Description (from Amazon.com):
Discover a trilogy of the Top Rated Puzzlebook: Puzzle Quizzes series – a compilation of three books: 100 Puzzle Quizzes, 101 Puzzle Quizzes, and 102 Puzzles Quizzes. In this puzzle collection you will find 303 pictorial, hand-crafted puzzle quizzes in different themes: visual, spatial, counting, geometry, matchstick, coins, searching, and much more.
Overall: 5 stars
Having already worked the puzzles and brainteasers in the three puzzlebooks that make up this trilogy, I knew what to expect. The three earlier puzzlebooks are presented unabridged in the order they were originally published in, with solutions, for a total of 303 mind exercises. There are no time limits, so there’s no pressure to solve a puzzle unless you want to set your own limits and use a clock.
The puzzles do not have to be solved sequentially – you can begin anywhere and work in any order, although the puzzles gradually get more difficult as you go up the order. The puzzles include a number of different types of brainteasers, so they never appear repetitive. I’ve seen similar types of puzzles on some intelligence tests, so these might be good practice for such a test. I know very little about the cognitive functioning of the brain, but I think these puzzles would give your logic circuits a good workout.
The bottom line: the puzzles are interesting and fun to solve, especially if you like mind challenges. I enjoyed solving them, but my two nieces, ages 8 and 10, also enjoyed them.
I ran the Puzzlebook Trilogy on both my Kindle Fire and Kindle 3 (now called the Kindle Keyboard). On the Kindle Fire, the puzzles were in color, and the controls were simpler, consisting of touching and swiping. On the e-ink Kindle, there was a short learning curve on using the controls, and the color graphics were in grayscale, but the puzzles played just as well.
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From Peter Grabarchuk:
The Grabarchuk Family is an evolving global brand of the family-based puzzle group whose roots were set up several decades ago in math, visual, and manipulative puzzles, and magic tricks, all blended with clever fun and delight of inventions.
For years pencil sketch-inventing, blue carbon drawing, cutting, sawing, and gluing were the hard-work steps on the ladder of mastering and perfection. At the beginning of the 1990s the advancement of publishing technologies led to several self-published books which in turn sparked a series of articles in a number of global well-renowned puzzle and game periodicals.
Simultaneously with that recognition, the collaboration with the top world puzzle companies in designing new mechanical concepts and challenges arrived.
In the second half of the 1990s, paper publications were completely overshadowed by the horizons of the Web. Studying and advancing in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, etc., became the new puzzle reality for the group. Web interactivity emerged as a main priority.
A decade later Apple’s iOS megaplatform became even a bigger swirl for the group in context of the limits’ extension. And with the recent release of Amazon’s Kindle 3 the group finally decided to bring puzzle interactivity to that new megaplatform as well. The expectations were cautious but the results were positively surprising!
Puzzlebook Trilogy: 303 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!)
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