The Pocket Book of Frame Games: Hundreds of Mind-Bending Word Puzzles from the King of Brain Teasers!

The Pocket Book of Frame Games: Hundreds of Mind-Bending Word Puzzles from the King of Brain Teasers! Review

Frame games, as seen in USA WEEKEND magazine and read by more than 48,000,000 people in 600 newspapers weekly, are an extremely popular and amusing form of word puzzle that represent a famous phrase, song, person, place, or movie. By looking at the way the letters are formed and where they are placed in relation to the other letters, you can piece together a solution. These artfully constructed brainteasers are a favorite among teachers, travelers, and puzzle-lovers alike. Terry Stickels has authored eleven similar collections in the past, and has had bestsellers with Scholastic (over 70,000 sold), Pomegranate, and St. Martin's Press.

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Devious Mind-Bending Puzzles: Official American Mensa Puzzle Book

Devious Mind-Bending Puzzles: Official American Mensa Puzzle Book Review

The more time you give to performing some mental gymnastics with these puzzles, the more creative and inventive you'll become. All you need to know is a little basic arithmetic-plus how to pay close attention so you don't get misled by the tricky, devious instructions.

1. What is 1,449 in Roman Numerals?
2. Unscramble this word into a familiar one: CRICKARFREE
3. What three letters can you add to form a new word from each of these words: RACKS, FLY, RAGE, BELL?

Answers: 1. MCDXLIX. 2. FIRECRACKER. 3. BAR.

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Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles: Official American Mensa Puzzle Book

Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles: Official American Mensa Puzzle Book Review

Try any of these 150 word, number, and logic puzzles, and you'll encounter some surprising new ways to analyze, observe, and decide. You've been warned, so don't get frustrated when you feel yourself getting pushed out of the ruts of your usual problem-solving skills. Try these sample warmup exercises:

1. If Molly's daughter is my daughter's mother, what am I to Molly?
2. Which is larger, one-third times one-third of a dozen dozen, or one-third dozen halved and cubed?
3. How old is the man who told his friend, "Four years from now I'll be twice as old as I was fourteen years ago"?

Answers: 1. I am Molly's daughter. 2. The first calculation is larger. 3. He's 32 years old.

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