The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles
Sam Loyd, the Puzzle King, is an authentic American genius. Famous as a composer of chess problems and puzzles of every kind, his inventive and original posers have amused, perplexed and delighted people by the millions. Presented in this volume are Loyd's 710 chess problems, artful and cunning, along with 34 of his most popular prize-winning math puzzles. Large, clear diagrams and easy-to-follow solutions are among the features making this edition an instant classic, one that will challenge and entertain the reader for years.
The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles
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The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles
Sam Loyd, the Puzzle King, is an authentic American genius. Famous as a composer of chess problems and puzzles of every kind, his inventive and original posers have amused, perplexed and delighted people by the millions. Presented in this volume are Loyd's 710 chess problems, artful and cunning, along with 34 of his most popular prize-winning math puzzles. Large, clear diagrams and easy-to-follow solutions are among the features making this edition an instant classic, one that will challenge and entertain the reader for years.
This book promises hours of fun and loads of benefits for all the family!
Each seek-and-find activity can be done individually as a pastime, or played as a game with a partner or a ‘rival’ group.
But more than that, solving the puzzles develops figure-ground perception and improves the ability to establish object constancy and size relationships.
The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems
This weighty collection, containing 50 of what the Annotated Alice annotator and popular science journalist considers his best Scientific American "Mathematical Games" columns, is sure to please the relatively small but intensely loyal coterie of Gardner fans. Arranged in 12 broad categories (arithmetic and algebra, plane geometry, topology, infinity, etc.), these pieces cover subjects that will delight recreational math buffs, such as Penrose tiles, hypercubes, Klein bottles and fractal music.
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The Great Book of Mind Teasers and Mind Puzzlers
This book consists of 75 utterly original and totally tantalizing brain teasers from master puzzler George J. Summers. He brings out fascinating challenges in situations as common as a game of tic-tac-toe or tennis, or as strange as a land of habitual Truth tellers and Liars. These puzzles and teasers are constructed with clues, helpful solution and detailed answers that show you step-by-step how a teaser or a puzzle is unravelled
