Dishonest Butler/Historical Note

Historical Note on the Problem of the Dishonest Butler

According to David Wells, in his Curious and Interesting Puzzles of $1992$, the Problem of the Dishonest Butler appears in one of the works of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, but he does not say where.

Sources

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Exchanging the Knights: $104$