Puzzles for Pleasure

Author: Barry R. Clarke  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 1994

E-ISBN: 9780511892905

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521466349

Subject: G449.4 Intelligence Test

Keyword: 数学理论

Language: ENG

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Puzzles for Pleasure

Description

Are you one of the millions of people throughout the world that are fascinated by puzzles, conundrums and brain teasers? If so then you will want this collection of amusing twisters from Barry Clarke. Based on his extensive experience of writing for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and New Scientist, Clarke has gathered together a variety of posers, together with hints and full solutions. Several examples of a brand new type of puzzle, The Word Bandit, are included as well. The whole gamut of others from logical and liar problems through to digital deletions are included. The puzzles themselves require no special mathematical knowledge, though for those in the 'Advanced' section even seasoned solvers will need to work pretty hard to find the answer. There is something for everyone here; puzzles for children, for the family, for members of Mensa, but above all Puzzles for Pleasure.

Chapter

Popular puzzles

Wong sum

Strange street

Harvey's wall climber

Word bandit 1

Prime of life

The horse and the hurdle

Cornflakes and porridge

Railway rhyme

Safe conduct

The doubtful die

Word bandit 2

Muddle market

Fractionally mean

Domino chain

Signs of confusion

Room for assistance

King-size conundrum

Word bandit 3

The six sheep pens

Find the burglars

The enigmatic interview

Sorry Dad

Save the city

Crumple towers

Word bandit 4

Romance on the stone

Quite a card

The three piles of coins

Cubic incapacity

Extra sensory deception

True to the tribe

Word bandit 5

The stuff of dreams

Counting sheep

The reclusive inventor

Advanced puzzles

The engineer's dilemma

Lost In space

A tall story

The mathematical garden

Round the clock

Per hate

Sum secret

Selfish sons

The Three Bears

Cryptlc cave lines

The three prisoners

Taking a bath

The balanced bridge

Elixir of life

The great escape

Logical legacy

Wire wizards

The broken pentomino

One for the road

In the same boat

Hints

Solutions

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