How long does it take to read What Is the Name of This Book??
The riddle of Dracula and other logical puzzles
What Is the Name of This Book? by Raymond M. Smullyan takes about 4 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 249 pages, about 68,475 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In his most critically acclaimed work, a well-known mathematician, magician, and author spins a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex and challenging problems - puzzles that delve into some of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions."The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written." - Martin Gardner"--
Subjects: Logic puzzles, Puzzles, Riddles, Logic, Recreational mathematics, MATHEMATICS / Logic
