Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers (Dover Children’s Activity Books) by Martin Gardner (PDF)

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Here’s a bonanza of 93 stimulating brainteasers, ideal for limbering and strengthening young mental muscles. Many of the puzzles are classics, while others are presented here for the first time. Ridiculous riddles, tantalizing teasers, intricate mazes, deceptive illusions, tricky questions, and a host of unusual word and picture puzzles offer young readers hours of challenging fun. Youngsters will love such intriguing mind-builders as The Maze of Minotaur, the Dime-and-Penny Switcheroo, Mr. Bushyhead’s Problems, Knock, Knock…Who’s There?, Mrs. Windbag’s Gift, Find the Duck, Bee on the Nose, The Flatz Beer Goof, and many more.Compiled by noted puzzle expert Martin Gardner, this collection combines two books in one, providing a double helping of puzzle fun in one convenient volume. Richly illustrated with diagrams and hilarious drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi, this curious and comic collection is the perfect companion for car trips, parties and picnics, or long rainy days. Solutions are at the back of the book — but don’t peek until you’ve given the puzzles a try!

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Here’s a bonanza of 93 stimulating brainteasers, ideal for limbering and strengthening young mental muscles. Many of the puzzles are classics, while others are presented here for the first time. Ridiculous riddles, tantalizing teasers, intricate mazes, deceptive illusions, tricky questions, and a host of unusual word and picture puzzles offer young readers hours of challenging fun.Youngsters will love such intriguing mind-builders as The Maze of Minotaur, the Dime-and-Penny Switcheroo, Mr. Bushyhead’s Problems, Knock, Knock…Who’s There?, Mrs. Windbag’s Gift, Find the Duck, Bee on the Nose, The Flatz Beer Goof, and many more.Compiled by noted puzzle expert Martin Gardner, this collection combines two books in one, providing a double helping of puzzle fun in one convenient volume. Richly illustrated with diagrams and hilarious drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi, this curious and comic collection is the perfect companion for car trips, parties and picnics, or long rainy days. Solutions are at the back of the book — but don’t peek until you’ve given the puzzles a try! About the Author Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his “Trick of the Month” in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination. Martin Gardner: A Remembrance The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin’s first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin’s books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005. To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU’s Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard’s I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT’s J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin’s advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which — despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution — continues to be operative today. In the Author’s Own Words:”Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.” “A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?” — Martin Gardner

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I bought this book for my eight year old daughter but the riddles and puzzles are clearly for older children. It is a great book for adults though, I found that I couldn’t put the book down. Once I got one riddle right I had to keep going to see if I could get others right too. The one confusing thing about the book is that it is split into 2 sections and the answers for the first half of the book are located at the end of the first section (half way through the book). It seems obvious now that I have figured it out but I was really confused when I couldn’t find the answer to my problem when I flipped to the end of the book. Maybe that was supposed to be a riddle too??

⭐If you are considering purchasing this book, you must! Finally, a clever, complex, interesting and often funny collection of truly smart riddles and puzzles. My mother gave this book to my children as a gift, and we loved it so much we purchased 9 of them as party favors for my son’s 11th birthday. It is so well illustrated that it makes you realize how silly and unsophisticated most puzzle books are. This is great for kids adults alike.

⭐I received this book for Christmas one year many, many years ago and loved the puzzles and riddles. A couple of months ago it popped into my head and I found it on Amazon and thought it would be a great book for my kids. They are roughly the same age now as when I first received it. After prying the iTouch and the DSis and the laptops out of their technologically addicted hands I got them to look at it. They spun it around a couple of times looking for the power switch but after determining that it was, in fact, a book, they figured out how to “activate” it.They seem to really like it. I still love going back and trying to figure out some of the puzzlers.Old School Thinking at its best.

⭐I bought this for one of my daughters (10 years old) for Christmas. She wasn’t too excited at first, but once she finally sat down and started looking at what was in it, she really liked it. It’s almost a year later, and she still brings it out once in a while when company comes.

⭐Great for my seven-year old grandson who loves puzzles, jokes and riddles. While much in this book is above him at the moment, he will grow into it. And what he can do now, is challenging and completely engaging. He especially liked a puzzle that asked him to find the differences between two drawings. Unlike the usual challenge in this type of exercise, the two drawings were mirror images where he had to distinguish between things on the left reflected as things on the right. He loved it!

⭐I bought this book for my 10 year old grandson, because I’d ordered the same book from the school book sale when I was his age and loved it.

⭐Fun for the mathematically-minded, but also rather difficult. Answers are in the back, which is a bonus for those who can’t figure things out (like me!).

⭐Great product!

⭐Fantastic book starting with really simple teasers and slowly progressing to challenge the puzzle enthusiasts. A classic collection that every generation must try. It reminds me of the book my parents got for me when I was a kid.The difficulty level is beginning to intermediate – no need for differential calculus.Bought for my 10 year old son but enjoyed by both: the boy and myself.

⭐Lots of American stuff and some of it isn’t much good. Overall OK.

⭐Well if you have a kid – buy it. Some of the puzzles – questionable, but most of them are great fun. If you want best of the best buy The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math).

⭐Great fun

⭐Martin Gardner produces a mixture of jokes, puzzles and teasers. It is suitable for a range of ages. Children from 6 up will enjoy the jokes, while some of the puzzles need rather more skill and parental guidance. Definitely recommended.

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