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As I was cleaning off some bookshelves, I ran across an old (1946) copy of Joseph Leeming's Fun with Puzzles. What a great book! Hundreds of number puzzles, riddles, word and logic puzzles. Some use coins or matches, some are similar to tangrams. You don't need any special supplies to work these puzzles--just your brain, pencil, paper, and maybe some wooden matches and a pair of scissors. This book along with a sequel entitled More Fun with Puzzles has been edited, updated, and re-published under the title Fabulous Fun with Puzzles
It's a good, inexpensive source of mind-building, brain-teasing puzzles geared to about 10-12 year olds and up.
Here's an example from my older version:
"A foot traveler arrived one rainy night at a spot where three roads met. Looking anxiously for the signboard that would tell him which road to take to his destination, he saw that it had fallen into some bushes. Picking it up, he thought for a few moments, and then put it up in its correct position. How did he manage to do this?"
Answer (from back of book): The signboard had three pointers. He set it up so the pointer bearing the name of the town he had just come form pointed along the road from that town.
That was from the section on Brain Teasers. Here's one from the Word Puzzles section:
See if you can punctuate the following sentence, so that it becomes intelligible and makes sense:
John where James had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
Here's the answer: John, where James had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
I don't think I would have ever gotten that one, 
And, lastly, a number puzzle sample:
This one looks easy, but it is deceiving. A boy bought a baseball and a bat, paying $1.25 for both together. The ball cost 25 cents more than the bat. How much did each cost?
Answer: The ball cost 75 cents, the bat cost 50 cents.
This book has tons of puzzles! If you have a child who likes puzzle challenges, this would be a fun book for him or her!
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