Though they do not use section titles, the major divisions of the book follow the classification scheme favored by Slocum and used in the 1987 book.

Put-Together Puzzles Tangram pp.8,9 - Loyd's The 8th Book of Tan, The Anchor Puzzle, Casse-Tete Chinois, Voelcker's chicory coffee extract tangram trade cards Jigsaw pp.10,11 - McLoughlin Bros. Dissected Map of the United States Dissected Letters pp.12,13, The F D Puzzle, The New L-Square Puzzle, Squares & Oblongs by TSL p.13 Square Dissection - Snider's Diamond Puzzle p.14 The Fresh Milk Puzzle (card from National Milk Publicity Council) p.15 The Endless Chain - La Chaine Sans Fin pp.16,17 Magic Squares pp.18,19 - Lo Shu, The Giant Puzzle McLoughlin Bros. 1888 Animal Puzzles pp.20,21 - The Donkey Puzzle - Standard Screw, Loyd's Trick Donkeys, The Animated Dogs R.D. Housden, Les Deux Mulets, Dickinson's Witch Hazel The Witches Puzzle 1938 After Animals Came People pp.22,23 - Les Quatre Vagabonds, Willard-Johnson Prize Fight Bucephale, Un Sage dans les Nuages (A Sage in the Clouds) p.23 Edge Matching Puzzles pp.24,25 - Pair-It Douglas Novelty Co., L'Arc en Ciel Peer Clausen's Hexagone by Naef p.26 Nut Pyramid p.27 Magic Numbers pp.28,29 - White Shoe Store Washington Monument (total 555) p.28 Hegger Revolving Century, The Who Broke the Bank / 40 Puzzle p.29 25 Y pp.30,31 (solution p.31) Diabolical Cube p.32 Diabolical Die (Wil Strijbos) p.33 Bill Cutler's Splitting Headache pp.34,35 Matchstick Puzzles pp.36,37 - Japanese "Puzzle" matchbox, Bryant and May books, Sheepfold Puzzle, Sticktricks Braintesters Take-Apart Puzzles A Difficult Case? - Puzzle Purse p.38 The Hidden Coin p.39 The Secret Box Robert Jackson 1986 pp.40,41 Two Elephants With A Secret pp.42,43 - Sri Lanka bookends Paper tangles pp.44,45 - Skipper Sardines, Nye Baker in the Barrel (aka Pilsbury's Best Flour), Trade Puzzle Boots 1884 / Farnsworth Shoes, Yates Pick-a-Peg pp.46,47 Dualock (The Cross Puzzle) pp.48,49 Interlocking Solid Puzzles Kumiki pp.50,51 - Aeroplane Puzzle Knots (Burrs) pp.52-65 - Spear's Puzzle Knots, The Cage pp.54,55; 3-piece burr p.56 Boule Enfermee p.57; Vernon Wood's 9-piece burr puzzle pp.58,59 Bill Cutler Bin Cross pp.60,61 Finnish Diagonal Burr pp.62,63 Russian Rattle Burr pp.64,65 Three-Dimensional Jigsaw Puzzles - Bantam Eggs (Scrambled Eggs) p.66, Dachshund Broken Heart (Technisolid) Puzzle Guild Inc. Chicago p.67

Disentanglement Puzzles Van Houten's Violin (cardboard), Constantin Violin and Bow (wooden) pp.68,69 Butter-Nut Bread paper tangle, Spaghetti Eater pp.70,71 Mousetrapping (mouse in box tangle), Mouse with Cheese pp.72,73 Wit's End p.74,75 (easy and hard versions) Gordian Knot (Gekkenwerk) pp.76,77 (solution) Buttonhole Pencil pp.78,79 Delivrez Mon Coeur, The Pig-Tail of the Chinaman p.80 Untie the Bear, Aunt Jemima paper tangles p.81 The Braided Leather Puzzle p.82 Stewart Coffin Super Sleeper Stopper p.83 Horseshoes, Triple Horseshoes pp.84,85 various wire puzzles pp.86-95, La Balance de Themis (eq. to Le Bon Geolier), La Bouteille Infernale, Les Tracas de L'Artilleur (eq. to Le Souci de l'Artilleur) Le Petit Porte-Veine, Comment Nous Separer p.90, Le Cavalier et son Sabre (eq. to Le Dragon et son Casque) p.91, Le Divorce (eq. to La Question du Divorce), Le Bracelet Egyptien (eq. to Le Bracelet de Cleopatre) Heartbreaker, Heart's Desire (Uncle's) pp.92,93 Gingerbread Man, Fooler pp.94,95 Sequential Movement Puzzles Indians and Travellers (river crossing), Jealous Husbands, Fox Goose and Corn, Men and Boys pp.96,97 Double Five, Great 13 pp.98,99 Peg Solitaire pp.100-103 The Triangle Puzzle Board pp.102,3 Pyramids (Towers of Hanoi) pp.104,5 The Railroad Puzzle (Protheroe - Humpty Dumpty; Great Northern Puzzle) pp.106,7 Oklahoma (string around pegs) pp.108,9 The Yankee Puzzle (step maze) p.110 Puzzles with Checkers p.111 The New 15 p.112, The 13 Puzzle p.113 (Slocum's IPP11 gift) No-Jump-O pp.114,115 Dexterity Puzzles Flip-A-Ring p.116, One-In-the-Eye-For-Kruger p.117 Other (including Vanish and Impossible) Devil's Fan (like Loyd's GOtE) p.118 Magic Playing Card p.119 Arrow Through Bottle p.120 Solutions pp.121-125

Organized using the usual Slocum classification.

