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The first book of area mazes for kids: Race the clock to solve 70 fun puzzles with grade-school arithmetic - and genius logic! Welcome, brave math wizard, to the world of area mazes. These clever arrangements of squares and rectangles are more than what meets the eye. Can you find your way from the given values to the missing one =- using only whole numbers and your powers to add, subtract, multiply, and divide? Absolutely no fractions or equations are required (or allowed)! Too easy? Race the clock! Puzzle master Naoki Inaba has included “good,” “great,” and “amazing” time targets for every puzzle. Just be warned . . . the puzzles get harder and harder as you go!

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Area mazes have taken Japan by storm, and it's easy to see why. Prolific puzzle inventor Naoki Inaba has created a worthy successor to Sudoku.Just remember: To find an area, multiply the lengths of the sides. The inventor of area mazes, master puzzlemaker Naobi Inaba, has selected 100 of his best mazes and organized them into five levels of difficulty. Try area mazes for yourself - you'll be hooked in no time!

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'NAOKI INABA HAS INVENTED THE PERFECT PUZZLE. ENJOY!' Alex Bellos'Awesome puzzles! My students and I love them!'Ellen Hansen'I use these as warm-ups with 3rd and 4th grade Gifted and Talented students. They love solving these puzzles!'L. Bowe 'Loved these' Elizabeth Shapiro 'An excellent book of short puzzles' Once you pit your wits against area mazes, you'll be hooked! From the genius mind of Naoki Inaba - one of the world's most prolific and creative inventors of logic puzzles - comes a brand-new type of challenge. Area mazes have already taken Japan by storm and are set to be the next big puzzle craze. Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value. The rules are simple, the puzzles are easy and the logic is clever. Just remember:- Area = length x width- Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships- Whole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractionsOriginally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro) are the perfect puzzle for brain game fanatics. Whether you loved or hated geometry at school, with this book you can finally show it who's boss. Feed your brain some areas mazes - they could be just what you're craving.

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Once you match wits with area mazes, you’ll be hooked! Originally invented for gifted students, these novel puzzles have taken all of Japan by storm. The Big Puzzle Book of Area Mazes follows our two travel-size volumes with 300 all-new puzzles - including 100 3D puzzles, seen here for the first time! Each tangle of rectangles - or cache of cubes - dares puzzler-doers to find a missing value through spatial reasoning. The only math knowledge you need is that length × width = area. No hard math is allowed - fractions, begone! If you’re a sudoku fanatic . . . if you play brain games to stay sharp . . . if you love geometry (or you want to finally show it who’s boss) . . . then feed your mind some area mazes. They could be just what you’re craving!

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