Increase Your Puzzle IQ: Tips and Tricks for Building Your Logic Power
Learn how to take the "tease" out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems, it shows you, step-by-step, how to solve ten of the most common types of puzzles, from basic deduction conundrums to more complex mathematical bafflers. Packed with practice puzzles and offering hours of amusement and mental challenge, Increase Your Puzzle IQ gives you the know-how you need to decipher even the most puzzling of puzzles.
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Book details
- Author
- Marcel Danesi
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 201
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Games & Activities › Puzzles
- Topics
- logic puzzles · brainteasers · deductive reasoning · math puzzles · problem solving · critical thinking · puzzle solving
- ISBN-13
- 9780471157250 (Paperback)9781630261160 (Hardcover)
About the author
MARCEL DANESI is a professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he directs the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory. His recent books include The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi, The Puzzle Instinct and Increase Your Puzzle IQ.
In 1998, Danesi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He serves as editor-in-chief of Semiotica and is a past-president of the Semiotic Society of America.
Danesi has also held academic positions at Rutgers University, the University of Rome "La Sapienza," the Catholic University of Milan, and the University of Lugano.
Marcel lives in Toronto.