Amazing "Aha!" Puzzles: Improve Your Ability to Think 'outside the Box' and Boost Your Creativity! [Paperback]

An outstanding puzzle book...317 puzzles with absolutely wonderful illustrations...my wife, a non-puzzler, is also enjoying this book.

Highly recommended.

BOOST YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS! (Paperback) Do you want to improve your ability to think ‘outside the box’ and boost your creativity? From the author of Test Your Creative Thinking (The Times) comes this truly mind-altering and inspirational book of more than 300 brand new lateral puzzles, which provide a fantastic opportunity for anyone to improve their creativity and mental flexibility. It is packed with all kinds of fun and imaginative problems of varying degrees of difficulty that encourage you to break out of familiar thought patterns and to think creatively and ‘outside the box’. In addition, the puzzles have extremely rewarding and addictive “Aha!” answers absolutely guaranteed to make you both groan and smile at the same time. Puzzle wizards, young and old, will absolutely love this book as well as be completely enchanted by it!

'Aha!' puzzles are the ones with those frustratingly ‘obvious’ answers. Yes, that’s right. Those ones! When the answer, which is usually startling, hits you, you get a sudden flash of inspiration popularly known as an 'Aha!' and it feels very much as though you’ve been hit by a bolt of lightning. It’s a wonderful, energising feeling and it is this, in part, that makes 'Aha!' puzzles so very rewarding and addictive.

Lloyd is the designer of numerous original lateral/creative puzzles and is the author of Test Your Creative Thinking.

The puzzles in this book have been designed to be exciting and intriguing so that they really grab your attention. Because of this, they will hopefully stimulate your creativity and imagination, teach you to think ‘outside the box’, improve your ability to switch easily from one perspective to another, increase the fluency with which you generate ideas, develop your intuitive powers, make you better at finding unusual associations and patterns and, with any luck, even make you laugh a little too. All in all, they should provide your brain with a truly comprehensive and mind-altering lateral work-out.

As you make your way through the various mind-warping challenges, you’ll encounter all sorts of fun situations and enchanting characters like Windlestraw the wizard, Cinderspeller the witch and Captain Swishbuckle, the swashbuckling adventurer. To negotiate them successfully, you really will need to call upon every last drop of your imagination and creativity and be willing to abandon your existing assumptions so that you are ready for all kinds of tricks, twists, lateral leaps and downright skullduggery too!

The puzzles, which are divided into four categories according to their approximate level of difficulty, range from ‘Easy Riders’, which are the simplest, to ‘Quantum Leapers’, which will prove a challenge to even the most experienced of puzzle solvers.