It's possible to train your brain, give your memory a quick pick-me-up and alleviate the effects of aging. The mind deteriorates when it's not kept active, but this attractively illustrated workout - complete with exercises, tests and tips - helps keep those mental muscles sharp. Each game focuses on a particular skill: language, spatial ...
'This is a handsome book, with 160 large pages filled with 300 photos and sketches of hundreds of puzzles; every kind of puzzle you can think of. . .You can't go wrong on this one; you'll browse through it again and again, dig out your old puzzles, buy new ones, and maybe even make your own from the diagrams included in the book.
The common wooden matchstick has inspired tricks and puzzles ever since it was invented. Here's a collection of the most baffling matchstick puzzles of all time. Can you build a bridge with two matches? Can you balance matchstick equations? Can you calculate how many matches you would need to cover the distance from the earth to the moon? With a ...
Instructions and diagrams for making paper flyers, from famous aircraft models to models of flying saucers and spaceships. "Paper Flight" also explores flight through the art of origami to make birds, butterflies, and other airborne creations.
Create extraordinary paper planes that range from genuine reproductions to amazing fantasies come to life. Some soar long distances like true gliders, others delight the eye with their interesting features and shapes. - Fantasy flyers - Genuine reproductions - Competition craft - Experimental models - Anti-aircraft devices (paper pellets, catapult ...
These visually appealing, colourful and diverse puzzles are as tantalizing to the mind as they are to the eye! More than 200 fun exercises will give your brain a workout that will keep it functioning at its best. Select from various categories, including number crunching and algebraic puzzles, puzzles with missing images, optical illusions, mazes, ...
"Who is the smartest?" The truth will be revealed when you, your friends, and your family have an entertaining competition using these more than 200 brainteasers. The quizzes come in varying levels of difficulty, and each of the nineteen sections starts with a tangram challenge and ends with a score sheet. In between, the intriguing options range ...
This volume delves into the origins of over 140 games from black-jack to yo-yo demonstrating how this aspect of life has crossed social, historical, cultural, political and geographical borders. Many games are relics of ancient religious rituals or originated as a means of training young people in hunting and fighting skills, or just to sharpen ...
This lavishly illustrated 736-page reference provides a lifetime of entertainment! It contains complete rules, playing tips, and instructive move-by-move examples of 65 fun and diverse games. They range from Senat, a pastime enjoyed by King Tut, to Hex, invented by a 20th-century mathematician; from strategy games and dice games to chase games; ...
Instructions and diagrams for making paper flyers, from famous aircraft models to models of flying saucers and spaceships. "Paper Flight" also explores flight through the art of origami to make birds, butterflies, and other airborne creations.
A fascinating book that shows how simple, everyday materials can be transformed into a variety of objects that amuse the eye, tease the brain, and offer hours of entertainment. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
The longer you look, the more you get fooled! That is the fun of optical illusion puzzles. See coins re-arrange themselves and pictures disappear and re-appear. Add up numbers to the same sum even when you remove some of them. Study a landscape and find 164 hidden objects. Stare into a 3-D picture until a ball is caught. See which knots won't ...
There's a world of data out there, and this series of modules helps you integrate it into your high-school mathematics courses. Using the major data analysis concepts to provide realistic situations for the development of mathematical knowledge and opportunities for practice, the material reinforces concepts taught in current texts. Extensive use ...
This beautiful volume is at once a puzzle book, an art book, and a delightful history of creativity. Hundreds of puzzles are explained and displayed in a stunning combination of color photos and text--from ancient tangram puzzles, and turn-of-the-century checkerboard puzzles to exquisite modern wood mechanical puzzles.
Instructions and diagrams for making paper flyers, from famous aircraft models to models of flying saucers and spaceships. "Paper Flight" also explores flight through the art of origami to make birds, butterflies, and other airborne creations.
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