Games For The Superintelligent

by Jim Fixx

"Mindbending math, logic and word puzzles - with insights into the minds of the masterminds."

Genres: Games, Puzzles, Mathematics

125 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

James Fuller Fixx was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. Best known as Jim Fixx, he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging.

Reviews

[Ross Williamson]

anyone going around calling themselves “superintelligent” is a huge loser but i do like puzzles lol

[Zaira · Rating 5 out of 5]

'[...] la inteligencia es el resultado de la herencia (80 por ciento, más o menos) y de la educación (el restante 20 por ciento) [...]'

'Lo fundamental es que haya un período de libertad con respecto a las exigencias del problema planteado, un período de descanso e inclusive de ocio.'

'Si por un tiempo me desentiendo de una dificultad, cuando retomo el asunto, con frecuencia suelo comprobar que soy capaz de superarla con sorprendente facilidad.'

[J. · Rating 1 out of 5]

This didn't have anything in it that's not already in hundreds of puzzle books. Certainly nothing original--I'm completely sure the author didn't invent a single puzzle for this book. Moreover, the explanations are clumsy and unenlightening. Unforgivably, there are important assumptions missing at a few vital places. For instance, in the famous SEND + MORE = MONEY puzzle, there's no mention that the M's can't be zeroes, nor that two different letters can't stand for the same number. So 0000+0000=00000 solves the puzzle, from the rules given.

I guess if this was the first puzzle book you ever saw in your life, and if you've never heard a riddle before, this would be enjoyable.

[M · Rating 4 out of 5]

I completely forgot about these books until I saw them on a friend's shelf. I remember reading them in the 70s and 80s. My father bought them and my brother and I were fascinated by the riddles and puzzles in them. Really cool books that are entirely appropriate for elementary age kids and adults - particularly ones that are intellectually curious!

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Educational and entertaining. How to determine the height of a building using a barometer? Too obvious - better answer, hold it level with the top edge, drop and time until it smashes on ground, use laws of gravity to calculate height :)

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had fun taunting friends over the years with some of these puzzles.

[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Title notwithstanding there are some interesting puzzles in this.