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	Super Lateral Thinking Puzzles Stand out from the pack--don't think conventionally, think laterally! And, you can start developing well-honed mental skills with more than 80 braintwisting puzzles that test your creativity and smarts. At first it might not seem as if there's enough information to solve them, but if you just persist, you'll come up with the logical answers. Some of the conundrums come from real life: try to figure out how the Greek playwright Aeschylus could have been killed by a tortoise or how the truth about Mary Queen of Scots' baldness was finally revealed. Or, give this a shot: A runner was awarded a prize for winning a marathon. But, the judges disqualified him when they saw a picture of his wristwatch. Why? Happy puzzling! Answer: A picture of the runner early in the race showed him wearing his watch on his right wrist. When he crossed the finishing line it was on his left wrist. The judges investigated and found that one man had run the first half and his identical twin brother ran the second half of the race.		Price:	QTY:

	Challenging Brain Boosters What number best completes the series? What anagrams don’t belong? Which pattern satisfies the analogy? No cheating! Flex that brain muscle and see how intelligent you really are with this fun and formidable two-part series of quizzes. Care to measure your IQ? See how well you stack up after taking one of the eight IQ tests offered here. Then, measure specific skills through a series of tests designed to gauge numerical, verbal, and spatial abilities. Answers to each question, complete with explanations, appear at the end of each section. Score yourself using the easy-to-follow charts provided here, then rank yourself against friends to prove that you really are the smartest one on the block.		Price:	QTY:

	Mystifying Mind Reading Tricks I know exactly what you are thinking! These mystifying mind reading tricks are more spectacular than magic; more enticing than card tricks; and much more fun than sleight of hand. Delight and amaze friends, family, and acquaintances with your mastery of these spellbinding techniques. From simple icebreakers to dazzling demonstrations, this assortment of crowd pleasers will convince even skeptical spectators that you have the power to read their minds. Once you learn the basics, a little practice and touch of showmanship will make you the hit of any party. Work alone or with a partner; ham it up or play it cool. Perform these incredible feats and leave them wide eyed and slack jawed wondering "How did he do that?" One dozen top-quality, high-impact insider tricks--guaranteed to leave your audience flabbergasted and ready for more!		Price:	QTY:

	Tricky Lateral Thinking Puzzles A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? A man went around the world in a ship. Yet he was always in sight of land. How come? These are examples of lateral thinking puzzles. You're given a statement about a situation that you have to use as a starting point to arrive at a particular explanation or solution. Often there can be many possible scenarios to explain the puzzle, but the challenge is that you have to find the right answer. Typically the puzzles contain insufficient information for you to immediately figure out the solution (clues are provided). When you get stuck, attack the problem from a new direction--think laterally! Not only are these puzzles fun, they also help to develop skills in questioning, deduction, logic, and, of course, lateral thinking. Answers: It's January and he is writing the date of the year on all the checks in his checkbook to avoid putting last year's date by mistake; He was an astronaut in a space ship.		Price:	QTY:

	Challenging Critical Thinking Finish layouts, do tricky calculations, and solve the complex mysteries of visual designs. Take a scissors and try to duplicate a "mind-bending" curved design with just a few snips. For a change of pace, find the identity of 30 coins that equal $1.00. (25 pennies, 1 nickel, 2 dimes and 2 quarters.) Answers are in the back--in case you're tearing your hair out in frustration!		Price:	QTY:

	Brain-Busting Lateral Thinking Puzzles These are think-out-of-the-box brainbusters, lots of fun for anyone who enjoys a challenge. Some of the situations presented may seem really strange, and almost impossible to solve, but once the obvious assumptions are discarded, the answers begin to come into focus. The key lies in being creative, and getting into the groove by trying the easier puzzles before moving on to the super-hard ones. The collection includes problems that use visual clues, timed questions, and thorny conundrums that ask you to look for sequences, uncover relationships, use deductive reasoning, and make clever observations. It’s a true test of anyone's smarts.		Price:	QTY:

