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Logic & Brain Teasers

Brainiac's Secret Agent Activity Book: Fun Activities for Spies of All Ages (Activity Books) (Activity Journal Series)

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Author: Sarah Jane Prian

Have fun learning to be a secret agent! Send secret messages with code rings; solve mysteries; get lost in mazes; fingerprint your friends; and learn about true spies of the past. Use the invisible ink pen (included) to write really magic messages! Includes ink pad for taking fingerprints128 pages. Ages 8 and up. Concealed wire-o binding; hardcover. 7-3/4'' wide x 8-1/4'' high.

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Brain Games #2: Lower Your Brain Age in Minutes a Day

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Author: Elkhonon Goldberg

Science has shown that exercising your brain can make it work more efficiently. Brain Games #2: Lower Your Brain Age in Minutes a Day is packed with mental challenges and puzzles that can keep your mind young and fit. The book, part of the popular Brain Games series, was produced under the guidance of Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, a renowned professor of neurology.

Just as no single exercise machine can give you a full workout, no one type of mental challenge or puzzle will fully exercise your brain. Puzzles of different types exercise different parts of the brain and can enhance these cognitive functions:
Analysis
Attention
Computation
Creative thinking
General knowledge
Language
Logic
Planning
Spatial reasoning
Spatial visualization
Visual search

Brain Games #2 includes the following types of mental challenges and puzzles for full cognitive workouts:
Anagrams
Crosswords
Cryptograms
Drawing exercises
Language puzzles
Math puzzles
Mazes
Observation and perspective puzzles
Sequencing games
Visual logic puzzles
Word searches

The mental challenges and puzzles in Brain Games #2 get more difficult as you work through the book, and self-assessment quizzes help you gauge your progress. The book additionally includes helpful information about brain fitness overall, as well as tips on getting the most out of the puzzles. The book is spiral-bound and easy to handle, regardless of whether you re at home, traveling, on a cruise ship, or waiting in line.

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Brain Games Picture Puzzles #6: How Many Differences Can You Find?

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Author: Editors of Publications International

This is the sixth book in the popular Brain Games: Picture Puzzles series. Two or more pictures that seemingly are identical are presented on the same page, but subtle changes have been made to one of the pictures. It s up to you to find what has been altered.

The book is divided into four sections of pictures puzzles, each progressively more difficult. Can t find all the changes? No problem solutions to all the puzzles are provided in the final section of the book.

The book is spiral-bound and handy to use, no matter whether you are at home, on public transportation, in a long security line at the airport, or relaxing at poolside or on the beach. Take along Brain Games Picture Puzzles #6 wherever you go stimulate your mind a few minutes at a time.

The Brain Games: Picture Puzzles series was developed to challenge your powers of observation and stimulate your ability to focus and concentrate. All books in the series contain unique content.

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Foodie Fight: A Trivia Game for Serious Food Lovers

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Author: Joyce Lock

Calling all food lovers! This addictive trivia game allows players to strut their culinary stuff and prove who is the smartest foodie of them all. With over 1,000 questions on topics ranging from culinary science and celebrity chefs to food history and exotic cuisine, each player is bound to get a full serving of food knowledge. But think fast, because the first player or team to fill in their game board wins!

Includes:
- Deck of trivia cards
- Six game boards
- Color die

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The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles (Mensa)

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Author: Terry Stickels
Brand: Sterling Publishing Company

Brainiacs on the prowl for challenging fun will find everything they're looking for in these cunning conundrums. Puzzle master Terry Stickels has created a mind-melting collection filled with hundreds of diverse and fiendishly tricky problems--including wordplay, math, analytic reasoning, logic, visual dilemmas, and code breaking. Figure out the next number in a series, find hidden phrases, and determine what a three-dimensional object would look like from two-dimensional drawings. Every puzzle provides a workout that strengthens mental muscles. And while these brainteasers do require concentration, they don't demand any special training or high-level math skills. A little practice, patience, and imagination are all it takes.

