Puzzlings: Brain Training with Language Puzzles

by George Yule

Puzzlings (“little linguistic puzzles”) are word games using examples from a hundred and one different languages. They are exercises for the mind that will help improve analytic skills and develop problem-solving strategies. On each page of the book you will find examples from different languages, with English translations, arranged in order to create a puzzle. The answers to each part of the puzzle are provided in lists on the same page. You just have to decide which answers go in the blanks. Correct solutions are provided in the back of the book. We have tried to divide the puzzles into groups that we think will be least difficult (Level 1) through to those that seem most challenging (Level 5). Within each level, the source languages are simply listed and the puzzles can be done in any order.

136 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2017

About the author

George Yule has worked as an English teacher in Britain, Canada, Jamaica, and Saudi Arabia. He has also taught Applied Linguistics in the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawaii, Louisiana State and Minnesota.