Modern Classic Puzzles (Mensa)

✍ Scribed by Peter Grabarchuk

• Publisher: Sterling
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Created by an art director at the Puzzles.COM website, these phenomenal original brainbusters—more than 200 of them—will stimulate your potential for thinking outside the box. Arranged from easiest to hardest, they’re especially devised for mind-expanding visual solving. And all it takes to crack their mysteries are a pencil, an eraser, patience, and, of course, boundless imagination! Arrange a hinged chain of 11 squares of different sizes into one large square—without overlapping them. Play two-hole billiards on the page, sending two balls into their respective pockets in just two strokes. Figure out how eight patterned cars fit into a checkered parking lot so their colors match the background exactly. Floor plans, tangrams, matchstick puzzles: the variety is amazing!

 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Puzzles
A Small Fish
Floor Plan
Sunny Starry Sky
Rocky Path
Tetrahedral Dot Maze
Contrasting Halves
Four Segments
One-Line Rotator
Two Snakes Around the Cube
Squares in 3-D
L-Flower
Lattice
Chocolate Dissection
Window Construction
The Bird
Unicursal Octahedron
13th Stroke
Three Roads
The Match Five
Beads in Threes
Tetra Mix
Coral Partition
Puzzle Lines
Cubic Dot Maze
Train Slide
Cross Trios
3-D Word Search
I Second That Emoticon
The Plane Cube
Floor Plan 2
Unfold the Prism
The Bat
Easy Message Reading
Coin for Two
The Fourth Pattern
The One Puzzle
Octahedral Dot Maze
Window Watcher
Two Beads or Not Two Beads
Neo Zero Puzzle
Hidden Hexes
Wire Cube
Small Concatenation
Six Balls
Tic-Tac-Toe Restoration
Corner Contours
Black or White
Cube in the Mirror
What’s on the Sixth?
Under the Umbrellas
The Mutilated Chesscube
Unfold the Hexahedron
Odd Three Out
Pentachecker
The Battlement
Unbox
Underwater Cube
Octahedron Cross-Out
Cubic Corners Chain
Stained Glass Puzzle
Smiles
Cube Identification
Divide the Tetrahedron Surface
Frame Cube
Search the Network
Hex Trios
A Little Bunch
Double Trio
Checkered Snowflake
Necklace Interlock
Barcode Reincarnation
To Halve the T
Twist the Cube
Mobile Points
Coin Bat
Block Snakes
Double Dice
The Modern Clock Puzzle
Rebuild the Cube
Number Tree
Cube in a Cube
Linked Stones
Two and a Half
Two-Hole Billiards
Thermal Pictures
Cube Maximization
Hard to Place
Cubic Edge Touching
Through the Die
Hypercube Volume
X Boxes
Cross and Rectangle
Eight Balls
In the House
Square Snakes
Spotted Honeycombs
Hexagonal 14
Bamboo Packing
Tetromino Balls
Square Spiral
Touch Me Twice
All-Seeing Eye
Seven-Square Shape
3-D Dominoes
Superposition
Four out of Four
A Big Bunch
Lace Loops
At a Loss
Ukrainian 14
Star Rock
Divide the Cube Surface
Wire Tetrominoes
The Checkered Six
Intersection Volume
Molecular Model
Water Volume
Fused Cubes
DualDoku
Fish Cube
Tess-L-ation
Divide the Tube Surface
Queens on the Moon
Solutions