Synopses & Reviews
Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Spock are no strangers to the powers of logic and deduction-neither are the legions of logic puzzle fans that will eagerly tear into the pages of Devious Deductions.
Devious Deductions is filled with more than 100 full-color puzzles designed to maximize mathematical agility, sharpen logical intuition, and test lateral thinking. Expertly crafted by our crack team of puzzle constructors, this compilation offers a spectacular range of challenges for puzzle fans. Includes an intriguing collection of visual, numeric, grid puzzles and more.
So your brain doesn't get over-heated, each puzzle is carefully rated for difficulty and includes a full explanation of its solution. Take a trip to the left hemisphere of your brain for an amazing work-out that will leave your gray matter breathless! Devious Deductions offers brain games like no other puzzle book.
Synopsis
In spite of the fact that logic puzzles are based on words and ideas, there is an amazing variety to be found. There are fascinating number puzzles, too. Indeed, numbers themselves are puzzles: There are ten digits and twenty-six letters, but the variety of words is finite while numbers are infinite.
Words and numbers are both handled by the left hemisphere of the human brain and processed in the same way, regardless of their seeming differences. Thus traditional formats for word-based puzzles, such as crosswords and word searches, also get their own numeric treatments.