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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 is the story of the puzzle, one of mankind's oldest and greatest forms of entertainment and enlightenment, told through 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia. It takes 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. You'll 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 by 2% of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling...Product Identifiers
PublisherGuardian Faber Publishing
ISBN-139781783351152
eBay Product ID (ePID)237846670
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameCan You Solve My Problems?: a Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMathematics
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlex Bellos
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight278 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAlex Bellos