What a great compilation of thought-provoking puzzles! For kids or adults, these will keep you busy and thinking for many an hour. As a teacher, these are perfect for challenge work, free time, or indoor recess! Thanks to Netgalley for the arc.

I'm probably not going to give this a star rating on goodreads because it wouldn't be fair. I'm more of a words logic type of puzzle lover, and this is very very mathy. If I was flipping through this book at a store, I would have easily seen that and not bought it because it's just not for me. That said, although I wasn't interested in most of the puzzles, I really liked the text surrounding them. A lot of the puzzles have historical context and academic discussion included, and I found that interesting. The history of a specific puzzle type was worth reading even when I didn't want to do the puzzle.

Perilous Problems for Puzzle lovers is full of many brain teasing puzzles. The obvious answer is not always the right answer. It helps the brain look for patterns, sharpens reasoning skills and exercises your brain. I love how the author gives history and background about certain puzzles and how they have been shaped by mathematical history.

This wasn't the sort of puzzle book I was expecting but it was a fun read. I read some of the puzzles to my 13 y/o son who enjoys a challenge. As another reviewer pointed out on Goodreads, they are rather "mathy" but I found that good for us as homeschoolers. Bellos includes lots of historical puzzles and it was fun to read some of them to my kids. There is a variety of types of puzzles, with some picture types (rotate the rabbits so these three ears are enough for all of them, draw lines on these dots to do this, etc.) and some that are more like math word problems, plus many others.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

This was great to do while I was procrastinating after starting my veterinary assistant training. A much needed distraction with some laughs! Some of these were easy and others were super tough; something for everyone as a puzzle lover.

Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Available: 10/27/20