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Of Course! The Greatest Collection Of Riddles & Brain Teasers For Expanding Your Mind Kindle Edition

by Zack Guido (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,946 ratings
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Do you like riddles? Do you like brain teasers? Are you a problem solver? Are you creative? Do you think outside the box? If you can answer yes to any of these questions, this book may be perfect for you.

Introducing a collection of the best riddles and brain teasers that has been years in the making. These will challenge the way you think, introduce you to new ways to look at problems, and expand your mind.

People who love riddles are familiar with the rush of the "aha!" moment, the "that's it!" moment, that "of course!" moment, the moment of clarity that you get when the lightbulb goes off and you've figured it all out. Those moments are great exercise for your mind and brain and will help to keep you mentally sharp.

Even if you are new to riddles and brain teasers this book will be a fun and exciting read, it will help you become a better problem solver and become more comfortable with thinking outside the box. The problems in this book range in difficulty from light & easy to hard to very hard and will provide a challenge for even the sharpest mind.

There are discrete reasoning riddles, mathematical reasoning riddles, practical reasoning riddles, and some classical logic riddles as well. There is no word play, the puzzles have definite and satisfying answers, and some of them will blow your mind.

In this book you will be figuring out how to cross bridges, how to escape from prison cells, how to steal rope, how to shoot cyborgs, how to transport bananas through the desert, how to figure out the color of a hat you have on, how to turn on lightbulbs, and how to save a ton of prisoners from being executed!

Enjoy it!

...and remember, once you peek at the solution you will never be able to unsee it!
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This book is the result of hundreds of hours poring over library books, web forums, old notebooks, old conversations with friends, and my own memory!

Some of these riddles and brain teasers you will find if you look into other books and spend time searching through websites. But you will have a hard time finding such a diverse, challenging, and appropriate collection all in one place.

When I first started this project I was working with over four hundred riddles that I considered good. Then I focused it down to about 150 puzzles that I thought were very good. Then I kept focusing it down and refining the list of riddles until I landed on 78 brain teasers that I thought were -amazing- and unique.

For example, any riddle-lover knows that you will come across countless numbers of riddles that involve liars and truth-tellers and so many of them can all be solved using the exact same logic and reasoning. I tried to take the best of those types of riddles and include the greatest ones from each archetype. This keeps the content fresh and exciting with each new riddle, but also allows you to explore all of these different lines of reasoning and solving.

It has been an absolute pleasure putting this collection together and I hope that you enjoy having such a wide but focused collection of riddles all condensed into one place!

-Zack

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BQZ0RF6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zack Guido (March 7, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 7, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2545 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 137 pages
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Zack Guido

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I've had a lifelong love for puzzles, riddles, brain teasers, recreational math, games – everything like that!

Growing up, my dad enjoyed asking me trick questions – usually a little riddle or a cutesy limerick he made up. This was light fun, but things went to the next level when he brought home a game from the store called "Mind Trap", a wonderfully underrated game that you can't really find on the store shelves anymore.

Mind Trap is a board game where you have to answer questions written on cards as you advance through the game's path. We never played the game the way you were meant to play it, we just sat down at night on the couch going through the cards in-between episodes of The X-Files. The questions mix word play, logic, recreational math, and sometimes (my favorites) problem-solving of a Sherlock Holmes-esque nature.

These books I make are meant to recreate that environment I grew up in, hopefully producing those same kinds of nights for kids and adults.

Thinking and problem-solving should be a fun, welcoming challenge – not something that people grow up dreading and avoiding!

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Israel Drazin
5.0 out of 5 stars A fun book , great at parties or sitting alone
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2018
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This is an easy to read and easy to use collection of 78 brainteasers and riddles. To get the answer, all one has to do is click the side of the question. The questions are not complicated. Examples include: Why are manhole covers round? How far can a fox run into a woods? The questions prompt us to think and reach a moment of clarity where we say "of course!" Each question is unique, nor repetitions. No complicated math of a need to have a high-level vocabulary. It is a fun book, great for parties or while sitting alone.
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LSmith
5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of brain teasers
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2014
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This is an excellent collection of riddles and brain teasers that range in difficulty from very easy to very hard. A few of them are twists on classic puzzles such as getting a Fox, a chicken and a bag of seed across the river when you can only transport one item at a time. No special skills are required to solve them such as math skills. The biggest requirements is patience, as many of them will make you think for quite awhile. I wasn't always patient enough and if you read the book on an ereader the links to the answers make finding them out easy, and then you can quickly jump back to the book for the next puzzle. Excellent collection that anyone will enjoy.

