Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers (Dover Brain Games & Puzzles)

I bought this book for my eight year old daughter but the riddles and puzzles are clearly for older children. It is a great book for adults though, I found that I couldn't put the book down. Once I got one riddle right I had to keep going to see if I could get others right too. The one confusing thing about the book is that it is split into 2 sections and the answers for the first half of the book are located at the end of the first section (half way through the book). It seems obvious now that I have figured it out but I was really confused when I couldn't find the answer to my problem when I flipped to the end of the book. Maybe that was supposed to be a riddle too??

If you are considering purchasing this book, you must! Finally, a clever, complex, interesting and often funny collection of truly smart riddles and puzzles. My mother gave this book to my children as a gift, and we loved it so much we purchased 9 of them as party favors for my son's 11th birthday. It is so well illustrated that it makes you realize how silly and unsophisticated most puzzle books are. This is great for kids adults alike.

I received this book for Christmas one year many, many years ago and loved the puzzles and riddles. A couple of months ago it popped into my head and I found it on Amazon and thought it would be a great book for my kids. They are roughly the same age now as when I first received it. After prying the iTouch and the DSis and the laptops out of their technologically addicted hands I got them to look at it. They spun it around a couple of times looking for the power switch but after determining that it was, in fact, a book, they figured out how to "activate" it.They seem to really like it. I still love going back and trying to figure out some of the puzzlers.Old School Thinking at its best.

I bought this for one of my daughters (10 years old) for Christmas. She wasn't too excited at first, but once she finally sat down and started looking at what was in it, she really liked it. It's almost a year later, and she still brings it out once in a while when company comes.

Great for my seven-year old grandson who loves puzzles, jokes and riddles. While much in this book is above him at the moment, he will grow into it. And what he can do now, is challenging and completely engaging. He especially liked a puzzle that asked him to find the differences between two drawings. Unlike the usual challenge in this type of exercise, the two drawings were mirror images where he had to distinguish between things on the left reflected as things on the right. He loved it!

I bought this book for my 10 year old grandson, because I’d ordered the same book from the school book sale when I was his age and loved it.

Fun for the mathematically-minded, but also rather difficult. Answers are in the back, which is a bonus for those who can't figure things out (like me!).

Great product!

Fantastic book starting with really simple teasers and slowly progressing to challenge the puzzle enthusiasts. A classic collection that every generation must try. It reminds me of the book my parents got for me when I was a kid.The difficulty level is beginning to intermediate - no need for differential calculus.Bought for my 10 year old son but enjoyed by both: the boy and myself.

Lots of American stuff and some of it isn't much good. Overall OK.

Well if you have a kid - buy it. Some of the puzzles - questionable, but most of them are great fun. If you want best of the best buy The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math).

Great fun

Martin Gardner produces a mixture of jokes, puzzles and teasers. It is suitable for a range of ages. Children from 6 up will enjoy the jokes, while some of the puzzles need rather more skill and parental guidance. Definitely recommended.