Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges

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Time to check any assumptions at the lateral thinking puzzles demand a creative approach, an open mind, and an ability to construct a variety of possible answers before settling on the right one. Many of the questions don't even have enough information on their own for the solver to arrive at the solution; that's why every problem has additional clues to guide you. Get into the swing of things with some simple Warm Ups and Elementary examples before moving on to the more challenging Workout, Strenuous, Super-Strenuous, Crime, and other puzzles collected here.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1,2005

About the author

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Paul Sloane read Engineering at Trinity Hall Cambridge. He came top of Sales School at IBM, became MD of Ashton-Tate UK, VP International for MathSoft and CEO of Monactive. He now writes, speaks and gives workshops on lateral thinking in business, creativity, innovation and leadership. He is married and lives in Camberley in Surrey. He has three grown-up daughters. He is a keen chess and tennis player and he plays keyboards in a rock band, the Fat Cats. He has written a series of lateral thinking puzzle books, many co-authored with Des MacHale, published by Sterling Publishing. They have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into many languages. He has also written two management books, published by Kogan Page, and many articles for blogs and websites. He manages the Lateral Puzzles Forum where puzzlers can set and solve lateral puzzles.

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