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It boggles the mind trying to come up with answers to these totally perplexing stumpers. Over 95 all-time bewildering puzzles are designed to confuse, confound and make you cry.
Test your puzzle solving skills against the puzzlers of the last 100 years with this amazing book. That's right: now you can try 102 of the most popular and challenging stumpers ever published. There's more puzzle variety in this book than in any other: plenty of ammunition for your powers of deduction, observation, concentration and memory. And the special Answer Section explains each trick and shows how to find the right solution. So get ready to stretch your ...
To solve the world's most challenging puzzles, sometimes you have to be smart, sometimes patient, and sometimes you just have to pay attention. Try these: if you can bicycle 1 km in four minutes against the wind, and cycle 1 km in three minutes with the wind, how long will it take you to bicycle 1 km without any wind?; Arrange seven pieces of chalk so that each one is touching all the others.; If you have one pipe, an oil lamp, and a wood-burning stove, and only ...
Perform the miracle rope trick! And the Hindu bangle trick! Make a glass disappear through a table! Amaze your friends with magic memory and your X-ray vision! Pull a rope right through someone's body! These and a host of other amazing magic tricks, the world's best, show that the impossible is possible, if you know the secrets. Dozens of how-to illustrations and step-by-step directions will make you a master magician. This book will teach you the tricks and how ...
Rack your brain and break your head! You will need your eyes, your imagination, your sense of humor, and, most important, your mind to find out the answers to these brainteasers. You will have hours of fun sifting through the clues, pouring over the illustrations, and straining your brain. Some may look easy, you will think that the puzzles are obvious, but beware! These puzzles are tricky. The puzzles have not been categorized according to type or difficulty. As ...
Time-travel back 100 years to match wits against the fiendishly clever Professor Hoffman and his amazing collection of 'the best of the best' from the golden age of puzzles. Some are mathematical, some are mechanical. Others are visual or logical. Still others are verbal conundrums, enigmas, and more. But the toughest one's refuse to be caged in a single category, you will have to use all the corners of your brain to solve them! All the puzzles and their ...