Put-Together Puzzles Tangram and dissections - pp.1-19 Anchor, La Hache du Bourreau p.6 La Cocotte, Anchor Geduldprufer p.7 WAR p.8 The Egyptian Puzzle - Murray Wagons, Patriotic, Bombing Mystery pp.8,9 Anchor copies p.10 - Seven Block 1935 (eq. to Pythagoras), Lucky Puzzle (eq. to Kreuzspiel) Baffle No. 1, Adams Square and Cross p.11 St. Charles Evaporated Milk Seven Card Puzzle p.12 La Croix Brisee (eq. to Jeu de la Croix), Jeu Geometrique / L'Union Fait La Force p.13 Hill's American p.14 Jayne Fishing Puzzle, Mysterious Cross (red cross) p.15 ELZZUP p.16,17 Checkerboard pp.18,19 Edgematching pp.20-23; Daily Mail World Record Net Sale p.20, Royal National Life-Boat, OXO triangles p.21 Le Taquin Japonais p.22 Mosaik, Tesa Mosaic Square p.23, Testa Cross Colour Jeu des Sentinelles p.24 Havana Harbor, Chad Valley Bird's p.25 Quinz Partout (eq. to Les 15), Radcliffe's Magic Hexagon p.26 C'est a Prendre ou a Laisser (Greco-Latin Square), Ivory Soap Bubble Puzzle, playing cards by Jacques Ozanam p.27 weaving - Les Anciennes Provinces de la France, Les Quatre Verites p.28 Le Berger Malin (The Lazy Shepherd - get 10 in each square) p.29; Le Fermier Avise, Le Nombre Treize (no pic) Bismarck's Puzzle, The Doctor on the Shelf pp.30,1 Stephens Motor Works p.31 Cover the Red Spot p.32, Olympic Rings Perforated Disc p.33 Ten Spot Domino, Mayblox, Mystic Eight p.34 The Spots Puzzle (dissected Die) p.35 Sivy Farhi's Nonahuebe, Beat the Elf, Kolor Kraze pp.36,7 O'Beirne's Six Block: Six Step - Trevor Wood (read about O'Beirne's six-block cube), Coffin's Unhappy Childhood p.38 Nob's Cube p.39 N pentacube, T packing, Coffin's Pentacube pp.40,1 Take-Apart Puzzles Trick Matchboxes (Vestas) pp.44-49 Trick Locks pp.50-59 Van Houten's Padlock Puzzle (cardboard) p.55 Trick Knives pp.60-63 Trick Boxes pp.64-69 Interlocking Solid Puzzles Philippe Dubois Icosahedron Frequency 2 (120 pcs) p.70 7-piece Ivory Burr, 9-piece Ivory Burr p.72 3-piece burrs p.73 "OCC" 3-piece interlocking p.74 Dubois' Coubion Burr, Rhomak Burr p.75 Stewart Coffin pp.76,77 - General, Twelve Point, Rosebud p.77 Geoff Wyvill's Nova Plexus p.78, various aluminum burrs Kumiki pp.80-89 General Engineering & Design Double Cross Puzzle (6-pc burr) p.84 Dario Uri burr p.85 Gold Moon (1982 Epoch Co.), T-Dof, Perplexity p.85 Shackman Clown, Comic Man, etc. p.86 Kumiki crustaceans, pistols pp.87-9 Mag-Nif Deviled Egg, Fractured Fruit - Apple/Orange & Apple/Watermelon p.90 Lakeside Banana Split, Phony Baloney, Prankfurter, Fickle Pickles, Cheerios pp.90,1 Pacific Puzzle Co. sandwich 1992 p.91