I wish to thank Mr. Guido for providing a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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stephanie
4.0 out of 5 stars Really get you thinking
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2023
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Great riddles inside. Not easy at all
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quality riddles, fairly difficult
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2021
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If you're curious, this is a paperback book. I gave it to my dad as a gift and he carried it around reading and figuring out the riddles. We did some as a family too. Great riddles, there was only 1 we encountered that was just a wording trick, which I'm not a fan of, but like others say, it is primarily logic based. Super fun, great riddles.
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Irregular perfection
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
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I got this for someone who loves riddles. They really enjoyed it.
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Michelle
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2022
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Got this bc my husband and I love riddles and brain teasers- that feels lame even typing but there it is. This book got really good reviews and a lot of reviewers commented that the contents would be challenging. Well… here’s the thing. They reuse a LOT of scenarios and some of the “puzzles” are just downright ridiculous. Like you have to read the answer and then realize you never would have gotten it bc they throw in strange little nuances that are far fetched and ridiculous. We still mull over some of these in the evenings but w a grain of salt. Don’t want to waste too much time on something that will be fruitless. It’s an ok book, I guess it just depends on what you’re looking for.
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r.storke
5.0 out of 5 stars A fun family road trip book
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020
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My family loves puzzles, riddles, brain teasers, etc. I bought this for my husband with pretty low hopes (there aren't many riddles/brain teasers that stump him) but we all LOVE this book! We brought it with us on a long ride across state and couldn't get enough of it. We worked through them with our children (both 10) and discussed the possible answer then the logic behind the actual answer. The book doesn't just tell you the answer but explains it as well.

A lot of light fun in this book.
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Arthur
5.0 out of 5 stars The Riddle Book we all are looking for
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2013
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Zack Guido has composed the best book of riddles I've seen. As the other reviewers said, the riddles are not the silly childish ones that barely make you smile nor are they the cheap tricky ones that don't test your reasoning at all. These riddles vary in difficulty from simple enough for most to difficult for everyone. They get more difficult as the book progresses, inviting you to challenge yourself as you begin to flex your mind.
I recommend this book for anyone who is new to riddles, has a slight interest in riddles, or even the old pro. I found myself enjoying the author's rewritten versions of old riddles I have heard before. The wording is clear and compelling.
A note on the format: the links to the solutions from each riddle is very handy, as the links back from the solutions are.
A well crafted piece of work in all aspects.
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Hugh Byrnes
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read to pick up and our down.
Reviewed in Canada on November 12, 2018
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Good reading while on the white throne
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Vivian
5.0 out of 5 stars great read, hurts my brain a bit :)
Reviewed in Australia on August 22, 2018
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This keeps you occupied long after you put down the book
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Matty_son
5.0 out of 5 stars Denksportaufgaben vom Feinsten
Reviewed in Germany on May 17, 2015
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Die Denksportaufgaben-Sammlung ist hervorragend. Auch die Aufgaben von Martin Gardner kommen bzgl. der Lösbarkeit ohne tiefere mathematische Kenntnisse und der Eleganz vieler Aufgaben an diese im Schnitt nicht heran.

Die Aufgaben sind von leicht bis schwer sortiert, und bei den letzten kann man manches Mal vermute, dass sie unlösbar sind - Irrtum!

Ein paar Beispiele bzgl. der typischen Aufgabentypen: Das Ziegenproblem, Aufgaben mit Lügnern, mehrere Aufgaben mit Hüten (man sieht die anderen, aber nicht seinen eigenen) usw.

Es gibt keine sprachlichen Aufgaben - im WEsentlichen reine Logikaufgaben.
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vegmaster
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2014
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Some old favourites and some new teasers which caused lots of discussion in the family. Worth having
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Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars Great puzzle book
Reviewed in Australia on December 26, 2019
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A great book for people who like solving puzzles. A little wordy but easy to read. I am using it to generate other puzzle ideas.
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