Puzzle Me Twice: 70 Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong

By Alex Bellos

From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in common--a wrong answer that seems so right In Puzzle Me Twice, you'll have to think--and think again--to overrule your first instinct and uncover the truth. For example:

If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs do half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?*

Bestselling author Alex Bellos wrangles math and physics, logic and wordplay, optical illusions, card games, and more to tie readers' brains in pleasurable knots. It's a merry tour of the many ways our reasoning can go wrong--and how we can be more fool-proof in the future. Puzzle on

*Four times as many hens, over four times as many days, lay 16 times as many eggs: 1.5 16 = 24 eggs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CVPNC8QQ
• ISBN13: 9798893030280
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Experiment
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 6.9"