Book Description
So You Think You're Smart is a delightful book of word games that the entire family can enjoy. All games are concise, uncomplicated and, most of all, a lot of fun. They are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so only common knowledge and a bit of resourcefulness are needed to solve them. The games are only one of the fun features. All answers are encrypted! Each is given on the same page as the game, but is printed upside-down and backward - as in a mirror image. To ensure that they cannot be accidentally read, the answers are further obscured by using italics and a reduced size type. A mirror is needed to reveal the answers - and a special unbreakable plastic one is provided with each book.


From the Publisher
So You Think You're Smart is in its 12th printing. It has proven its popularity since being originally published in 1988.


From the Author
I am very grateful and humbled that thousands and thousands of people have enjoyed my unique brand of word games. It is because of them that I have the incentive to continue to seek and develop new and entertaining games. My thanks to all. Would you like to see your name in print as a contributor to my future books and/or newspaper puzzle column? I invite readers to send their favorite brain teasers to me. If selected for publication, each person receives a cash award and their name published in the book and/or column. Details for submission are included my books.


From the Inside Flap
This book is ideal for: traveling & vacations "know-it-all friends and family party entertainment classroom warm-ups enjoying waiting times challenges for bright children bathroom "meditations" creativity exercises


About the Author
Pat Battaglia is the nation's leading authority on devising clever word games for readers of all ages. He is a former rocket scientist turned author of playful games. Battaglia has written three books. His first, If You're So Smart..., published in 1976 is now a collector's item. The book contains fifty-four classic puzzles. As in all his books, answers are concealed in some ingenious way. In this book they are inside folded pages that don't fold-out! So You Think You're Smart is Battaglia's second book. The current 12th printing attests to its popularity among readers of all ages. Battaglia's newest book is entitled Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone. This book is endorsed by Bill Cosby and contains more offbeat fun and challenge than ever! In addition to his books, Battaglia is the author of the If You're So Smart... newspaper puzzle column that has been in syndication for over 16 years.


Excerpted from So You Think You're Smart: 150 Fun and Challenging Brain Teasers by Pat Battaglia. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Test your "smarts" with this sample: Insert the letters "a" and "e" into the appropriate places below and separate the words to get an interesting message. BronFrnknstinwslonlymnbforhlrndtomkfrinds. No fair reading the answer given below until you tried your darndest. ANSWER: Baron Frankenstein was a lonely man before he learned to make friends.