The Great Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Book: A Collection of Enigmas to Puzzle Even the Greatest Detective of All

Sirius Literary Puzzles

by Gareth Moore

Pit your wits against the greatest detective of them all with this collection of fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles and enigmas. It contains a great mix of types of conundrums to keep the most ardent puzzle and Sherlock fan entertained and challenged.

Genres: Puzzles, Mystery, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2018

Reviews

[N.N. Heaven · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes mysteries and have the complete annotated collection in my personal library. I read and re-read Holmes and Watson mysteries often with great pleasure. When I saw this puzzle book, I knew I had to check it out.



Filled with over 130 logic puzzles, riddles, and interesting brain teasers told from the point of view of Dr. Watson, this is a treasure for mystery and puzzle lovers alike. Each puzzle has a link to the solution as well as a link to the next puzzle which makes navigating this book a breeze on any device. The puzzles range from super easy to difficult, doesn’t take more than a few minutes each and reading it is a great brain exercise.

This puzzle book reminded me of back in my youth when I devoured Encyclopedia Brown books. It’s better, though, because it’s Holmes and Watson. The age range is middle grade to adult, although I’m sure the author has geared it for adults. It’s clean so parents don’t have to worry about the content.



If you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan and looking for fun brain-teasers to read through on your commute or while you’re waiting for the kids to get out of school, pick this up right away. It would make a superb gift, too!



Disclaimer: I received an ARC from Arcturus Digital via Netgalley in the hopes I’d review it.



My Rating: 5+ stars



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[szyszka_czyta · Rating 5 out of 5]

„Myśl jak Sherlock Holmes. Księga zagadek, które zaskoczą nawet największego detektywa” to propozycja dla miłośników zagadek logicznych, łamigłówek i ćwiczeń umysłowych w klimacie przygód słynnego detektywa, przy których nie sposób się nudzić. Zapewniają świetną rozrywkę na kilka godzin, przy tym są zróżnicowane nie tylko w poziomie trudności, ale i też jakości.

Autor przygotował zbiór zadań inspirowanych sposobem myślenia Sherlocka Holmesa, a w nim znajdziemy zagadki logiczne, szyfry, łamigłówki, zadania matematyczne i językowe oraz scenariusze kryminalne, w których trzeba wcielić się w detektywa i wskazać sprawcę na podstawie poszlak. By je rozwiązać potrzebujemy jedynie ostrego jak brzytwa umysłu, logicznego myślenia, dobrej pamięci, sprytu, spostrzegawczości oraz dedukcji.

To co wyróżnia ten zbiór na tle innych, to z pewnością fragmenty pochodzące z oryginalnych powieści Arthura Conana Doyle’a.

Interaktywny zbiór zagadek, który bawi i jednocześnie trenuje umysł. Idealny dla miłośników łamigłówek, escape roomów czy osób, które lubią rozruszać wyobraźnię i szare komórki, używając do tego edukacji jak prawdziwy detektyw.

[Etienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another puzzle book, this one contain enigmas and not logico-math puzzles. The enigmas are always presented like they came from a dialogue between Watson and Holmes, it don't really change anything in the end, it's more a less there to make a intro to the enigma. I find it to be more challenging. Some are kind of a word twist in it, and it's in english so you have to think in english. If you're do not speak english as your primary langage, like me, it's even more challenging, but I like it. I like that the epub version as a link at the end of the puzzle that can bring you directly into the solution, so you don't have to go around into all the pages to find it and you don't find it at the bottom of the page, written head down like it's often the case. For those who like enigmas, it's a interesting book!

[Diana]

współpraca reklamowa zielonasowa/
Myśl jak Sherlock Holmes. Księga zagadek, które zaskoczą nawet największego detektywa to gratka dla osób które nie boją się logicznego myślenia na level pro oraz zadań matematycznych których jest tu dość sporo. Książka zachwyca pięknymi ilustracjami i tak jak podaje wstęp można każde wyzwanie podjąć odrębnie albo przegląd ja według własnego uznania. Na chybił trafił.
Co znajdziecie w środku;
☛ zagadki logiczne oraz karciane, matematyczne, łamigłówki, rebusy, zakodowane wiadomości;
☜ więcej zagadek jest po angielsku;
☛ Sprawa Dziedziców z Reigate jako oryginale opowiadanie autorstwa sir Arthura Conan Doyle'a z zagadką do rozwiązania;
☜ zagadki graficzne;
☛ Rytuał Musgrave'ów;
☜ klimat dawnej Anglii.