Disentanglement Puzzles Edison Mazda Lamp, Hang the Kaiser, Weil Bros. Bear p.94 National Oats girl, Fairmont milk can, Jewel Stoves and Ranges p.95 Everett Piano, Michelin man & tire p.96 Irish Question, Jayne's Expectorant, Daisy Puzzle, Yankee Mystery p.98 Van Houten's Cocoa Spider Web p.99 Rastus, Ivory Lotus, Ariel p.100 Ivory Boat p.101 Bovril, Chilean Puzzle p.102 Gardner Screw Corp. Bootlegger and His Flask p.103 Bild-a-Bike p.103 Houddene p.103 Hanging Strongman, Boot and Hand p.103 tangles from China pp.104,5 Sequential Movement Puzzles Fisherman's Puzzle (nails & string) p.106 Cannibals and Missionaries p.107 Ring-in-Plate mazes, Cross & Crown, Eureka, CWS, Razzle Dazzle (scalloped edge) pp.108-9 Dorstrom Hub (fan blades) p.109 Queen's Jubilee p.109 Stivers' Panama Canal (copyright by J.H. Lynch) (eq. to mountain goats) p.110 Eight Pin Puzzle p.110 La Question Sino-Japonaise (eq. to mountain goats) p.111 Mazawattee Tea and Coffee (eq. to Fore and Aft) p.111 Octo/Okto, Le Disque, Jeu du Zig-Zag (all eq. to Eight-Point Puzzle aka Seven Knights) pp.112,3 L'Horologe Etoile (like 8-point, but 12 points) p.113 Selchow & Righter Spider Web (peg solitaire) p.114 peg solitaire p.115 Au Revoir, Do Svidania, White Eagle Mobil Gas p.116 United States, Mystic Six, Canama Panal (sliding piece) p.117 Blockado p.118 Daughter in a Box, Break Through the Defenses, Germain (all sliding block) p.119 The Premier Puzzle, Silver Label p.120 Hard Time Map, Jungle Gym (eq. to Ma's) p.121 Infant's (Hospital) Progress, Tit-Bits New Game Capture the Kaiser, Kapture the Kron Prinz p.122 1916 Presidential Puzzle, Put Hitler in the Doghouse, George Washington Puzzle p.123 various Rubik-style puzzles pp.124-7 Dexterity Puzzles Garden of Eden p.132 Donkey Puzzle 1897 p.133 Puzzle Vessels pp.136,7 Rabbiduck p.136 Impossible Objects pp.138-141 Solutions pp.142-147, including: Bild-a-Bike, Boot and Flask, St. Charles, Royal National Life-Boat, Daily Mail hexagons, OXO, Ten Spot Domino, Ivory Soap Bubble Puzzle, Mayblox, O'Bierne's Six Block, Unhappy Childhood, Mystic Eight, ...

An updated version of this book is hosted on-line at John Rausch's site.

Geometric Puzzle Designs, shown below, is an even more recent update of this book. In the contents I show here, sections present only in GPD are enclosed in brackets. Some sections are revised, and a few are omitted in GPD.

1. 2D Dissections Jigsaws Tangram Other Tangram-like Puzzles (Anchor) Loculus of Archimedes Convex Tangrams Sam Loyd's 5-piece Square Dissection Geometrical Dissections Dudeney's Four-Piece Square/Triangle Checkerboards 2. 2D Combinatorial Puzzles Triangles as Building Blocks - Polyiamonds Squares as Building Blocks - Polyominoes Pentominoes More Checkerboards The Cornucopia Puzzle Hexagons as Building Blocks The Snowflake Puzzle [Misdirection-Type Puzzles] Square-Root Type Designs #176-A #177-A Housing Project Cruiser Few Tile (IPP18 Tokyo) - Drop-In? [Variations on Sliding Block Puzzles] Dad's Puzzle Butterfly Puzzle (IPP25) Window Pain Looking Glass The Decoy Drop-Out 3. Cubic Block Puzzles The 3x3x3 Cube The Diabolical Cube - Hoffmann Mikusinski's Cube - Steinhaus Soma Cube - Piet Hein Tetra-cubes and Penta-cubes enumerated The Half-Hour Cube The Solid Tetrominoes The Solid Pentominoes A Checkered Pentacube Puzzle (Unhappy Childhood) Polycubes in General Rectangular Blocks Slothouber-Graatsma Puzzle Conway's Packing Puzzle The Patio Block Puzzle 4. Interlocking Block Puzzles Cubic Block Puzzles [The Involute Puzzle] The Convolution Puzzle The Three-Piece Block Puzzle 5. The Six-Piece Burr The 25 Notchable Pieces Burr No. 305 Difficulty Index and Burr No. 306 Higher-level Burrs and Bill's Baffling Burr Peter Marineau's [Piston] Burr 6. Larger (and Smaller) Burrs Symmetry The Three-Piece Burr Problem Practical 12-Piece Burrs The Altekruse Puzzle Variations of the Altekruse Puzzle The Pin-Hole Puzzle The Corner Block Puzzle A 24-Piece Burr - Pentangle's Squirrel Cage 7. The Diagonal Burr 8. The Rhombic Dodecahedron and its Stellations Theory of Interlock Stellations The Second Stellation The Four Corners Puzzle Color Symmetry The Second Stellation in Four Colors The Third Stellation in Four Colors

9. Polyhedral Puzzles with Dissimilar Pieces The Permuted Second Stellation The Permuted Third Stellation The Broken Sticks Puzzle The Augmented Second Stellation (aka 12-Point) Building Blocks The Augmented Four Corners Puzzle The Diagonal Cube Puzzle The Reluctant Cluster Puzzle 10. Intersecting Prisms The Hexagonal Prism Puzzle The Triangular Prism Puzzle The Star Prism Puzzle The Square Prism Puzzle The Three Pairs Puzzle 11. Puzzles That Make Different Shapes The Star of David Puzzle [All-Star] [Fusion-Confusion] A Puzzle in Reverse 12. Coordinate-Motion Puzzles The Expanding Box Puzzle [Combination Lock] [Vector Diagrams] The Rosebud Puzzle 13. Puzzles Using Hexagonal or Rhombic Sticks The Cuckoo Nest Puzzle [The Nine Bars Puzzle] A Triple-Decker Puzzle A Holey Hex Hybrid Notched Hexagonal Sticks - Hectix Notched Rhombic Sticks - [Twelve Piece Separation] 14. Split Triangular Sticks Scorpius The Dislocated Scorpius Puzzle The Scrambled Scorpius Puzzle [and Scrambled Legs] 15. Dissected Rhombic Dodecahedra The 10 Possible [Garnet] Pieces Two-Tiered Puzzles - [The Split Star] The Pennyhedron Puzzle 16. Miscellaneous Confusing Puzzles The Pseudo-Notched Sticks Puzzle [The Hectic Hexsticks] The Square Face Puzzle The Queer Gear 17. Triacontahedral Designs Thirty Pentagonal Sticks and Dowels Pentagonal Sub-Units Notched Pentagonal Sticks Notched Rhombic Sticks The Jupiter Puzzle [Saturn] The Dislocated Jupiter Puzzle A Scrambled Jupiter? The Dissected Triacontahedron 18. Puzzles Made of Polyhedral Blocks Truncated Octahedra (5-Piece Box Packing) Setting Hen??? Rhombic Dodecahedra The Leftover Block Puzzle (13-14) Substitution of Spheres The Four-Piece Pyramid Puzzle (design of pieces not shown) The Octahedral Cluster Puzzle 19. Intermezzo 20. The Two Tiers Puzzle (Garnet in Garnet) [20 is deleted in GPD] 21. Theme and Variations [The Peanut Puzzle] The Six-Part Invention The Eight-Piece Cube Puzzle (Pieces of Eight) More Variations The Pillars of Hercules Family 22. Blocks and Pins The Lollipop Puzzle 23. Woodworking Techniques

