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Yiddishe Kop - secular version?



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mandr




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Mar 11 2019, 2:46 pm
I loved this book but I am wondering if there’s a book like this that doesn’t rely on Torah knowledge. Any ideas?
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mha3484




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Mar 11 2019, 3:21 pm
I spy?
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Mar 11 2019, 3:43 pm
My son has a non Jewish book a bit like that but it was aimed at 5 year olds and I can't remember the name anyway.

Isn't Ispy just finding pictures? Like wheres wally?
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Mar 11 2019, 5:37 pm
Yiddeshe Kop is MUCH MUCH MUCH more sophisticated than I spy or anything that could possibly be geared to a 5-year-old. It's a masterpiece. I would also love to find one that doesn't rely on so much Jewish background knowledge. I found some of the questions too far-fetched for me even though my background knowledge is pretty decent.
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mandr




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Mar 13 2019, 8:46 am
I agree with seeker. I was doing the book with learned men lol and even they were stumped by some.

I spy and where’s Waldo is nothing like this book. Anyone else have any leads?
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yerushamama




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 2:17 pm
Some Escape room books have similar puzzles.
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 3:15 pm
Spoiler alert, example of what I mean by far-fetched answers
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The most recent one included a question "what bracha did he make today that he certainly did not make yet this year" and the answer was the bracha on a flowering fruit tree, because he just came to Israel and fruit trees bloom there earlier than in the rest of the world. I was like, huh? I'm in the US and there were definitely fruit trees budding before Pesach. Not tons but there's no way to say that he "certainly didn't have a chance before." Especially since we're not entirely sure where he came from. (we know where he JUST came from but not whether he was somewhere more tropical before)
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 3:48 pm
yerushamama wrote:
Some Escape room books have similar puzzles.


Thank you, I had no idea escape room books existed! Going to order some for my kids.
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Boca00




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 6:48 pm
Is it like Encyclopedia Brown?
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 7:25 pm
Boca00 wrote:
Is it like Encyclopedia Brown?

Not remotely. You're probably thinking of the old "Gemarakup" series, those were a really nice Jewish take on Encyclopedia Brown.
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 7:27 pm
yerushamama wrote:
Some Escape room books have similar puzzles.

Do you have a specific recommendation? I haven't seen this. I have a couple of escape room books but those are not similar at all
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Boca00




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, May 12 2019, 7:54 pm
seeker wrote:
Not remotely. You're probably thinking of the old "Gemarakup" series, those were a really nice Jewish take on Encyclopedia Brown.


Ohhh yes
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Hashem_Yaazor




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, May 13 2019, 8:39 pm
I feel like this thread title is an oxymoron...
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, May 13 2019, 9:56 pm
Hashem_Yaazor wrote:
I feel like this thread title is an oxymoron...

How did I miss that? LOL
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