Brain Aerobics Math Puzzles (Hard-to-Solve Math Puzzles)

✍ Scribed by Derrick Niederman

• Publisher: Puzzlewright
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 100
• Edition: Reissue
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Keep your mind fit with brain aerobics!

If you like great mental exercises, try brain aerobics. All you have to do is open this book, lift a pencil, and flex your mind while solving this assortment of invigorating puzzles.

 

In Brain Aerobics Math Puzzles, you’ll need to be on top of your game. If the problems seem hard, that’s because they are! They take insight and brainwork to solve, but don’t require advanced math. The answers may not come to you right away, but you’ll enjoy figuring them out.  

 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Title
Contents
About the Author
Introduction
Puzzles
1. WHEN IN ROME
2. FIND THE SHORTCUT
3. PAGE BOY
4. CIRCULAR LOGIC
5. ACROSS TO BEAR
6. NO CALCULATORS, PLEASE
7. BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
8. CROWD O’ THREES
9. TENNIS, ANYONE?
10. ONE, TWO, THREE
11. DON’T MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE
12. THE STAMP COLLECTION
13. TOO CLOSE TO CALL
14. THE LONG STRING
15. FIRST-CLASS LETTERS
16. MOST VALUABLE PUZZLE
17. PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
18. DOUBLE TROUBLE
19. CEREAL SERIAL
20. PAIRING OFF
21. A SQUARE DEAL
22. SURVIVAL OF THE SPLITTEST
23. SHUTTING THE EYE
24. WHAT’S IN A NAME?
23. THUMBS DOWN
26. TICKET TO RIDE
27. GOING OFF ON A TANGENT
28. SURPRISE ENDING
29. THANKSGIVING FEAST
30. ALL ABOUT PYTHAGORAS
31. A DECADENT DECADE
32. COMPOSITE SKETCH
33. FIVE SQUARES TO TWO
34. EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
35. BLUE ON BLUE
36. STICK FIGURES
37. HERALDING LOYD
38. LOTS OF CONFUSION
39. OH, HENRY!
40. CATCH-22
41. WALKING THE BLANK
42. BREAKING THE HEX
43. DOMINO THEORY
44. THE WAYWARD THREE
45. OH, REALLY?
46. DOWN TO THE WIRE
47. EASY AS A, B, C
48. THE BEANPOT RALLY
49. 3, 4, 6, HIKE!
50. EVEN STEVEN
51. SECOND MOST VALUABLE PUZZLE
52. TOP SCORE
53. A BRIDGE TOO FAR
54. SEVEN-POINT LANDING
55. 'ROUND GOES THE GOSSIP
56. WHAT’S IN A NAME, PART TWO
57. TWO SQUARES ARE BETTER THAN ONE
58. HITTER’S DUEL
59. VISIBLE AND DIVISIBLE
60. ONE PIECE FEWER
61. SCALE DRAWING
62. PLAYING THE TRIANGLE
63. HOW BIG?
64. TUNNEL DIVISION
65. PRIME TIME
66. TRIANGLE EQUALITIES
67. DIVIDING THE PENTAGON
68. PLANTING THE SOD
69. HIGHER THAN YOU THINK
70. POCKET CHANGE
71. SQUARE NOT
72. DUELING WEATHERMEN
73. TWO-WAY ADDITION
74. THE ICING ON THE CAKE
75. HIGH MATH AT THE 7-11
76. WHO AM 2?
77. HOME ON THE RANGE
78. PARTY OF 12
79. HEADS OR TAILS
80. AS EASY AS PI
81. TAKING THE LONG SHOT
82. TRICK TRIG QUESTION
