Hamilton B. Brain Teasers And Mind Benders

Simon & Schuster, 1981. - 160 p.The puzzle is one of the best types of game. Not only does it stop you doing something useful, and can actually keep you from your work for whole hours at a time, but if you are fortunate enough to "win" and solve the wretched teaser, you don't have to tell anyone about it — so it's almost as good as losing! If, on the other hand, you are naturally competitive, and enjoy a challenge, you can sit quietly in a comer with your puzzle or brainteaser, and all the pressures and tensions of the contest can seethe within as you wrestle with the problem, until that ecstatic moment when you solve it. Then you slump back into your seat with a smile of exhausted but self-satisfied triumph on your face.For those who don't think that tackling a puzzle matches up to the competitive thrill offered by the experience of running around, with other grown men or women, after balls of various sizes, let me assure you that the puzzle can not only be a most rewarding pastime, but is now actually an "in" thing. In fact, some of the most popular programs on TV are constructed round party games and puzzles. The mass audience show is the Brainteaser!