Puzzlebook Trilogy: 303 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!) [Kindle Edition]

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Puzzlebook Trilogy: 303 Puzzle Quizzes (color and interactive!) [Kindle Edition]

By : The Grabarchuk Family
List Price : ~~$4.99~~
Price : $0.00

Customer Reviews

Note: This review was originally published at Red Adept Reviews on March 4, 2012.
Overall: 5 stars
Having already worked the puzzles and brainteasers in the three puzzlebooks that make up this trilogy, I knew what to expect. The three earlier puzzlebooks are presented unabridged in the order they were originally published in, with solutions, for a total of 303 mind exercises. There are no time limits, so there's no pressure to solve a puzzle unless you want to set your own limits and use a clock.
The puzzles do not have to be solved sequentially - you can begin anywhere and work in any order, although the puzzles gradually get more difficult as you go up the order. The puzzles include a number of different types of brainteasers, so they never appear repetitive. I've seen similar types of puzzles on some intelligence tests, so these might be good practice for such a test. I know very little about the cognitive functioning of the brain, but I think these puzzles would give your logic circuits a good workout.
The bottom line: the puzzles are interesting and fun to solve, especially if you like mind challenges. I enjoyed solving them, but my two nieces, ages 8 and 10, also enjoyed them.
I ran the Puzzlebook Trilogy on both my Kindle Fire and Kindle 3 (now called the Kindle Keyboard). On the Kindle Fire, the puzzles were in color, and the controls were simpler, consisting of touching and swiping. On the e-ink Kindle, there was a short learning curve on using the controls, and the color graphics were in grayscale, but the puzzles played just as well.

Having played all of the Puzzlebooks in this collection previously, I have to say that if you don't already own any of the books in this unique trilogy, it's definitely worth the money if you are a fan of puzzles at all. At the current sub five dollar price, the price is right. There's not a lot of plot and no characterization, but what is here is a great example of puzzle solving.
Each puzzle is a brain twister for sure, and each gets a little more difficult than the puzzle on the previous page, gently building up the difficulty.
The only reason this wouldn't make financial sense is if you already own any of the books in the series.