This is an updated version of Stewart's classic "Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections." It contains some new material, including his "Involute" cube design.

A gift from Brett.

In addition to "The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections" this CD-ROM contains the 1985 and 1992 editions of Stewart's Puzzle Craft.

You can get a free copy of the 1992 edition of Puzzle Craft from the g4g4 site.

Find out more about the history of this book at Dalgety's Puzzle Museum.

Click for an index compiled by Donald Knuth.

Several other books on games and magic appeared under the byline of Professor Hoffmann, including the Illustrated Book of Patience Games, and Drawing Room Amusements (London, George Routledge, 1883).

You can purchase some as e-books from Lybrary.com.

Hoffmann was famous for his books on magic. [Illusionwiki]

John Devost kindly sent me this copy.
Collins' book is a successor to Hoffmann's seminal 1893 Puzzles Old and New.
You can find out more about Collins' book at The Metagrobology Wiki.
Thanks much, John!

A Word to You I. Paper and Card Puzzles The Crusader's Cross - 5 piece Latin Cross The Surveyor's Puzzle - Take 1/4 of a square and divide the remainder into four equal parts. The Triangle and Square Puzzle - four each of three types of pieces make a square A Paradoxical Puzzle - equal to L'Echiquier Fantastique/Hooper's Paradox An Impossible Possibility - take four from four and leave eight - cut four corners from a square to leave an octagon Chinese Tangrams The Loculus of Archimedes (rectangular version) Playtime Puzzle Cards - eight cards each with one letter from "PLAYTIME" - given definitions, find four, five, and six-letter words The Card Chain Puzzle - cut a chain of seven links from a playing card - need to be able to split edge of moistened card Through a Playing Card - cut a card so you can step through it Her Majesty's Four Fives Puzzle - using the four fives from a deck, lay them so only four pips of each can be seen II. String and Handkerchief Puzzles The Elusive Snare The Dressmaker's Puzzle - scissors on loop through handles The Bachelor's Button Puzzle - cherries The String and Ball Puzzle - Ox Yoke (gives two solutions) eq. Hoffmann Ch.II.No.XIII The Egyptian Heart Puzzle - heart with six holes, threaded cord and bead - eq. Hoffmann Ch.II.No.XI The Bead in the Bottle - burn through a string with a magnifying glass in the sun The Chinese Ladder Puzzle - classic eq. Hoffmann Ch.II.No.XVII A Fourth Dimensional Knot - tie a knot in a handkerchief without letting go of either end III. Match and Matchstick Puzzles IV. Wire and Chain Puzzles The Twin Hearts - 2 hearts The Eternal Triangle The Bead and Spiral The Snake and Ring The Great Seven-Ring Puzzle - Patience - cites Cardan 1550, Wallis 1693 Some Good Metal Puzzles - shows 5 hard wire puzzles: F017 Double G, F010 Triple Rings, F025 "The Union Puzzle", F030 C&U, F079 Over the Top The Eastern Question - F002 The Dumb-bell and Chain Puzzle - eq. Hoffmann Ch.II.No.XXI V. Skill and Patience Puzzles calls these the "Pigs in Clover" type - dexterity Some Early Puzzles - Pigs in Clover - invented by A. Brentano on Apr. 11 1889 The Maze - copy of PIC Pick-Me-Up - invented by J.D. Mitchell shortly after PIC, brought out by Pick-Me-Up, a comic magazine of London, hence the name Indivisibility - contemporaneous with PIC - patented by J.I. Hinde in 1889 - dot the i's with five balls The Solar System Puzzle - nine balls of various sizes and colors The Spider and Fly Puzzle - mercury blob - move four felt pellets to corners In-the-Soup Puzzle - miniature bowl, small glass marble, wire "spoon" - use the wire to get the marble out of the bowl Some Recent Puzzles Hop-o'-Me Puzzle - square case, glass cover - 8 radial divisions & balls Will-o'-the-Wisp Puzzle - get 3 balls into cavities in a triangle Silver Drop Puzzle - get 3 balls into bottle The See-Saw Puzzle - Journet #51 The Bunny Burrow Puzzle - Journet #54 Bunnies The Clock - Journet #63 Clock Kan-U-Do-It? - Journet #70 Kanuduit - but Collins pictures Blighty The Whirligig - Journet #65 The Dovecote - Journet #57 The Bowling Green - with mercury - Journet #50 Niagara Falls - Journet #66 Pin-U-Ring-It - Journet #64 Golden Rod - Journet #67 The Diabolical Tubes - Journet #61

