Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1993. — 100 p.
Get ready for more than 250 ways to baffle and befuddle your mind. Everything is fair game: your name, your friends and family, numbers, and words!
Before you go any further, try some of these:
How many apples would you have if you took two apples from three apples? (Two apples!)
Write down the number eleven thousand, eleven hundred, and eleven. (12,111)
A boy and a girl born on the same day of the same year with the same parents are not twins. How is this possible? (Two out of a set of triplets)
Divide twenty by one-half and add three. What is your answer? (43)
If you think you're ready for the rest of these mind mixers, then start keeping score, because these bafflers are fun to play with your family and friends!
Epigraph
Introduction
Warm Up on a Few Easy Ones
Just for Your Information
Can You Decipher These Famous Nursery Rhymes and Fables?
Can You Decipher These Famous Sayings?
Eccentric Equations
The Delivery Route
Silly Sequences
Petals Around the Rose
More Sequences
To Find the Meanings, Think of Music
More Bafflers
A Good Card Trick
The Answers
Index