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THE EVERYTHING BRAIN STRAIN BOOK
Over 400 puzzles, riddles, and mindbenders to flex your mental muscles
Jake Olefsky
Copyright 2005, F+W Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher; exceptions are made for brief excerpts used in published reviews.
An Everything Series Book.
Everything and everything.com are registered trademarks of F+W Publications, Inc.
Published by Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 57 Littlefield Street, Avon, MA 02322 U.S.A.
www.adamsmedia.com
ISBN: 1-59337-315-5 (paperback)
ISBN: 1-978-60550-433-9 (EPUB)
Printed in Canada.
J I H G F E D C B
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Olefsky, Jake.
The everything brain strain book / Jake Olefsky.
p. cm.
(An everything series book)
ISBN: 1-59337-315-5
ISBN: 1-978-60550-433-9 (EPUB)
1. Puzzles. 2. Riddles. I. Title. II. Series: Everything series.
GV1493.O44 2005
793.73 dc22
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Cover illustration by Barry Littmann.
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Dear Reader,
If you like pulling your hair out, grinding your teeth, and thinking so hard that steam comes out your ears, then this book is for you! The Everything Brain Strain Book contains hundreds of the most popular brainteasers, as voted by thousands of users of Braingle.com the Internet's brainteaser encyclopedia. The puzzles in this book range in difficulty from quickies (solvable in a few minutes) to strainers (maybe you'll never solve them!) and are sorted into 14 different categories so you can easily dig into the teasers that are most interesting to you. If you can't solve a particular puzzle, there's no need to worry the answer is always in the appendix.
Solving brainteasers has been proven to increase your creativity, concentration, and mental agility. Learning how to think in different ways and finding solutions to difficult problems will help you when real-life puzzles pop up.
Upgrade your brain. Buy this book!
THESE HANDY, accessible books give you all you need to tackle a difficult project, gain a new hobby, comprehend a fascinating topic, prepare for an exam, or even brush up on something you learned back in school but have since forgotten.
You can read an EVERYTHING book from cover to cover or just pick out the information you want from our four useful boxes: e-facts, e-ssentials, e-alerts, and e-questions. We literally give you everything you need to know on the subject, but throw in a lot of fun stuff along the way, too.
We now have well over 150 EVERYTHING books in print, spanning such wide-ranging topics as weddings, pregnancy, wine, learning guitar, one-pot cooking, managing people, and so much more. When you're done reading them all, you can finally say you know EVERYTHING!
Facts: Important sound bytes of information
Essentials: Quick and handy tips
Alerts!: Urgent warnings
Questions?: Solutions to common problems
I'd like to thank my family for their support especially my wife, for being such a good brainteaser tester.
I would also like to thank all of the users of Braingle.com who provided me with the inspiration to write this book. Special thanks to users Bobbrt and Mad-Ade, who contributed some of their own puzzles to this book.
Many people enjoy solving brainteasers. For some, the satisfaction comes from figuring out the solution to a difficult puzzle. For others it's just the entertainment derived from the amusing stories and clever answers that accompany a good brainteaser. Whatever the reason, it is clear that brainteasers have been popular for thousands of years. The earliest known form of brainteaser is probably the tangram, an ancient Chinese puzzle of seven pieces that fit together in different ways to form a variety of shapes. There are also re cords of puzzles written on the walls of pyramids and temples around the world.
There are more benefits to solving brainteasers than just plain fun. Several medical benefits come from solving puzzles. People who solve brainteasers have been shown to experience a delayed onset of Alzheimer's compared to people who do not exercise their brains. In addition, keeping your mind in tiptop shape will boost your creativity and mental flexibility. This is why many top design firms use brainteasers as part of their daily routines. People exercise to keep their bodies physically fit, so why shouldn't they also perform exercises to keep their minds mentally fit? Solving puzzles is one way to keep your mind in peak condition.
Just like physical exercise, where you do different movements to work out different parts of the body, you should do different types of mental exercise to work out different parts of your brain. The various chapters in this book contain many different types of puzzles, some based on math and some on language. Flip through the pages, and try out some of each. Math and language brainteasers stretch different parts of your brain, and some people are naturally better at one particular type of puzzle than another. You probably already know your favorite kind of puzzle, but you shouldn't avoid the other types. This is probably the part of your mind that needs the most exercise. With a little practice, you will surely get better. Just start out with the easier puzzles in that chapter, and work up from there.
You've surely heard the phrase, Two minds are better than one. It's true. Brainteasers are great for sharing with friends, especially if you're stumped on a particularly difficult puzzle. Instead of flipping straight to the answer, why not try to work it out with a friend? You'll be amazed at how much more quickly you can solve puzzles when you have someone helping you. It's no surprise that brainteasers are great group activities. Just look at how many popular board games have some form of puzzle as their main element. There's something about solving a difficult problem as a group that brings everybody closer together.
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