VI. Some Arithmetical Puzzles The Globe Trotter's Puzzle The Compositor's Puzzle Sailors Don't Care Puzzle - Josephus problem - save 15 out of 30 The Imperial Caesar Puzzle The Lady Bookmaker's Puzzle How Old is Jane? The Card Addition Puzzle The Five Gamblers Puzzle The Sir Douglas and Princess Mary Puzzle The Basket of Eggs Puzzle The Sheik and His Camels - 17 camels - give 1/2 to son A, 1/3 to son B, and 1/9 to son C. VII. Magic Squares and Other Figures VIII. A Few Geometrical Puzzles The Star Group Puzzle - use four straight unicursal lines to pass through 9 points in a 3x3 square grid A Euclidean Puzzle The Swarm of Triangles The Greek Cross Puzzle - dissect one large greek cross into two equal smaller The Fly on the Rotating Disk The Cube and the Pyramid Puzzle - dissect cube into 3 identical pyramids A Paradoxical Train Puzzle Euclid's Famous Forty-Seventh The Fly on the Octahedron The Spiral Puzzle IX. Labyrinths and Mystic Mazes The Egyptian Labyrinth - near Lake Moeris, by King Ameneambe c. 2300BC The Cretan Labyrinth The Samian Labyrinth - Island of Samos during reign of Polycrates c. 500BC The Maze of Sens Cathedral The Maze of Saint Quentin The Maze of Saint Owen The Maze of Bayeaux Cathedral The Mazes of Safron Walden and Sneiton The Mazes of Hampton Court and Versailles right hand rule, broken line mazes X. Dissected and Cluster Puzzles Simple Cut-out Puzzles The Dissected Snake Puzzle Jig-saw Puzzles The Chinese Zig-Zag Puzzle - cut up rectangular block The Dissected Die Puzzle - The Spots Puzzle The Dovetail Puzzle - trick dovetail joint, no lock Cluster, Parisian, or Gordian Knot puzzles (Burrs) The Cross-Keys Puzzle - eq. to OCC The Bonbon or Nut Puzzle - eq. Hoffmann Ch.III.No.XXXIII Other Cluster Puzzles - Cluster, Cluster of Clusters, Gun Cluster, Point Cluster, Flat Cluster, Secret Table, Kumiki Barrel, Ball, Egg/Football XI. Picture Puzzles and Rebuses several - including... Sam Loyd's "Jassack" (eq. Bucephale) Dead Dogs The Manx Rabbit Puzzle - arrange three rabbits so they have 3 ears among them. The Head in the Landscape Puzzle Find the Man's Wife Puzzle - invented by Dudeney - logically deduce pairings among six men and six women pictured XII. Letter, Word and Cross-Word Puzzles Index

Cut-Up "T" (=Pa's T) Cut-Up Cross (=Shackman What's Your Score Cross) Cut-Up Square 1 (=tangram) Cut-Up Square 2 (=Crestline Mystic Wedge) Impossible Area (8x8=5x13, as L'Echiquier Fantastique) Band-Sawed Sphere (=3D Jigsaw Sphere) Band-Sawed Square Prism (like Venus Key) Turned Box with Combination Lock Lid The Bewitching Cubes (=6-cube Instant Insanity) Shuffle Puzzle 1 (=15) Shuffle Puzzle 2 (=Dad's) Peg and Disc Puzzle (=Towers of Hanoi)

The "Cross" Plug Puzzle (circle/plus/square plug) The "Wedge" Plug Puzzle (square/triangle/circle plug) A Steamed-Wood Puzzle Wood Fan Bottled Cross Savings Bank Three-Piece Cross (=Triple Cross) Three-Piece Burr Puzzle (another 3-piece burr) Six-Piece Burr (15 assemblies from 13 length-8 pieces: AJVTOYNFHDMBI) Diagonal Six-Piece Burr Nine-Piece Burr (=Marian's Puzzle?) The Cross Burr (12 pieces) The Twelve-Piece Burr Puzzle (=Altekruse) Fifteen-Piece Burr The Great Pagoda or Nineteen-Piece Burr Jackstraws

Polyburr Built-Up Cube (=Kumiki Cube) The Grill (=Dovetail) Locked Links The Double Dovetail The Impossible Dovetail Joint (=Danzig's Dilemma but no lock) Double-Lock Dovetail Joint Two-Way Fanned Half-Lap Joint Wooden Log Chain Caged Balls The Magic Drawer The Mysterious Coin Purse (=Penny Safe) The Coin Bank Oriental Jewel Box with Secret Lock Secret Lock Tool Box Desk Companion with Secret Stamp Compartment Hidden Key-and-Lock Jewel Box

