The Big Book of Brain Games: 1000 Play Thinks of Art, Mathematics & Science

by Ivan Moscovich, Ian Stewart (Foreword)

About the original 1000 PlayThinks ,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago.” Inside The Big Book of Brain Games , you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions—originals as well as must-do classics—it’s like salted peanuts for the brain. With jampacked pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is a call to action. (And it’s guaranteed to make you smarter.) Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back cross-reference the puzzles. (You’ll find the answers back there, too.)

Genres: Games, Reference, Puzzles, Trivia, Science, Art, Nonfiction

420 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2006

Reviews

[Mahmoud Aghiorly]

Many of those questions had nothing to do with the brain.

[Andreea]

reading

[Abhijeet]

Good book

[Vi]

I like it and I want to read this book

[Devendra]

Nice

[Jaycee Lam]

A nice big and full color quizzes book, indeed. Vietnamese edition is both good in the edition and translation part. But most of the book are quizzes about math and very few ones about art or science. And unfortunately, I hate math.

[Lthmath]

Great book full of awesome puzzles and games.

[Kiet]

Greate book a bout logic