Book:Henry Ernest Dudeney/536 Puzzles & Curious Problems

Subject
A repackaging of from $1926$ and the posthumous  from $1932$.

Contents

 * INTRODUCTION


 * ARITHMETICAL AND ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEMS
 * Money Puzzles
 * Age Puzzles
 * Clock Puzzles
 * Speed and Distance Puzzles
 * Weight Puzzles
 * Digital Puzzles
 * Skeleton Puzzles
 * Cryptarithm Puzzles
 * Miscellaneous Puzzles


 * GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS
 * Triangle, Square, and other Polygon Puzzles
 * Circle Puzzles
 * Dividing-the-Plane Puzzles
 * Plane Geometry Puzzles
 * Solid Geometry Puzzles
 * Dissection Puzzles
 * Paper Folding Puzzles
 * Moving Counter Puzzles


 * COMBINATORIAL AND TOPOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
 * Magic Square Puzzles
 * Magic Star Puzzles
 * Liquid Pouring Puzzles
 * Route and Network Puzzles
 * Point Alignment Puzzles
 * Map Coloring Puzzles
 * Miscellaneous Combinatorial Puzzles


 * GAME PUZZLES


 * DOMINO PUZZLES


 * MATCH PUZZLES


 * UNCLASSIFIED PUZZLES


 * ANSWERS


 * INDEX



Source work progress
Complete but for historical notes and improvements of some solutions.


 * Also need to attend to these:


 * : Answers: $280$. Correcting a Blunder


 * : Answers: $343$. Square of Squares (add historical note)


 * : Answers: $350$. Triangle and Square (add note about Lindgren's $5$-piece dissection)


 * : Answers: $353$. Problem of the Missing Cell (historical note)


 * : Answers: $356$. Two Squares in One (historical note)


 * : Answers: $357$. Cutting the Veneer (historical note)


 * : Answers: $371$. Magic Fifteen Puzzle (add variant as detailed by Gardner)


 * : Answers: $378$. The Angelica Puzzle (find a solution using $30$ moves)


 * : Answers: $379$. The Flanders Wheel (find a solution using $28$ moves)


 * : Answers: $380$. Catching the Prisoners (include specimen game)


 * : Answers: $389$. Magic Square Trick (historical note)


 * : Answers: $394$. The Six-Pointed Star (Gardner's updated solution)


 * : Answers: $395$. The Seven-Pointed Star (Gardner's updated solution)


 * : Answers: $396$. Two Eight-Pointed Stars (Gardner's note)


 * : Answers: $403$. At the Brook (historical note)


 * : Answers: $409$. The Stolen Balsam (add better solution)


 * : Answers: $413$. Water, Gas and Electricity (on a torus)


 * : Answers: $416$. Sinking the Fishing-Boats (historical note)


 * : Answers: $427$. Sixteen Straight Runs (add better solution)


 * : Answers: $449$. Missionaries and Cannibals (historical note)


 * : Answers: $453$. The Damaged Measure (historical note)


 * : Answers: $454$. The Six Cottages (historical note)


 * : Answers: $458$. The Necklace Problem (historical note)


 * : Answers: $481$. A New Domino Puzzle (better solutions)


 * : Answers: $485$. Les Quadrilles (historical note)


 * : Answers: $512$. Card Shuffling (historical note)


 * : Answers: $519$. Surprising Relationship (2 more solutions)


 * : Answers: $521$. The Engineer's Name (historical note)


 * : Answers: $526$. Two Paradoxes


 * : Unclassified Puzzles: $536$. Tangrams (historical note)