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Henry Ernest Dudeney collects a wide variety of original mathematical and mental puzzles into this volume. The book features an introductory essay on the nature of puzzles and provides solutions for all problems at the end.

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19 .— The Puzzle of the Prioress.

The Abbot of Chertsey was quite correct. The curiously-shaped cross may be cut into four pieces that will fit together and form a perfect square. How this is done is shown in the illustration.

See also p. 31 in A. in M.

A mathematical dissection puzzle showing a cross-shaped figure being rearranged into a square by rearranging four labeled pieces.
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