Challenging Optical Picture Puzzles

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CHALLENGING

Optical Picture

Puzzles

Irit Adler & Shem Levy

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Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adler, Irit. Challenging optical picture puzzles / by Irit Adler & Shem Levy. p. cm. Condensed version of. Picture puzzles for the super smart / Studio D. c1985. ISBN 0-8069-9440-1 1. Picture puzzles. 2. Optical illusions. 1. Levy, Shem. II. Picture puzzles for the super smart. 111. Tide. GV1507.P47A35 1996 793.73-dc2O 96-30407 CIP 10

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Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 387 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016 The puzzles in this book have been excerpted from PicturePuzzles for the Super Smart © 1985 by Irit Adler & Shem Levy, published by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. © 1996 by Irit Adler & Shem Levy Distributed in Canada by Sterling Publishing % Canadian Manda Group, One Adantic Avenue, Suite 105 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 3E7 Distributed in Great Britain and Europe by Cassell PLC Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB, England Distributed by Capricorn Link (Australia) Pty Ltd. P.O. Box 6651, Baulkham Hills, Business Centre, NSW 2153, Australia Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved Sterling ISBN 0-8069-9440-1

Contents Before You Begin

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Crazy Clocks

5

Peculiar People

11

Sneaky Shapes

17

Friendly Relations

25

Principle

34

High Principle

40

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others ...

48

Odd Fellows

55

Higher Principle

60

Diabolical Designs

66

Intimate Relations

71

Highest Principle

76

Answers

85

About the Authors

94

Index

95

Before You Begin First and foremost, this book is meant to be fun. It is intended for game lovers-those who enjoy brainteasers and logic puzzles. Hopefully, it will take you on to new excitements, because you'll need to use a different mode of thinking to solve its problems. This book doesn't call upon linguistic or verbal skills or your skill with numbers. It touches an entirely different aspect of our minds-our ability to perceive forms and shapes and manipulate them. The puzzles here will also involve you in the process of logical thinking. Solving them will naturally help develop your powers of deduction and lateral thinking as well as spatial perception. Each chapter of the book will give you a taste of a different type of mind-boggling visual conundrum. The puzzles in each section range from easy to difficult. It is important to start at the beginning and follow them through. As you solve the easier puzzles, you'll come up with the principles and tricks you'll need to tackle the more complex ones! Good luck!

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Crazy Clocks You're probably used to seeing number progressions such as these: 2-4-6-8-which are 2 apart, or 6-18-54-162-which are each multiplied by 3. In this chapter, though, you'll find a set of graphic progressions. For example, take a look at the puzzle below:

The hand of the clock moves 450 clockwise (a quarter

of an hour) in each one of the pictures. In the picture that would naturally follow in sequence, the hand of the clock would point towards 9:00, so you would, of course, select #3 in the multiple choice answers below:

Which one of the five numbered figures should be the next one in each of the progressions on the following pages? 5

1. SWISS CLOCK

I9 000?

Solution 101

2. ITALIAN CLOCK

5 4to Sl3

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Solution 2 6

3. CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Solution 109

4. TIME BOMB

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Solution 18 7

5. GREENWICH TIME

Solution 123

6. BIG BEN

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Solution 44 8

7. FOURTH DIMENSION

@00? Solution 116

8. QUICK AS A BUNNY

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9. THE CRAZIEST CLOCK

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Solution 88

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Peculiar People You're dealing with graphic progressions herejust as in "Crazy Clocks," the preceding chapter. Which one of the five numbered figures should be the next one in each one of the progressions on the following pages?

10. GROUP DYNAMICS

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Solution I 11

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Solution 11 12

12. UPS AND DOWNS

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13. THEORY OF EVOLUTION

Solution 13 14

14. THE MAD HATTER

Solution 41 15

15. POKER FACE

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Solution 51 16

Sneaky Shapes Here are more graphic progressions. Which one of the five numbered figures should be next in each one of the progressions that follow?

16. BERMUDA TRIANGLE

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17. ANONYMOUS

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18. RECTANGLES

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20. SQUARE SHOOTER

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22. ETERNAL TRIANGLES

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23. THE NUTCRACKER

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Solution 32

24. ABSTRACTION

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Solution 119 21

25. TOUGHIE

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Solution 52

26. SPACE AGE DOMINOES

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27. ROUNDABOUT

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28. TURNING POINT ~A71D

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29. FIBUNETZY 00