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is the perfect puzzle book for the commute or the waiting room. The book fits easily into any size bag or briefcase.
You can be sitting in the train working a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it you're at your stop or about to pass it. It's not like you were even in the train. It's something different, something removed from the ordinary." --Maki Kaji, The Japanese Times The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper offers puzzle-smiths the ultimate book featuring a new collection of challenging conundrums. This collection is all about variety. A puzzler's choice of five games-Domino Search, Battleships, Pile Up, ABC, and Logi-5-are offered under one cover.
The nation's no. 1 newspaper, USA TODAY, presents 200 brand-new logic puzzles for enthusiasts of all skill levels. The USA TODAY brand reaches over 6 million people daily. USA TODAY Logic Super Challenge 3 features all-new original logic puzzles that will flex the brain, challenge assumptions, and entertain for hours. This collection is all about variety--including mind-stretching puzzles such as Battleships and Domino Search, and beloved story puzzles that are certain to exercise your brain and boost your IQ. Grab a pencil and begin strengthening your puzzle-solving skills with USA TODAY Logic Super Challenge 3.
The nation's no. 1 newspaper, USA TODAY, presents 200 brand-new logic puzzles for enthusiasts of all skill levels. The USA TODAY brand reaches over 6 million people daily. USA TODAY Logic Super Challenge 2 features all-new original logic puzzles that will flex the brain, challenge assumptions, and entertain for hours. This collection is all about variety--including mind-stretching puzzles such as Battleships and Domino Search, and beloved story puzzles that are certain to exercise your brain and boost your IQ. Grab a pencil and begin strengthening your puzzle-solving skills with USA TODAY Logic Super Challenge 2.
John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now leads us through the pages of the daily newspaper, revealing the hidden mathematical angles of countless articles. From the Senate, the SATs, and sex to crime, celebrities, and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how mathematical naïtéan put readers at a distinct disadvantage.Whether he's using chaos theory to puncture economic and environmental predictions, applying logic and self-reference to clarify the hazards of spin doctoring and news compression, or employing arithmetic and common sense to give us a novel perspective on greed and relationships, Paulos never fails to entertain and enlighten.Even if you hated math in school, you'll love the numerical vignettes in this book.