Myśl jak Sherlock Holmes od pierwszej strony zachęca nas do dedukcji i nieszablonowego myślenia. Zagadki mają różne stopnie trudności, więc każdy znajdzie tu coś dla siebie. Tym razem skakałam po książce, niektóre zagadki czytałam po kilka razy, prowadząc notatki żeby łatwiej znaleźć rozwiązanie. Na końcu są odpowiedzi więc w razie w, nie zostajemy z niczym.
Księga zagadek Sherlocka Holmesa zaskoczy tych, którzy łatwo przewidują plot twisty książkowe. Dla mnie okazały się trudniejsze niż Alicja głównie przez matematykę, która nie jest moim sprzymierzeńcem. Mimo to bawiłam się świetnie. Zagadki przypominały mi sprawy kryminalne z czasopisma Detektyw, które kiedyś czytałam namiętnie.

[David Thrower · Rating 3 out of 5]

riveting

[Theediscerning · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don't be persuaded by the claims of this book to have a host of puzzles for the average woman to dip into and exercise their brain with. Although it's been suitably put into the fictional world of 221B, this is more or less a selection of groan-worthy riddles. What has three feet and no legs? A yardstick. You get the drift, so even if it starts with one of those gridless logical puzzles that have been kicking around for decades, not a lot here will really tax you, until you click 'solution' in exasperation, only to groan at the result. On the other hand, too much of this is primary school stuff – surely things like 'gegs' predate Holmes. And never – NEVER – would Holmes say "there are a large number of" anything. One and a half stars.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disclaimer: I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for a review.

This is a cute book of riddles, but you've probably heard a lot of them before. Most are just plain riddles, not logic puzzles or mysteries to solve; they depend on clever wordplay or knowing some very specific setup for the answer to make sense. Some very easy, a few quite difficult, most middle of the road in terms of difficulty. I didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped to mainly because I wanted more of the logic, less of the wordplay riddle.

I imagine this book would make a nice coffee table book or gift for an office gift exchange. Most people will probably find it entertaining to some degree, and it's not a big investment if they don't like it.

[Johanna Sawyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks Netgalley for a copy to read and review and give my honest opinion.

Loved it! Sherlock Holmes is my absolute favorite detective. This was a puzzle book full of Holmes and Watson deducing puzzles. Really fun to read and try to figure them out. Most of them weren't really hard but they took some thought. I enjoyed being able to click back and forth between story and solution on the ebook I was provided. Made it very simple and easy to use. I would definitely suggest this for puzzle and mystery lovers as well as people who love a good Sherlock Holmes puzzle. The stories themselves are not very long, so it was very enjoyable. Five stars of entertainment!

[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great source of fun and frustration! This feels authentic to the Sherlock Holmes stories, and gives your brain a good work out at the same time. A lot of the puzzles involve math, and calculation or finding what is unique to a number, which I failed miserably. The ones that depend on word play or logic I found I got about 90% on. These aren't too difficult to make you feel frustrated, and depending on your talents, you may find some easier than others. This would be a good book to take in a car for road trips with bored people, or for a Sherlock themed event. It's always good to stretch the brain with something other than Candy Crush every now and again.

[Maria Elmvang · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun collection of word puzzles of varying difficulties. Some were easy, some were just the right level of challenging and a few required math abilities that were beyond even mine. I really enjoyed making my way through it and were able to solve satisfyingly many of them.

The kindle edition has links after each puzzle and each solution for easy navigation back and forth, which came in really handy.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Puzzles worthy of the great Sherlock Homes. Who could ask for more? And that is exactly why I chose this book, purely for the Sherlock Homes connection. I found a good collection of puzzle of different types. This was fun for a few puzzles but soon became boring because the puzzles were too easy to solve. This would probably be great for a tweens project with a puzzle a day to solve.

[Heike · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun little brain teaser. Mostly logic and some mathematical puzzles, also some that could not be solved by a normal person (I dare to say) but where interesting. In the ebook version is a link after every puzzle that brings one to the well explained solution, and from there back or on to the next puzzle, which made for easy reading.

