- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Kogan page (27 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074944004X
- ISBN-13: 978-0749440046
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 355,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This book provides an ideal opportunity for anyone to assess and improve their creativity"
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With plenty of questions and tips, this book provides an ideal opportunity for anyone to practice thinking laterally and improve their creativity.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Lloyd King surely belongs to one of the great innovative puzzle designers of this time. His puzzles are so imaginative and unusually tricky. It is a joy to try them. When you fail to see the intended answer, you get an even greater thrill when his clever answers are revealed. This book will give you many hours of amusement, and is definitely a must have.
Jan Merolant
Creative Puzzles
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
`Test Your Creative Thinking' is a book of challenging, lateral thinking puzzles. And you don't need to belong to an elite club, have obscure, specialist knowledge, or be old enough to have accumulated years of trivial information, in order to solve them.
If you enjoy puzzles, but are sick of boring logic and I.Q. puzzles, then this is the book for you!
For those unfamiliar with the concept of lateral thinking, 'Test Your Creative Thinking' is the ideal instruction manual. Attempting these puzzles will actually encourage you to think laterally, that is with creativity and imagination, as well as with logic.
To solve Lloyd King's puzzles you need to engage your imagination and reason in new ways, exercising your lateral thinking skills.
Even if you find some of the puzzles too difficult, and give up in frustration, peeking at an answer will inspire you to think more creatively in the future.
Reading this book provides a true learning experience. Not only that, 'Test Your Creative Thinking' is very entertaining. The puzzles have 'attitude', some of them are really quite cheeky, and the solutions will have you smiling, at the very least.
The puzzles are more suited to older children and adults, though young children appreciate the humour, and can benefit from being shown the puzzles together with their solutions.
'Test Your Creative Thinking' is the type of book that people like to share with friends. But be warned, if you lend this book to anyone, it will be passed around, and you may never see it again.
...Better to be on the safe side and buy two of them!!!
If you enjoy puzzles, but are sick of boring logic and I.Q. puzzles, then this is the book for you!
For those unfamiliar with the concept of lateral thinking, 'Test Your Creative Thinking' is the ideal instruction manual. Attempting these puzzles will actually encourage you to think laterally, that is with creativity and imagination, as well as with logic.
To solve Lloyd King's puzzles you need to engage your imagination and reason in new ways, exercising your lateral thinking skills.
Even if you find some of the puzzles too difficult, and give up in frustration, peeking at an answer will inspire you to think more creatively in the future.
Reading this book provides a true learning experience. Not only that, 'Test Your Creative Thinking' is very entertaining. The puzzles have 'attitude', some of them are really quite cheeky, and the solutions will have you smiling, at the very least.
The puzzles are more suited to older children and adults, though young children appreciate the humour, and can benefit from being shown the puzzles together with their solutions.
'Test Your Creative Thinking' is the type of book that people like to share with friends. But be warned, if you lend this book to anyone, it will be passed around, and you may never see it again.
...Better to be on the safe side and buy two of them!!!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The best puzzles are not always the ones with the most logical solution, but oftentimes those that stimulate your brain to make connections in an entirely new manner. Just as there are multiple proofs to mathematical problems, there are many novel ways to solve creative thinking puzzles that require various mixtures of convergent and divergent thinking. In Test Your Creative Thinking, Lloyd King brings together an adequate balance of intelligence, creativity and humor that pushed me to invent new patterns of thought.
One of the features I appreciated most about the book is the way it progresses evenly from low to high degrees of difficulty in a continuous development. Many of the items are deceptively easy, or seem to have no solution at all, but that is because the solution is typically a creative twist that is completely unique to Lloyd King. The advanced test will be a challenge to even the best puzzle solvers, and will without a doubt be a mental exercise worth engaging in.
What I enjoyed most about this book, as well as Lloyd's other books and creations, is the humor and easygoing fun tone throughout the book. Many of the puzzles are indeed out of the box and the stories and settings that accompany them are no exception. I have purchased many puzzle books, and spent countless hours solving puzzles that seem canned or derivations of many others I had seen before. In Test Your Creative Thinking, this is definitely not the case, as puzzle wizard Lloyd King provides an opportunity to experience the workings of his equally divergent and convergent mind.
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Test your nerves
Instead of testing my creative thinking, I ended up testing my nerves. Creative thinking is one thing. Arbitrary logic is quite another. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2007 by Pandelis
Wow. Really forces the reader to "think outside the box"
Lloyd King has created a fantastic book of puzzles that coax the reader to use lateral thinking and to break out of standard patterns of thought. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2004 by Clifford A. Pickover
Puzzle Art
Go to any bookstore, take a puzzle book from the shelf, and browse through the pages. Of all the puzzles in the book you see in front of you, how many of them are derivatives of... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2003 by Mr B. R. CLARKE
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