Author: Edward Hordern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Puzzle specialist and collector Edward Hordern has selected 270 of the best puzzles from his collection of over 8,000 and systematically presents them in this book with full solutions. Interlocking solid puzzles, secret-opening puzzles, and maze and route puzzles are all part of a wide array of puzzle "art" that will mystify, intrigue, and entertain. Each puzzle is rated for difficulty and no mathematical knowledge is necessary to solve them. Novice and experts alike will be able to find suitable puzzles to challenge their wits and creativity.
Sliding Piece Puzzles
Author: Edward Hordern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Puzzle specialist and collector Edward Hordern has selected 270 of the best puzzles from his collection of over 8,000 and systematically presents them in this book with full solutions. Interlocking solid puzzles, secret-opening puzzles, and maze and route puzzles are all part of a wide array of puzzle "art" that will mystify, intrigue, and entertain. Each puzzle is rated for difficulty and no mathematical knowledge is necessary to solve them. Novice and experts alike will be able to find suitable puzzles to challenge their wits and creativity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Puzzle specialist and collector Edward Hordern has selected 270 of the best puzzles from his collection of over 8,000 and systematically presents them in this book with full solutions. Interlocking solid puzzles, secret-opening puzzles, and maze and route puzzles are all part of a wide array of puzzle "art" that will mystify, intrigue, and entertain. Each puzzle is rated for difficulty and no mathematical knowledge is necessary to solve them. Novice and experts alike will be able to find suitable puzzles to challenge their wits and creativity.
My First Sliding Puzzles: Baby Animals
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463605328
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Slide and turn the tabs page after page to discover adorable animals. This learning technique stimulates the fine motor skills and cognitive abilities of toddlers in a fun and dynamic way. Charming rhymes encourage young children to solve the puzzles and they are rewarded with a picture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463605328
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Slide and turn the tabs page after page to discover adorable animals. This learning technique stimulates the fine motor skills and cognitive abilities of toddlers in a fun and dynamic way. Charming rhymes encourage young children to solve the puzzles and they are rewarded with a picture.
My First Sliding Puzzles: Wild Animals
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463605311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Slide and turn the tabs page after page to discover adorable animals. This learning technique stimulates the fine motor skills and cognitive abilities of toddlers in a fun and dynamic way. Charming rhymes encourage young children to solve the puzzles and they are rewarded with a picture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463605311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Slide and turn the tabs page after page to discover adorable animals. This learning technique stimulates the fine motor skills and cognitive abilities of toddlers in a fun and dynamic way. Charming rhymes encourage young children to solve the puzzles and they are rewarded with a picture.
Games for Your Mind
Author: Jason Rosenhouse
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200343
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreation Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the history and future of logic puzzles while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself. In this informative and entertaining book, Jason Rosenhouse begins by introducing readers to logic and logic puzzles and goes on to reveal the rich history of these puzzles. He shows how Carroll's puzzles presented Aristotelian logic as a game for children, yet also informed his scholarly work on logic. He reveals how another pioneer of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan, drew on classic puzzles about liars and truthtellers to illustrate Kurt Gödel's theorems and illuminate profound questions in mathematical logic. Rosenhouse then presents a new vision for the future of logic puzzles based on nonclassical logic, which is used today in computer science and automated reasoning to manipulate large and sometimes contradictory sets of data. Featuring a wealth of sample puzzles ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious puzzles ever devised, including the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200343
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreation Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the history and future of logic puzzles while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself. In this informative and entertaining book, Jason Rosenhouse begins by introducing readers to logic and logic puzzles and goes on to reveal the rich history of these puzzles. He shows how Carroll's puzzles presented Aristotelian logic as a game for children, yet also informed his scholarly work on logic. He reveals how another pioneer of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan, drew on classic puzzles about liars and truthtellers to illustrate Kurt Gödel's theorems and illuminate profound questions in mathematical logic. Rosenhouse then presents a new vision for the future of logic puzzles based on nonclassical logic, which is used today in computer science and automated reasoning to manipulate large and sometimes contradictory sets of data. Featuring a wealth of sample puzzles ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious puzzles ever devised, including the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories.
The 15 Puzzle Book
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890980153
Category : Board games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years? The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890980153
Category : Board games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years? The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.
Rainy Day Pocket Puzzle Book
Author: Simon Tudhope
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409598497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A perfectly portable puzzle book, ideal for use anywhere you are on a rainy day or when there's free time! Featuring tricky mazes, colourful picture puzzles, spot-the-difference, true or false, jumbled sequence and number puzzles.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409598497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A perfectly portable puzzle book, ideal for use anywhere you are on a rainy day or when there's free time! Featuring tricky mazes, colourful picture puzzles, spot-the-difference, true or false, jumbled sequence and number puzzles.
Games, Puzzles, and Computation
Author: Robert A. Hearn
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865051
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865051
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen
Geometric Puzzle Design
Author: Stewart Coffin
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1568814992
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical d
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1568814992
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical d
The Greatest Puzzles of All Time
Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486292258
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Challenging collection includes some of the worldrsquo;s most perplexing brain-teasers by such masters as Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck and Henry Dudeney. Also, the stories behind the creation of the puzzles, the worldrsquo;s earliest riddles, the birth of the crossword puzzle, much more. Introduction. 146 illus.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486292258
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Challenging collection includes some of the worldrsquo;s most perplexing brain-teasers by such masters as Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck and Henry Dudeney. Also, the stories behind the creation of the puzzles, the worldrsquo;s earliest riddles, the birth of the crossword puzzle, much more. Introduction. 146 illus.
Not So Ordinary
Author: Dr. Gareth Moore
Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®
ISBN: 1467790656
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
You just need the simplest everyday items to try these teasers and challenges—but they all stre-e-e-etch your powers of imagination and deduction! See how to... ● make objects appear and disappear ● step through a piece of paper ● create matchstick challenges ● do card tricks ...and lots more. Devised by an expert on brain training, these visual conundrums and fun games will inspire you to find smart solutions to ticklish problems! There are handy tips if you need help, plus an answer key at the back!
Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®
ISBN: 1467790656
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
You just need the simplest everyday items to try these teasers and challenges—but they all stre-e-e-etch your powers of imagination and deduction! See how to... ● make objects appear and disappear ● step through a piece of paper ● create matchstick challenges ● do card tricks ...and lots more. Devised by an expert on brain training, these visual conundrums and fun games will inspire you to find smart solutions to ticklish problems! There are handy tips if you need help, plus an answer key at the back!