Penguin Books, 2024. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-1-804-95208-5 Challenge your memory, test your logic and sharpen your focus with brilliantly fun pictures, words, numbers puzzles. With regular practice, puzzles may help to improve brain function and prevent age-related cognitive decline. The Brain Health Puzzle Book offers a workout for a wide range of brain functions. Featuring over...
The Experiment, 2024. — 173 p. — ISBN 979-8-89303-028-0 Most people get these puzzles wrong. Will you beat the odds? 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...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 95 p. A running maze Form a long line of children—one behind the other. The leader starts running, and is followed by all the rest. They must be sharp enough to do exactly as the leader does. After running for a moment or two in the ordinary running step, the leader changes to a hopping step, then to a marching step, quick time, then to a marching...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 79 p. Part I GAMES FOR SCHOOLS CHAPTER I SCHOOLROOM GAMES For Primary Pupils Cat and Mouse One pupil is designated to play the role of cat, another that of mouse. The mouse can escape the cat by sitting in the seat with some other pupil. Thereupon that pupil becomes mouse. Should the cat tag a mouse before it sits in a seat, the mouse becomes cat...
Icon Books Ltd, 2009. — 220 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84831-156-5. Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? Every year Oxford and Cambridge's learned professors pose such curious conundrums to potential students. This book is a collection of these perplexing problems.
Quirk Books, 2004. — 144 р. — ISBN: 978-1931686969. Remember the games you used to play in the car as a kid? You’d enjoy playing them again, but you can’t quite remember all the rules, and besides, the games were awfully easy. Well, Gladstone’s Games to Go has come to the rescue. With updated classics and challenging original games, Gladstone’s Games to Go delivers antidotes to...
Summersdale, 2013. — 112 p. — ISBN: 978-1849534970 (hardcover), eISBN 978-1786853028. erching on the porcelain can be very boring when you have nothing to do but poo. But fear no more, as excretion expert Hugh Jassburn has put together a compendium of entertaining activities and informative fun that will make you want to stay put, even if you don't need to go. Doing a number...
Chronicle Books, 2019. — 272 p. Reading level: 12 and up. Step into Sherlock's mind palace to try and solve 165 codes, sequences, logical problems, acrostics, quizzes, enigmas, and more in this official Sherlock book of puzzles. With challenges for all skill levels and explanations of how BBC's Sherlock Holmes might arrive at the solutions, Sherlock fans and puzzlers alike will...
Quercus Books, 2017 — 288 p. — eISBN 978-1635061192. Have a knack for mastering Morse code? Want to discover whether your crossword hobby might have seen you recruited into the history books? Think you could have contributed to the effort to crack the Nazis' infamous Enigma code? Then this book about Bletchley Park was custom-made for you. When scouring the population for...
Watkins Publishing, 2018. — 160 p. Use it or lose it! Your mind needs exercise to stay in top condition, just as your body does. By working up a cerebral sweat in this 'mental gymnasium' you will soon have a lean, mean thinking machine on your shoulders. Your mind is what makes you tick, so keeping it in tip-top condition is as important as taking care of your body. By performing...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 46 p. The game of Napoleon, or as it is more generally and popularly called “Nap,” was introduced into this country from the United States, it is believed, about 1865, although it is recorded that the game had previously been played for high stakes at some of the more notorious gambling clubs. It is named after the great Napoleon, as the principal...
B&B Publishing, 2015. — 94 p. — ISBN: 978-1311715685. "30 Interactive Brain teasers to Warm Up your Brain" is a mini edition by Puzzleland, containing 30 easy and short brain teasers to get your mind warmed up for the day! This little fun book is ideal for teens and adults who look for some creative ways to spend their free time, entertain their mind or simply keep themselves...
W. W. Norton & Co., 2022. — 320 p. A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games , Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana...
Mfg, 2014. — 234 S. Logikrätsel für Schlaumeier, zusammengestellt von der Mensa Organisation, beinhaltet eine Sammlung von 150 herausfordernden Knobeleien. Bilder-, Zahlen-, und andere Rätsel wechseln sich ab in loser Reihenfolge und in unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden.
