Desperate and Appauling

Desperate and Appauling

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Desperate and Appauling episodes

  • How to be a Brilliant Thinker
    We discuss Paul's books, How to be a Brilliant Thinker, Think Like an Innovator and The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills.  There are also solutions to previous puzzles, a joke and a new puzzle about a vanishing town.

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    20 min
  • Kick Yourself Puzzles

    Des and Paul share some super riddles from the book, Kick Yourself Puzzles, published by Sterling Publishing.

    A riddle for listeners:

    Moses was the son of the Pharaoh’s daughter,

    He was also the daughter of the Pharaoh’s son.

    How can this be?

    Answer in the next podcast.

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    16 min
  • Wonderful Words and a Lateral Thinking Puzzle

     

    Paul and Des discuss some wonderful words ranging from banshee to crepuscular.  They tell a couple of jokes and Des poses a new lateral thinking puzzle for Paul to chew over. Puzzle for listeners, find an anagram for THE CLASSROOM.

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    23 min
  • World's Best Word Puzzles

    Des and Paul chat about unusual words, palindromes, anagrams, jokes and much more.  It features items from their book, World's Best Word Puzzles, which is a delight for word lovers everywhere.  The book has some 320 quiz questions and word puzzles.

    Puzzle for listeners. Which word starts with seven consonants and ends with nine?

    Answer in next podcast.

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    24 min
  • Lateral Thinking Puzzles

    Our two co-conspirators, Des and Paul, discuss some fiendish lateral puzzles.  Drawn from the book Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles and from the website www.lateralpuzzles.com where you can set and solve such puzzles in a forum.

    Puzzle for listeners.  A couple bought something nice but looked at it only once or twice a year. Why?

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    22 min
  • Some Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Des MacHale and Paul Sloane discuss the joy of mathematics and review some puzzles from their popular book, Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles, published by Sterling Publishing.

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    24 min
  • Des and Paul discuss 1234 Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Words
    Des MacHale and Paul Sloane talk about their new book, 1234 Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Words.  It is a lexicon of funny and fascinating words and it helps raise money for the charity Step by Step which supports disadvantaged young people.  Here the authors consider some of the words beginning with A.

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    20 min

About Desperate and Appauling

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Conversations between Des MacHale and Paul Sloane who have co-authored a number of books including Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles, Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles, World's Best Word Puzzles…