	Totally Tough Brainteasers To solve these inventive brainteasers, your brain has to be in tip-top shape. Warm up with some (slightly) easier puzzles: beginning in the left corner of a box with grids, try to reach the bottom right square. You may pass only through the left and right sides of small squares, but not through their top or bottom. And you can't go through the black squares at all. Another challenge involves four dice, all stacked up. Can you find a pattern that lets you figure out how many pips are on the base side? Arrange the "magical dominoes" precisely and mathematically; do the equations to figure out how. There are also unusual card tricks, "cut-it" puzzles that involve reconstructing figures that have been broken up, and three-dimensional conundrums. As you work each one out, you'll feel yourself getting smarter every minute.		Price:	QTY:

	Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles Lateral thinking is the key to solving these tantalizing puzzles. Packed with hundreds of brain teasers and mathematical problems, the book will test kids' powers of logic, and patience! "The logic, reasoning, and calculating required by the problems...will delight and torment puzzle fans."--Booklist. "Ninety-one `how come' mysteries....We never get enough of these."--Games.		Price:	QTY:

	Deviously Difficult Mind Bending Puzzles Play supergames for the super-smart. These mind-blowing, brain-bending puzzles use a deviously tricky mix of geometry and combinatronics (the different ways objects can be arranged), and emphasize structure, pattern, and color. Everything’s visual and as enticing to the eye as to the wits. Try to solve the Impossible Domino Bridge Problem: at first glance, the top-heavy structure looks as if it would just tumble. But give it some thought and you’ll realize that not only can it be built but that you can build it yourself. Take the Ingenious Tangram Challenge; put together a Stars Puzzle; and Draw, Halve, and Quarter all the rooms in a house into equal-size spaces. There’s illuminating background information on the puzzles’ origins, too.		Price:	QTY:

	Fiendishly Frustrating Brain Twisting Puzzles Jumping Coins, Cubes and Routes, Find the Polygons, and Distortrix: these are just a few of the incredible brain-twisting conundrums in this colorful, super-fun compilation by puzzle whiz Ivan Moscovich. Sample games give a hint of what’s to come and prime your mind for the challenges you’ll face. Inside a hexagon, a continuous path connects 19 different nodes: find that trail, navigating a series of pointing arrows and visiting each node only once. On the Rebound features tricky little problems involving a pool ball on a table and the best way to shoot it. A Piece of Cake is no piece of cake: arrange the segments so that no two colored or numbered ones touch another of the same color or number. You’ll think your brain really is twisted once you solve all of these.		Price:	QTY:

	IQ Tests to Keep You Sharp Use it or lose it applies to your biggest muscle--your brain. These IQ-building quizzes improve your thinking power with words, numbers, and visual designs. Quick--try these five: 1. Make a six-letter word from these five: B, G, E, A, D. 2. Calculate what fraction will produce this running decimal: .166166. 3. Take one letter from each of these animals to make another animal: possum, donkey, ermine, kitten, rhesus, cayman. 4. Which number added to 100 and 164 will make them both perfect square numbers? 5. Ten people share a birthday cake. All had equal portions, yet one remained on the plate. How can this be? How'd you do? If you got all of them right, maybe you should write our next test book! Answers: 1. Bagged. 2. 166/999. 3. Monkey. 4. 125. 5. The tenth person ate from the cake plate.		Price:	QTY:

	Money Magic Tricks It's one thing to learn the mechanics of a magic trick, and quite another to entertain and mystify your audience. You'll master both at the same time with 64 money tricks involving coins and bills--and the magician's professional banter and diversionary tactics. Tricks range from simple ones to delight the kids to advanced ones to fool sophisticated adults: Make coins disappear and reappear all over the room, change places with each other in plain sight, sneak about while hidden under cards. Cut up somebody's bill and put it back together, spin a coin in the air as you toss it from the palm of your hand, and drop a coin onto a table so it lands on its edge.		Price:	QTY:

