Think Twice
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529934793
  • Imprint: Square Peg
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99
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Think Twice

Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong

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Hardback
3 Dec 2024
EBook
5 Sep 2024
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Will you be one of the few who can prove Alex wrong?

I hope you get every puzzle in this book wrong.
I’m being honest. The more you answer incorrectly, the more fun you will have . . .

Guardian puzzle master Alex Bellos knows better than anyone that the puzzles we find irresistible are the ones that deceive us. Those that seem blindingly, obviously simple – and yet we can’t help but get wrong.

These 70 confounding puzzles – which Alex has scoured from across psychology, mathematics, statistics, physics, geography, the science of perception and more – are guaranteed to catch you off guard. But why are you getting them wrong? And how can you get them right?

In Think Twice, Alex delights in tripping us up and then returning us to our feet, explaining how these puzzles work, the biases holding us back – and how to train your brain to avoid being hoodwinked again.

Think once and you will stumble.
Think twice and you are in with a chance.
Now that you’ve been warned, can you prove Alex wrong?
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529934793
  • Imprint: Square Peg
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99
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Praise for Think Twice

I'm a sucker for Alex Bellos's books - they're just such fun

Tim Harford

A brilliant collection of puzzles. Never has getting the answer wrong felt so good!

G.T. Karber, author of MURDLE

If you like puzzles, don't think twice - buy this book

5* star Amazon review

We had great fun as a family trying to puzzle these

5* star Amazon review

A lot of fun especially if shared

5* star Amazon review

A magical mixture of surprising, smart and sensational puzzles!

Richard Wiseman, author of THE LUCK FACTOR
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