83. MAPPING IT OUT
84. CLOSE COUNTS IN HORSESHOES
85. SEE YOU LATER, ESCALATOR
86. WHITE ON RED
87. THE 18-12 OVERTURE
88. SITTING ON THE FENCE
89. TURNING ON A DIME
90. RAZOR-SHARP REASONING
91. FAIR AND SQUARE
92. SPECIAL DELIVERIES
93. BATTLE STATIONS
94. SPENDING SPREE
95. A TWO-AND-ONE COUNT
96. RATIONAL THINKING
97. ROAMIN’ CANDLES
98. PM EIGHTEEN, AND | LIKE IT
99. MILES TO GO
100. UPSIDE-DOWN PYTHAGORAS
101. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
Answers
1. WHEN IN ROME
2. FIND THE SHORTCUT
3. PAGE BOY
4. CIRCULAR LOGIC
5. ACROSS TO BEAR
6. NO CALCULATORS, PLEASE
7. BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
8. CROWD O’ THREES
9. TENNIS, ANYONE?
10. ONE, TWO, THREE
11. DON’T MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE
12. THE STAMP COLLECTION
13. TOO CLOSE TO CALL
14. THE LONG STRING
15. FIRST-CLASS LETTERS
16. MOST VALUABLE PUZZLE
17. PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
19. CEREAL SERIAL
20. PAIRING OFF
21. A SQUARE DEAL
22. SURVIVAL OF THE SPLITTEST
23. SHUTTING THE EYE
24. WHAT’S IN A NAME?
25. THUMBS DOWN
26. TICKET TO RIDE
27. GOING OFF ON A TANGENT
28. SURPRISE ENDING
29. THANKSGIVING FEAST
30. ALL ABOUT PYTHAGORAS
31. A DECADENT DECADE
32. COMPOSITE SKETCH
33. FIVE SQUARES TO TWO
34. EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
35. BLUE ON BLUE
37. HERALDING LOYD
38. LOTS OF CONFUSION
40. CATCH-22
41. WALKING THE BLANK
42. BREAKING THE HEX
43. DOMINO THEORY
44. THE WAYWARD THREE
46. DOWN TO THE WIRE
47. EASY AS A, B, C
48. THE BEANPOT RALLY
49. 3, 4, 6, HIKE!
51. SECOND MOST VALUABLE PUZZLE
52. TOP SCORE
53. A BRIDGE TOO FAR
54. SEVEN-POINT LANDING
53. >ROUND GOES THE GOSSIP
56. WHAT’S IN A NAME, PART TWO
57. TWO SQUARES ARE BETTER THAN ONE
58. HITTER’S DUEL
59. VISIBLE AND DIVISIBLE
60. ONE PIECE FEWER
61. SCALE DRAWING
62. PLAYING THE TRIANGLE
63. HOW BIG?
64. TUNNEL DIVISION
65. PRIME TIME
66. TRIANGLE EQUALITIES
67. DIVIDING THE PENTAGON
68. PLANTING THE SOD
69. HIGHER THAN YOU THINK
70. POCKET CHANGE
71. SQUARE NOT
72. DUELING WEATHERMEN
73. TWO-WAY ADDITION
74. THE ICING ON THE CAKE
75. HIGH MATH AT THE 7-11
76. WHO AM 2
77. HOME ON THE RANGE
78. PARTY OF 12
79. HEADS OR TAILS
80. AS EASY AS PI
81. TAKING THE LONG SHOT
82. TRICK TRIG QUESTION
83. MAPPING IT OUT
84. CLOSE COUNTS IN HORSESHOES
85. SEE YOU LATER, ESCALATOR
86. WHITE ON RED
87. THE 18-12 OVERTURE
88. SITTING ON THE FENCE
89. TURNING ON A DIME
90. RAZOR-SHARP REASONING
91. FAIR AND SQUARE
92. SPECIAL DELIVERIES
93. BATTLE STATIONS
94. SPENDING SPREE
95. A TWO-AND-ONE COUNT
96. RATIONAL THINKING
97. ROAMIN’ CANDLES
98. PM EIGHTEEN, AND I LIKE IT
99. MILES TO GO
100. UPSIDE-DOWN PYTHAGORAS
101. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
Index