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nydus/The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious ProblemsPublic

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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68 .— The Postage Stamps Puzzles.

The first of these puzzles is based on a similar principle, though it is really much easier, because the condition that nine of the stamps must be of different values makes their selection a simple matter, though how they are to be placed requires a little thought or trial until one knows the rule respecting putting the fractions in the corners. I give the solution.

A three-by-three magic square diagram where each cell contains a value in pence (d), totalling 9d per row, column, and diagonal.
A 3x3 grid containing various currency denominations (d = pence, s = shillings) in small squares, some overlapping.

I also show the solution to the second stamp puzzle. All the columns, rows, and diagonals add up 1 s. 6 d. There is no stamp on one square, and the conditions did not forbid this omission. The stamps at present in

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