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    Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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    Lateral Thinking Puzzles

    By Arcturus Publishing

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    Traditional IQ books are for those with a Mensa mentality. This compilation is for ordinary people who want to enhance essential brain functions, such as concentration, memory, and creativity. Uniquely, this book focuses on left-brain and right-brain puzzles, giving a complete mental workout. You'll love the variety of puzzle types: Odd One Out, In Sequence, Folding Cubes, and memory puzzles. All puzzles are fully explained with examples and solutions provided at the outset. No trick questions or puzzles with more than one answer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateMay 24, 2013
    ISBN9781782122630
    Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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    Arcturus Publishing

    Arcturus Publishing offers a vast and varied range of puzzles, from novelty and specialist content, to popular titles such as crosswords, sudoku, and wordsearch. All of Arcturus Publishing's puzzle titles are of a high quality and in varying degrees of difficulty, with no trick questions. Full solutions are included at the back of each book.

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      Enjoyable so far, but there is already an error in the answers on Puzzle 7 - the answer the book claims is correct is impossible. That's awfully early to have such an egregious error.

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    Lateral Thinking Puzzles - Arcturus Publishing

    INTRODUCTION

    Our brain is undoubtedly our greatest asset, yet for many of us it is the part of the body we tend to take most for granted. We might eat the right foods and take regular exercise to keep us in shape physically, but we do little to maintain or indeed improve our brainpower.

    Now’s your chance to change this and develop a capacity for thinking that will greatly increase your ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.

    Whether you are more creative than logical or vice versa, the enjoyable challenges presented in this superlative compendium will have you thinking outside the box.

    WHAT’S IN THIS BOOK

    Lateral Thinking includes a mixture of three categories of puzzles and challenges, indicated by symbols. The puzzles enable various types of mental activity to be developed and in the process smooth out left- or right-sided brain bias.

    The three categories are:

    PUZZLES TO INCREASE LEFT-SIDE BRAIN FUNCTION

    Designed to develop our powers of concentration but requiring no specialized knowledge beyond the ability to think clearly and analytically as well as to test and strengthen, our numerical and/or arithmetic skills.

    PUZZLES TO INCREASE RIGHT-SIDE BRAIN FUNCTION

    Designed to develop our creative potential, these puzzles have the capacity to change our natural or traditional perceptions and help us to find solutions to unusual or especially challenging problems.

    PUZZLES TO INCREASE WHOLE-BRAIN FUNCTION

    Memory is an essential brain function, and one these puzzles are designed to strengthen. Puzzles involving a high degree of tactical reasoning enhance whole-brain function, and so many of this type are included, too.

    TAKE YOUR TIME!

    Alongside the puzzles and activities we have provided a timer to prompt you to keep track of how long

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