Book:Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles
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Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles and how to solve them
Published $\text {1926}$, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
Contents
- Preface
- Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems --
- Money Puzzles
- Age and Kinship Puzzles
- Clock Puzzles
- Locomotion and Speed Puzzles
- Digital Puzzles
- Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Puzzles
- Geometrical Problems --
- Dissection Puzzles
- Patchwork Puzzles
- Paper-folding Puzzles
- Various Geometrical Puzzles
- Moving Counter Problems
- Unicursal and Route Problems
- Combination and Group Problems
- Magic Square Problems
- Magic Star Problems
- Measuring, Weighing, and Packing Puzzles
- Crossing River Problems
- Problems Concerning Games
- Puzzle Games
- Wheel Paradox Problems
- Unclassified Problems
- Solutions
- Index
Click here for errata
Critical View
While marketed as a book of entertaining puzzles, many of these are mundane word problems leading to tedious exercises in the solution of simultaneous equations.
Sources
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction (Martin Gardner)
Source work progress
- Still to be completed:
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $12$. -- A Weird Game
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Digital Puzzles: $73$. -- Alphabetical Arithmetic
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $90$. -- Equal Perimeters
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $106$. -- Dissecting the Moon
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $115$. -- The Carpenter's Puzzle
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $124$. -- Drawing a Straight Line
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $125$. -- Making a Pentagon
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $129$. -- The Circle and Discs
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $133$. -- A Problem for Surveyors
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $137$. -- Hurdles and Sheep (proof of shape with maximum area)
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Unicursal and Route Problems: $158$. -- The Nine Bridges
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $164$. -- Those Russian Cyclists Again (minor point to be clarified / proof linked)
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Combination and Group Problems: $167$. -- A General Election
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $172$. -- A Magic Square Delusion (documentation of Nasik Square)
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Puzzle Games: $203$. -- The Horse-Shoe Game (complete the analysis)
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Puzzle Games: $204$. -- Turning the Die