Five Star Mind: Games & Puzzles to Stimulate Your Creativity & Imagination
by Tom Wujec
List Price:
Our Price: $8.48
You Save: $6.47 (43%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Tom WujecEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-07-01
ISBN: 0385414625
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Main Street Books
Book Reviews of Five Star Mind: Games & Puzzles to Stimulate Your Creativity & Imagination
Book Review: A Few Stars Short of a Constellation
Summary: 2 Stars
I recently purchased this book and was somewhat disappointed when I sat down to read it. The subtitle is "Games & Puzzles to Stimulate Your Creativity & Imagination". Actually, there are only some thirty such puzzles and many of them are 'old chestnuts'. However, my biggest complaint is the lack of accuracy. The very first puzzle (p. 20) has a mistake in it. Then in 'Mental Counting' (p. 161), the author claims that the letters O and U are not symmetrical about the vertical axis. As for 'Three-dimesional Dots' (p. 199) the text states "Below is a collection of random dots." Unfortunately, the random dots have been omitted. So much for "something remarkable" happening as the author claims. And how's this for one of the three (yup, only three) lateral thinking puzzles? What common word begins with IS, ends with ND, and has LA in the middle? I bet that really stretched your brain, didn't it? Sorry, but Mr. Wujec's editor should be fired. These glaring mistakes and omissions have scuttled any enjoyment I may have expected from this book. I suspect the author was motivated by the commercial success of his previous book. He should have waited until he had something of value before publishing this schlock.
Logic & Brain Teasers Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Logic & Brain Teasers Books
Virgin Book of Kakuro 2 (Bk. 2)by *
Virgin Paperbacks; Published: 2005-11-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.32
Pocket Posh® HidatoÂ? 2: 100 Pure Logic Puzzles (Puzzle Books)by Dr. Gyora Benedek
Andrews McMeel Publishing; Published: 2010-09-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Break the Code: Cryptography for Beginnersby Bud Johnson
Dover Pubns; Published: 1997-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $69.69
Alphabet Sudokuby Rhys Michael Cullen
Vaki Puzzles Pty Ltd; Published: 2011-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.09
Price in other shops:
KenKen For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))by Tetsuya Miyamoto, KenKen Puzzle LLC
For Dummies; Published: 2010-08-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.56
Price in other shops:
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopherby Julian Baggini
Plume; Published: 2006-06-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
Will Shortz Presents Brain-Busting KenKen: 100 Challenging Logic Puzzles That Make You Smarterby Will Shortz, Tetsuya Miyamoto
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 2011-02-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.53
Price in other shops:
Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neuronsby Garth Sundem
Three Rivers Press; Published: 2010-08-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.56
Price in other shops:
The Times Train Your Brain Puzzle Book: Shortcuts to Smart Thinking (Puzzle Media)by Times UK
HarperCollins UK; Published: 2009-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.87
Price in other shops:
Times Killer Su DokuTimes Books; Published: 2005-10-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.31
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Geniusby Michael Michalko
Ten Speed Press; Published: 2001-06-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.49
Price in other shops:
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Timeby Brian Tracy
Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Published: 2007-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.93
Price in other shops:
IMAGINE DESIGN CREATE: How Designers, Architects, and Engineers Are Changing Our WorldMelcher Media; Published: 2011-05-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.74
Price in other shops:
Aha! 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideasby Jordan Ayan
Clarkson Potter; Published: 1996-12-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.16
Price in other shops:
Return on Imaginationby Tom Wujec
Prentice Hall Financial Times; Published: 2002-11-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $207.70
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Successby John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson; Published: 2007-04-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.97
Price in other shops:
Understanding Creativity: The Interplay of Biological, Psychological, and Social Factorsby John S. Dacey, Kathleen H. Lennon
Jossey-Bass; Published: 1998-11-17; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $42.52
Price in other shops:
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakersby Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
O'Reilly Media; Published: 2010-07-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.99
Price in other shops:
Pumping Ionsby Tom Wujec
Main Street Books; Published: 1988-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.17
Price in other shops:
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)by Michael Michalko
Ten Speed Press; Published: 2006-06-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.19
Price in other shops: