Nearly Impossible Brain Bafflers by Tim Sole
By Tim SoleIf you answer all 167 of these tricky number, word, chess, logic, and spatial games, you must be impossibly smart. Here are some samples: 1. Find the next term in this series: 1248, 1632, 6412, 8256 2. Discover the word, expression, or name depicted by these letters: T _RN. 3. If 89 players enter a single elimination tennis tournament, how many matches would it take to decide the winner, excluding byes? 4. "Bookkeeper" has three consecutive double letters. What common two-word phrase, if you remove the space, also has three consecutive double letters? Along the way you'll try to decipher a Top Forty song chart. Decide whether you'd rather a tiger chase you or a zebra. Give three boys' names that are anagrams of each other. And...figure out who we're talking about if the mother is three times as old as the daughter was when the father was the same age as the mother is now. Fortunately, the answers are provided. Answers: 1. Regrouping the sequence as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256, the next two terms in this sequence are 512 and 1024. The answer to the question is 5121. 2. No U-turn. 3. Each match will eliminate one player, so starting with 89 players will require 88 matches to decide the winner. 4. Sweet tooth. 96 pages, 77 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Book details
- Paperback
- 100 pages
- English
- 0806962933
- 9780806962931
About Tim Sole
More Books By Tim Sole
People who bought this also bought
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection book by Deborah Blum
Think Small: The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals by Owain Service
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves book by Adam Hochschild
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke book by Suze Orman
Speaking Your Way to the Top: Making Powerful Business Presentations book by Marjorie Brody
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale: For Anyone Who Must Get Others to Say Yes! book by Zig Ziglar
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After book by Clemantine Wamariya
The Purity Code: God's Plan for Sex and Your Body book by Jim Burns
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life book by Bill Burnett
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life book by Rory Sutherland
The Rules of Management: A definitive code for managerial success book by Richard Templar
Living a Life of Awareness: Daily Meditations on the Toltec Path book by Miguel Ruiz Jr.
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road book by Kyle Buchanan
They Smell Like Sheep: Spiritual Leadership for the 21st Century book by Lynn Anderson
They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd book by Lynn Anderson
The Pathway to Peace: Walking Daily with Jesus book by Ellen G. White
12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance book by Brian Tracy
100,000 + Baby Names: The Most Complete Baby Name Book book by Bruce Lansky