Seventeen Horses/Historical Note

Historical Note on Seventeen Horses

David Wells tells us in his Curious and Interesting Puzzles of $1992$ that the Seventeen Horses riddle appears in one of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia's works: either Quesiti, et Inventioni Diverse of $1546$ or General Trattato di Numeri et Misure of $1556$.

Wells, however, does not tell us which one of those two it appears in.

It has since appeared in countless anthologies of puzzles and riddles.

Sources

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Exchanging the Knights: $103$