Aladdin, 2016. — 192 р. — ISBN: 978-1481459327. Get to know your friends—and yourself—better with this thought-provoking activity book full of fun quizzes! So grab some paper and a pencil, write down your answers, and get ready to learn all about yourself and your friends! Stuck on a long car ride with no Wi-Fi? Lounging on the beach or by the pool? Hanging with your bestie in...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 91 p. GOING SHOPPING A lively game of "talk and touch." The company is seated in a circle, and one who understands the game commences by saying to his neighbor at the right: "I have been shopping." "What did you buy?" is the required response. "A dress," "a book," "some flowers," "a pencil"—whatever the first speaker wishes, provided always that he...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 32 p. It is just as essential that the teacher who enters a schoolroom in September know how to play with children as to teach them. By no better means, perhaps, may the spirit of friendship and co-operation be so thoroughly strengthened and firmly established as through games. The mental, moral and physical growth attained through participation in...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 78 p. "Let the child imbibe in the full spirit of play. There is nothing like it to keep him on the path of health, right thinking and mind development." That is the guiding purpose of the author. The reader will find in this book a collection of old and present day games. The student of Play has long realized that there are no new games, that all...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 104 p. Have not the gambling propensities of our forefathers influenced the present generation?.. No doubt gambling, in the sense treated of in this book, has ceased in England. If there be here and there a Roulette or Rouge et Noir table in operation, its existence is now known only to a few 'sworn-brethren;' if gambling at cards 'prevails' in...
Материал DigiLibraries.com. — 110 p. CHAPTER I. CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS. Chevaliers d'industrie, or polite and accomplished sharpers, have always existed in every city, from the earliest times to the present. The ordinary progress of these interesting gentlemen is as follows. Their debut is often difficult, and many of them are stopped short in their career....
New York: Dover Publications, 2017. — 176 p. How many cards do I have to deal before I know for certain that you have a straight? If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages ? How many days are in five million seconds? If you think these are good questions, this is the book for you ! Over two hundred entertaining puzzles...
М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2012. — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-271-28022-1, 978-5-17-057003-4. Игра — неотъемлемая часть нашей жизни. Судьба человека подобна рулетке: сегодня вы в фаворе, а завтра — не повезло. Эта книга посвящена самым увлекательным и захватывающим воображение играм, пришедшим к нам из древности и появившимся совсем недавно. Вы найдете здесь описания, правила, стратегии и...
М.: Прометей, 2015. — 150 с.: 98 ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9906134-8-5. Книга представляет собой сборник занимательных логических задач, которые различаются как по типу своего построения, так и по уровню сложности. Однако их объединяет то, что все они являются увлекательными и вызовут несомненный интерес читателя. Они направлены на развитие внимания, памяти, гибкости ума, смекалки и...
М.: ИОИ, 2023. — 144 с. — ISBN 978-5-88230-473-6 В данной книге описывается игра сёги — японские шахматы, а также некоторые другие шахматные игры стран Дальнего Востока и Юго-Восточной Азии. Кроме того, в приложении описывается изобретенная автором игра Корона, в которой используется обычный набор шахматных фигур и обычная доска, но игра происходит со скрытой информацией,...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2008. — 154 с. — (Академия карточных игр). — ISBN 978-5-9524-3606-0. Книга Дж. Лиминга — оригинальный путеводитель в мир карточных игр — включает как известные, так и новые увлекательные игры для любого числа игроков. Среди них — покер, червы, лотерея, слэпджек, «полоумные восьмерки» и многие другие. Коллекцию дополняет подборка фокусов, шуточных номеров,...
Л.: Социально-коммерческая фирма «Человек», 1990. — 191 с., ил. — ISBN 5-289-01197-8 В этой книге автор попытался собрать самые разные игры. Вы познакомитесь с многими играми, которые, скорее всего, были вам неизвестны, но которые не менее увлекательны, а иногда (как, например, бридж) и не менее содержательны. Таких игр немало, и каждый может выбрать себе те, которые придутся...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2007. — 256 с. На страницах энциклопедии читатель найдет множество увлекательных игр со словами и цифрами. Поэтическая игры, литературные викторины, словесные бои, шарады, ребусы, математические головоломки и интересные задачи - все это, а также многое другое собрано в этой книге. Введение. Литературные игры. Поэтические игры. Акростих. Бесконечное...
Спасибо за 3 книги о КВНе Хайчина Ю.Д. Здесь много нашлось интересного материала и идей, которые помогли провести на работе вечер "День народного единства".
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