Just in time to satisfy the kids of all ages who received Rubik's Cubes as holiday gifts, here is the book to ensure that the gift won't go unused (or unsolved). Puzzle Masters Jerry Slocum, David Singmaster, Dieter Gebhardt, Wei-Hwa Huang, and Geert Hellings, share their expertise on the greatest puzzle ever created. Not only does "The Cube" ...
Find out the incredible story behind these ever-intriguing puzzles and solve over 2000 of them yourself. Rearrange simple geometric pieces into extrordinary images and puzzling challenges.
'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.
Here it is, the most overjammed, overstuffed, over-the-top collection of mechanical mysteries and puzzling perplexities that has ever been published in the history of puzzledom. In, on, under, around and through The Puzzle Arcade readers will find scads of mechanical puzzles, riddles, mazes, mysteries, thought-provoking problems and at least two ...
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 ...
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.
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