Synopses & Reviews
Think outside the box!
Card Shark, Marble Madness, Sock It to Me! and Dizzy Walk
In the beginning there's "Jewels of Xanadu" on the cover—where the chances of unlocking the special color-coded safe could be 1 in millions or 1 in 64, depending on where you start. And once you've survived that, another 25 mind-stretching puzzles await.
- Win a coin-toss game with three friends, calculate the real odds of winning the lottery, predict the chance of pulling the one green marble out of a box of red ones. Think like a mathematician, making sense of seemingly random events.
- Bring a pencil, but remember—(1) you don't have to be a whiz to play, because (2) the most important skills you'll need are curiosity and an open mind. (Solutions and explanations are provided of course!)
Synopsis
This "MindGames" title dwells in the realm of prediction, luck, random chance, and chaos theory, Bell curves, and Paschal's triangle to challenge those with curiosity and an open mind. A 3-D game with moving parts is permanently affixed to the book's cover. Full color.
Synopsis
Introducing
MindGames, a series of conceptual puzzle and activity books for kids eight and up-and we mean up-who enjoy the challenge of solving problems and the pleasure of figuring out new ways of seeing things. Created by Ivan Moscovich, a world-renowned inventor of games, puzzles, and toys, each book comes with a three-dimensional, interactive puzzle on the cover, and dozens of full-color illustrated problems on the same theme inside.
Probability Games dwells in the realm of prediction, luck, random chance, and chaos theory, Bell curves and Pascal's triangle. For example, match up-color by color-the octagons on the cover. But be careful where you start-begin at the upper left corner and your odds of success are 1 in 30,000. Begin in the middle and your odds are 1 in 64.
Also in the MindGames series: Number Games, Pattern Games, and Network Games.
The most important skills needed to solve these puzzles are curiosity and an open mind. (Solutions and explanations are provided, of course!)
About the Author
Ivan Moscovich is an internationally known and acclaimed inventor, puzzler, and artist. He has designed award-winning toys for Mattel, Kenner, Childcraft, Ravensburger, Binary Arts, and other companies, and is the author of the MindGames series and other books. Mr. Moscovich lives in the Netherlands.