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The Everything Lateral Thinking Puzzles Book

The Everything Lateral Thinking Puzzles Book

 eBook, Published by David & Charles   (01 August 2009)

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Book description

With hundreds of fun and imaginative problems for avid puzzlers like you, this all-in-one guide presents ridiculous scenarios that you can actually solve with simple common sense-and a little creativity! Organized by puzzle type and subject matter, simple and challenging riddles abound in this interactive book. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned expert, you'll test your wits with such tantalizing puzzles as this one:

Puzzle: A doctor mixed a batch of medicine for his client and then drank it down himself. Why?
Clues:
1. It tasted good!
2. It worked better with a straw.
Solution: Coca-Cola was invented when a doctor was mixing headache medication to taste good. The approval board found that the medicine tasted better than it worked, so they carbonated the liquid and then marketed it!

Nikki Katz is a freelance writer and experienced problem solver. Her engineering degree has given her a keen knowledge of ciphers, decoding, and placing content into code. With hundreds of fun and imaginative problems for avid puzzlers like you, this all-in-one guide presents ridiculous scenarios that you can actually solve with simple common sense-and a little creativity! Organized by puzzle type and subject matter, simple and challenging riddles abound in this interactive book. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned expert, you'll test your wits with such tantalizing puzzles as this one:

Puzzle: A doctor mixed a batch of medicine for his client and then drank it down himself. Why?
Clues:
1. It tasted good!
2. It worked better with a straw.
Solution: Coca-Cola was invented when a doctor was mixing headache medication to taste good. The approval board found that the medicine tasted better than it worked, so they carbonated the liquid and then marketed it!

Nikki Katz is a freelance writer and experienced problem solver. Her engineering degree has given her a keen knowledge of ciphers, decoding, and placing content into code.