Can You Solve My Problems
Puzzle lovers, rejoice!文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world’s best brainteasers from the last two millennia.文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Armed with logic alone, you’ll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then—with just a dash of high school math—you’ll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!)文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, Can You Solve My Problems? also tells the story of the puzzle—from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Whether you’re a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. 文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test!文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems?文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . .文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens?文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html
Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?文章源自:力哥爱英语(ienglish521.com)力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/5853.html