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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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Table of Contents

INDEX

  • "Abracadabra," 64.
  • Age and Kinship Puzzles, 20, 28.
  • Albanna, Ibn, 198.
  • Ale, Measuring the, 29.
  • Algebraical Puzzles. See Arithmetical Puzzles.
  • Alkalaçadi, 198.
  • Amulet, The, 64, 190.
  • Archery Butt, The, 60, 187.
  • Arithmetical Puzzles, 18, 26, 34, 36, 45, 46, 51, 56, 59, 61, 64, 65, 73, 74, 75, 88, 89, 91, 92, 103, 107, 122, 125, 128, 129, 130, 135, 137, 139, 143, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 161.
  • Arrows, The Nine, 32.
  • Astronomical Problem, 55.
  • Bags, Four Money, 46.
  • Ball, W. W. Rouse, 202.
  • Bandy-Ball, The Game of, 58, 185.
  • Bears, Capt. Longbow and the, 132, 233.
  • Bergholt, Ernest, 237.
  • Bewley, E. D., 237.
  • Biscuits, The Tramps and the, 160, 250.
  • Block, Cutting a Wood, 160, 250.
  • Blocks, The Number, 139, 238.
  • Bottles, Sharing the, 122.
  • Bottles, The Sixteen, 45.
  • Bridges, The Eight, 48.
  • Bridging the Ditch, 83, 204.
  • Brooch, Cutting the, 41.
  • Buried Treasure, 107, 212.
  • Buttons and String Method, 171, 239.
  • Canon's Yeoman, Puzzle of the, 55, 181.
  • Canterbury Pilgrim's Puzzle, 33.
  • Canterbury Puzzles, 23, 163.
  • Card Puzzle, 125.
  • Carpenter's Puzzle, The, 31, 168.
  • Carpet, Japanese Ladies and, 131, 231.
  • Carroll, Lewis, 246.
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