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Title: Mind-Bending Puzzles 2002 Calendar by Clifford A. Pickover ISBN: 0-7649-1434-0 Publisher: Pomegranate Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Good, if you're 5 years old
Comment: The puzzles ..., and they're boring. If you have money to waste, then this calendar is for you.
The only puzzles that take more than 5 minutes to solve are the scrambled famous phrases. Wow! ...
On top of all this, most puzzles have gazillions of solutions. here is an example of a supposedly "Mind-Bending" puzzle in the calendar:
"Hazardous is a commen English word that ends in 'ous'. Can you name three others?"
Oh please! Spare my brain!
Please do not buy this calendar. Any other puzzle calendar will be better. Or at least, it won't be worst.
Rating: 2
Summary: Mediocre Collection of Puzzles
Comment: I'm an admitted puzzle-hound, and have three different subscriptions to GAMES Magazine just to prove it. This year I promised myself I was going to find a day-to-day calendar with puzzles for every day, and Cliff Pickover's Mind-Bending Puzzles was the first one I found, so of course I bought it.
I'm only into February now, and I'm getting more and more frustrated with the puzzles. The straight-up puzzles, like the cryptograms and the anagrams, are enjoyable and satisfying, but when he gets into the mathematical puzzles, I find myself frustrated because Mr. Pickover doesn't explain the rules well enough. Today's puzzle, for example, asks me to switch two pairs of numbers so that all the rows, columns, and diagonals equal the same sum, and the example given uses two adjacent numbers. After 15 minutes of trying to figure this puzzle out, I look to the answer, and discover that the numbers switched aren't consecutive. Maybe GAMES Magazine has spoiled me, but if they had a puzzle where any numbers anywhere could be switched out, they'd let me know that in the instructions.
If you're a puzzle-hound, too, then you might do well to skip this one and go for the Mensa puzzle calendar (if you can still find one). I bought one at an end-of-season sale at the mall, and am much happier with that one -- the puzzles are more varied, more original, and much more intuitive.
Rating: 5
Summary: All kinds of puzzles
Comment: This calendar is like a puzzle book with a wide range of puzzles: visual puzzles, mazes, mathematics, "situation" puzzles that challenge you to think from an alien perspective, and more. A great gift for smart friends.
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Title:Finding Nemo ASIN: B00005JM02 Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.99 |
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