My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

Author: Martin Gardner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0486320324

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The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.

Mathematics and Chess
Mathematics and Chess

Author: Miodrag Petkovi?

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780486294322

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99 puzzles built around the chessboard. Arithmetical and probability problems, chessboard recreations, geometrical puzzles, mathematical amusements and games, more. Solutions.

Sam Loyd's Book of Tangrams
Sam Loyd's Book of Tangrams

Author: Sam Loyd

Publisher: Dover Publications

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780486454245

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This classic by a famed puzzle expert features 700 tangrams and solutions, plus a charming satirical commentary on the puzzle's origins, its religious significance, and its relationship to mathematics.

The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Raymond M. Smullyan

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0486482014

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Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.

Rewire Your Chess Brain
Rewire Your Chess Brain

Author: Cyrus Lakdawala

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-17

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9781781945698

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In this book the author assembles the problems and studies that are most effective to improve tactical ability. A player who works their way through this book will undoubtedly see improvements in their own play.

The Puzzle Instinct
The Puzzle Instinct

Author: Marcel Danesi

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-02-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780253217080

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"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers