Think Twice: Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong

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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

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A brilliant collection of puzzles. Never has getting the answer wrong felt so good! -- G.T. Karber, author of MURDLE
I'm a sucker for Alex Bellos's books - they're just such fun -- Tim Harford, bestselling author of 'The Data Detective'

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Alex Bellos is a journalist, broadcaster and puzzle master. He read Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University before becoming a journalist and writer. Alex was born in Oxford and grew up in Edinburgh and Southampton and lived in Brazil for five years as a foreign correspondent for the Guardian before returning to the UK He is the author of 8 books about puzzles and mathematics and currently writes weekly puzzle column for the Guardian.