Puzzle Me Twice, 9798893030280
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Tricky puzzles that fool you once, challenge you twice!

Puzzle Me Twice

70 simple puzzles (almost) everyone gets wrong

$37.24

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2024

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Summary

Puzzle Me Twice: Outsmart Your Instincts!

From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in common—a wrong answer that seems so right! In Puzzle Me Twice, you’ll have to think—and think again—to overrule your first instinct and uncover the truth. For example:

If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs do half a dozen hens lay in half a doz…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798893030280
Series:Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
Author:Alex Bellos
Publisher:The Experiment LLC
Imprint:The Experiment LLC
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:15 October 2024
Weight:182g
Dimensions:180mm x 130mm x 18mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A brilliant collection of puzzles. Never has getting the answer wrong felt so good!” – G. T. Karber, author of Murdle“This delightful collection of paradoxes teaches us that our instincts aren’t always correct. The answers are often counterintuitive,but the explanations are satisfying and enlightening… . great fun.” – Games World of Puzzles“Praise for Alex Bellos “I’m a sucker for Alex Bellos’s books—they’re just such fun.” – Tim Harford, author of The Data Detective“Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you ever had, and now you’ve got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like.” – Steven Strogatz, author of The Joy of x

About The Author

Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here’s Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.

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