1,000 Playthinks: Puzzles, Paradoxes, Illusions and Games

Ivan Moscovich

Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2001 - Games - 420 pages

1000 PLAYTHINKS is the most compulsive, head-scratching, and--at 5.08 pounds--gargantuan puzzle book ever. An obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions-both original as well as must-do classics. Jam-packed on the page and illustrated throughout in full-color, with a visual for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is like a call to action. And once started it's hard to stop, because at the end of every successfully completed game the puzzle-solver feels smart, successful, and at one with the beauty of mathematics.

Created by Ivan Moscovich, PLAYTHINKS is the first and only book where science, math, and art puzzles all come together. Broken down by chapter, PLAYTHINKS challenges with 12 basic categories, including games of Geometry; Patterns; Numbers; Logic and Probability; and Perception. A special Bonus Round is included for die-hard puzzlers who, after all that, still haven't had enough. An easy-to-read key at the!top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10. The lie-flat spiral binding makes the hefty book completely reader-friendly. So do the answers in the back.

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User Review  - themulhern - LibraryThing

This book is a large format book with a spiral binding. Each page is laid out in separate panels of various sizes, each panel corresponding to a puzzle. Each puzzle has a, usually very well thought ...

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User Review  - MsKelly65 - LibraryThing

Good variety of games and puzzles for entertaining or excercising your brain, answers are included

About the author

Ivan Moscovich is an internationally known and acclaimed inventor, puzzler, and artist. He is a cofounder of San Francisco's Exploratorium, 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.

A graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Ian Stewart has reported from more than 40 countries. At the age of twenty-seven, he was appointed bureau chief of UPI's South Asia bureau. He later joined the Associated Press and was named bureau chief of its West Africa bureau in 1998. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 1,000 Playthinks: Puzzles, Paradoxes, Illusions and Games
• Author: Ivan Moscovich
• Contributor: Ian Stewart
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2001
• ISBN: 0761118268, 9780761118268
• Length: 420 pages
• Subjects: Games / Logic & Brain Teasers