The Tetrahedron or Triangular Pyramid (=2-piece pyramid) Nest of Toys (=nesting furniture) Three-Dimensional Jigsaw (like cowboy) Cut-Up Checkerboard (14 pieces) Six-Pointed Star Squaring Triangles (like Loculus of Archimedes) Built-Up Trapezoid Built-Up Square (=Egyptian Puzzle) Lost Area (13x13=8x21) Solitaire Marble Game Board Marbles in a Maze Solitaire Checkerboard (circular 13-hole) Fore and Aft (=Setko) Shuffle Box Number One (14 blocks) Shuffle Box Number Two (11 blocks)

Double-Double Dovetail Joint Triple Dovetail Puzzle Double Cross (3-piece burr) Eighteen-Piece Double Cross (=Arjeu CT718 ?) Quadruple Burr The Snowflake (burr) Chestnut Burr Toy Chair Enchanted Dice (=6-cube Instant Insanity) Cross-Barred Ball Cage Concentric Spheres Wooden Pliers Scissors E Puzzle (imp. obj.) Wooden Valentine (imp. obj.)

Draftsman's Dream Six-Piece Ball Puzzle Cocklebur The Floating Magnet The Mysterious Block (magic trick) The Lie Detector Fake Pop Gun Plugged Bottle (imp. obj.) Disappearing Coin Device (magic trick) Counterfeit Machine Dominoes String Puzzle (magic trick) Built-Up Turned Work Rope Border Marquetry Geometrical or Chip Carving

I found one cheap, but it seems to be pretty rare. I've seen it going for anywhere from $70 to over $400. The dust jacket on mine is mostly intact and shows several puzzles which aren't even mentioned in the book! The Star and Crescent, Valspar, Boot and Hand, and U2 tanglements are all pictured but not discussed. The Kumiki motorcycle and tank aren't, either, but the cube and gun are. I suppose there is something to be said for modern truth-in-advertising laws.

• Shifting Block Puzzles - 19, 9, 5, 11, 15, 10, and 27 blocks
• Straight Line Peg Puzzles - Jumping, Flipping in Pairs
• Circle Peg Puzzles
• Checker Board Puzzles
• Checker Board String Puzzles
• Chinese Chess Board
• String Puzzles
• Glass Topped Box Puzzles
• Six Piece Burr Puzzle
• Wood Design Puzzles (Kumiki)
• Geometric Design Puzzles
• Miscellaneous Puzzles (incl. 4 Ace Puzzle like Katzenjammer, also an original bolt and washer)

Same contents as above.

• Part I - Pastimes Based Upon Simple Geometrical Forms
• Double-Six Dominoes
• Equilateral Triangles (4 colors in 3 compartments per triangle = 24 tiles; see Contack)
• Square Pastimes (3 colors in 4 compartments per square = 24 tiles)
• (5 colors in 4 compartments, no repetition = 30 tiles; if all must have a given color, then 24 tiles)
• Right-Angled Triangle Pastimes
• The Cube Pastime (6 colors all faces different = 30 cubes; MacMahon Colored Cubes / Mayblox)
• Pastimes Based Upon the Regular Hexagon (6 colors, always same pair at north and south = 24 tiles)
• Part II - The Transformation of Part I
• (Shaped Edges in Lieu of Colors)
• Part III - The Design of "Repeating Patterns" or Decorative Work

Fourteen chapters:

I. Arithmetical Recreations II. Arithmetical Recreations (continued) III. Geometrical Recreations IV. Geometrical Recreations (continued) V. Polyhedra VI. Chess-Board Recreations VII. Magic Squares

VIII. Map-Colouring Problems IX. Unicursal Problems X. Kirkman's School-Girls Problem XI. Miscellaneous Problems XII. Three Classical Geometrical Problems XIII. Calculating Prodigies XIV. Cryprography and Cryptanalysis

Some of my favorites:

• Geometrical Paradoxes (e.g. L'Echiquier Fantastique / L'Incroyable) p.84
• triangular edgematch p.111
• MacMahon color cubes p.112
• Great Northern Puzzle (shunting) p.114
• Chifu-Chemulpo (shunting) p.115
• ferry-boat problems p.116
• Third Problem with Pawns (e.g. Fore-and-Aft) p.124
• The Eight Queens Problem p.165
• Guarini's Problem (e.g. Knights Exchange on 3x3) p.188
• Latin Squares and the Magic Card Square (e.g. Bali Buttons) p.189
• Euler's Problem (The Seven Bridges of Koenigsberg) p.242

1. Triangles, Squares, and Games
2. Rectangles, Numbers, and Tunes
3. Weighing, Measuring, and Fair Division
4. Tessellations, Mixing of LIquids, Measuring Areas and Lengths
5. Shortest Paths, Locating Schools, and Pursuing Ships
6. Straight Lines, Circles, Symmetry, and Optical Illusions
7. Cubes, Spiders, Honeycombs, and Bricks
8. Platonic Solids, Crystals, Bees' Heads, and Soap
9. Soap-Bubbles, Earth and Moon, Maps, and Dates
10. Squirrels, Screws, Candles, Tunes, and Shadows
11. Surfaces Made of Straight Lines, the Chain, the Toycart, and the Minimal Surface
12. Platonic Bodies Again, Crossing Bridges, Tying Knots, Coloring Maps, and Combing Hair
13. Board of Fortune, Frogs, Freshmen, and Sunflowers

Also check Donald Knuth's index.

