Lateral Thinking Puzzles: More Than 100 Brainteasers to Solve With Logical Reasoning

by Erwin Brecher

Including mind boggling brain teasers with surprisingly straight-forward answers, this novel quiz book will leave you begging for more The problems in this book describe even more situations which are unusual or even bizarre, and which defy any attempt to find a ready explanation. However, the puzzles are constructed in a manner that will make the circumstances fit one, and only one, reasonable and logical answer. This lends itself to an entertaining and exciting challenge. This fun book really tests your ability to think for yourself, while knowing all of the puzzles have reasonable, well-constructed solutions.

144 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2011

Reviews

[Hadi Wijaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains any riddles and puzzles those are weird but make sense (some of them are true story) which can make you guess using your imagination but still in logical frame.

In some cases you will be a detective to guess what actually happens in the crime scene. In other cases you just need to guess a logical reason behind the unusual things.

You have one example on the book cover, but I give you one more that I think quite good riddle:
If you buy 1, it's 20 cents.
If you buy 12, it's 40 cents.
If you buy 234, it's 60 cents.
What are you buying?

I note one weak spot. There are several cases which disappointing because the answer is: the man/woman is an actor/actress who plays on the theater/movies.

But after all I love to read this book. Especially it can give me more riddle resource to be played in front of my friend :).

[Erikka · Rating 2 out of 5]

These were terrible. Out of 120-some puzzles, only about 30 were what you’d actually consider “lateral thinking puzzles”, ones where the info you need is in the puzzle, but you have to think outside the box. You shouldn’t require intimate knowledge of law or really any topical knowledge to figure out a true lateral puzzle, just basic smarts and creativity. There was also one puzzle that was super racist (you can’t call Japanese people “Japanese”, as in “Two Japanese walk into a bar.” That’s racist.) Another puzzle was terribly ableist and implied that a blind woman couldn’t find love. Just don’t read this book. Don’t do it.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good way to pass the time on a road trip with the kids ...

[Zoe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite good. It had some new ones that have not come up on the internet before. Only a couple of them had really far fetched answers.