Alien Iq Test; Author: Pickover, Clifford A.; Hardback; Book

Author: Pickover, Clifford A.
Hardback; Book
105 pages
Published: February 2002
Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486420078
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These challenging and provocative exercises in mental acuity were transmitted to the author (he says) by a team of extraterrestrials. Each deceptively simple-looking puzzle takes only moments to read; determining a solution, however, can require quite some time (moreover, some have more than one correct answer). Ranging from riddles, questions, and word problems to graphic brainteasers,these puzzles test mathematical prowess, abstract reasoning, and even moral sensitivity and human concepts of beauty. Included are such mind-bogglers as The Omega Prism, Rubik's Tesseract, Cosmic Rosetta Stone, Alien Ants in Hyperspace, Human Brains in a Jar, The Elk Hunter's Abduction, Aliens and Sprinklers, and many more. Detailed solutions appear at the end. The most origi