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

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More than 300 all-new area mazes take puzzlers to new levels of challenge - and into the third dimension

Once you match wits with area mazes, you'll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a group of rectangles (or a 3D stack of cubes!) to find a missing value. Just remember:
Area = length width
Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships.
Whole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractions!

Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro) have taken Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic

Do you play brain games to stay sharp Did you love geometry... or would you like to finally show it who's boss Feed
your brain some area mazes - they could be just what you're craving!

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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

Author Bio

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.