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 x 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!

'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 fractions Originally 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.

The rules are simple . . . The math is easy . . . The puzzles get harder and harder! Hooked on area mazes? YOU'RE IN LUCK! Volume Two delivers 100 more puzzles. Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value. 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 fractions! Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes have taken all of Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic? Do you play brain games to stay sharp? Did you love geometry . . . or would you like to finally show it who's boss? Try area mazes--they could be just what you're craving!