Codes, Puzzles and Conundrums: Mental challenges for curious minds

✍ Scribed by Simon Chesterman

• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 116
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Enter the world of secret codes, cunning puzzles, and mind-bending conundrums. Inspired by the Raising Arcadia series, this book offers a step-by-step guide to each of these three types of problems and a quiz to test your progress. Use it to hone your own detective skills, or to baffle your friends, parents and teachers. 
This book contains new codes, puzzles and conundrums not seen in the original Raising Arcadia books!

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Title
Contents
Editor’s Note
Introduction, by Louisa Greentree
1. CODES
1.1 Ciphers
1.2 Hidden in Plain Sight
2. PUZZLES
2.1 Machsticks
2.2 Water, Water, Everywhere
2.3 Cry Me a River
2.4 To Change a Lightbulb
2.5 Murder by Numbers
2.6 Chess
2.7 Which Wire?
2.8 Fire!
2.9 Walk a Mile in Someone Elses Hat
2.10 Impossible Puzzles
2.11 Logical Pirates
3. CONUNDRUMS
3.1 Trolleyology
3.2 Newcombs Paradox
3.3 Monty Hall
3.4 Truel
3.5 A Lot of Hot Air
CONCLUSION: As Simple as Possible — But No Simpler
ANSWERS
1. Codes
2. Puzzles
3. Conundrums
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
About the Author