Mensan Erwin Brecher was educated in Vienna, Czechoslovakia and London, where he studied physics, economics and engineering. He entered business after World War Two and became a Name at Lloyds of London in 1974. He has since written some 22 books on non-fiction subjects, most of them puzzle books of high quality and wide variety.

This fun book takes a slightly different look at puzzle questions, and all of the posers are based on real-world science. So you'll learn how to boil water in your palm, why you can crack your knuckles and of course how to walk on fire!,; Other puzzles include: Can You Burst a Barrel?; Turning the Screw; More Feathers, More Gold; Push or Pull?; Did the Earth Move?; Can You Make Tea?; The Nodding Bird; Bombs and Parachutes; and many more.