Zack Guido

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I've had a lifelong fascination with puzzles, riddles, brain teasers, recreational math, games - everything like that!

Growing up, my dad enjoyed asking me trick questions - usually a little riddle or a cutesy limerick he made up. This was light fun, but things went to the next level when he brought home a game from the store called "Mind Trap" - a catalyst to my many hobbies.

Mind Trap is a board game where you have to answer questions written on cards as you advance through the game's path. We never played the game the way you were meant to play it, we just sat down at night on the couch going through the cards in-between episodes of The X-Files. The questions mix word play, logic, recreational math, and sometimes (my favorites) problem-solving of a Sherlock Holmes-esque nature.

These books I make are meant to recreate that environment I grew up in, hopefully producing those same kinds of nights that I had with my dad all those years ago.

Thinking and problem-solving should be a fun, welcoming challenge - not something that people grow up dreading and avoiding!

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Karen J. Bun

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What Am I?: A Collection Of Traditional Word Riddles

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Of Course! The Greatest Collection Of Riddles & Brain Teasers For Expanding Your Mind Mar 7, 2013

by Zack Guido

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Do you like riddles? Do you like brain teasers? Are you a problem solver? Are you creative? Do you think outside the box? If you can answer yes to any of these questions, this book may be perfect for you.

Introducing a collection of the best riddles and brain teasers that has been years in the making. These will challenge the way you think, introduce you to new ways to look at problems, and expand your mind.

People who love riddles are familiar with the rush of the "aha!" moment, the "that's it!" moment, that "of course!" moment, the moment of clarity that you get when the lightbulb goes off and you've figured it all out. Those moments are great exercise for your mind and brain and will help to keep you mentally sharp.

Even if you are new to riddles and brain teasers this book will be a fun and exciting read, it will help you become a better problem solver and become more comfortable with thinking outside the box. The problems in this book range in difficulty from light & easy to hard to very hard and will provide a challenge for even the sharpest mind.

There are discrete reasoning riddles, mathematical reasoning riddles, practical reasoning riddles, and some classical logic riddles as well. There is no word play, the puzzles have definite and satisfying answers, and some of them will blow your mind.

In this book you will be figuring out how to cross bridges, how to escape from prison cells, how to steal rope, how to shoot cyborgs, how to transport bananas through the desert, how to figure out the color of a hat you have on, how to turn on lightbulbs, and how to save a ton of prisoners from being executed!

Enjoy it!

...and remember, once you peek at the solution you will never be able to unsee it!

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What Am I? - A Collection Of Traditional Word Riddles - VOLUME ONE Apr 7, 2014

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This is a collection of 75 fun, challenging, and satisfying wordplay riddles! A drastically different yet essential counterpart to my first collection of riddles, “Of Course!”, these are easy-to-remember and fun-to-share word riddles that describe some object, thing, or place. Typically they follow a limerick-inspired rhyming structure and sometimes have pretty out-of-the-box answers.

This book is filled with the classics that many riddle-loving people will be familiar with, and also filled with many new and original riddles that you can be sure you’ve never heard before. The difficulty ranges from easy to quite difficult, but never are these riddles so cryptic and “tricky” that you won’t be able to figure out the answer with enough thought. Even the simple ones feel good to solve. They are designed to be satisfying, tight, and fulfilling. It is my hope that not even one of these riddles leaves a feeling of “well that was stupid” or “that doesn’t make any sense”. They are meant to be written so that as soon as you think of the solution, you are completely sure that that is the correct answer!

In case you are unfamiliar with this style of riddle, here are a few classic examples from the “Classic Riddles” section of the book that display the range of wordplay and styles. I don’t want to spoil anything so the solution to these riddles can be found in the book! You can also use the “Look Inside” feature that Amazon provides to get a preview of more riddles and see if this format is something you will have fun with.

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1) The more I dry, the wetter I get. What am I?

2) Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?

3) The poor have me; the rich need me; and you will die if you eat me. What am I?

4) You can crack me; you can make me; you can tell me; you can play me. What am I?
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This book should give you many hours of enjoyment and a nice workout for your brain!

Please enjoy!

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What Am I? - A Collection Of Traditional Word Riddles - VOLUME TWO May 11, 2014

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This is the second volume of a collection with 75 more fun, challenging, and satisfying wordplay riddles! A drastically different yet essential counterpart to my first collection of riddles, “Of Course!”, these are easy-to-remember and fun-to-share word riddles that describe some object, thing, or place. Typically they follow a limerick-inspired rhyming structure and sometimes have pretty out-of-the-box answers.

