1000 Mind Games - (Volume 1 & 2)

Author: (English) Robert Allen / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is an incredible book that challenges human thinking, and smart people all over the world are doing it. In this book, you will find extremely complex, yet very simple reasoning problems, baffling geometric puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles, crosswords made up of words and numbers, as well as a large number of problems that include images, words, or numbers, or a combination of all three, leaving you scratching your head and feeling dizzy! Now, what you need is a pencil and a quiet corner—please enjoy the fun of solving these puzzles! If you're not yet familiar with all this, there are a few things you should know before starting. First, always stay alert! The creators of the puzzles are very clever, and careless people often fall for the tricks. Second, in the puzzles, letters can be treated as numbers, and numbers can be treated as letters. Write down the letters and represent them with numbers: A=1, B=2, C=3, and then reverse it to represent (Z=1A: 26). Keep this handy—it will help you solve many difficulties. If you don’t know what you’re trying to do, even the simplest formulas can become tricky. For example, place three numbers within 10 at the three corners of a triangle, add them together, and put the sum in the center of the triangle. This is simple—any child can do it. But if you can’t explain what you’ve done clearly, it will be very difficult for others to follow your reasoning. In short, think simply. Good puzzles are never overly complex; they just require a bit of trickery. A wise and challenging book that has taken the world by storm, featuring 1,000 thinking games that smart people all over the world are doing. The games simulate almost all real-life conditions, desires, and structures through models. Why do games (like market games, survival games, dating games) become important symbols in our lives? The answer is obvious: while people play games to win, they also know they might lose. If you find these problems simple, congratulations! But remember: the facts themselves don’t prove you’re smart—they only show that your mind is very well suited to solving these problems. This is an incredible book that challenges human thinking, and smart people all over the world are doing it. In this book, you will find extremely complex, yet very simple reasoning problems, baffling geometric puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles, crosswords made up of words and numbers, as well as a large number of problems that include images, words, or numbers, or a combination of all three, leaving you scratching your head and feeling dizzy! Now, what you need is a pencil and a quiet corner—please enjoy the fun of solving these puzzles!