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The Mammoth Book Of Brain Games

Series: Mammoth Books
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The Mammoth Book Of Brain Games by Dr Gareth Moore is a delightful collection of puzzles and mind-bending challenges designed to entertain and stimulate your thinking. With a wide array of games ranging from logic puzzles to word games, it offers hours of brain-teasing fun. Whether you're looking to improve your mental acuity or simply enjoy a light-hearted pastime, this book provides a humourous yet challenging experience for all puzzle enthusiasts.
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You might enjoy this book if you love a good challenge seasoned with humour. It delivers a collection of brain-bending puzzles that promise to entertain while stimulating your mind, perfect for anyone who appreciates witty exercises that tickle your cognitive abilities.

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One year to a better brain! A 52-week programme to make you sharper, day by day

One year to a better brain! A 52-week programme to make you sharper, day by day

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A fun programme - featuring logic, observation, number and word puzzles, in categories such as reasoning, concentration and speed - that will help to build new brain skills in just a few minutes each day. At the end of each week, a 're-thinking' page features a range of suggestions and ideas to help improve your memory and unleash your creativity, challenging you to make better use of your brain in your daily life.

An exceptionally wide range of content - 78 entirely different types of puzzle, none of which repeats within a quarter of a year - provides the novelty that helps a brain to thrive, while puzzles of the same type are carefully arranged in order of increasing difficulty through the book.

A scoring system helps to keep you motivated as you improve week by week, with the final page of each week's puzzles offering you the chance to calculate your brain rank as another way to keep pushing yourself.

Praise for The Mammoth Book of Fun Brain Training: 'The puzzles are fresh and lively' - Will Shortz

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472111852

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Robinson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 436g

Pages: 544

About the Author

DR GARETH MOORE is the author of over 30 brain-training and puzzle books, including The Mammoth Book of Fun Brain Training and The Mammoth Book of New Sudoku. He gained his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge in the field of machine intelligence.

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