50 Logic Puzzles: Full of Fun Logic Grid Puzzles!: Volume 2 (Brain Teaser Puzzle Books)

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It is the opening night in a famous circus and four artists are performing simultaneously. Figure out who is the snake tamer. I loved the jigsaw chapter in your book. It was also interesting reading about riddles. When you think of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, people are very attracted to them, but I’m not sure if they are as much part of our culture anymore. So, in your book, you tried to visit people who are very, very involved with basically every single type of puzzle you could think of? The puzzles are written in a light-hearted style, with regular characters and story settings. Every solution gives a step-by-step explanation of how it is derived. Four drivers are filling their cars at a gas station. Can you find out how many gallons were filled by pump number 4?

Four students from abroad chose to study in universities from the UK. Figure out where each student is going to study. In the subtitle of your book, you mention the quest for the meaning of life. Is that because part of the reason we like doing puzzles is that it gives us a sense we’re getting closer to understanding that? Four baseball players played on different teams last season but are now playing together. Find out which was their previous team. Four friends had a good time playing a match of bowling. can you find out how many points each one scored?Four kids were presented with jigsaw puzzles with different sizes and subjects. Try to find out which puzzle they received. Four kids rode their bikes to deliver newspapers. Figure out how many newspapers each kid delivered.

Elonka Dunin teamed up with a German writer, Klaus Schmeh, who has a blog about cryptics and ciphers throughout history, and they wrote this book together. It’s a guide of how to break ciphers but you also get a lot of history, everything from World War Two to Roman ciphers. I just love it. I also think that puzzles are a Platonic ideal of a problem. Life’s problems are often very complicated. There is no one simple answer; there are a bunch of answers. Each is suboptimal and you have to figure out which is the best of the imperfect solutions. But with puzzles, there is that one perfect solution. It is very satisfying. We live in a world of greys and probabilities and puzzles present us with that Platonic ideal where you can say, ‘Okay, it all makes sense. It all works perfectly. It all fits together.’ So that is another reason. Palmer MD. Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness, by Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin. Activities, Adaptation & Aging. 2016;40(1):80-80. doi:10.1080/01924788.2016.1144015. Four professors from the Miskatonic University are leading an important expedition. Figure out the information about their discoveries.

Yes, exactly. I discovered this because one of my favorite characters that I interviewed for my book is a woman named Elonka Dunin. She is obsessed with secret codes and ciphers and cryptics. So obsessed, in fact, that she moved states to be closer to one of her favorite puzzles. It’s called Kryptos and it’s at the headquarters of the CIA. It’s a sculpture that was created 32 years ago that is a cipher. It’s a big metal wall, carved with hundreds of letters. No one, not even the CIA, has been able to solve the cipher completely. They’ve solved parts of it, but no one has completely figured it all out. It’s one of the most famously unsolved puzzles in the world. That’s a great introduction. Who doesn’t want to go and do hundreds of puzzles after hearing that? Which brings us nicely to the puzzle books you’re recommending. How did you set about choosing them? Four young soccer players are transferring from Brazil to Italy. What is the position of the youngest player?