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So You Think You've Got Problems

Surprising and Rewarding Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind


  • Faber & Faber
  • by Alex Bellos
Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers.

ISBN 9781783351916 | E | PB
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Publisher Faber & Faber
ISBN 9781783351916
Author(s) Alex Bellos
Publication date July 2020
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 288
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain.