[1546595902] [978-1546595908] a Difficult Riddles For Smart Kids: 300 Difficult Riddles And Brain Teasers Families Will Love Paperback Prefontaine 2017

by M. Prefontaine

Brain Stretching Riddles “The mind once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson This book is a collection of 300 brain teasing riddles and puzzles. Their purpose is to make children think and stretch the mind. They are designed to test logic, lateral thinking as well as memory and to engage the brain in seeing patterns and connections between different things and circumstances. They are laid out in three chapters which get more difficult as you go through the book, in the author’s opinion at least. The answers are at the back of the book if all else fails. These are more difficult riddles and are designed to be attempted by children from 10 years onwards, as well as participation from the rest of the family.  Riddles and brain teasers, riddles and trick questions, riddles book, riddles book for kids, riddles for kids, riddles for kids aged 9-12, riddles and puzzles, jokes and riddles, jokes book, jokes book for kids, jokes children, jokes for kids, jokes kids

Genres: Childrens, Nonfiction, Trivia, Humor, Family

77 pages, Paperback

Reviews

[Manny]

I have asked ChatGPT riddles before, and sometimes it gets them, but when it's a known riddle there is always the very real possibility that it was in its training data. This afternoon I happened to think of a new riddle (at least, as far as I know it's new). Not found the answer at once, but I wanted to try it on Chat. Here's the riddle:

An orange played another orange at tennis. What was the score?

For once, Chat answered like a proper old-fashioned science-fiction AI:

The score would be "love-love" because oranges don't have arms to play tennis.

and I had to give it a lot of help before it understood the correct answer, which in case you haven't already guessed is Deuce. Chat apologised, and agreed that having more audio in its training material might help it get puns.

I then tried some more riddles. When I gave it the hint that it came from a famous book, it correctly guessed this one:

What was roots as nobody sees
Is taller than trees
Up, up it goes
And yet never grows.

and then also got several other riddles from Bilbo's and Gollum's riddle game, explaining each one correctly. It however had a lot of trouble with

Why did the elephant marry the ant?

but got it once I explained it, after which it could happily theorize about whether this was a protofeminist joke. Finally, it came up with an interesting non-standard answer to the classic:

I went to the wood and got it
I sat down and I looked for it
The more I looked for it the less I liked it
And I took it home because I couldn't find it.

namely the following:

The answer to this riddle is "nothing". The person went to the wood to get "it", but they couldn't find it, no matter how hard they looked. They then took "nothing" home because they couldn't find what they were looking for.

It understood why the usual answer is "a splinter" when I told it.

What a strange, clever machine it is.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good!

This book was brilliant but I do have to say that the riddles, although in the 'Evil' difficulty, are a little too tricky even for smart kids. It was a good length so it could keep families entertained for days.
I would recommend for a family night together or if you just want to tell some riddles to your friends as some are not as straightforward as they seem. I quite enjoyed it to be honest. 😊

[Lily Scarlet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hehe

[beth🧘‍♀️🍃 · Rating 4 out of 5]

SOME OF THESE RIDDLES ARE SO HARD😭//SO ENTERTAINING!!!!

[brigi Magi]

love this book

[Pamela Zeiger · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a family, we had fun with this book.

[Isabella Rivera · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was regurgitated to crack but in the end it was really fun.

I chose this rating because it was really fun and challenging. There are many riddles that were very hard to crack but it was still very fun.

[emyrose8 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5- It's literally a list of 300 riddles, then 300 answers. It's nice that they're separate so you can try to figure them out for yourself. Three chapters, each chapter features harder riddles.

[Will]

Read this with Ellie.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to all ages kids.😀😁😀😁😎

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[Haley Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are 3 different levels of riddles inside this book - difficult, fiendish and evil (100 of each)

Now personally I'm not particularly good at riddles.. but I thought given that they were for children I would have a good chance of figuring them out.. well how wrong I was!!

It's hard to know if I would recommend this book or not, I suppose it would have to be based on someone who is interested in this type of thing but I feel that the majority of children would be bored with this book

[Melissa Scruggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the design of this book in the kindle so that I could click “answer” and just see the answer for that one riddle instead of seeing all of the answers on a page and having to pick out the one pertaining to the riddle I was on. Keeps you honest and in the dark for the next riddle. Some of them were very challenging!

[Stephanie Pieck · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe it's hard not to repeat things if you're trying to come up with 300 jokes to fill a book. This author has several joke books to their name, some with as many as 900 entries. My recommendation: Skip the book and ask Alexa or Siri to tell you jokes instead. They'll be on a par with may of these groaners.

[S.M.Eves · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes! We had great fun going through this book. Stretched my brains over the holidays. It was well put together. The riddled were impressive and the brain teasers were brain teasers. Thank you for enjoyable times.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book to have in the car, diaper bag, coffee table... classroom

I'd have added a tab or a cut out for the answers as they're in the back instead of upside down.

Decent collection of riddles to promote higher level thinking.

[Lori Prah]

It Could Have Been or Maybe Not

This book did have some difficult riddles but for the most part, they were fairly easy. I wanted to use this book as an ice breaker for my students but they didn't find it interesting or difficult.

[chrstphre campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific Riddles & Formatting for Solutions

The Riddles were all really good, & The indexing to get The solutions was The best imaginable !
A+ Workmynship
Add a few illustrations to The next edition ! ?

[Neil Gilliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

I think it is good but you have to keep looking back and it is very hard to get to the right page

[esra · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Perfect lit nice awesome cool epic

[Aimiebraun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book

In page 285 for the evil riddles, the answers, instead of using the name George, Tim was used.Apart from this, the book was really good 👍.

[Isha Clinton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun & Witty

I enjoyed these riddles for myself but mostly for the puzzling look on all of my little cousins faces when they were trying to answer the riddles!

[kady · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book filled with funny riddles

I liked how the riddle were so easy but hard to answer I don’t dislike anything I would really recommend it

[Sabrina · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's such a fun book of riddles! I can't wait to use some on my little cousins and friends! I was entertained and having fun with myself for two days with this :')

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed this as a family activity

[Alison Tighe · Rating 5 out of 5]

fun riddle book for the kids and adults too.

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mmmmmmm. My grandkids seemed to know the answers to a lot of these. Still good for a laugh however.

[joanne keats · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good

It was a good book. I now have to write 10 more words so here I go three left yay

[Rajesh Gupta · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Linda Tallant · Rating 4 out of 5]

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My students will enjoy this book during down time. These riddles are easy to extremely hard. Everyone will have a chance to answer one.

[Mima Atwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun