Product Description

do you want to learn a different way of thinking?

do you want to stretch your mind?

almost everyone is born with the capacity to be creative, but few realise it and such skills are often neglected or untapped. lateral thinking is all about thinking ‘outside the box’, breaking out of familiar thought patterns and coming up with new possibilities. it is one of the keys to improving creativity.

this book of brand new lateral puzzles aims to encourage you to think creatively. whether at work, as part of an assessment or simply for fun, learning to think creatively can be hugely rewarding and make a real difference to your ability. by trying to find unusual or unexpected associations, patterns and connections, you can learn to keep an open mind and to look at everything in a different way.

with plenty of questions and tips, this book provides an ideal opportunity for anyone to practice thinking laterally and improve their creativity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #393170 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 156 pages

Management Today
"Succeed in giving your mind a good work-out…best of its kind"

Business Plus
"This book provides an ideal opportunity for anyone to assess and improve their creativity"

About the Author
Lloyd King is a renowned lateral thinking expert who has been designing puzzles for over 10 years. A prolific writer he has contributed to numerous books and is the author of the best-selling Puzzles for the High IQ.

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully Tricky
Lloyd King surely belongs to one of the great innovative puzzle designers of this time. His puzzles are so imaginative and unusually tricky. It is a joy to try them. When you fail to see the intended answer, you get an even greater thrill when his clever answers are revealed. This book will give you many hours of amusement, and is definitely a must have.

Jan Merolant
Creative Puzzles

Puzzle Art
Go to any bookstore, take a puzzle book from the shelf, and browse through the pages. Of all the puzzles in the book you see in front of you, how many of them are derivatives of previously published material? The answer's simple - most of them. Blandness and repetition can be found on bookshelves in abundance. In contrast, Mr King's work is full of originality and this fact alone deserves celebration. He has done more than most to develop the closed lateral puzzle, the form where all necessary information is given. Their difficulty often lies in there being only a single clue, sometimes only in the title, and this is bound to stretch one's powers of perception and interpretation. If, as a result, the solution is beyond your reach, don't feel cheated or defeated. Just look in the back of the book and try to see it as a work of art - because quite a lot of it is.

Mind Enhancing Entertainment!
`Test Your Creative Thinking' is a book of challenging, lateral thinking puzzles. And you don't need to belong to an elite club, have obscure, specialist knowledge, or be old enough to have accumulated years of trivial information, in order to solve them.

If you enjoy puzzles, but are sick of boring logic and I.Q. puzzles, then this is the book for you!

For those unfamiliar with the concept of lateral thinking, 'Test Your Creative Thinking' is the ideal instruction manual. Attempting these puzzles will actually encourage you to think laterally, that is with creativity and imagination, as well as with logic.

To solve Lloyd King's puzzles you need to engage your imagination and reason in new ways, exercising your lateral thinking skills.

Even if you find some of the puzzles too difficult, and give up in frustration, peeking at an answer will inspire you to think more creatively in the future.

Reading this book provides a true learning experience. Not only that, 'Test Your Creative Thinking' is very entertaining. The puzzles have 'attitude', some of them are really quite cheeky, and the solutions will have you smiling, at the very least.

The puzzles are more suited to older children and adults, though young children appreciate the humour, and can benefit from being shown the puzzles together with their solutions.

'Test Your Creative Thinking' is the type of book that people like to share with friends. But be warned, if you lend this book to anyone, it will be passed around, and you may never see it again.

...Better to be on the safe side and buy two of them!!!