The Chicken from Minsk: And 99 Other Infuriating Brainteasers

by Robert Rose (Author), Yuri Chernyak (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $14.16

  A mesmerizing and challenging book of Russian games for the mind.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.36

  THE CHICKEN FROM MINSK ia s collection of one hundred of the best Russian brainteasers. The problems range from easy to tricky to excrutiatingly difficult, but all are irresistibly entertaining. Covering a range of maths and physics puzzles taken from the Russian Olympiad for children to university entrance papers they will keep lateral thinkers busy for hours. (And for those who run out of pencils to chew there are subtle hints and solutions...)