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Alex Bellos
Can You Solve My Problems? [EPUB ebook]
A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles

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A good puzzle is ingenious, frustrating and a-ha!-inducing. In this entertaining and utterly addictive book, Bellos will challenge you to pit your wits against pangrams, hidatos, chessboard puzzles and a Singaporean schoolchild”s maths paper. Piece of cake, right? Only if you know the scientific method for cutting cake correctly.

Organised from easy-peasy to ninja level – with stories of puzzle mysteries, histories and scandals along the way this book will make your hippocampus happy.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9781783351169 ● Publisher Guardian Faber Publishing ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5452590 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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