MindBending Puzzles Mazes Tiles Knowledge Cards Deck Author:Pomegranate Run, here he comes again. Pickover s latest collection features two kinds of puzzles. One invites its victim to recognize logical patterns and sequences in arrays of amusing symbols (dinosaurs, abstract designs, assorted livestock, pictographs, eggplants and pies, and so on). — Solving the second type of puzzle involves finding your way through a... more » maze. Not an ordinary get-lost-in-it maze but one in which your path to success is governed by following prescribed rules and constraints avoiding consecutive cells occupied by identical symbols, for example, or making your way only via cell series where a symbol pattern is repeated (e.g. lion-mouse-dog, lion-mouse-dog).
Learning to detect the underlying order that governs these puzzles is very unlike the type of thinking that most of us do in daily life. It s refreshing and even liberating to give one s brain such a good shaking out and airing! Answers appear on the opposite sides of each of the 48 cards in the deck.
Click on the small picture to see a sample card. Size: 3.25 X 4 inches.« less