cover image The World's Biggest Puzzle Book

The World's Biggest Puzzle Book

Charles Townsend. Sterling, $12.95 (704pp) ISBN 978-1-4027-0246-4

From the ""Ice-Cream-Stick"" puzzle, in which readers reconfigure sticks to free the ""cherry,"" to the ""Puzzleman"" where participants are called upon ""to take the 12 digits, 111, 333, 555 and 777, and form them into six numbers that, when added together, will give a sum of 20,"" readers get a mental workout in The World's Biggest Puzzle Book by Charles Barry Townsend. A compilation of previously published works, this weighty volume presents hundreds of riddles, word games, visual challenges and more, each accompanied by a b&w illustration. Back matter contains the answers.