Sit & Solve - Lateral Thinking Puzzles
by Des MacHale, Paul Sloane

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• 61 pages of puzzles ranging from Easy laterals, to Strange Doings, to Visual Puzzles.
• Paperback

Book Reviews of Sit & Solve - Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Book Review: Lots of oldies, but still a good collection
Summary: 4 Stars

1) If you are in a boat and throw something overboard which immediately sinks, does the boat rise or fall?
2) When in the last 200 years has there been a year that reads the same upside down?
3) A woman has five children and half of them are boys. How is this possible?
4) There are several problems where matches are to be moved.
5) The problem of a three-cornered duel where the odds of each hitting their target are different and the poorest shot shoots first.
6) How to arrange five circular coins so that they all touch each other.
7) If everybody in a family always votes Republican, then how come one person did not last election?

Nevertheless, I read through it with interest, even when I was only checking my memory rather than my wits. Solutions to all puzzles are in the back and there are some real sneaky ones. It is a good book for the beginning puzzle solver, although veterans may not be impressed.

Published in the recreational mathematics e-mail newsletter, reprinted with permission.

Summary of Sit & Solve - Lateral Thinking Puzzles

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