Kategoria BISAC: Games & Activities >> Logic & Brain Teasers

A dynamic program for improving memory and sharpening focus

Each year, Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on gym memberships, exercise equipment, and workout videos, all in the name of physical fitness. But what are they doing for their minds? In Dental Floss for the Mind, a leading cognitive scientist and a neurologist team up to offer you a complete program for improving memory and stimulating your mind.

This interactive guide features:

• More than 100 creative and engaging exercises of increasing difficulty to stimulate cognitive...

From mathematics to word puzzles, from logic to lateral thinking, veteran puzzle maker Derrick Niederman delights in tackling the trickiest brainteasers in a new way. Among the old chestnuts he cracks wide open are the following classics:
Knights and knaves
The monk and the mountain
The dominoes and the chessboard
The unexpected hanging
The Tower of Hanoi

Using real-world analogies, infectious humor, and a fresh approach, this deceptively simple volume will challenge, amuse, enlighten, and surprise even the most experienced puzzle...

The brand-new Sudoku puzzle series that puts even the most fervent players' skills to the test.

There are those who play Sudoku, and there are those who step it up and play Sudoku Iron Man. Here are 150 never-before-published puzzles-the most challenging around. This book will have enthusiasts hooked, tackling grid after grid. Even the most avid Sudoku addict will be amazed at the intense challenges Sudoku Iron Man has to offer...

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Psychology is the study of mind and behavior: how and why people do absolutely everything that people do, from the most life-changing event such as choosing a partner, to the most humdrum, such as having an extra donut. Ben Ambridge takes these findings and invites the reader to test their knowledge of themselves, their friends, and their families through quizzes, jokes, and games. You'll measure your personality, intelligence, moral values, skill at...

The author wants to offer readers a fun, smart and amusing way to fight the stresses we experience in our lives everyday. This book contains 400 games of logic, math and skill, including ways to test the reader's logical, mathematical and cultural skills.

These innovative games are suitable to everyone's abilities, and include the following:
- Pin Code Games
- Floor with Mined Tiles
- 1 and 0 Mosaics
- ABC Mosaics
- Cultural Tests about Characters, History, Geography and Science

This game book is also innovative for its social aim: to donate a percentage of...

This intriguing collection contains more than 275 optical illusions that appear to change before your eyes. Al Seckel carefully selected both well-known images, such as Shepard's tabletop, Wade's spiral, Ames room and Rubin's face/vase, and many lesser-known, but no less effective, illusions.

Every type of optical illusion is here, along with notes about the science of each visual perception and how the illusions work. Among the baffling images and shapes are: