You can also read this book trying to solve the riddle. And there, it is not at all the same reading. It becomes a different experience which combines reading, reading augmented with links to Internet pages, the need to bring paper, pencil, calculator ... and everything necessary to solve the problems .
In the first approach, we can reach the end in 2 or 3 days. For puzzles, it depends on the sagacity of the reader, and it is assumed that if the sum put into games is so high ($ 500,000) is that this is not an arrow word of the Sunday newspaper!