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Brain Games Picture Puzzles #4: How Many Differences Can You Find?

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Author: Editors Of Publications International

This is the fourth book in the Brain Games: Picture Puzzles series. Two or more pictures that seemingly are identical are presented on the same page, but subtle changes have been made to one of the pictures. It s up to you to find what has been altered.

The book is divided into four sections of pictures puzzles, each progressively more difficult. Can t find all the changes? No problem solutions to all the puzzles are provided in the final section of the book.

The book is spiral-bound and handy to use, no matter whether you are at home, on public transportation, in a long security line at the airport, or relaxing at poolside or on the beach. Take along Brain Games Picture Puzzles #4 wherever you go stimulate your mind a few minutes at a time.

The Brain Games: Picture Puzzles series was developed to challenge your powers of observation and stimulate your ability to focus and concentrate. All books in the series contain unique content.

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Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles, Vol. 2

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Author: Puzzle Baron

What could be more logical than a second volume of Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles?

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles, Vol. 2 provides 200 more grid- based logic puzzles from the popular online puzzle site. For each puzzle, readers are given a background story and a list of text-based clues and then use logic to sift through the clues to arrive at the correct answer to a question. Unlike other logic puzzle books, every puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles, Vol. 2 includes statistics-such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of puzzlers who successfully complete the puzzle-to bring out the competitor in puzzlers and better inform them on how easy or difficult each puzzle is.
• Features 200 grid-based logic puzzles
• Includes puzzle statistics for added excitement
• Ideal for kids and adults

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The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

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Author: Martin Gardner

Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner's immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master.

For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability, topology, and chess, among others. Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here, which complement the lengthier, more involved problems in The Colossal Book of Mathematics, have been selected by Gardner for their illuminating; and often bewildering; solutions. Filled with over 300 illustrations, this new volume even contains nine new mathematical gems that Gardner, now ninety, has been gathering for the last decade. No amateur or expert math lover should be without this indispensable volume; a capstone to Gardner's seventy-year career. 308 illustrations

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Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone

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Author: Pat Battaglia

Are You Smart, or What? is the most entertaining book of word games, ever! It combines clever challenges and surprising answers with playful innovations to both amaze and amuse readers of all ages. All puzzles are concise and uncomplicated. They are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so the entire family can enjoy them.

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100 Math Brainteasers (Grade 7, 8, 9, 10). Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry Brain Teasers, Puzzles, Games and Problems with Solutions: Math olympiad contest problems for elementary and middle schools

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Author: Zbigniew Romanowicz

100 Math Brainteasers (Grade 7-10) is a subtle selection of one hundred arithmetic, algebra, and geometry assignments, which efficiently train the mind in math skills. It will be helpful for students attending High School and also in preparation for Mathematical competitions or Olympiads at a younger age. The assignments can equally be used in the classroom or in extracurricular activities. The fun and games are delightful, original, and solving them is even more enjoyable thanks to the funny illustrations. Most of the math problems do not require any exceptional mathematical proficiency, but above all, they challenge one's creativity and ability to think logically. Only a few solicit the knowledge of algebraic expressions and rules of geometry. Authors: Zbigniew Romanowicz, Ph.D., was an outstanding teacher and a well-known proponent of mathematics among young people. He belonged to the great Russian-Polish school of mathematics. He served as Director of the Institute of Mathematics at the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. In the years 1992-2004, he chaired the jury of the Polish Mathematics and Logic Games championship, which is within the works of the Paris-based 'Comite International des Jeux Mathematiques'. He ran the popularly acclaimed interscholastic math clubs. For 10 years, he was chairman of the Committee of Regional Mathematical Olympiads. He was an avid promoter of mathematics and an activist of the Polish Mathematical Society. Bartholomew Dyda, Eng. D., a graduate of the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology at the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland, is working at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Wroclaw University of Technology. Since 1992 he competes in the Mathematical and Logic Games championships, achieving considerable success. He is a two-time recipient of the bronze medal at the International Championship of Mathematical and Logical Games in Paris, France.

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