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Follow the hour hand and minute hand of a clock for 24 hours. How many times do they form a right angle? Timothy's house has several rooms, each of which has an even number of doors, including doors that lead outside. Is the number of outside doors even or odd? Stimulating and delightful, this collection of puzzles features original and classic brainteasers. The author, a puzzle columnist for Le Monde, specially selected these mind-benders for the...
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If you want to impress your family and friends by solving the Rubik's Cube while staying calm and collected, then keep reading...
The Rubik's Cube seems like an innocent, colorful and perfect gift for kids, something that will keep them busy for hours on end...
Until you're faced with helping them solve it a few minutes later. That's when you realize the fiendish difficulty involved and feel a rising sense of panic as your plan backfires.
Parents,
...10) Parks
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Keymaster Games
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"From the creators of Campy Creatures, Caper, Space Park, and Control comes PARKS! PARKS is a celebration of our National Parks created in partnership with the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek different trails across four seasons. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource...
11) Photosynthesis
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Blue Orange USA
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[2017]
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English
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Players use light points to take their trees through their life cycles, from seedlings to fully grown. Then players collect scoring tokens with points proportional to the richness of the soil on which the trees grow.
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"Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness can be surprisingly fun -- and to your brain, it's healthy exercise. In this follow-up volume to her bestselling 399 Games, Puzzles, Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young, Nancy Linde offers a brand-new collection of puzzles, trivia challenges, brainteasers, and word games that are not only great fun to do but specifically designed to give your brain the kind of workout...
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"Bamboozling clues need a curious mind to piece together thirteen different animals. The animals in question are easily recognizable: ostrich, polar bear, snail, puffer fish, albatross, sloth, lobster, bullfrog, kangaroo and giraffe. But the clues are not what you'd expect (e.g. "3 billiard balls," "egg cozies," "an extra leg," "chainsaw," "dinosaur feet," "a speedometer," "poison to kill 30 humans"). The clues are wryly illustrated in scenarios unrelated...
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Firefly Books
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2015.
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"The Puzzle Universe is intended for general readers and devoted puzzlers. It is about the latent beauty of mathematics, its history, and the puzzles that have advanced and emerged from the science of numbers. It is full of challenging historical facts, thinking puzzles, paradoxes, illusions, and problem solving. There are 315 puzzles in this book. Extended captions explain in easy terms the value of the puzzles for mathematical and educational purposes,...
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"When most people think of the word "spy", they imagine gadgets--laser pens and exploding cigarette lighters--but the most important piece of equipment an agent has is their brain. In this book, we will teach you how to enhance your memory and sharpen your mind with a range of exercises developed over many years and used to train top Russian intelligence agents. Learn the secrets to vastly improved memory and see if you have what it takes to be a...
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