Puzzles for Pleasure
Puzzles for Pleasure
£14.99
GBPAre 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.
- Established puzzle compiler for Daily Telegraph
- Contains completely new type of puzzle (Word Bandit)
- Well-illustrated and amusing
Product details
September 1994Paperback
9780521466349
132 pages
216 × 137 × 9 mm
0.185kg
50 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- A history of recreational mathematics
- Part I. 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
- Middle 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
- Part II. Advanced Puzzles: The engineer's dilemma
- Lost in space
- A tall story
- The mathematical garden
- Round the clock
- Pet hate
- Sum secret
- Selfish sons
- The three bears
- Cryptic 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
- References.
