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Author: Sam Loyd
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486454245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Ronald C. Read
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2014-12-08
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0486801292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection gathers together nearly 330 tangrams, the best creations of both Chinese and Occidental puzzle devisers. Puzzles range from the relatively easy to the difficult.
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781402716881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historical study on the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game presents more than two thousand all-time tangrams, along with detailed instructions on how to arrange these intriguing puzzle tiles and presenting a variety of special puzzles for the reader to solve. Reprint.
Author: Chris Crawford
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780806975894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives the history of the ancient Chinese game of tangrams and shows how to arrange seven shapes into a variety of figures.
Author: Sam Loyd
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-10
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0486320324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Susan Johnston
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486238531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK122 new tangram puzzles based on the alphabet acrobat, bird, helicopter, more. 2 sets of playing pieces. Solutions. "
Author: Sam Loyd
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2019-03-20
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0486838765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tangram's challenge lies in arranging seven geometrical pieces — a square, rhomboid, and five triangles — into a variety of different shapes. These 700 absorbing puzzles include complete solutions.
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004-02-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780253217080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781890980153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years? The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.
