Puzzle Me Twice

70 Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong

Alex Bellos

$37.95 $34.34

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Experiment, LLC
22 October 2024

Mathematical logic; Hobbies, quizzes & games; 3-D images & optical illusions; Puzzles & quizzes

Series: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books

From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in common--a wrong answer that seems so right! In Puzzle Me Twice,

you'll have to think--and think again--to overrule your first instinct and uncover the truth. For example:

If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs do half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?
*

Bestselling author Alex Bellos wrangles math and physics, logic and wordplay, optical illusions, card games, and more to tie readers' brains in pleasurable knots. It's a merry tour of the many ways our reasoning can go wrong--and how we can be more fool-proof in the future. Puzzle on!
*Four times as many hens, over four times as many days, lay 16 times as many eggs: 1.5 × 16 = 24 eggs.

By: Alex Bellos
Imprint: Experiment, LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 177g
ISBN: 9798893030280
Series: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 22 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here's Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover's Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.

Reviews for Puzzle Me Twice: 70 Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong

"A brilliant collection of puzzles. Never has getting the answer wrong felt so good!--G. T. Karber, author of Murdle Exactly the sort of book I wish had been available to me as a budding linguist. I recommend it for all the language and puzzle fans in your life!--New York Times-bestselling author Gretchen McCulloch on The Language Lover's Puzzle Book Praise for Alex Bellos ""An expansive overview of numbers and figures, and those who find them irresistible. . . . A smorgasbord for math fans of all abilities.--Kirkus Reviews on Here's Looking at Euclid"