Clever Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Things Aren't Always As They Seem....., This book is an excellent way to test and expand your problems solving ability. It presents a collection of 99 problems hidden in ordinary situations. The puzzles are arranged in 11 chapters: Batty banditry, People puzzles, Crazy cars and tricky transports, odd offices, Asinine actions, Haphazard happenings, Crass creditors and dull debtors, Daffy doctoring, Eccentric electronics, Mad money, and Goofy gambling. Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician, and writer. he defines Lateral Thinking as methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception. Techniques that apply lateral thinking to problems are characterized by the shifting of thinking patterns away from entrenched or predictable thinking to new or unexpected ideas. Getting a new idea that is the result of lateral thinking is not always easy, and sometimes it may not be a helpful one, but after a good idea is discovered in this way it is usually perceived as being reasonable to expect and sometimes even obvious. If you like critical thinking puzzles, this book may be for you. Critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the truth value of statements and seeking error. Lateral Thinking is more concerned with the movement value of statements and ideas, how to move from them to other statements and ideas.

This book was great. I loved it the puzzles streched my brain it made me a lot smarter. Hours of fun!