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IQ Brainteasers is the ultimate test of your brain power. Packed with over 300 puzzles, your visual, mathematical and lateral-thinking abilities will be stretched to thelimit. Also included are some Japanese puzzles – Sudoku, Bridges and Slitherlink –which will really get your brain cells working.Divided into puzzle types, the sections are not in any order of difficulty – you are just aslikely to find two easy puzzles side-by-side as a more tricky one next to a simple one.Some will require a degree of mathematical ability, others you just need to use youreyes, while others still will need some knowledge of words.For the Japanese section, the principle with Sudoku is simple: all you need to do isplace a number from 1 to 9 in each empty square, so that every row, column and 3x3box contains the numbers 1–9. There’s no maths or guesswork involved, just logic. Inthe Slitherlink puzzles you need to connect adjacent dots vertically or horizontally, to form a single loop with no crossings or branches. Each number indicates how many lines surround it. Empty cells can be surrounded by any number of lines. In the Bridge puzzles each circle contains a number that represents an island. You need to connect each island with vertical or horizontalbridges to form a continuous path connecting all the islands. The number of bridgesmust equal the number inside the island. There can be up to two bridges between twoislands, and bridges must not cross islands or other bridges.The solutions are given at the back of each section so you can check your answers, buttry not to peek and complete as many as you can before looking.