Classic Puzzles (Everyman's)

✍ Scribed by Gyles Brandreth

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the beginning of history, puzzles and wordplay have charmed and confounded, foiled and befuddled people in every part of the world. Classic Puzzles has traveled time and space to collect the most stimulating riddles, tricks, and conundrums.

Among its more than 300 puzzles are challenges from ancient Greek, Arabic, and Hindu sources. Grand old masters of bafflement, such as Lewis Carroll and H. E. Dudeney, take their turns in the ceremonies. And modern masters like Martin Gardner and Pierre Berloquin hurl down their particularly punishing gauntlets.

Logic problems, number games, chess challenges, acrostics, and spatial tricks abound. There are also puzzles involving coins, matches, dominoes, and even computers. The puzzles vary in difficulty, and are so marked. Naturally, because you’re likely to find yourself stumped every now and then, the solutions are provided.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
1. Old Masters
Ancient Greeks
Arab and Hindu
French
Lewis Carroll
Sam Loyd
H. E. Dudeney
2. Child’s Play
3. Number Puzzles
4. Circles, Squares and Angles
5. Three-Dimensional Puzzles
Coin Puzzles
Match Puzzles
Domino Puzzles
Pentominoes
Chess Problems
Solitaire Puzzles
6. Logic Puzzles
7. Visual Puzzles
8. Wordplay
9. Crosswords and Friends
Crosswords
Cryptic Acrostics
Spiralword
Codeword
10. Quick Thinking
11. Modem Masters
Hubert Phillips
David Wells
Pierre Berloquin
Boris Kordemsky
Martin Gardner
David Silverman
12. Tomorrow’s Classics
Rubik’s Cube
Pocket Calculator Puzzles
Science Fiction and Science Fact
Computer-Generated Puzzles
13. Solutions
Old Masters
Child’s Play
Number Puzzles
Circles, Squares and Angles
Three-Dimensional Puzzles
Logic Puzzles
Visual Puzzles
Wordplay
Crosswords and Friends
Quick Thinking
Modern Masters
Tomorrow’s Classics
Acknowledgments
Index of Puzzles