Do you enjoy solving puzzles, riddles or logic problems? Do you tackle brain teasers on holiday? Do you go to summer camps with your children? Are you looking for fun activities to fill your children's free time? Do you want to liven up maths lessons for your pupils? If so, this is the book for you. Its title, a combination of the words 'brain teaser' and 'lexicon', reflects its fundamental character – it's a vast and varied collection of puzzles containing hundreds of challenges of many different types. A key advantage of the book is its star rating system, which marks the difficulty of the tasks from 1 to 5. The book can be used not only for experience-based events or family trips, but also in the classroom. Of course, a list of solutions is included at the end of the book.
Among others, the author offers the following types of problems in the book: - Mazes - Moves and procedures - Logic problems with numbers - Geometric puzzles - Ciphers - Language and knowledge tasks
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About the author: Radek Pelánek teaches at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno and is the author of six books and numerous academic articles. The book draws on the author's more than ten years of experience using puzzles in many areas: at experience-based events for adults and children, in cipher games (e.g., Tmou and Sendvič), and in teaching and research at the Faculty of Informatics.
Book details: Author: Radek Pelánek Year of publication: 2014 ISBN: 978-80-251-4303-2 Number of pages: 240
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