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The Ultimate Clever Puzzle Book


Free Download Olivia Carlton, "The Ultimate Clever Puzzle Book"
English | ISBN: 1402704798 | 2002 | pages | PDF | 12 MB
Never met a puzzle you couldn’t solve? With this comprehensive compendium of mind-boggling brain busters, you may have finally met your match. Choose from among hundreds of crosswords, math and logic problems, and IQ exams to test your mental mettle. Diverse and demanding, the puzzles in this collection will challenge you to observe, predict, generalize, reason, assume, compare, and recall. Sharpen your wits on old favorites that have baffled enthusiasts for years or venture into unchartered territory with new puzzles poised to join the classics. Helpful illustrations, a straightforward answer key and convenient spiral binding combine to ensure a pleasant puzzle solving session. Most entries can be solved with a pen and pencil or handy items like scissors, toothpicks, and coins. Whether a springboard for party fun or a source of private pondering, this collection provides hours of entertainment for all who dare to put their brain power to the test.

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The Tangram Book The Story of the Chinese Puzzle With over 2000 Puzzles to Solve


Free Download Jerry Slocum, "The Tangram Book: The Story of the Chinese Puzzle With over 2000 Puzzles to Solve"
English | ISBN: 1402704135 | 2003 | 192 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world’s most popular and intriguing puzzles comes in two parts. It’s an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of Tangrams that reveals the mystery and beauty of this ancient art, and also a masterful introduction to Tangram puzzle-solving, with more than 2,000 all-time puzzles which you can try to solve. This accurate history of this classic Chinese art form comes from a Tangram museum owner and his research team. They discovered many treasures, such as the Tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to test Pythagorean theorems. You’ll see the Tangrams Napoleon played with during his exile. Photos show how to arrange Tangram-shaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges, flower arrangements, and celebration costumes. Among the puzzles for you to solve: "paradoxical pairs" that appear to be identical, but differ in a hard-to-detect detail.

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The New Puzzle Classics Ingenious Twists on Timeless Favorites


Free Download Serhiy Grabarchuk, "The New Puzzle Classics: Ingenious Twists on Timeless Favorites "
English | ISBN: 1402717423 | 2005 | 352 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Here is a challenge that puzzle fans will find simply irresistible: a really smart, varied, and original collection of more than 200 contemporary brainteasers. Some are visual, others geometric, and still more are topological. They play games with words and numbers, and with matchsticks and coins. And many of them are of World Puzzle Championship level; in other words, really hard. Divide figures into their congruent parts, or rearrange the pieces of a patterned star so that the result precisely matches a checkered cross. Try a little puzzling origami: fold an origami square exactly six times to create the shape of a house. Do cubical inversions, shift coins around from shape to shape in a given number of moves, and much more.

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Inspired Living Assembling the Puzzle of Your Calling by Mastering Your Time, Your Talent, and Your Treasures


Free Download Inspired Living: Assembling the Puzzle of Your Calling by Mastering Your Time, Your Talent, and Your Treasures by C. Scott Maderer
English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1636983405 | 214 pages | True EPUB | 1.14 MB
Inspired Living lays out a three-part plan to live out your calling by mastering your time, talent, and treasures.

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Piecing the Puzzle The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa


Free Download Larry Krotz, "Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa"
English | ISBN: 0887557309 | 2012 | 220 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s "sexual diseases problem." That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

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Two-Minute Puzzle Book, The Puzzles To Train Your Brain


Free Download Two-Minute Puzzle Book, The: Puzzles To Train Your Brain by David Goodman, Ilan Garibi
English | February 11, 2020 | ISBN: 9811213194 | 162 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
LEARN SHORTCUTS Many of the puzzles will seem as though they will take longer than two minutes to solve, but … there are shortcuts if you can find them!! There are faster ways to solve each problem and dilemma. The Two-Minute Puzzle Book will teach you to look for such loopholes and shortcuts! ENGAGING THEMATIC PUZZLES From Chapter One’s "The One and Only" through Chapter Nine’s "The Whole Nine Yards", each chapter contains puzzles related to the chapter’s theme. For example, in the second chapter, you will find mechanical puzzles with double pieces, riddles about couples, line puzzles and more. There are match puzzles, tangram-related puzzles, paper puzzles, geometric puzzles and mathematical puzzles to tease and occupy all types of puzzlists. Some require intuition but all are two minutes away from a solution. UNIQUE CHALLENGES As with their previous puzzle books, the authors, David Goodman and Ilan Garibi, aim to provide a fresh and original book. Many of the puzzles are coming from their heads and are not retreads!! There are some classic puzzles too, but the authors present them in an original way. CULTIVATE YOUR BRAIN TO THINK CREATIVELY Crack open this book and allow the puzzles presented to train your brain. Always look for a bypass or shortcut. Find a different point of view. By rephrasing the question, a solution may surface! We hope that this book will tickle your imagination and sharpen your mind. You just might begin to solve everyday "real-world" problems differently. FLEX YOUR BRAIN.

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