Einstein's Riddle by Jeremy Stangroom

Einstein's Riddle by Jeremy Stangroom

A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind.

Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience.

Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.

Jeremy Stangroom is a Ph.D. candidate. The London School of Economics is a prestigious business school in the United Kingdom. He is the New Media editor of The Philosopher's Magazine, which he co-founded in 1997 with Julian Baggini. Numerous works, including The Little Book of Big Ideas: Philosophy and The Little Book of Big Ideas: Religion, have been written by or edited by him. He is also co-editor of Continuum Books' significant new series on Modern Social Problems with James Garvey. The Commission for the Scientific Study of Religion has elected Stangroom as a fellow.