Puzzles for the High IQ

by Lloyd King

Book Overview

Take on these fiendish puzzles devilishly created to either make or break your IQ. They're the toughest examples of the most popular logic puzzle types: Find the Missing Figure, Guess the Picture Sequence, Detect What Word or Letter Comes Next, Odd One Out, Missing the Symbols, Number Crunching, Cryptograms, and more. There's a Nightmare Before Christmas puzzle, and Sherlock Holmes returns to solve the mystery of which of three brothers broke his window, plus dozens more too hard to even describe here. And if the questions are rough enough, the drawings, cartoons, and illustrations will add to your bafflement and fun. 96 pages, 195 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806943815
• ISBN13: 9780806943817
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Phenomenal Creative Insight

This book, as well as Lloyd's other book "Test Your Creative Thinking" have stimulated several levels of creativity and taken my visualization skills to an all-new depth of dimension. Those interested in Lloyd's work should highly consider checking out his web-site. He has put some puzzles on there, as well. www.ahapuzzles.comThis book contains refreshingly new and and innovative/ingenuitive puzzles. These aren't your average, rehashed cliché's found in most like-minded books out there. I have owned several puzzle books in my time and none other can bear comparison to the unequivocal amount of wit and dexterity that Lloyd provides. Not only are his puzzles a bit of a mental tilt-a-whirl, but they are also *Fun*!

Refreshingly original!

Go to any bookstore, take a puzzle book from the shelf, and browse through the pages. Of all the puzzles in the book you see in front of you, how many of them are derivatives of previously published material? The answer's simple - most of them. Blandness and repetition can be found on bookshelves in abundance. In contrast, Mr King's work is full of originality and this fact alone deserves celebration. He has done more than most to develop the closed lateral puzzle, the form where all necessary information is given. Their difficulty often lies in there being only a single clue, sometimes only in the title, and this is bound to stretch one's powers of perception and interpretation. If, as a result, the solution is beyond your reach, don't feel cheated or defeated. Just look in the back of the book and try to see it as a work of art - because quite a lot of it is.

Pure creativity!

The puzzles contained in this book are more than simple puzzles or IQ items; they are kind of works of art, sometimes poetry; you take so much pleasure to read the solution or to discover it yourself! Totally original material.Lloyd King is a real creative person.

Really great challenge

This is the epitome of puzzles. Answers are provided but I sealed those in my copy and am still working to solve them all before I check my answers. Some appear impossible but suddenly get the aha! insight and discover a unique and sometimes amusing answer. If you like a challenge here it is.