Test Your Lateral Thinking IQ

by Paul Sloane

Find out how good you are at lateral thinking. Improve your skills--and even raise your I.Q.-- by taking on these puzzles specially chosen for this collection. They will help you master the four keys to lateral testing assumptions, asking the right new questions, trying new ways to solve, using logic to test the new solutions. 96 pages, 20 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

96 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 1994

About the author

Paul Sloane read Engineering at Trinity Hall Cambridge. He came top of Sales School at IBM, became MD of Ashton-Tate UK, VP International for MathSoft and CEO of Monactive. He now writes, speaks and gives workshops on lateral thinking in business, creativity, innovation and leadership. He is married and lives in Camberley in Surrey. He has three grown-up daughters. He is a keen chess and tennis player and he plays keyboards in a rock band, the Fat Cats. He has written a series of lateral thinking puzzle books, many co-authored with Des MacHale, published by Sterling Publishing. They have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into many languages. He has also written two management books, published by Kogan Page, and many articles for blogs and websites. He manages the Lateral Puzzles Forum where puzzlers can set and solve lateral puzzles.

Reviews

[Chris Peckover · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peppered with a few good lateral thinking puzzles, but Paul Sloane seems not to understand the distinction between lateral thinking puzzles (whose answer hinges on a critical assumption) and random questions that could have dozens of plausible explanations. This is my third book from Sloane, and it seems only about 20% of the questions he’s collected fit the book’s title.

[Alicia Zuto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun book. Under 100 pages. Exercises.