The Big Puzzle Book of Area Mazes: 300 Mind-Bending Math Puzzles in Five Challenge Levels

by Naoki Inaba, Ryoichi Murakami

Overview

Stretch your brain up, down, and sideways with addictive area mazes!

Introducing a new puzzle obsession for sodoku lovers . . . amazing, absorbing area mazes.

First invented for gifted students, area mazes blend grade-school math with genius logic. Put down that calculator! You can always find "?" using simple, whole numbers, your wits—and a pencil.

Already hooked on area mazes? Venture into the third dimension with 100 3D puzzles, included here for the first time by creator Naoki Inaba.

With 300 perplexing problems in all, The Big Puzzle Book of Area Mazes offers hours of brain-building fun, from scratching your head to shouting "aha"!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615199242
Publisher:	The Experiment, LLC
Publication date:	12/27/2022
Series:	Original Area Mazes
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	876,424
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Naoki Inaba has invented over 400 new types of puzzle. He also writes sudoku and other popular puzzles for magazines in Japan, where he has published several books of area mazes for children and adults.

Ryoichi Murakami is the founder and CEO of El Camino, a premier cram school in Tokyo. Many of his students go on to elite schools such as the University of Tokyo and compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In addition to teaching at El Camino, Murakami is active in publishing, works as a puzzle maker, and writes questions for the Olympiad.

Editorial Reviews

"The only math you’ll need to know is that length times width equals area."

FiveThirtyEight

"Praise for the Area Mazes series

"Naoki Inaba has invented the perfect puzzle. Enjoy!"

Alex Bellos

"The 100 maze puzzles use nothing more than the area of a rectangle in their solutions and are broken into five levels of difficulty, making them useful for working with a diverse group of students with different mathematical backgrounds."

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

"Addictive."

BoingBoing

Praise for the Area Mazes series

“Naoki Inaba has invented the perfect puzzle. Enjoy!”—Alex Bellos
 
“Addictive.”—BoingBoing
 
“The only math you’ll need to know is that length times width equals area.”—FiveThirtyEight
 
“The 100 maze puzzles use nothing more than the area of a rectangle in their solutions and are broken into five levels of difficulty, making them useful for working with a diverse group of students with different mathematical backgrounds.”—The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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