• Hoop Snake p.15

• The Switch Problem (shunting) p.18

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

I also have the softcover Dover edition, copyright 1970.

Many fascinating topics of potential interest to the mechanical puzzle afficionado.

1. One More River to Cross
2. False Coins and Trial Balances
3. New Weighs With False Coins
4. Jug and Bottle Department
5. A Gamut of Geometry from A to Y
6. Race-Track Problems and Legal Fictions
7. Cubism and Colour Arrangements
8. Gamesman, Spare That Tree
9. "Nim" You Say, and "Nim" It Is
10. Ten Divisions Lead to Easter
11. Problematic Lies and Unexpected Truths
12. A Christmas Cracker With 100 Birds

Nice sections on geometric dissections, and chessboard placement problems.

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"Don Lemon" is a pseudonym of Eli Lemon Sheldon who, according to Greg Frederickson in Dissections: Plane & Fancy, was an American mortgage broker posted in London. Sheldon was born in Michigan in 1848 and died in London in 1892. Sheldon's wife, May French Sheldon, has a Wikipedia entry.

No. 33. - A Card Board Puzzle - (5-piece classic dissected cross) No. 58. - Card Board Puzzle - (2-piece stair-step dissected rectangle) No. 93. - The Grasping Landlord - (draw boundary to divide area) No. 99. - Entangled Scissors - (classic loop through one handle on the other) No. 105. - The Carpenter's Puzzle - (from a 3x3 square with holes at the grid points, cut a square 1/4 its size with no holes - incorrect answer given!?) No. 127. - The Square and Circle Puzzle - (square dissection into four equal pieces, each containing 3 marks) No. 140. - Cardboard Puzzle - (cut a 3x5 card so you can step through it) No. 151. - The Three Jealous Husbands - (River crossing - get 3 couples across by twos so that no wife is with one or two men unless her husband is present - he credits Alcuin) No. 167. - Problem of Money - (put 10 nickels in a row; pick up any one and place it on another, passing over 10 cents. Repeat until no single nickels left.) 4->1, 7->3, 5->9, 2->6, 8->10 No. 175. - Octagon Puzzle - (dissect an octagon area with 12 marks - divide into four parts with 3 marks in each) No. 180. - The Landlord Tricked - (Survivor problem - 21 people - count out every 7th - last pays bill) begin count at 6th from target No. 202. - A Trick Puzzle - (sliding 15 piece) No. 221. - Magic Squares - (arrange the numbers 1 to 81 into a magic square - rows, cols, diags same sum -remove marginal #s and still have a magic square, repeat until one number remains which will be the GCD of the sums of the several squares) No. 229. - The Square Puzzle - (cut out 9 given irregular pieces and make a square) No. 244. - A Mathematical Nut - (specify four weights that sum to 40 and can be used to weigh any integral weight from 1 to 40) 1,3,9,27 No. 251. - The Knight's Puzzle - (8x8 grid with syllables in each square - devise a knight's tour to spell out a verse of poetry) No. 259. - The Divided Garden - (divide a square with square hole and 10 marks into 5 equal pieces, each containing 2 marks) No. 275. - The Puzzle of Fourteen - (14 pieces to be cut out and formed into a rectangle) No. 326. - The Yankee Square - (11 pieces to be cut out and formed into a square) No. 350. - One Line - One Counter Puzzle - (6x6 queens) No. 369. - The Maltese Cross Squared - (divide a Maltese Cross using two straight cuts into four pieces that can form a square - see Adam's Square and Cross in my Transformations section of Assembly puzzles)

No. 413. - Geometrical Puzzle - (square with 1 quadrant missing - divide into 4 equal parts - see The Land Puzzle in my Other Geometric Dissections section of Assembly puzzles) No. 446. - The Puzzle Wall - (draw a boundary that excludes four points from the center) No. 450. - Crossing the River - (missionaries & cannibals) No. 464. - Crossette - (10 circles in a circle - start anywhere, count that 1, next 2, next in same direction 3, next 4. Cross off the one counted 4. Start again from any circle not crossed off. Count crossed off circles, too. Try to cross out all the circles) No. 469. - The Ingenious Servant - (23 bottles are arranged in a square 2-5-2 / 5-5 / 2-5-2, i.e. 9 along a side; remove four and rearrange so there are still 9 along each side, then repeat) No. 489. - The Crown Problem - (place ten checkers in a row; lift a man and pass over two men, crown the next man. Continue until all are kings. Same as No. 167? Diff. sol'n given) 4->1, 6->9, 8->3, 2->5, 7->10 No. 497. - The Prisoners in the Tower - (use 2 baskets on one rope the height of the tower through a pulley to shuttle 4 weights (195,105,90,75 - first 3 are people) from the tower to the ground - ensure weight in descending basket with person cannot exceed ascending weight by more than 15 pounds; max two people or one person and chain in a basket) No. 506. - A Trick for Clever Pencils - (unicursal figure) No. 513. - The Card Square - (make a square from 16 given triangles) No. 532. - The Magic Octagon - (same pieces as French boxed Jeu de l'Octogone) No. 535. - The Puzzling Pearls - (same as "The Great American Ball Blue 9 Puzzle" shown in my Counting Puzzles section) No. 542. - The Nine Digits - (3x3 magic square) No. 563. - Transformation Puzzle - (6 squares with patterns - arrange to form words) No. 610. - The Puzzle Board - (find tour of words on a 6x6 grid to make a familiar stanza of poetry) No. 620. - The Parallelogram Puzzle - (same as No. 58!) No. 652. - The Legacy - (divide 19 items among 3 such that the 1st gets 1/2, the 2nd gets 1/4, and the 3rd 1/5th) No. 658. - Missing Letters - (what 2 letters appended to these words make other words? aught, one, edge, own, awl, ought) No. 660. - The Philosopher's Puzzle - (halve the light from a yard square window - i.e. the area - while keeping it square and 1 yard tall by 1 yard wide) No. 729. - A Cut Up Puzzle - (12 pieces form a square) No. 792. - A Puzzling Problem - (survivor problem - 15A + 15B, count out by 10s - arrange so A's survive)

