Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles

By Terry Stickels and Terry Stickles

Try any of these 150 word, number, and logic puzzles, and you'll encounter some surprising new ways to analyze, observe, and decide. You've been warned, so don't get frustrated when you feel yourself getting pushed out of the ruts of your usual problem-solving skills. Try these sample warmup exercises: 1. If Molly's daughter is my daughter's mother, what am I to Molly? 2. Which is larger, one-third times one-third of a dozen dozen, or one-third dozen halved and cubed? 3. How old is the man who told his friend, "Four years from now I'll be twice as old as I was fourteen years ago"? Answers: 1. I am Molly's daughter. 2. The first calculation is larger. 3. He's 32 years old.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806988037
• ISBN13: 9780806988030
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Typical Stickels Puzzles

Terry Stickels has done it again! His latest bookcovers a wide variety of math, word, spatial puzzles.The puzzles are not difficult, however they will makeyou think. Once you pick up the book, it will be hardto put it down.