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By Subject > Brain Games > Cryptography, Tangrams, More
Strengthen your mind with these stimulating workouts. Inspired by a worldwide array of sources, these challenges involve sharpening your language skills—especially your ability to crack cryptogram codes! Solutions included.
Recommendations...
| |  The Alien IQ Test
by Clifford Pickover
Challenging, provocative exercises in mental acuity include such mind-bogglers as "Cosmic Rosetta Stone" and "Alien Ants in Hyperspace." "The most original — and challenging — puzzle book for years." — Scientific American. Solutions.
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| Products in Cryptography, Tangrams, More | | | | The Alien IQ Test
by Clifford Pickover
Challenging, provocative exercises in mental acuity include such mind-bogglers as "Cosmic Rosetta Stone" and "Alien Ants in Hyperspace." "The most original — and challenging — puzzle book for years." — Scientific American. Solutions.
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|  | Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles
by David Wells
This collection by a bestselling author consists of more than 560 puzzles from around the world and throughout history. "Of immense interest." — Mathematical Gazette. 382 illustrations.
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|  | The Canterbury Puzzles
by H. E. Dudeney
110 ingenious puzzles, presented as incidents in connected stories, including 31 problems amusingly posed by pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Solutions included.
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|  | Cryptanalysis
by Helen F. Gaines
Thorough, systematic introduction to serious cryptography, especially strong in modern forms of cipher solution used by experts. Simple and advanced methods. 166 specimens to solve — with solutions.
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|  | Cryptograms and Spygrams
by Norma Gleason
Over 100 cryptogrammatic puzzles, from simple Caesar ciphers to Null ciphers, Nihilist Transpositions, etc. Solutions.
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| |  | Magic Cubes: New Recreations
by William H. Benson, Oswald Jacoby
No advanced mathematical knowledge to construct these three-dimensional mind bogglers; including pandiagonal and perfect cubes — many entirely new constructions, too. 111 figures.
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|  | The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations
by Boris A. Kordemsky
Most popular Russian puzzle book ever published. Brain teasers range from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Lavishly illustrated. First English translation. Introduction. Solutions.
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|  | Palindromes and Anagrams
by Howard W. Bergerson
Fascinating word-lover's treasury brings together over 1,100 different anagrams and nearly as many palindromes, plus a host of related phenomena — charades, circular reversals, vocabulary called poetry, etc.
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|  | Sam Loyd's Book of Tangrams
by Sam Loyd
This classic by a famed puzzle expert features 700 tangrams and solutions, plus a charming satirical commentary on the puzzle's origins, its religious significance, and its relationship to mathematics.
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|  | Tangrams: 330 Puzzles
by Ronald C. Read
Selection of best Oriental, American problems; figures built up out of standard geometric pieces. Pagodas, cats, people, bridges, etc. Solutions.
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