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Puzzles & Games

Fantastic Optical Illusions Tantalising Brain Teasers Mystifying Mind Benders
More Than 150 Deceptive Images Over 100 Challenging Enigmas, Over 100 Cunning Riddles, Puzzles
and Visual Tricks Puzzles & Riddles to Unravel & Mysteries to Solve
by Gianni A. Sarcone & by Erwin Brecher by Erwin Brecher
Marie-Jo Waeber hallenge yourself with more than ystify your mind with over 100
an you trust what you see? Of course C100 different types of puzzles! These Mbrainteasers. This provocative col-
Cyou can’t, and that’s what makes these tantalizing teasers include everything lection tests your solving skills with lateral
thinking problems, confounding conun-
from mind-melting geometry problems to
optical illusions so much fun! Created extreme chess enigmas, from logic riddles drums, extreme enigmas, almost-impos-
by the experts at the award-winning to card and bridge games. See if you can sible IQ questions, and perplexing physics
Archimedes-lab.org, this book is sure to figure out why a judge had to set an obvi- problems. Try to solve the mystery of a
amaze and astound. It includes a range of ously guilty man free, when two missiles death in a locked room, how a woman fig-
the best and most interesting visual tricks: will collide, which letter comes next in a ured out a crafty cabbie had lied to her,
ambiguous and impossible figures; hid- series, how a man managed to marry his why a wife was crying over her expensive
den objects; color and brightness effects; widow’s sister, and more. birthday present, and more!
misperceptions of length, size, and shape;
illusory moving patterns, and image par- ERWIN BRECHER, PhD, is a renowned
adoxes. In addition to the astounding puzzle expert who studied physics, eco-
nomics, and engineering and worked in
images, you’ll learn the secrets of how each aircraft design in England during World
type works. War Two. A member of Mensa, he has
written many puzzle books and received
the Order of Merit in gold from the City
of Vienna, in recognition of his literary
achievements.

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