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Are You Smart, or What? is the most entertaining book of word games, ever! It combines clever challenges and surprising answers with playful innovations to both amaze and amuse readers of all ages. All puzzles are concise and uncomplicated. They are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so the entire family can enjoy them. more info
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More satisfying than crossword and word searches.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love this kind of book. These puzzles are more satisfying than crosswords and word searches. Keep up the good work”
Wonderfully challenging and fun
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love puzzles and this is one of the greatest word game books I have ever read. Lighthearted and fun it still proved challenging. The answers are basic and obvious but somehow often elude the reader. When I could not figure one out and had to look at the answer it was always followed with a groan as I realized that I had overlooked the obvious. A great gift idea that the whole family will enjoy, I highly recommend this book.
Great gift!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love this book! It’s cool. It’ll make great gifts.”
Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This extrordinary book takes you deeper than a basic quiz book. It challenges your way of thinking and seeks the reader to apply diverse and lateral thinking in order to come up with what turns out to be, the most obvious answer. It challenges the mind far more that you may think and even challenges you to think. An excelent book to improve spatal orrientation, visual ques and logical thinking. Want to improve your cognition and perception? This would have to be the way. Further more, it is great to use to encourage family members to do the same and simply – THINK. A must try to anyone wanting to indulge the brain in lateral thinking.
Each page keeps you wanting more.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Excellent book! The puzzles are the perfect brain teaser. Each page keeps you wanting more. Pat has done it again.
The ultimate way to tease and tickle your brain!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Clever and challenging. Wonderful puzzles that make you think and keep you wanting more. Simple but unique way of discovering solutions and adding up points. Kept me interested for hours!
Wonderful fun!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I just adored this book and enjoyed every single puzzle in it. As one reviewer points out, this is a book for word puzzle enthusiasts. It might be compared to Will Shortz’s “Puzzlemaster Presents” series. What I love about this book is that it can be done without the aid of a dictionary, as it uses a vocabulary from common cultural literacy (e.g. types of candy bars, etc.). I also appreciate the fact that the references aren’t dated like some game books are, which can lead to frustration when I am asked to rely on my knowledge of stars from the eighties. Overall, I simply loved this book for the accessible but challenging fun it provided. I hope that Mr. Battaglia will be gracing us with another book of this type soon!
Pretty good book
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is a fun collection of brain teasers for training your reasoning skills. It is really good at seeing whether you notice the details of sentences… easily half of the puzzles are the sort where your mind skips ahead of the question and you guess wrong at first. There is a lot of word play, and many “homophone” sounds alike clues.
I like that the answers are not in a block at the end of the book — they are hidden on the page. Good book!
Are you Smart, or What
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The item was shipped as promised, on time and looked like knew. I would definitely buy products from this seller anytime.
Not as it seems in the review ….
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I am a huge fan of brain teaser books. I have a huge collection of these types of book. BUT after reading this book I say that this book is not as good as it seems in the review. If you think that you will find many Logical and mathematical riddles, this isn’t the book for you, but on the other hand if you are into word games this might be a great book for you .
Excellent choice: Are You Smart or What?
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This ia a very clever collection of puzzles and quizzes which held the attention of my 12-year-old grandson for hours on a two-day car trip. I will certainly order more books by Pat Battaglia. It was very entertaining, and her way of hiding the answers was indeed very innovative.
Lorraine Richards
Arizona
Are You Smart, or What?… An Excellent Challenge !
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Pat Battaglia has a gift for challenging the reader with his verbal and numeric teasers. With each page skillfully crafted to whet your appetite for his next challenge, he offers an array of puzzles that make it difficult to put the book down. Many of the mind benders are so cleverly done, with a nice balance between difficult and easy, he almost compels you to turn the page to find out what lies ahead. When you miss the obvious, the frustration mounts and yet you push on, desperately wanting to decide for yourself, “Am I smart, or WHAT?” The book is excellent fun !
A Clever Collection
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Is it normal to get a plethora of amazing Christmas gifts but ignore them all to focus on a book of games? In my case, and clearly what appears to many others, ABSOLUTELY!! Being a college student I have a pretty busy schedule, but I occasionaly like to escape from the realities of schoolwork and delve into puzzle books. (They are fun, yet intend to be challenging) The problem arises when I find myself with Goldilock Syndrome, some are too easy while others are just too hard. When my mother gave me “Are You Smart, or What?” I finally found the perfect combination. Easy and hard now peacefully coexisted in a book of fun where brains were a plus, but cleverness was the key.