Sandy Silverthorne - One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers: Good Clean Puzzles for Kids of All Ages

Sandy Silverthorne & John Warner
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS EUGENE, OREGON Cover by Left Coast Design, Portland, OregonCover illustration Sandy SilverthorneBack cover author photos Milo J. SkinnerONE-MINUTE MYSTERIES AND BRAIN TEASERS Copyright 2007 by Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.harvesthousepublishers.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Silverthorne, Sandy, 1951 One-minute mysteries and brain teasers / Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner. p. cm. Includes index. Puzzles. 2. 2.

Detective and mystery stories. I. Warner, John., 1980- II Title. GV1493.S585 2007 793.73dc22 2007002500 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 / VP-SK / 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Katie and Tythank you for getting me
addicted to lateral thinking puzzles.
And to Kristinthank you for your
encouragement and inspiration. Sandy Thanks to Kristin Warner for
Choosing Sides, The Long Way
Home, The New Girl, and
Teachers Pet. Sandy Thanks to Kristin Warner for
Choosing Sides, The Long Way
Home, The New Girl, and
Teachers Pet.

Thanks to Katie
Trimble for What Is Your
Emergency? and Underpaid?

What Are One-Minute Mysteries? These short interactive mysteries are examples of lateral thinking puzzles. Each puzzle describes an unusual scenario, and your job is to figure out what is going on. The puzzles may seem open-ended, but they generally have only one satisfying answer, one solution that suddenly appears when the light bulb goes on in your head and you say, Aha! Each mystery takes only a minute to read, and then you can take your time to enjoy the sleuthing process! How Do I Solve Them? Youll need at least one other person to enjoy these puzzles to the fullest, and the more people the better. Choose one person to be the case master, and everyone else is a detective. The case master reads the puzzle aloud and privately consults the solution in the back of the book. The detectives can then pose questions to the case master that he or she can answer by saying yes, no, or doesnt matter.

If the detectives get stumped, the case master can turn to the clues and provide them as needed. If you decide to investigate these mysteries on your own, the clues section will help you along the way. If you have a hunch of what the solution is, before looking at the answer, first examine the clues to see if youre on the right track. Some of the clues will surprise you! When solving these puzzles, throw out all your assumptions about what is going on, and of course, be open-minded, flexible, and creative. Ohone last thing: Dont let the illustrations mislead you. They will generally depict humorous but incorrect assumptions and are purely for your viewing enjoyment.

Now, put on your sleuthing caps and get on the case!