	Lateral Logic Puzzles Become a master of the lateral logic puzzle. The clues to solving each puzzle can be found within it, but to figure them out you need to break free from conventional thinking and toss aside core assumptions. Ninety entertainingly illustrated puzzles, from murder mysteries to treasure hunts, will challenge your thinking skills. There are clues for each puzzle if you need them, and of course you can peek at the answer if you really get stumped.		Price:	QTY:

	Visual IQ Tests These colorful puzzles are bright, playful, and imaginative—and anyone who wants to ace these entertaining, inspirational IQ tests should be, too. They train you to think logically and see three-dimensionally, to use math to find inventive solutions, and to work creatively: in short, they both assess your IQ and help improve it. The eight types of problems include Odd One Out, where you have to choose from five alternatives to find the one that’s different; Series, that challenges you to find the missing figure in a sequence; and Volume questions that ask you to compare one or several unfolded shapes with a three-dimensional figure. Take no more than one day on each of the 16-question tests, and remember...have fun while doing them.		Price:	QTY:

	Mental Fitness Puzzles Get mentally fit by exercising your brain on these incredible thinking puzzles! Tricky and challenging, they demand a flexible thought-process and an ability to see beyond the obvious. Are you up to the task? For example: While in his local pub, J.P. comes back from the rest room and sees someone stealing his wallet. Instead of confronting the thief, J.P. just stands there and watches him spend the cash. Can you explain this passive response? (Answer: J.P is a counterfeiter who wanted the wallet snatched; he could then check and see if the money could pass as genuine.) Try to figure this one out: Jim develops an elaborate plan to escape from prison. He succeeds, and actually phones the prison guards to tell them where he is. But they don't bring him back to prison! Why? (Jim wasn't a convict, but someone hired by authorities to test their security system.) Yet another treacherously difficult puzzle deals with a "wonder woman" who can move a two-ton piece of equipment with no help (she's an astronaut in a ship with zero gravity, where objects are weightless). If you're having trouble, clue pages will help you on your way!		Price:	QTY:

	Lateral Mind Trap Puzzles Catch crooks, expose con artists, and trap liars! Solve mysteries, explain conundrums, and match wits with evil geniuses! All it takes is paying strict attention to every word of the MindTrap story. It's harder than it looks, because most people picture the stories in their minds, and usually imagine something that isn't there, or overlook a crucial detail. But you can defy the odds. Trap the auctioneer who's trying to sell an old letter addressed to Queen Elizabeth I. How? Because you know she wasn't called "the first" until centuries later when there was a second Queen Elizabeth. Or capture the thief whose victims were dying just before they deposited their paychecks at the bank-just figure out that the killer had poisoned the glue on the bank deposit envelopes. Warning: the pictures that accompany each story may be hazardous to your puzzle-solving skills.		Price:	QTY:

	Amazing Math Puzzles Discover math puzzles everywhere--in pizzas, mirrors, bicycles, candy, hot dogs--and also ancient pyramids, pirates' treasure, and a witch's cauldron. These 82 tantalizing examples will work your brain cells and stump your friends. Solve this one: if you have six pairs of pink gloves and six pairs of yellow ones in your drawer, how many do you have to take out to make sure you've got a pair? (Answer: 13--don't forget left and right!)		Price:	QTY:

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	Match wits with Mensa Calling all trivia buffs! Compare yourself to the cream of the crop as you field the same questions that were sent to members of American Mensa with an interest in trivia or puzzles. The percentage of members who got the question right is given along with the answers. Pit your IQ against theirs in five different categories: Movies and Television; Music, Arts, and Letters; Sports and Games; Places; and History and Science. Here’s a sampling of the brain crunchers you’ll tackle: Two Best Picture winners have had abbreviations in their titles. Name either. Who is third on the list of career home run leaders? Which planet has the most moons? You just might find out that you’re a trivia genius. Answers: Mrs. Miniver and Kramer vs. Kramer; Willie Mays; Saturn.		Price:	QTY:

