Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/196 - Les Quadrilles/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $196$ - Les Quadrilles
Domino problems of this type, called quadrilles, date back some way.
Édouard Lucas discussed them in his Récréations mathématiques of $1894$.
More recently, they appeared in an issue of Recreational Mathematics Magazine of $1964$.
Sources
- 1894: Édouard Lucas: Récréations mathématiques: Volume $\text { 2 }$
- 1964: Wade E. Philpott: Quadrilles (Recreational Mathematics Magazine Vol. 14: pp. 5 – 11)
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $485$. Les Quadrilles