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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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74 .— The Broken Chessboard.

The illustration will show how the thirteen pieces can be put together so as to construct the perfect board, and the reverse problem of cutting these particular pieces out will be found equally entertaining.

A square grid puzzle with a path marked by thick black lines winding between cells of alternating shaded and white squares.

Compare with Nos. 293 and 294 in A. in M.

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