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3 reviews
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 1994

Great Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Great Lateral Thinking Puzzles is really great! It's another excellent book in author Paul Sloane's outstanding lateral thinking puzzles series. The puzzles in this book truly make you think! They're delightful to solve. It's absolutely addicting. Once you read the first, you can't put the book down till you've tried to solve the rest. In fact, you want another of his lateral thinking books ...

Captivating Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Mensa)
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 2008

Welcome to the world of captivating lateral thinking puzzles! These tricky little conundrums always have more than meets the eye: to unravel them, you need to think completely outside the box. Solvers must decide which of the facts in each puzzle are important and which are red herrings; they even have to project into the future and guess what crucial details have yet to be revealed! That’s what makes these challenges so entertaining. They ...

Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles

2 reviews
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 2005

Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles
I have been keen on lateral puzzles for more decades than I care to admit to. This is a great sample of life situations where you need to twist your thinking a bit to arrive at the solution. It's no longer all about improbable circus acts and albatross pies! I particularly liked The Shot That Saved. Speechless left me speechless. And I wonder how often The Plant is done??

Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles

6 reviews
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 1993

great for car trips and party games
I gave this book to my son about a year ago. It has provided hours of fun and good growth in logic. Our whole family has gotten smarter I think by doing these brain teasers.

Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 2004

Finally, a puzzle book as “bright” as its readers. Not only will puzzle-doers find wickedly tricky brainbusters on every page, but all the accompanying illustrations are in brilliant color too. And that makes unraveling these challenging conundrums even more fun. It will take some real smarts to figure this out: Diamonds are for never : Robbers knew that a woman had some very valuable diamonds. They waited until she was away on ...

The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles

3 reviews
Norman D. Willis, Paul Sloane, ...

Sterling, 2006

a must buy for logic lovers
I just love logic problems that are challenging, yet solvable. This book is really great since it has a variety of math and thinking problems. It is very thick and sure to keep you occupied for a while. I'm not an expert, but I have several very difficult logic books and this one seems fun and not way to hard.It is a good buy. I am really glad I got it.

BrainStrains Power Puzzles: 240 Mind-Blowing Challenges

2 reviews
Frank Coussement, Peter De Schepper, ...

Sterling, 2002

A great book for the entire family!
I recently picked up BrainStrains Power Puzzles, attracted first by the stunning multi-coloured illustrations on every page. It turned out to be the perfect gift for my 12-year old boy, who loves puzzles and takes the big book with him on our family vacations to challenge us all. My younger 10-year old son is also a fan of the book, as he finds he can solve some of the puzzles on his own, and ...

Cunning Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Puzzle)

2 reviews
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 2006

Embark on a Lateral Adventure
I have been an avid fan of lateral thinking puzzles from youth upwards. There are a number of "classics" that you come across over and over. If I were to mention the albatross, midget and countless dead bodies, you might know what I mean! However, here we have a compilation of brand new puzzles to satisfy our appetites. These are bright and fresh from novel ideas but they remain faithful to the ...

Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges

1 review
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Main Street, 2005

Packed with challenges
This book is full of fun lateral thinking puzzles, some actually based on history, some gruesome, and both quick and easy puzzles as well as hard ones. There are clues included, so you can help people along without giving away the answer. It's the best money I've spent if a party you're having starts to get a little boring. Not to mention the method of thought required to solve the puzzles will ...

WIT

4 reviews
DES MACHALE

PRION BOOKS LTD, 1996

Wit can only take you so far - a lightweight art
According to the author wit has to be funny, short and pithy,free- standing (independent of the context in which it originally appears).The author says Wilde was the greatest wit of the nineteenth century and Woody Allen of the twentieth, and the Irish and the Jews are the two wittiest peoples. It is doubtful that the British and the Arabs think so. In any case here are a few examples of the ...

More of The World's Best Irish Jokes

1 review
Des MacHale

Angus & Robertson (UK), 1985

When it comes to Irish Jokes,leave Political Correctness at home.
Another, in the long list of wonderful Irish Joke Books.I have many of them and am never disappointed in any of them. Hal Roach, one of the world's greatest joke and storytellers, has been my favorite both in live performances and through his recordings.The jokes in this little book are just the type that he tells.One of his sayings is "We Irish know how to laugh at ourselves".With the possible ...

Improve Your Lateral Thinking: Puzzles To Challenge Your Mind

4 reviews
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling, 1995

Very challenging and fun!
I loved this book! It was challenging yet fun. It really makes you think. The questions sound difficult, then when you read the answer, you hit yourself for not thinking of it. I would recommend this book to anyone who has the patience to really sit down and think. It's fun for all ages for any time. From 7 to 70, or from sitting in your living room to in the car during a trip. You'll love ...

Ingenious Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Paul Sloane, Des MacHale

Sterling Publishing, 1988

Fire up your brain, and get to the bottom of these ingenious and confounding puzzles!

Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Edward J. Harshman, Des MacHale, ...

Main Street, 2003

A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, too--you'll have to really fire up your brain and imagination. At first, it may not seem as if there's enough information to come up with a solution. But look more closely; there's always more than meets the eye. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, retune your mind, separate the facts from ...

The Mind-Challenge Puzzle Book (Spiral Bound)

2 reviews
Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, ...

Sterling, 2002

The best Hanjie you will find!
I love crossword puzzles and Hanjie. Both are excellent in this book. The Hanjie puzzles, however, are not for beginners! Many of them are harder than the toughest ones in any other Hanjie book, which I really welcomed. The crossword puzzles are "medium" to "hard" based on the many puzzles I have done in Dell Crossword Puzzle magazines. There is an assortment of other puzzles, but they are ...

Las mejores frases de todos los tiempos: Desde Séneca a Woody Allen pasado por Voltaire y Oscar Wilde
Des Machale

Gestion 2000, 2003

The wise and witty sayings of Mark Twain, Noel Coward, Groucho Marx, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill, among others, are compiled in this anthology of concise, funny, and evocative quotations. Covered are a wide range of topics, such as art, money and business, education, drugs, literature, family, love and sex, movies, politics, sports, and religion. Las sabias e ingeniosas expresiones de Oscar Wilde, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Noel ...

The Complete Guide to The Quiet Man

5 reviews
Des MacHale

Appletree Press, 2004

Great Book!
This is a wonderful companion to the movie, "The Quiet Man". Des MacHale has done a painstaking job analizing and commenting on the entire movie. The script is included as well as the original story on which the movie is based. There are interviews with the cast and crew, photos of scenery, trivia about the movie as well as explinations for the Irish idioms within the movie! Read this book and ...

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