	Critical Thinking Puzzles Eighty puzzles. The answers are easy! But getting there is the hard part. Uncover connections and identify hidden relationships until suddenly the answers are appearing as if by magic. Solve situations on the moon, around an insect-eating plant and gold-record racing through space in the Voyager spacecraft.		Price:	QTY:

	One-Minute Brainteasers One Minute Brain Teasers by Sterling Publishing Co. is designed for hours of thinking fun! Got a minute? Then have we got a puzzle for you! These short, no-pencil puzzles demand that you shift your brain into high gear because 60 seconds are all you have to solve them. And what a wide mix: vowel exchanges, where sentences feature back-to-back words... More with a change in just one vowel; rhyme time; hard-letter hangpersons; flowery show song titles; names and initials; and so much more. Give these Repeaters a try: these are words that begin with a letter or a combination of letters that immediately repeat .		Price:	QTY:

	Beat-The-Clock Puzzles Set the clock. Every one of these puzzles is timed, to add to the difficulty...and to the fun and satisfaction of solving them. A children's version was so popular that now there's one for adults. Get ready to work out the brain, because it's a race to the finish line as the minutes tick away on these timed puzzles. Even those who have a clue to the answers will find that the time limit makes everything deliciously challenging. Take a 50/50 shot at getting it right in quizzes that test your knowledge of trivia; there are only two choices to every question--but there are 20 questions and just three minutes to answer them. Match anagrams with their definitions: maybe the definition will help you unscramble the anagram, or maybe you'll have to figure out the letters first. Solvers get 10 minutes to complete four groups of 6 anagrams each. Or try the Brainstretchers, Letter Insertion, and Think Fast quizzes for some smart and speedy fun.		Price:	QTY:

	Mind Stretching Math Puzzles Derrick Niederman, one of Sterling's most popular puzzle authors, has come up with another collection of super-tricky math brainteasers that's great for home or the classroom. Hours of mind-bending, brain-stretching fun await solvers, who can warm up with easy problems like this, before moving on to harder and harder conundrums: Hector can run from the train station to his parents' house in eight minutes. His younger brother Darius can run the same distance eight times in one hour. Who is faster? Some of the puzzles present visual patterns to interpret, or play tricks with multiplication and division. Every one will give the brain a good workout, and improve math skills in the most enjoyable way. (Answer (small and upside down): Darius. It would take Hector 64 minutes to run the same distance Darius can in an hour.)		Price:	QTY:

	Lateral Logic Puzzles Become a master of the lateral logic puzzle. The clues to solving each puzzle can be found within it, but to figure them out you need to break free from conventional thinking and toss aside core assumptions. Ninety entertainingly illustrated puzzles, from murder mysteries to treasure hunts, will challenge your thinking skills. There are clues for each puzzle if you need them, and of course you can peek at the answer if you really get stumped.		Price:	QTY:

	Two-Minute Brainteasers Got a couple of minutes to spare? Then test your smarts with this latest entry in the Mensa series-short, thematic, no-pencil word puzzles that really exercise the brain. Some of the subjects include "Special Days," "Celebrities," and "Hidden Things," and there are kid-friendly bonus sections, too. Fill in the blanks of the Q Puzzles: "A q - - - - - at a meeting is a - - - - - q - - - - - - for voting on motions," would make sense with the words quorum and prerequisite. Or try synanograms - a fun mix of synonym-finding and anagram solving. At the end, compare your results with those of Mensa members - the smartest two percent of the population. About MENSA:- Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.		Price:	QTY:

	Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles The latest in the hugely popular series of think-out-of-the box brainteasers, including Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges and Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Here's how you play the game and figure out these perplexing puzzles: take one of the scenarios, and with the help of a friend who looks at the answer, pose a series of yes and no questions until, by a process of elimination and deduction, you arrive at the solution. If you get stuck--and everyone does from time to time--there are additional clues to push you along. Keep trying and you will reach that glorious "aha!" moment when everything becomes crystal clear. In no time at all you'll have sharpened your wits...and become an accomplished lateral thinker.		Price:	QTY:

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