Book:Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles

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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.

Source work progress
* : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $51$. -- An Exceptional Number


 * Still to be completed:


 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $12$. -- A Weird Game
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $16$. -- Digging a Ditch
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Clock Puzzles: $26$. -- What is the Time?
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $30$. -- The Staircase Race
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $33$. -- A Rowing Puzzle
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $41$. -- The Damaged Engine
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $42$. -- The Puzzle of the Runners
 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $45$. -- The Man and the Dog