This book is filled with a handful of classics and many new and original riddles that you can be sure you’ve never heard before. The difficulty ranges from easy to quite difficult, but never are these riddles so cryptic and “tricky” that you won’t be able to figure out the answer with enough thought. Even the simple ones feel good to solve. They are designed to be satisfying, tight, and fulfilling. It is my hope that not even one of these riddles leaves a feeling of “well that was stupid” or “that doesn’t make any sense”. They are meant to be written so that as soon as you think of the solution, you are completely sure that that is the correct answer!

I suggest starting with Volume One if you haven't read that yet! This book should give you many hours of enjoyment and a nice workout for your brain!

Please enjoy!

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¡Pues, Claro! La Mejor Colección de Acertijos y Adivinanzas para Desarollar la Mente (Spanish Edition) Nov 24, 2015

by Zack Guido , Carol Fries

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¿Te gustan los acertijos?¿Te gustan las adivinanzas? ¿Te gustan los rompecabezas? ¿Sabes solucionar problemas? ¿Eres creativo? ¿Piensas con originalidad y acierto? Si has contestado alguna de estas preguntas en afirmativo, este libro puede que sea perfecto para ti.

Se presenta aquí una colección de los mejores acertijos, rompecabezas, y adivinanzas. La colección ha tardado años en crearse; estos acertijos retarán tu forma de pensar, te mostrarán nuevas maneras de ver los problemas, y te ampliarán la mente.

Los que aman los acertijos, los rompecabezas, y las adivinanzas están más que familiarizados con la ráfaga del momento “¡ajá!”, el momento “¡así es!”, aquel momento de “¡Pues, claro!”, el momento de nitidez en que se enciende la bombilla y todo se queda claro. Aquellos momentos son un excelente ejercicio para la mente y el cerebro, y te mantendrán mentalmente agudo.

Aunque llegues recientemente a este tipo de pasatiempo, con este libro encontrarás una lectura divertida y fascinante; te ayudará a solucionar mejor los problemas y estar más cómodo con pensar originalmente y fuera de lo normal. Los problemas en este libro tienen una amplia gama: desde ligeros y fáciles hasta difíciles y más difíciles, y desafiarán hasta la mente más avispada.

Hay aquí acertijos de razonamiento discreto, matemático, funcional, y unos cuantos de lógica clásica también—juntos con los tradicionales problemas de resolver entuertos que tal vez conozcas de la escuela o instituto. No hay juegos de palabras; los problemas tienen soluciones precisas y gratificantes, y algunos te dejarán atónito.

En este libro, descubrirás una manera de cruzar los puentes, escaparte de una celda de prisión, robar cuerda, fusilar a los androides, transportar plátanos en el desierto, determinar el color del sombrero que llevas puesto, encender las bombillas de luz, ¡y salvar las vidas de montones de presos que estaban a punto de ejecutarse!

Disfrútalo,
...y recuerda, una vez que hayas visto una solución, jamás podrás dejarla de ver!

(Text translated from its original English / Contenido traducido del inglés original)

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How To Get Better At Boggle - A Strategy Guide: Strategies, Tips, & Word Lists to Win at Boggle, Ruzzle, and Scramble With Friends Mar 26, 2014

by Zack Guido

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Do you like to play Boggle, Ruzzle, Scramble With Friends, Scrabble, or any other similar word game? Are you competitive? Are you interested in spending just a little bit of time to improve your abilities and achieve much higher scores in all of those games? This is exactly the book and resource for someone who had a "yes" response to any of those questions.

Most scrambled word game "strategy" resources, both online and offline, offer the same obvious advice: Look for plural forms! Look for prefixes! Look for suffixes! Find words! Use the letters to make words! Make big words! Win by having a higher score than your opponent when the timer runs out! Yawn.

This strategy guide takes it to the next level. Written for players of all ages and all skill levels, from beginners to already-advanced players. Even if you are already very good at Boggle, you will find a lot of value in the contents of this book, I promise that.

With helpful strategies & tips for playing the game and over 450 hand-made word lists, this guide gives you EXACTLY what you need in order to become a much stronger player. This book breaks the game down and explores from the ground up, looking at the math behind all of the probabilities and using real data in order to provide word lists that are efficient and relevant. By understanding exactly how the game works we can then understand exactly what kind of words we should know if we want to be better players. That is the foundation of this book.

If you read this book and spend the time to study the word lists and follow the other suggestions for becoming a better player, I guarantee that you will see results. Although this is written and based on Boggle, the strategies, tips, and ideas are still relevant to ANY word game that has the gameplay of forming words by connecting single letters. You will be able to adapt the contents of this book to fit Ruzzle, Scramble with Friends, Wordsplay, Wordtwist, even other great games like Puzzlejuice and SpellTower. It is even likely that you will become a stronger Scrabble player by reading this book.

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