Sit & Solve Lateral Thinking Puzzles

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Books for the smallest room in the house...
That generate BIG sales

It's clear--people everywhere are sitting and solving! That's why more than 110,000 copies of this amazing series have nearly jumped out of stores. With their amusing shape, great content, and popular price, these compilations are a must-have on every puzzler's shelf. And the quality of the problems, games, and trickery is absolutely superb and fabulously diverse. Go for great word searches, stimulating criss-cross puzzles, brilliant brainteasers; cunning logic games, cannily challenging IQ Tests, mysterious mathamatricks, and lots more.



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When in the last 200 years was there a year which read the same upside down? When will it next happen? What can pass through water without getting wet? And, these are the easy warm-ups just to get you started! As Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge," and every puzzle here encourages youngsters to think creatively and find ingenious solutions--not just parrot facts they've been spoon-fed. Some play with language, others tell stories, still more present visual challenges. Give this "kick yourself" example a try: it's one that seems hard.but when you learn the answer you won't believe you missed it! A woman has five children. Half of them are boys. How come? Now do this picture puzzle: Can you form four equilateral triangles using just 6 toothpicks? Good luck!

Answers:

1. 1881 and 1961. The next will be 6009.

2. Light.

3. All of her children are boys, so half must be!


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