Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4391 in Software
• Brand: The Times
• Released on: 2002-03-01
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Pit yourself against the master puzzle compilers while improving your problem solving skills. The interactive Brain Teasers Volume 1 delivers the perfect challenge.

Up to date expertly designed brain teasers – superb fun for the fanatical puzzler as well as for the keen self-improver.

Beat the machine! Compare your answers with the model ones and how they were worked out – the ideal way to acquire the rare skills and techniques of problem solving and enter the puzzlers’ hall of fame.

Choose your own mix of questions to suit your starting level of ability and then increase the challenge as you become super competent.

A mix of multiple choice and simple text delivers a mind stretching variety of the best brain teasers you will find anywhere.

Interactive mind bending problems for a sharper brain – and more fun!
Brain Teasers Volume 1 is packed with thousands of professionally designed brain-stretching problems. For the committed puzzle fan it is undiluted fun with a serious edge. For the committed mind-improver it is an endlessly fascinating way to develop and sharpen your mental abilities.

Beat the machine and make sense of the questions and the answers

By working through this interactive disc you will begin to think more clearly, analyse situations more efficiently and learn to recognise patterns in seemingly confusing situations. With a fully interactive CD ROM you receive a level of feedback that is, quite simply, impossible in a book. Where practical your answers will be compared to the ideal answers. The ideal answers will be explained in detail so you can see exactly how the problem was solved. Then you can try again with another test.

Fast track to the puzzlers’ hall of fame!

Your skills develop rapidly because the brainteasers are delivered under test conditions – against the clock with no peep and cheat possible. Only when a test is completed will you be shown your score and the explanation of how the problem should have been solved. You will be learning some of the most practical and useful lessons in your life and it will seem like fun!
It won’t take long before you get the hang of answering questions that, at the start seemed utterly impossible. Soon you will get that jolt of recognition when faced with a particular type of conundrum. After a short while your scores will start improving significantly. It is all so encouraging that you will want to do more and more. For the committed puzzler, this is the sheer pleasure of the process – being able to crack more and more questions. For the rest it is a quick, effective and reliable way to develop the essential skills of problem recognition and solving. Skills that will serve you well in your job, at leisure and at home.

Customer Reviews

Good fun and worth it at the price!
This is good fun, and certainly stretches your brain. There are also brief explanations as to how the answers are arrived at, which is really good if you've never 'broken the code' of these types of puzzles. However, there is some repetition of questions (and I've only had the disk a week) and, unless I'm really more stupid that I thought I was, some of the answers are wrong according to the explanations - as in:

What is the next number in this sequence? 200, 197, 193, 188, 176, ?
My answer: Don't know!
Their answer 169 as sequence is 200 - 3, 197 - 4, 193 - 5, 188 - 6, 176 - 7
But surely 188 minus 6 is 182... and sequence between numbers is not 3, 4, 5, 6 but 3, 4, 5, 12.....

Still fun, and keeps the little grey cells ticking over - just be aware that if you get stumped on a question it may not be your fault!