Product Description

Give your brain a workout on the type of brainteasers that challenge the best solvers at the World Puzzle Championships. They're tough, but fun, and the feeling of satisfaction you get when you succeed is simply unbeatable. Some of the puzzles are oldies but goodies, like battleships - and its many variants - where you search for a fleet hidden within a grid. In "Eminent Domain," try to determine which blanks cells are owned by the numbered ones. For "Hex Loops," locate a path that travels through adjacent hexagons: the trick is, it has to end where it started, and the lines can't touch or cross. From Snaky Tiles to Spiral Galaxies, these Mensa-level conundrums will get your mind in shape. About MENSA:- Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1793 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

A rich variety of puzzles
A very nice book, this one, with 100's of several types of puzzles, most of which I hadn't seen before including Corral, Deja Vu (a quite easy type for a change!), Eminent Domain, Alternate Corners, Variations of Battleships, Dominoes, End View, Hex Loops, Lighthouses, Minesweeper, Nurikabe, Rain Clouds, Skyscrapers (my own favourite), Spiral Galaxies, Snaky Tiles, Square Routes, Tents (another favourite), Fences, Pentomino Fences, Oxtails, Spokes & Number Place (Jigsaw Sudoku).

Plenty of original entertainment for puzzle enthusiasts for a fiver! Absolutely recommended.

Great
Excellent variety of logic puzzles, with enough examples of each to develop good techniques for the puzzle type, without getting repetitive and very good accuracy.

Excellent mental workout
The book contains 21 different types of grid-based puzzles, some with multiple variants and sizes. 371 in total. All of the puzzles can be solved by logic, reasoning and deduction (despite the title of the book only simple math skills are required).

I had to ration the book so I did not solved all the puzzles in one (long) session and lose my sleep.

Highly recommended.