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Sensational Shape Problems & Other Puzzles (Mastermind Collection)

By Ivan Moscovich

Book information

Publisher
Sterling
Year
2005
ISBN
1402723474, 9781402723476
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7420947 bytes)
Pages
128\132
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-08-31 15:36:14

Description

Avid puzzle mavens will spend hours slicing and dicing these wildly-hued brainbusters. That's because so many of the problems deal with dissecting geometric shapes--polygons, hexagons, squares, even a chessboard--into congruent parts or figuring out how the split parts would fit back together again. For example, to complete "Exploding Star," solvers have to copy the star in the book, cut it carefully into 12 colored pieces, and then rearrange them into four identical replicas of the big star. But this tough but fascinating collection has lots more to offer: there are tangram paradoxes that offer a new spin on the ancient Chinese game, mathematical conundrums dealing with weight and gravity, Egyptian rope puzzles, and host of other complex challenges.

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