Solve It! A Perplexing Profusion of Puzzles

✍ Scribed by James F. Fixx

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 92
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Figure It Out!

A brick balances evenly with three quarters of a pound and three quarters of a brick. What does the whole brick weigh?

What ordinary English word contains all the vowels, including y?

A stepladder is placed on a cement floor. You stand on the stepladder holding a raw egg, intact in its shell, and drop the egg six feet. It does not break. Why?

Tackle some of the toughest brainteasers with Solve It! Over 100 logic games, math problems, word riddles, and other conundrums are gathered here in one volume to offer hours of brain-tickling fun for young and old! Including a special chapter of puzzles for the superintelligent, as well as the "almost official" Mensa Intelligence Test, Solve It! will challenge your mind and expand your thinking power as you try to crack some of the most perplexing puzzles ever.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Title
How This Book Came to Be
Contents
1. The Pleasures of Problem Solving
2. Adventures in Logic
3. Journeys into Space
4. Words Both Weird and Wonderful
5. Going Mad with Math
6. Pure Skulduggery
7. Just for Fun
8. Games for the Supersuperintelligent
9. The Almost Official Mensa Intelligence Test
The Helpers
Answers to Puzzles