[Jada Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute collection of riddles with beautiful illustrations and cozy, slice-of-life situations. The difficulty of the riddles is random, with harder ones sometimes followed by incredibly easy or quick-to-solve ones and vice versa. However, it has a good balance of both to keep the readers from getting too annoyed or solving all of them too easily.

[Noor · Rating 3 out of 5]

A riddles book with an into for each riddle with Watson and Holmes conversing.

I was disappointed with the book as I thought it covers mysterious detective puzzles (being mislead by the book’s title).

I found the riddles easy to solve as I encountered most of them as a child (thus probably a 13 year old me would have enjoyed this book.).

[julianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have the Kindle version thanks to NetGalley :)

A set of enigmas, loosely wrapped up in conversations between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The puzzles were fun and of varying difficulties. What I liked was there was a link at the end of each puzzle to go to the solution.

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun and entertaining puzzle book. The puzzles are not too hard and these could be enjoyed by the whole family or as a group with friends. I like that each puzzle has a link to the soloution in the kindle edition.
Thanks to netgalley for letting me read this.

[Mimia The Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great riddles book. I loved the concept of it being written by John Watson just like the books.
I’ll be returning to it whenever I need to have a good enigma (which happens more than one would think).
I should definitely check it out if you are interested in this kind of thing

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fun collection of puzzles and trick questions loosely inspired and connected by Sherlock Holmes and Watson's interactions.

[Jessi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was fun book full of interesting logic puzzles. The links weren't all correct which led to some frustrations but I would hope that would be fixed by the time they published the book.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

#NetGalley #Holmes #Puzzle

A very good collection of puzzles on the way of Sherlock Holmes. A great activity to try with friends or family. Amazing!

[Lechw · Rating 3 out of 5]

Näppäriä arvoituksia Holmes-tyylille uskollisena.

[Elizabeth Kennedy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun!!!

[Turtle · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m just not a fan of puzzle books. Nothing against the book in question, I just couldn’t finish it.

[Stephanie Pieck · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author strains a bit too hard to write like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but the puzzles were a nice diversion.

[lucy♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, that was a blow to my ego

[Mike Corgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun puzzle book with a Sherlock/Watson theme.

[Emma Jackson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice little book of puzzles and riddles. Some were a bit easy but overall I enjoyed the format and little story of each one.

[JOSE LUIS · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entretenido libro de acertijos, algunos bastante conocidos y otros algo complicados... No está mal (leído en su versión en castellano).

[Sabrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oggi sono qui per parlarvi di un'altra bellissima opera che L'Airone Editrice ha portato nelle nostre librerie.
Ricordate che tempo fa vi parlai del libro degli enigmi di Agatha Christie e quello con protagonista Lupin? Ebbene, oggi sono qui per presentarvi anche una nuova edizione sullo stesso genere, ma stavolta dedicata al celebre detective nato dalla penna di Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes.
Come per il volume a tema Christie, anche in questo ci sono tantissimi enigmi da poter risolvere da soli o in compagnia, accompagnati da meravigliose illustrazioni che rendono il volume anche solo un gioiello da collezione.
Proprio come per il vecchio gioco cartaceo di Clue, conosciuto in Italia come Cluedo, una volta concluso il libricino, per chi ci ha già giocato è da ritenersi concluso e da posare in libreria, poiché a differenza di un gioco di società non cambia le prospettive, ma sinceramente vale tantissimo la pena averlo anche solo per sfogliarlo e magari sfidare chi non ci ha ancora giocato.
Davvero bellissimo, ve lo consiglio tantissimo.

[Hadlai · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
I quite enjoyed this little book of puzzles, but I reckon that's only because I kept the solutions bookmarked at all times. If I'd taken each vignette as a personal challenge, it would've been no fun at all.
Some of the puzzles are very easy, some are a bit more meaty, and others I never would've solved in a million years. There are a handful of math problems, which I wasn't too pleased about, but I actually managed to solve a few, and they were more enjoyable to read than I'd expected.
The characters of Holmes & Watson are, for the most part, portrayed accurately. Reading several of their antics in quick succession adds up to a very amusing afternoon.