Test Your Puzzle Power

by Barry R. Clarke

This large collection of humorous brain teasers includes matchstick puzzles, mind benders, word conundrums and algebraic problems. It has been created by the compiler of "The Daily Telegraph's Brain... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0706372492
• ISBN13: 9780706372496
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Ward Lock Limited.
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Some excellent food to energize your mind

Good puzzles are excellent food for the mind, by thinking them through and considering all approaches the mental skills are sharpened, making you better at all other intellectual tasks. The puzzles in this collection are truly challenging, often forcing you to think "outside the box", a skill often crucial to solving the problems you encounter in the real world. Some of them also involve a bit of humor, helping you cope with the frustration you may experience when the solution eludes you.

Highly original

I was an avid follower of Barry's column in the Telegraph (in the days when they had one) and when this book came out in 1994 it was like a breath of fresh air. Sadly, it's now out of print but it still seems to pop up from time to time in second hand bookstores on the net. I've been collecting (and reviewing) puzzle books for over fifty years and for originality and wit it's one of the prizes of my collection.