Yiddishe Kop: The Book of Jewish Brain Teasers Vol. 2

By Hazakah Productions

Yiddishe Kop: The Book of Jewish Brain Teasers Vol. 2 offers another 52 challenging lateral thinking puzzles with a Jewish bent. The term "lateral thinking" was coined by Edward de Bono to describe how one solves a problem creatively by seeing it from different angles. "Yiddishe kop" refers to a Jewish logic which may have developed from traditional Torah study. Just as the Torah is compared to a diamond with 70 facets, allowing one to learn different lessons from phrases, words or even letters if viewed from the proper angle, the solutions to these puzzles may hinge on a similar type of detail.

True to Jewish form, the puzzles are designed to make you ask good questions!

Play by yourself (using the clues) or with a group. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hazakah Productions
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005621704

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Yiddishe Kop: The Book

of Jewish Brain Teasers

Vol. 2

Copyright Hazakah, Inc. 2021

Published by Hazakah at Smashwords

We are excited to release this second volume of Yiddishe Kop: lateral thinking puzzles with a Jewish bent. We are including 52 questions, numbered 53-104 (for questions 1-52, see Volume One).

The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward de Bono to describe how one solves a problem creatively by seeing it from different angles. Yiddishe kop refers to a Jewish logic which may have developed from traditional Torah study. Just as the Torah is compared to a diamond with 70 facets, allowing one to learn different lessons from phrases, words or even letters if viewed from the proper angle, the solutions to these puzzles may hinge on a similar type of detail.

These riddles may be played alone or in a group. When alone, reveal one clue at a time and try to determine the answer. When played in a group, everyone but the reader (the Puzzle Master) should ask questions. The Puzzle Master may only give one of four responses: yes, no, irrelevant or partially correct. A yes response allows the questioner to ask a follow up question. If the group can't determine the answer within a certain number of questions (i.e. 20 questions), then the Puzzle Master wins that round. The role of Puzzle Master should rotate each round.

A sample round might look like this:

First the puzzle