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Number Games for Adults
Smart Puzzles and Brain Teasers to Challenge Your IQ
Series: Brain Games for Adults
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There’s no better way to have fun and give your brain a workout than by picking up a pen and taking on a new challenge: and this book provides lots of them. With a huge range of different number puzzles, from sudoku and kriss kross to...
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See moreWhether you are new to puzzling or simply looking for a new challenge, sharping your thinking with the number games in this fun - but fiendish - book.
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Description
There’s no better way to have fun and give your brain a workout than by picking up a pen and taking on a new challenge: and this book provides lots of them. With a huge range of different number puzzles, from sudoku and kriss kross to brain chains and kakuro, there are over 150 ways for you to test your mental agility and buff up your number skills. If you get stuck, the answers are all given in the back.
Number Games for Adults is perfect for everyone who relishes a varied challenge, whether they have a 10-minute break or an afternoon of leisure!
Series: Brain Games for Adults
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789297393
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Illustration: b/w puzzles
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Dr Gareth Moore (B.Sc (Hons) M.Phil Ph.D) is the internationally bestselling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including Anti-stress Puzzles, Ultimate Dot to Dot, Brain Games for Clever Kids®, Lateral Logic, Extreme Mazes and The Ordinance Survey Puzzle Book. His books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone and have sold in 35 different languages.
He is also the creator of online brain-training site BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle site PuzzleMix.com.
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