Quick-to-Solve Brainteasers

by J.J. Mendoza Fernandez

Don't think too hard or you'll never solve these logic puzzles and riddles. The answers to all 187 are easy once you catch the tricky wording. How can you tie a knot in a napkin by holding one end in each hand without letting go of it? Impossible, you say (or your friends will say, if you bet them). Cross your arms and hold a tip of the napkin in each hand. When you uncross your arms, the knot will be formed! Now try this I climbed up a cherry tree, where I found cherries. I did not pick cherries, nor did I leave cherries. How can you explain this? I climbed up a cherry tree with two cherries in my hand. I picked only one. I left the other one on the tree. I did not "pick cherries," because I "picked a cherry." Take this My bird can fly faster than any supersonic plane. Here's If you put my bird inside any plane and make it fly in the same direction as the plane, it will go faster than the plane. 96 pages, 52 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Genres: Puzzles

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1998

Reviews

[Tim Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent collection but nothing new.

[Timmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick-To-Solve Brainteasers is a great book for young readers that want to challenge their brain and make themselves do some deep thinking. This book stumped me often and I could sometimes feel the gears churning in my head (speaking figuratively), but i read the whole book in about 2 weeks because it is a generally short book and there are some problems that are easier that others. This brings me back to my point that this was a very good book for young readers. I would recommend this book to all students or kids that are of high school age and they will make their brain stronger after reading this book.

[Tonks · Rating 2 out of 5]

I guess it's inevitable that when you've read a few books like this you'll see repeated puzzles, but this one is mostly old chestnuts. A lot of the ones I'd never heard before were terrible or badly worded (possibly because the book was translated from Spanish), and then there were some good ones that were also original--just not enough.

[Vishavjeet Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very good for our commonsense and general knowledge . I like this biik very much........ .