Fantastic collection of puzzles, perfect for early finishers in the classroom, long journeys, or brainteasers for the family.

Thanks so much to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me access an advance copy of this book in exchange for my feedback.

This was not really what I was expecting out of this book. I can see that they would be fun but they were also a little more confusing and didn't really feel like I wanted to spend my time doing.

Haha, this book was both lots of fun, and infuriating! The puzzles/activities require the reader to embrace their imagination and creativity. I loved the ones where new phrases were created by filling in parts of a quote, and the prompts featuring odd road signs, or unique situations where you think up meanings and reasons. One is a door in the desert. Another, a carpenter about to hammer an upside down nail. These exercises are great for teaching out of box thinking. Highly recommended! I have a hardcopy now :)

This is a book filled with fun activities that are great as ice breakers or team building exercises. However, I can see students getting bored after the 2nd time a puzzle format is presented. A variety of activities would be an improved approach to lateral thinking.

This was...not at all what I thought it would be. I went into this thinking it was brain teasers, but it's really just short fill-in-the-blank scenarios - sort of? I'm not even sure really. ***Teasers follow*** For instance, one of the "brain teasers" is this: "Yes, Watson, I did break this mirror...Can you imagine at least seven...reasons why?" I just don't consider that a brain teaser. The "solutions" are rarely actual solutions since the answer can often be anything in your imagination. The teaser above has several "solutions" such as: hating to compare one's face to another, needing a shard of glass, and demonstrating to your niece that nothing lies beneath the mirror but imagined demons. Yup. Another brain teaser is to use the letters in the word "billions" to make seven other words. Another is to come up with seven reasons to explain why you'd find a door in the middle of the desert. You get the point - it's less "brain teasers" and more "use your imagination" than anticipated. So if that's your kind of thing, you'll probably like this book a lot more than I did.

As always, I'm grateful to the publisher and NetGalley for lending me an e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Decent problems with some sort of visual. Good for teachers and those wanting to improve their brain in any way. Answers at back.

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Of course, I think any type of puzzle books works best not on a digital screen, so I imagine flipping through this in its paperback format would be more pleasant than me with my laptop!
The book has a puzzle on each page, following a pattern of sorts. Most of them don't have definite answers and require the readers to use their imagination and creativity to generate their own answers. As an educator, I think that this would be an excellent book for the school setting as well!

Fun logic puzzle book! Colorful illustrations make the book fun to look through. The sherlock theme throughout the book adds another fun element to the book of teasers.

An interesting puzzle book with 100 challenging puzzles that will appeal to fans of Sherlock Holmes. Thank you to NetGalley, Pierre Berloquin, and Wellfleet Press – The Quarto Group for an ARC of this book.

Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Lateral Brain Teasers is a new volume in the Sherlock Holmes Puzzles series. Released 27th Oct 2020 by Quarto on their Wellfleet Press imprint, it's 128 pages and available in paperback format.

These "lateral thinking" brain teasers are not one-answer-fits-all puzzles. They require the reader to use imagination and creativity to formulate solutions to indefinite questions: "what could be behind this door?", "what other phrases can be abbreviated with the acronym b.i.r.d.?" and more along those lines.

The thematic thread which ties the puzzles together is Holmes and Watson. They're honestly extraneous to the puzzles, they're only there to lend flavor. There are several different types of puzzles repeated throughout the book with new words and phrases. The book does include a solution chapter with at least some answers to the puzzles.

It's an interesting concept. I think this would make a nice library selection, or a good lockdown gift for a puzzle fan.

Three and a half stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

This was a brilliant book. It reminded me of the books we had for when we were on long journeys in the '80s. Great fun and good for keeping the mind active.

I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was as I had another of this Authors books and I didn't enjoy it.

The answers at the end are suggested rather than definitive so you could have your own ones. Main drawback was having to scroll through the whole book to get to the answers, would be much better in hard copy form.

Thanks to Netgalley and Quatro Publishing - Well Fleet Press for the ARC. My review is my own opinion.

Lateral thinking requires the puzzler to ignore pure logic and challenges them to look beyond what they see. In some instances, you need to use your imagination. Often with these puzzles there is more than one solution and the solutions themselves can raise more questions.

This book includes a mixture of language and numerical puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty. The harder puzzles were challenging but certainly kept me engaged. As the title suggest, there is reference to Sherlock Holmes, with the premise being that the reader has been tasked with helping his side kick, Dr John H. Watson, in solving the puzzles set to him by Holmes.

If you enjoy puzzles that are that little bit different and make you “think outside the box”, then this is a book for you. There are 100 puzzles in total with the solutions printed at the back. I certainly enjoyed it and would recommend it to any puzzlers.

Many thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Wellfleet Press and NetGalley UK for the review copy.

Wow! What an interesting set of challenges. Between myself and a few friends I have gone through the largess of these activities in such a short space of time. We had a lot of fun answering the questions by trying to access our lateral thought processes and create logical explanations for things that are perhaps naturally illogical or hard to explain.
What a joy!
We also, collectively, appreciated how at the end of the book we have "suggested" rather than exclusive answers... Meaning that while we, in our giggles and fun, achieved a much broader range of answers - if there was reason then we had succeeded!
What a delight!

There are 100 different puzzles in this book that often don't have much to do with Sherlock Holmes. Some puzzles are easy, but quite a few are difficult. Often you must use your imagination, and there is not just one solution to the problem. Some puzzles were better than others. But anyway, this ebook can be good entertainment during breaks or for lazy Sunday afternoons. I would say this one is best as a printed book because of the solutions that are at the back of the book. But it is useful as an ebook too.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this! All opinions are my own.

I found these puzzles to be quite challenging, and while not completely to my taste, I did spend quite a bit of time working through them and enjoying the head-scratching which ensued.

Well, having found some reasonable favour with the other book currently going the rounds of us reviewers in this series (ISBN 9781577152156), this was a step back. You can easily do without Holmes and Watson – their presence here is merely tacked-on. What we have are rather silly little exercises, with little in the way of right answers – we're shown a door and told to think of people or things that might be behind it; we have to work out for ourselves what a cloud on a roadside warning sign might mean; we have to get a short list of words built from the letters on the sides of a pyramid – which is stupid as the letters given are at the angles of the pyramid, not the sides. They are very flippant things to do while staring at the wall of the smallest room, improvising to an audience of at most that crocheted woman sat on top of the spare bog roll, and I wanted more. There are some definitely brain-stretching contents here (create seven sums that reorder all the single digits once each to total zero, and a few other mathematical ones), but to my mind they were too few and far between – and the same kind of "test" just cycles past in too short an order. Now, give me seven reasons why...

The author of this puzzle book has been specializing in Sherlock Holmes related challenges. This one with lateral thinking puzzles offers 100 chances for readers to test their wits.

The book begins with a discussion of what lateral thinking is and then come the puzzles. They were a bit different for me as there was not always one clear solution. So, that has to be accepted in order to enjoy what follows. Let your inner Watson out and see how you do!

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title. All opinions are my own.