Improve Your IQ: Over 500 Mind-Bending Puzzles

by Deborah Hercun

Book Overview

Sharpen your mind and blitz your brain with a workout of more than 500 challenging puzzles. These tricky numeric and alphabetic questions will stimulate your smarts as never before, and help your IQ climb higher and higher. And the puzzles are fun too, because some of them involve unfolded cubes, aliens, watches, and matchsticks. Rev up that logic, steady that concentration, and get going on 20 levels of ascending difficulty. Assess your progress...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760716838
• ISBN13: 9780760716830
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Just do it!

A well-stocked, thoughtfully presented collection of puzzles. A well-ordered progression of difficulty. Flex that i.q. with this joyous/painful/gainful workout!

Develop mathematical reasoning and lateral thinking

My personal opinion is that the book is great. I enjoyed it immensely.Required math skills are minimal--the book shines in how it requires you to combine +, -, x, and division.It's variety ensures you don't settle into a comfortable pattern. Sometimes you have to treat letters as numbers (A=1, B=2, etc), sometimes you have to treat them as symbols with straight lines (e.g. A, E, etc.) or curves (e.g., O, C, etc.), and sometimes you have to treat them as vowels or consonants. Some problems throw in a variety of textures and shapes to throw you off, whereas all you need to do is just count the shapes. All these obstacles serve to teach you to think truly laterally and always be alert.Most problems provide as a starting point some series, table, diagram, etc., and require you to identify a pattern, and complete missing blanks with numbers, letters, or shapes.This book is an excellent preparation for the mathematical portions of an IQ test.