Review: A great collection of logic games
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
If you've worked any of the Grabarchuk Puzzlebooks, you already have an idea of what to expect with their puzzles and brainteasers, but they continually make things more interesting with challenging new puzzles. As with the other Puzzlebook collections, puzzles are ranked in the order of difficulty, from one to five stars. What I enjoy most about the Puzzlebook series is the variety of puzzles and how they challenge you to take varying approaches to solving the puzzles. Sometimes a straight-ahead logical approach works, but for many puzzles, "sideways" thinking is required, since a direct step-by-step approach won't always work. Some puzzles require some basic arithmetic, algebra, or geometry, but many puzzles require an understanding of spatial relationships to solve (for example: seeing isometric views of several keys, which key fits the lock?).I worked the puzzles on a Kindle Paperwhite e-ink reader. The graphics are monochrome, but otherwise it's almost identical to the Kindle Fire HD version. I take my Kindle with me whenever I'm going to have to wait somewhere (doctor, dentist, car repair, etc.) and I often end up working Puzzlebook brainteasers that I haven't solved already. (Note: I keep a little notepad and a pencil handy, since they're helpful for solving some of the puzzles.)If you've worked Puzzlebooks before, you pretty much know what to expect with 103 Puzzle Quizzes. If you haven't tried a Puzzlebook, and you enjoy logic games, you owe it to yourself to try one.