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Brain Boot Camp
Send your brain to boot camp by completing the more than 350 puzzles in this book!
Modeled after questions on real IQ tests, the puzzles in Brain Boot Camp will test your mental mettle and push your brain to think faster and smarter. Quizzes include topics such as logical deduction, spatial reasoning, conceptual thinking, concentration, and many more. So put on your thinking cap and get started! More than 350 puzzles await.
Modeled after questions on real IQ tests, the puzzles in Brain Boot Camp will test your mental mettle and push your brain to think faster and smarter. Quizzes include topics such as logical deduction, spatial reasoning, conceptual thinking, concentration, and many more. So put on your thinking cap and get started! More than 350 puzzles await.
288 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 2019
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Subject matter includes adult crafts and leisure activities, pop culture, cooking, pets and domestic animals, sports, history, transportation, and nature.
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June 11, 2023
I guess every boot camp is hard, huh.
Problem *3* of the EASY SECTION is impenetrable to me, even after the explanation. Like, I do not have the mental processing capacity to see a "pattern" like that. The book is full of these kinds of obtuse lateral thinking exercises. Even the "what's next in the sequence" puzzles are like, "the sequence is add the integer value of the corresponding element atomic weight" or something I'd never come up with.
The thing I dislike about this book is, with puzzles I enjoy, getting the answer should feel like, "Oh!" or "THAT'S CLEVER" or at least, "Ok, I was on the right track but I get it."
These puzzles, the answer is the answer. Like if you divided 5282864 by 12.7. Oh, that's the answer, ok. I did one that seemed like a clever problem, but I ended up having to divide into /100ths for fractions and ended up with my answer was "a little under 100 miles."
Actual answer: 96.111111... miles.
There's another "easy" "puzzle" that is essentially duplicated in the "(more) difficult" section, that involves counting how many rectangles are in the illustration. They look identical, but the "difficult" puzzle somehow counts more than TWELVE THOUSAND MORE than the "easy" version of the same... because... ??? A friend suggested the fact of it being in different line and background colours means they want to include the perspective grid lines that are in the background of each page as part of the figure, but... that just makes rhombuses, not rectangles??
I think I've solved like five out of 100 "puzzles." This is a book of maths homework and "figure out what completely bizarre method we used to concoct this seemingly random and arbitrary selection of numbers" "puzzles", BOO.
Problem *3* of the EASY SECTION is impenetrable to me, even after the explanation. Like, I do not have the mental processing capacity to see a "pattern" like that. The book is full of these kinds of obtuse lateral thinking exercises. Even the "what's next in the sequence" puzzles are like, "the sequence is add the integer value of the corresponding element atomic weight" or something I'd never come up with.
The thing I dislike about this book is, with puzzles I enjoy, getting the answer should feel like, "Oh!" or "THAT'S CLEVER" or at least, "Ok, I was on the right track but I get it."
These puzzles, the answer is the answer. Like if you divided 5282864 by 12.7. Oh, that's the answer, ok. I did one that seemed like a clever problem, but I ended up having to divide into /100ths for fractions and ended up with my answer was "a little under 100 miles."
Actual answer: 96.111111... miles.
There's another "easy" "puzzle" that is essentially duplicated in the "(more) difficult" section, that involves counting how many rectangles are in the illustration. They look identical, but the "difficult" puzzle somehow counts more than TWELVE THOUSAND MORE than the "easy" version of the same... because... ??? A friend suggested the fact of it being in different line and background colours means they want to include the perspective grid lines that are in the background of each page as part of the figure, but... that just makes rhombuses, not rectangles??
I think I've solved like five out of 100 "puzzles." This is a book of maths homework and "figure out what completely bizarre method we used to concoct this seemingly random and arbitrary selection of numbers" "puzzles", BOO.
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January 2, 2023
Good puzzles at an elementary school level. Out of the approximately 300 puzzles, many types are repeated several times. Not very creative.
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