Reader's Digest Book of Puzzles & Brain Teasers

Reader's Digest Book of Puzzles and Brain Tea Sers will give you and your family and friends hours of challenging and mind-stetching fun. Whether you're a seasoned wordsmith or a mathematical maven, a card game connoisseur or a trivia maven, you'll find an entertaining variety of mind games at every level of skill. Here's a sampling of the challenges you'll discover, chapter by chapter: Mind Mazes are perceptual puzzles that will keep your neurons on their toes: spotting the differences, mazes and labyrinths, tricky tangrams, and optical illusions. These visual puzzles require a good eye and a sharp mind. Word Power tests your language ability in many forms: traditional crosswords, cryptic crosswords, anagrams, synonyms and antonyms, word ladders, acrostics, and verbal conundrums. Smart Solutions challenge your logic and deductive reasoning. You must bring a detective's mind and a code breaker's skills to these puzzles. Whether you are analyzing a pool table or a ciphered message, your intelligence is on trial. Figure it Out explores numbers and arithmetic. Whether you use the new math or tried and true addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, your answers will depend on a calculating mind. Think Sideways exercises the parts of your mind that you may not associate with puzzles and brain teasers. These posers require mental flexibility and suppleness and a playful sense of surprise. Train Your Brain tests your intelligence and memory. How well can you recognize the patterns in a series of shapes, words, and sequences? How many visual differences can you remember for the short term? Tricky Trivia probes your general knowledge and your ability to retrieve a variety of facts on demand. (You can practice being a contestant on television's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with your friends and family.)Reader's Digest Editors is the author of 'Reader's Digest Book of Puzzles & Brain Teasers ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780762105779 and ISBN 0762105771.