Critical Thinking Puzzles

✍ Scribed by Michael A. DiSpezio

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 98
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Here are enough tough puzzles to test your mental powers for hours and hours. Try this never-ending array of puzzles, challenges, funky facts, things to build, weird riddles, and other conundrums. Some are old favorites that never fail to stump, others are totally new, but all promise hours of fun. Every one can be completed with a pencil, pen, or some inexpensive materials around the house. 96 pages, 105 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 4
Introduction
......Page 6
The Puzzles
......Page 8
Pyramid Passage
......Page 9
Pyramid Builders
......Page 10
Trial by Triangle......Page 12
Spare My Brain......Page 14
Lost?
......Page 15
Sand Traps
......Page 16
Which Mountain?
......Page 17
Compass Caper
......Page 18
A Cut Above
......Page 19
Kitchen Cups
......Page 20
Moldy Math......Page 21
And a Cut Below
......Page 22
Losing Marbles?
......Page 23
A Puzzle of Portions
......Page 24
Mixed Up?
......Page 25
Toothpick Teasers
......Page 26
Going to the Movies
......Page 27
Now Seating?
......Page 28
Weighing In...
......Page 29
The Strangest Eyes
......Page 30
Head Count
......Page 31
Mobius Strip
......Page 32
Ant Walk
......Page 33
Squaring Off......Page 34
Saving Face
......Page 35
Cut the Cards
......Page 37
Missing Square
......Page 38
Tipping the Scales
......Page 40
Falcon Flight
......Page 41
A Question of Balance
......Page 42
Robot Walkers......Page 43
Chain Links
......Page 44
Money Magic
......Page 45
Revolutionary Thoughts
......Page 46
Baffling Holes
......Page 48
A Giant Step
......Page 49
Sock It to Me......Page 50
Nuts!
......Page 51
Doubtful Dimensions......Page 52
Machine Madness
......Page 53
Putting It Together
......Page 54
City Pipes
......Page 55
Anti-Magic Square
......Page 56
Numbers Game
......Page 57
Connect the Dots
......Page 58
In Order
......Page 59
Tangrams
......Page 61
Number Sense
......Page 64
What Comes Next?
......Page 65
The Marked Park
......Page 66
Pattern Path
......Page 68
Pattern Puzzler
......Page 69
Titillating Tiles
......Page 70
Pattern Grid
......Page 71
The Answers
......Page 72
Index
......Page 96