The Galactic Festival

Paul Holmes’ second volume of puzzles.

Inspired by the Edinburgh Festival, it is written as an easy-read science fiction story with a twist, each chapter being a separate puzzle, accessible for all the family. Varying from easy puzzles involving numbers and anagrams all the way to one or two real stinkers for which you will need at least Higher or A level Maths and Physics and plenty of time, it can also be read as a simple story involving space travel, aliens and unexpected snake bites. There are plenty of shorter puzzles, too.

• How do Gravity Trains work?
• Who can deduce the colour of the label stuck to their forehead?
• Is it possible to cross all the bridges just once?
• Can an infinite hotel ever be truly full?
• Why do left and right reverse in a mirror when up and down do not?
• Which asymmetric dice should you choose?
• Why are digital roots so useful?
• Can you survive a bite from a Logonian mamba?
• How many infinities are there?
• And just how many fingers do Trellians actually have?

These questions and many others are explored in this  volume of puzzles. Each chapter is a separate puzzle, involving mathematics, logic, anagrams, physics, word play, number theory and a cipher.

The story can also be read as an entertaining narrative.

The chapters are interspersed with much shorter brain teasers, including:-

• Where in the World Am I?
• What Comes Next?
• Wordy Interludes
• General Knowledge quiz questions and
• a Word Search

especially designed for those with only five minutes to spare.