
Can You Solve My Problems?
A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Can You Solve My Problems?
A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
About this book
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old?
Can you beat Sherlock Holmes?
If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems.
Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way.
Pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved be 2 per cent of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Finding the Answers
- Ten tasty teasers: are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
- Cabbages, Cheating Husbands and a Zebra
- Ten tasty teasers: are you a wizard at wordplay?
- A Man Walks Round an Atom …
- Ten tasty teasers: are you smarter than a 12-year-old?
- Mathematics Most Fowl
- Ten tasty teasers: are you a genius at geography?
- Your Aid I Want, Nine Trees to Plant
- Ten tasty teasers: are you smarter than a 13-year-old?
- The Number Games
- ANSWERS
- A List of the Puzzles and a Note on their Sources
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright