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Summary: Perhaps the Best Puzzle Book I Have Ever Worked Through
Review: And I have worked through dozens. As a professional puzzle writer/creator, I get to see a lot of "old chestnuts" that are repackaged versions of puzzles written decades or even centuries ago. Lloyd's book is quite different. There are a few authors (who I will not name) who have given "lateral thinking" something of a bad reputation. By comparison, Lloyd uses excellent illustrations (he is a painter and artist, btw), and really fun teasers that will have you scratching your head until you have that "aha!" experience and KNOW the answer. At first I couldn't make heads or tails of his puzzles, but once you get inside his head, it is quite enjoyable. I have now spent far too many hours on this book, and plan to spend many more. Fun stuff.
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Summary: Perhaps the Best Puzzle Book I Have Ever Worked Through
Review: And I have worked through dozens. As a professional puzzle writer/creator, I get to see a lot of "old chestnuts" that are repackaged versions of puzzles written decades or even centuries ago. Lloyd's book is quite different. There are a few authors (who I will not name) who have given "lateral thinking" something of a bad reputation. By comparison, Lloyd uses excellent illustrations (he is a painter and artist, btw), and really fun teasers that will have you scratching your head until you have that "aha!" experience and KNOW the answer. At first I couldn't make heads or tails of his puzzles, but once you get inside his head, it is quite enjoyable. I have now spent far too many hours on this book, and plan to spend many more. Fun stuff.
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Summary: Buy This Book!
Review: I fail to see why the last reviewer should think that the positive reviews of this book must be 'fake' simply because they are not his opinion? A good reviewer puts himself in other people's shoes, in this case those of puzzle lovers, nobody is helped with a bad review.
Sure, these are not mathematical puzzles - they are more difficult and yet anybody can do them. You do not need a university degree to do them, but they're by no means easy and will be a challenge to most people. The puzzles are funny, tricky and clever. I recommend people to buy this book if they like word and trick puzzles!
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Summary: Poor quality
Review: I guess the 3 other reviews (sent before my review) are fake reviews.
The questions are boring. Usually it asks you arrange some things, or trick you with words ,or not provide enough information (assumptions that the book will use in their answers)
Each question can have multiple ways to answer.
The answer for each question is usually not good.
The book really asked you to "think outside the box".
However, to think creative , we need to think outside the box but what we think still have to be RATIONAL in some ways. You can not just make a crap idea and u say it is creative. I find the explanations here just not acceptable to me.
Don't buy it.
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Summary: Wow. Really forces the reader to "think outside the box"!
Review: Lloyd King has created a fantastic book of puzzles that coax the reader to use lateral thinking and to break out of standard patterns of thought. This book is an incredible mind expander. The puzzles are original and hugely rewarding and will make a difference in the way you look at the world. The ultimate brain work out. Buy the book and feed your head.
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Summary: Wonderfully Tricky
Review: Lloyd King surely belongs to one of the great innovative puzzle designers of this time. His puzzles are so imaginative and unusually tricky, it is a joy to try them. When you fail to see the intended answer, you get an even greater thrill when his clever answers are revealed. This book will give you many hours of amusement, and is definitely a must have. I own all of Lloyd King's books, and I can't wait to get my hands on his next book.Jan Merolant
Creative Puzzles
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Summary: Excellent exercise for the mind!
Review: Whoever this Hiep Nguyen is, he is the one who is boring.
What a waste of space he wrote, so kindly don't bother.
I truly enjoy Lloyd Kings' puzzles, and have yet to get one right. This doesn't bother or frustrate me at all - what it does to me is exactly as Lloyd states - to think outside the box.
When I feel creatively crunched, I'll spend a well-earned half hour with this book. It gets my brain "in gear" again.
Well done!
Monik Robichaud
Author, Quotagrams & Stretchletter Puzzle Books
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