Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles

Bellos, Alex

ISBN 10: 1783351152 / ISBN 13: 9781783351152

Verlag: Guardian Faber Publishing, 2017

Beschreibung

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
• Verlag: Guardian Faber Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1783351152
• ISBN-13: 9781783351152
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

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 are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking 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.

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 be 2 per cent of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling!

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alex Bellos is a grandmaster of the puzzling world, brilliant on all things cryptic. His bestselling, award-winning books include Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass and Can You Solve My Problems?, and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is also the coauthor of two mathematical colouring books and the children's series Football School. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than twenty million people, and he writes a popular puzzle blog for the Guardian. @alexbellos