Filled with hundreds of puzzles, games, riddles, and conundrums, Mind Benders and Brainteasers entertains all year long. Decode the phrases, test your spatial skills, or find the pair in Perfect Match. By puzzle master Scott Kim.
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Scott Kim is an independent game designer who designs original visual thinking puzzles for the web, computer games, magazines and toys. Major projects include puzzles for web sites Adobe.com and Juniornet.com, computer games Obsidian and Escher Interactive, magazines Discover and Games, and physical toy Railroad Rush Hour. His interest in puzzles sprang from an early interest in mathematics, education and art. His first puzzles appeared in Scientific American in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column. Other pursuits include creating "inversions" (words that read in more than one way), and creating educational dance performances about mathematics. He was born in 1955, raised in Los Angeles, and attended Stanford University, where he received a BA in music and a self-designed PhD in Computers and Graphic Design. He currently lives in El Granada, California, near San Francisco, with his wife Amy (online community strategist and author of Community Building on the Web) and his son Gabriel.
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Great Gift
Dec 16 2011
By Janet Raine
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This shipped very quickly and arrived in great condition. I check out some of the mind benders and they look like they would keep someone occupied for a fair amount of time. Very cool!
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Very disappointing - not worth the money
Mar 3 2012
By John McCord
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My wife and I enjoy doing brainteasers and puzzles at breakfast every morning and were hoping to supplement this activity with the puzzles from this calendar. Unfortunately, it has been a big disappointment and falls down in many ways:
1. The weekend pages are not puzzles at all but little blurbs and tips ( e.g. exercise is good for your brain). These are a complete waste of paper and largely obvious
2. Too many of the puzzles are trivial and offer no challenge
3. One series of puzzles tries to simulate lip reading, an interesting idea, but the pictures are too small and unclear to make it workable
4. Most of the puzzles are taken from external sources, like the lumosity.com, and are not particularly original or novel
For someone interested in puzzles, the Mensa Page-A-Day calendar is a much better purchase
1. The weekend pages are not puzzles at all but little blurbs and tips ( e.g. exercise is good for your brain). These are a complete waste of paper and largely obvious
2. Too many of the puzzles are trivial and offer no challenge
3. One series of puzzles tries to simulate lip reading, an interesting idea, but the pictures are too small and unclear to make it workable
4. Most of the puzzles are taken from external sources, like the lumosity.com, and are not particularly original or novel
For someone interested in puzzles, the Mensa Page-A-Day calendar is a much better purchase
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Some Good, Some Bad
Jan 30 2012
By Douglas Green
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Format:Calendar
I received this calendar as a gift for Christmas. Many of the puzzles are fine, but at least 1 a week asks about dates that happen later in the calendar. For example, the puzzle for this last weekend asks which months have helpful hints about which puzzle types. Not only are these not puzzles, but they're asking me to read ahead in the calendar to know the answer.
Unrelated to the quality of the puzzles, but relevant to the quality of the product, this "Page-A-Day" calendar combines the weekends into one page, which means this is actually a "Page-A-Weekday-Plus-One-For-Weekends" calendar...
Unrelated to the quality of the puzzles, but relevant to the quality of the product, this "Page-A-Day" calendar combines the weekends into one page, which means this is actually a "Page-A-Weekday-Plus-One-For-Weekends" calendar...
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