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Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615198059 |
Download The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting: boru niko = two balls tsuna nihon = two ropes uma nito = two horses kami nimai = two sheets of paper ashi gohon = five legs ringo goko = five apples sara gomai = five plates kaba goto = five hippos Now, how do the Japanese say “nine cucumbers”?* a) kyuri kyuhon b) kyuri kyuko c) kyuri kyuhiki d) kyuri kyuto Bellos finds the intrigue—and the human element—in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and even invented tongues, from hieroglyphs to Blissymbolics, Danish to Dothraki. Filled with unusual alphabets, fascinating characters, and intriguing local customs for time-telling, naming children, and more, this is a bravura book of brainteasers and beyond—it’s a globe-trotting, time-traveling celebration of language. *The word endings depend on shape: Flat things end in -mai and spherical things end in -ko. Cucumbers are long things (like ropes and legs), so they end in -hon. The answer is (a)!
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615197192 |
Download Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?
Author | : The Puzzle Society |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2009-10-20 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0740785389 |
Download Garden Lover's Puzzle and Quiz Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gardening and puzzle enthusiasts will be happy to plow through 180 fun and stimulating word challenges and logic puzzles with gardening themes in the new collection Garden Lover's Puzzle and Quiz Book. All puzzles are horticulture-themed to challenge the keenest of gardeners. Ask any gardener and she'll tell you she prefers variety. This book has that and more. It's packed with crosswords, word search, wordwheel, codewords, arrowords, kriss kross, pathfinder, and logic problems that grow on you.
Author | : Patrick Berry |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781402760655 |
Download Puzzle Masterpieces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Words, prepare to meet your master--and sophisticated solvers, prepare for a treat. Patrick Berry's puzzles are unparalleled; whether in the "New York Times" or "Games Magazine," everything he touches turns to mind-stretching gold. And now he has created the most eye-catching crosswords ever seen, in a collection that's as visually gorgeous as it is mentally stimulating. The grids in these puzzles don't look anything like typical crosswords--instead, they come in a variety of shapes, each with its own unique twist. Of course, these attractive challenges are all filled with the freshest words and phrases, and clued with a wicked sense of wordplay. This handsome volume would make the perfect gift for any word lover.
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : Guardian Faber Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Mathematical recreations |
ISBN | : 9781783351145 |
Download Can You Solve My Problems? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A high-class puzzle book from the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland; organised from easy-peasy to ninja level - with stories of puzzle mysteries, histories and scandals along the way this book will make your hippocampus happy.
Author | : Bathroom Readers' Institute |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1988-11-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780312026639 |
Download Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a collection of brief articles on a wide variety of topics designed especially for bathroom reading.
Author | : Hunt A Killer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2022-06-28 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1646044002 |
Download Hunt A Killer: The Detective's Puzzle Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Put your crime-solving wits to the test with codes, ciphers, and mind-bending puzzles from the creators of the popular murder mystery subscription box. In Hunt A Killer: The Detective’s Puzzle Book, you’ll meet up with private eye Michelle Gray who needs you to hit the books and fine-tune your investigative skills before the next big murder case. Under her expert guidance, you’ll start with “Investigative Best Practices” before diving into a world of curious ciphers, devious riddles, and other intriguing logic puzzles all designed to take you from amateur sleuth to a top-notch lead detective. With non-narrative puzzles, you can pick up this training manual anytime you need to sharpen your skills, between episodes, or whenever you need a fun challenge. Whether you’re a Hunt A Killer member, armchair detective, or logic puzzle junkie, these deceptively difficult but always fun puzzles will have you breaking codes and cracking Hunt A Killer cases in no time. So pick up a pen, grab your magnifying glass, and get sleuthing.
Author | : Richard Wolfrik Galland |
Publisher | : Welbeck Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781787395985 |
Download Ticket to Ride Puzzle Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The official Ticket to Ride Puzzle book, offering the same fun game-play experience as the boardgame and hours of endless fun in a book!
Author | : Callisto Media |
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ISBN | : 9781646114085 |
Download Puzzle Books for Adults Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : Guardian Faber Publishing |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : Critical thinking |
ISBN | : 9781783351909 |
Download So You Think You've Got Problems? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?