Tricky Logic Puzzles for Adults: 130+ Difficult Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain

Great variety and fun challenging puzzles. Directions were clear and helpful

Love this book so much! I’ve always loved logic puzzles and was looking for a book with a good variety. Difficulty progresses throughout the book, so I often “warm up” with a puzzle earlier in the book before switching to something more challenging. Haven’t encountered errors yet: though reviews do mention there’s a few. I admit, I’m always on my phone: but this book is a sure fire way to get me off my phone and unnaturally absorbed in completing puzzles. Highly recommend, and I hope he comes out with a sequel!

There are five main puzzle types throughout the book with an occasional unique twist where you find a word in the solution that culminates into a large puzzle at the end of the book. I loved this feature and got really into flipping to find these special puzzles so I could solve the big one at the end. I’ve never seen anything like this and it kept me very engaged and interested. Just personal preference and no impact on my rating, but it’s worth noting - I have apps for sudoku and nonograms so it was just tedious to do these by hand. Just keep that in mind if you’re in the same boat. Logic grid puzzles are the only reason I buy puzzle books and I was disappointed to find these felt pretty repetitive (the same issue I have with logic puzzle apps). As others have said, there are quite a few errors in the solutions and hints. The author seems like a huge puzzle nerd so I’m not sure how so many mistakes got through him and editor/publishers. The explanation on the puzzle type I hadn’t seen before (masyu) was confusing until I looked at the solution a few times to try and figure out what he was trying to say. A lot of puzzle books assume you already know how to play everything so I guess I can’t complain too much. The handful of completely new puzzles in the back were hit and miss for me. There are no instructions because the author expects you to use logic (!) to figure it out. Sometimes I got it, sometimes I didn’t even understand after looking at the solution. And some of them make you question how any one would figure it out (e.g., figuring out a pun from a blocky picture). Maybe I’m just dumb.. but I don’t think a few lines of instruction would go amiss. Finally, the binding is terrible for this type of book. I appreciate the quality paper and quality look of the cover, but a looser spine or spiral bind would make this much more enjoyable to use.

Got this for my son who is addicted to this kind of puzzle and HE LOVED IT. I wish there were 10 volumes.

My favorite puzzle book of all time. I wish this author made another one just like it. I love all the puzzles. They are fun and challenging. They progress in difficulty as you go along. So much better than other puzzle books that waste your time with seek and find pictures.

This puzzle book is a good level of tricky and something I actually plan to finish whereas other puzzle books end up sitting on our shelves unfinished after a few pages. It’s a five star book but one nitpick is that the instructions could be a little clearer!

Good book with some fun puzzles, and it introduced me to my new favorite form of logic puzzle (masyu). However, some (not all) of the puzzles aren't based entirely on logic. For example, at least one sudoku puzzle has multiple viable answers, some nonograms require guessing, and some of the traditional logic/zebra puzzles have unclear language about positioning based on the actual results. The latter can kind of be seen as a "skill issue," but it probably sours the experience for newcomers to the genre a bit. Despite those complaints, most of the puzzles are good and can be reasoned out. But I can't really recommend the book for other people.

My husband loves these sorts of puzzles. He’s a huge Sudoku fan and enjoys solving grid puzzles. He received it as part of a V-day gift and has already worked a few of them.

We have many of these brain game books in my house. They are great quality and we really enjoy puzzles.

This is sudoku not logic. Do not buy unless that's what you want.

The book is titled Logic Puzzles. However, some puzzles inside rely on Trial and Error instead. I wanted to be fair and contacted the author first, but he ignored all my emails. Hints, especially the Cryptic Puzzles, just gave the final solution but noway of finding out the initial solve did I do it correctly. Once stuck, you are stuck for good. What is the point in putting a website, a Twitter, and a name when people tried to contact him and he can't even see/reply?

this is great... perfect variety of puzzles, great diffculty, good progress of levels, just perfect book. absolutely love it - so does my whole family, there are evenings we all sit in front of our books together

My mom loved it. It was a bit too hard for me.