Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind

by Charlie Self, Tom Lensch (With)

Overview

For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained, inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility.

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take apart" games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated "unlocking" head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box puzzles. Readers will also learn specialized cutting, drilling, sanding, gluing and finishing techniques that make crafting wooden puzzles possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589232471
Publisher:	Cool Springs Press
Publication date:	06/12/2006
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Charlie Self is a woodworker and professional writer from Bedford, Virginia. He has written dozens of books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on the craft of woodworking.

Self/Lensch