Lateral Thinking Puzzles

by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale

Published 30 June 2000
Stretch your mind with these ingenious and perplexing puzzles! It will take all your cleverness to overlook the obvious and train your brain to think in a new and flexible way. But, in addition to building smarts, these mystifying problems are fun to figure out. Try this: An art expert went to a sale and bought a picture he knew to be worthless. Why? Check the clues if you're lost! Answer: Though the picture was worthless, he intended to reuse the fine frame it was in. 96 pages, 18 b/w illus., 4 x 5.