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
Complete but for proofs of some solutions.


 * Still to be completed:


 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $12$. -- A Weird Game


 * : 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: Digital Puzzles: $66$. -- Another $37$ Division


 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Digital Puzzles: $73$. -- Alphabetical Arithmetic


 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $90$. -- Equal Perimeters


 * : Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $95$. -- Squares and Cubes


 * : Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $106$. -- Dissecting the Moon


 * : Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $111$. -- The Victoria Cross (add historical note)


 * : Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $115$. -- The Carpenter's Puzzle


 * : Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $124$. -- Drawing a Straight Line


 * : Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $125$. -- Making a Pentagon


 * : Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $129$. -- The Circle and Discs


 * : Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $133$. -- A Problem for Surveyors


 * : Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $140$. -- The Four-Colour Map Theorem (refutation needed)


 * : Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $142$. -- Economy in String


 * : Unicursal and Route Problems: $158$. -- The Nine Bridges


 * : Unicursal and Route Problems: $165$. -- The Despatch-Rider in Flanders


 * : Combination and Group Problems: $167$. -- A General Election


 * : Combination and Group Problems: $168$. -- The Magisterial Bench


 * : Puzzle Games: $204$. -- Turning the Die


 * : Wheel Paradox Problems: $209$. -- A Wheel Fallacy (Add discussion about cycloid and curtate trochoid)


 * : Wheel Paradox Problems: $211$. -- Another Wheel Paradox