Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers - Alex Bellos

290 Pages·2020·11.25 MB·English

alex bellos
author of Can You Solve My Problems?

Math, Logic & Word Puzzles
to Challenge Your Brain

“Lots of Ah, Aha, and Haha.”

—Rob Eastaway, coauthor of
Why Do Buses Come in Threes?

“Alex Bellos is a wizard.”

—Tim Harford, author of
The Undercover Economist

PERILOUS
pROBLEMS

PUZZLE
LOVERS

PERILOUS
pROBLEMS

PUZZLE
LOVERS

FOR

Acclaim for

PERILOUS PROBLEMS FOR PUZZLE LOVERS

and ALEX BELLOS

“Smart thinker Alex Bellos . . . has designed these brilliantly

challenging puzzles to send the little grey brain cells into overdrive . . .

knotty problems, hidden patterns, confusing conundrums,

and devious survival situations.”

—Sunday Express

“This puzzle book by the brilliant [Alex Bellos] is keeping me nice

and entertained. . . . Very clever.”

—rachel riley, cohost of Countdown

“Lots of Ah, Aha, and Haha, which is the mark of a good puzzle.”
—rob eastaway, coauthor of Why Do Buses Come in Threes?

“As anyone who follows his Guardian puzzle column will know,
Alex has very good taste in puzzles. Unsurprisingly, therefore,

this is a great collection.”
—Chalkdust magazine

“Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you
ever had, and now you’ve got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like.”

—steven strogatz, author of The Joy of x

“Alex Bellos is a wizard.”

—tim harford, author of The Undercover Economist

“I have loved Alex’s writing for many years . . . [He’s] an incredibly

passionate and gifted storyteller.”

—craig barton, creator of MrBartonMaths

ALSO BY ALEX BELLOS

Can You Solve My Problems?

Puzzle Ninja

Here’s Looking at Euclid

The Grapes of Math

Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life

BY ALEX BELLOS AND EDMUND HARRISS

Patterns of the Universe:
A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty

Visions of the Universe:
A Coloring Journey through Math’s

Great Mysteries

alex bellos

new york

Math, Logic & Word Puzzles

to Challenge Your Brain

PERILOUS
PROBLEMS

PUZZLE
LOVERS

FOR

To Natalie

Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain
Copyright © 2019, 2020 by Alex Bellos

Originally published in Great Britain as So You Think You’ve Got Problems? by Guardian Books/Faber and Faber
Ltd in 2019. First published in North America in revised form by The Experiment, LLC, in 2020.

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