The Sharpest Man In The Room; Activity Book for Men Packed with Trivia, Facts, Puzzles and Brain Games
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He does not need another pair of socks.You know the man. The one who answers the quiz question before the host has finished reading the options. The one who says "well, actually" at dinner and is annoyingly often right. He is impossible to buy for, because he already owns everything he wants and quietly returns everything he doesn't.So stop trying to find him a thing. Give him a challenge instead.Sharpest Man in the Room is an activity book for the man who is fairly sure he is exactly that. One hundred and twenty-one puzzles, one to a page, no filler and no mercy. Trivia that bites back. Riddles that want you to stop being clever and start being sideways. Logic grids, cryptic crosswords, word ladders, secret ciphers, gear trains, vault codes, and brain games that begin friendly and turn quietly vicious.It climbs on purpose. The first pages are a gentle warm-up. The last ones are downright fiendish. Somewhere in the middle he will breeze through a puzzle marked hard and then stall, red in the face, on one marked easy. That is the whole fun of it.Tucked between the puzzles are the "Did You Know" pages, the sort of facts he will repeat at the next dinner party as if he thought of them himself. That the first phone call ever made was an accident report. That Beethoven counted exactly sixty coffee beans per cup. That a lie gets halfway round the world before the truth has got its shoes on.No app. No screen. No battery. Just a pencil, a decent chair, and a quiet war against his own confidence.The perfect gift for the man who is hard to buy for:The dad who has everything and asks for nothingThe granddad who still does the crossword in penThe husband who cannot sit still without a job to doThe retirement send-off, the milestone birthday, the stocking, the Father's Day panic-buyAny man who insists he is not competitive, then keeps score anywayGive him the one present he cannot return, cannot regift, and cannot finish in an afternoon. Give him something to think about. Read more
