Micropuzzles is part of the Pan PCN Library - a series launched, fairly disastrously, last autumn. Since then, two titles have had to be pulped because of the extraordinary number of errors, and no-one is very happy with what's left. Micropuzzles is probably the best of a bad bunch. It consists of a straight reprint of the puzzles set by J J Clessa over the years in the 'Leisure Lines' feature of Personal Computer World.

You get 144 pages for your money. The first part of the book consists of 70 'quickies' - so named because you are expected to solve them in your head or employ a little lateral thinking. Most of them are rather well known - e.g. 'What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?', a puzzle I recall reading in Reader's Digest when I was about six - and who knows where they got it from? I cannot see the point of including this sort of thing in a 'computer library', unless, that is, you need to pad out the book.

For the record, there are 60 puzzles that are soluble by the computer, though in several cases the author says that doing it logically with pen and paper is more efficient! One hopes that Pan, arguably the most impressive and professional of UK paperback houses in most areas, will take rapid steps towards improvement.