Brain Benders: Puzzles, tricks and illusions to get your mind buzzing

by Gareth Moore

Overview

Are you ready to challenge and bend your mind to think in different ways? Do your eyes deceive you, they most probably will with these amazing optical illusions. There are puzzles and brain benders here that will get you thinking and get your mind buzzing! Be prepared to stre-e-e-etch your powers of deduction and to use your imagination. Use everything you have and all of your skills to…

• step through a piece of paper
• see colors that change… but wait a minute, do they?
• crack codes and answer riddles
• work out how to turn a circle into a square

…and lots more brain bending fun.

Devised by an expert on brain training. These mental challenges, visual tricks, conundrums and lateral thinking tasks, will certainly give your brain a good work-out, and increase your powers of imagination and logic. It’s all win-win though, with handy tips to help if you need them and the full answers and explanations too!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913077228
Publisher:	Beetle Books
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Dr. Gareth Moore is the author of a wide range of puzzle and brain-training books for both children and adults, including The Kid’s Book of Puzzles, The Mammoth Book of Brain Games and The Rough Guide Book of Brain Training. He is also the founder of daily brain training site www.BrainedUp.com. He gained his PhD from Cambridge University (UK) in the field of computer speech recognition, teaching machines to understand the spoken word.

Table of Contents

Brain Benders 5

Think Outside the Box

Seeing it in Your Head 6

Shape Fitting 8

Games for One 10

Around and About 12

3D Cubes 14

Confusing Lines 17

Hidden in Plain Sight 19

Logic Challenge 20

Seeing is Believing

Introducing Illusions 22

Misleading Measurements 24

Distance Illusions 26

Two-in-One Illusion 28

Context Illusions 30

Color Perception 32

Inversion Illusions 34

Grid Illusions 36

Persistence of Vision 38

Magic Words and Numbers

Riddles 40

Numbers and Reasoning 43

Number Manipulation 46

Amazing Numbers 48

Open to Interpretation 50

Lateral Thinking 52

Language Games 54

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Dice Decision 56

Coin Games 57

Easy Miracles 58

Matchstick Challenges 60

Puzzles with Coins 62

Card Conundrums 64

Sliding Block Puzzles 66

Paper Challenges 68

More Paper Games 70

Fun with Objects 72

Games for Groups 74

Helpful Tips 76

Answers 84

Index 92