"Are You Smart, or What?... An Excellent Challenge !" | 2007-08-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A27H38Y308F6LK |
| Pat Battaglia has a gift for challenging the reader with his verbal and numeric teasers. With each page skillfully crafted to whet your appetite for his next challenge, he offers an array of puzzles that make it difficult to put the book down. Many of the mind benders are so cleverly done, with a nice balance between difficult and easy, he almost compels you to turn the page to find out what lies ahead. When you miss the obvious, the frustration mounts and yet you push on, desperately wanting to decide for yourself, "Am I smart, or WHAT?" The book is excellent fun ! |
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"Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone" | 2006-08-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A35UQ5H0FSUXRG |
| This extrordinary book takes you deeper than a basic quiz book. It challenges your way of thinking and seeks the reader to apply diverse and lateral thinking in order to come up with what turns out to be, the most obvious answer. It challenges the mind far more that you may think and even challenges you to think. An excelent book to improve spatal orrientation, visual ques and logical thinking. Want to improve your cognition and perception? This would have to be the way. Further more, it is great to use to encourage family members to do the same and simply - THINK. A must try to anyone wanting to indulge the brain in lateral thinking. |
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"Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games Fun for Everyone " | 2006-08-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A35UQ5H0FSUXRG |
| This extrordinary book takes you deeper than a basic quiz book. It challenges your way of thinking and seeks the reader to apply diverse and lateral thinking in order to come up with what turns out to be, the most obvious answer. It challenges the mind far more that you may think and even challenges you to think. An excelent book to improve spatal orrientation, visual ques and logical thinking. Want to improve your cognition and perception? This would have to be the way. Further more, it is great to use to encourage family members to do the same and simply - THINK. A must try to anyone wanting to indulge the brain in lateral thinking. |
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"Wonderful fun!" | 2005-11-27 |
| - Reviewed By issa@best.com |
I just adored this book and enjoyed every single puzzle in it. As one reviewer points out, this is a book for word puzzle enthusiasts. It might be compared to Will Shortz's "Puzzlemaster Presents" series. What I love about this book is that it can be done without the aid of a dictionary, as it uses a vocabulary from common cultural literacy (e.g. types of candy bars, etc.). I also appreciate the fact that the references aren't dated like some game books are, which can lead to frustration when I am asked to rely on my knowledge of stars from the eighties. Overall, I simply loved this book for the accessible but challenging fun it provided. I hope that Mr. Battaglia will be gracing us with another book of this type soon!
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"Are you Smart, or What" | 2005-07-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3I1X1W40903X8 |
| The item was shipped as promised, on time and looked like knew. I would definitely buy products from this seller anytime. |
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"Not as it seems in the review ...." | 2005-04-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1817OKJ4OD40N |
| I am a huge fan of brain teaser books. I have a huge collection of these types of book. BUT after reading this book I say that this book is not as good as it seems in the review. If you think that you will find many Logical and mathematical riddles, this isn't the book for you, but on the other hand if you are into word games this might be a great book for you . |
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"A Clever Collection" | 2004-01-23 |
| - Reviewed By brookie7776 |
| Is it normal to get a plethora of amazing Christmas gifts but ignore them all to focus on a book of games? In my case, and clearly what appears to many others, ABSOLUTELY!! Being a college student I have a pretty busy schedule, but I occasionaly like to escape from the realities of schoolwork and delve into puzzle books. (They are fun, yet intend to be challenging) The problem arises when I find myself with Goldilock Syndrome, some are too easy while others are just too hard. When my mother gave me "Are You Smart, or What?" I finally found the perfect combination. Easy and hard now peacefully coexisted in a book of fun where brains were a plus, but cleverness was the key. |
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"Great gift!!!" | 2002-06-02 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
| I love this book! It's cool. It'll make great gifts." |
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"Wonderfully challenging and fun" | |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
| I love puzzles and this is one of the greatest word game books I have ever read. Lighthearted and fun it still proved challenging. The answers are basic and obvious but somehow often elude the reader. When I could not figure one out and had to look at the answer it was always followed with a groan as I realized that I had overlooked the obvious. A great gift idea that the whole family will enjoy, I highly recommend this book. |
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"Each page keeps you wanting more." | |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
| Excellent book! The puzzles are the perfect brain teaser. Each page keeps you wanting more. Pat has done it again. |
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