Table of contents of the revised edition.

Read about polyominoes at Mathworld. More from Jan Kok.

See Kunzell's website.

A fun, portable, self-contained puzzle kit - including all the actual puzzles:

• The Button-hole Killer Pencil
• Playing Card Puzzle
• Sam Loyd's Mules (get two riders on two mules)
• The Richter Cross
• The Wheel of Disappearing Pirates (Get Off the Earth)
• Illusion Puzzles
• The Wired Heart
• The Pyramid
• Heads & Tails Puzzle (Edge Matching)
• Stick Puzzles (Matchstick figures & transformations)
• The Bulldog (String through holes)
• The Broken Heart (Ox-Yoke)
• The Trapdoor Maze (clever multi-page maze with holes in pages)
• Picture Puzzles
• a bonus I-Spy-type puzzle inside the back cover

Forward and Introduction Seal Brand Coffee 'T', Tangram tables p.7 White Swan 'T', Stewart Coffin Four Fit p.8 Kirill Grebnev Love Secret, The Gem Puzzle, College Toffee Boys vanish p.9 The Fun of Putting Things Together The American Geometrical Puzzle (tangram - 1850 - Trentsensky and Myers), The Chequers Puzzle Beats the World (14 pc. 1889 John Lester - Feltham & Co. London), Willard-Johnson Prizefight Puzzle (1915), Petite Mère - p.11 The Tangram Puzzle p.12 - shapes on pp.13,14, Circular Puzzle (Anchor Kreis-Rätsel) pp.15,16 Tormentor (Anchor Quälgeist) pp.17,18 Lightning Conductor (Anchor Blitzableiter) pp.19,20 Anchor Pythagoras pp.21,22 French Puzzle Brain: A New Game - 1851 W. & S.B. Ives - Salem MA p.23 Edi Nagata's Cat Case, Polo Shirt Case p.24 The Sectional Checkerboard - Luers 1880 (15 pc. checkerboard), Baffel - A.C. Braden 1939 (14 pc. checkerboard) p.25 Mysto Squares - (14 pc. checkerboard) 1889 John Lester p.26 Zodiac Pentomino set - Sabu Oguro p.27, shapes to make w/ pentominoes p.28 Stewart Coffin - Four Fit (No. 217), Trap (No. 153) p.29 The Emblematical Puzzle (1788) p.30 Sam Loyd's Trick Mules Puzzle, Witch Hazel's Cats, Willard-Johnson Prizefight Puzzle p.31 Radcliffe's Magic Hexagon p.32 The Magic Star (L'Etoile Filante) - arrange numbers 1-12 on star pattern to sum 28 in each dir. - (1894 Herr von Charles Dearnley), Grandpa's Wonder Puzzle (1911 Rankin) p.33 White Rose 'T', Seal Brand 'T', White Swan 'T' - p.34 Lox in Box II p.35

Untangle the Pieces The Asian Face, Michelin Man, Teddy Bear p.36 Solomon's Seal (animal bones - Tumen-Ulzi) p.37 Pacioli's String Puzzles - Teddy Bear, Un Coeur en Peine, Asian Face (Vantine's Oriental Perfumes) p.38 Tennessee Jed Cowboy - Tip-Top Bread, Daily Inter-Ocean Lady in Red, Aunt Jemima, Friedman's Oleomargarine p.39 Michelin String Puzzle, Wit's End (patented by Robert Boomhower 1968) p.40 Michelin Man String Puzzle (Cherries), Sam Loyd's Buttonhole Puzzle p.41 Russian Love Secret and Step - Kirill Grebnev p.42 It's Moving Time! The 15 Puzzle, A New Game (aka 8-Point - Darton 1819, 1830) pp.43,4,5 [Peg] Solitaire pp.46,7 The Great 13 Puzzle (patented Breitenbach 1899), modern version = Thinkfun's Hoppers (Nob) p.48 Hop-Over, Anglais & Boërs Coronation Puzzle, Put Hitler in the Dog House p.50 Les Bourgeois Dupés, Aux Quatre Coins p.51 Tokyo Parking, Rush Hour, Frustr8tor p.52 Iwahiro's Jam Puzzles (Triangular Jam, Rectangular Jam, Pentangular Jam) p.53 Pike's Peak or Bust, The Eclipse (Myart Manufacturing Company 1936) p.54 Now You See It, Now You Don't L'Incroyable (aka L'Echiquier Fantastique) p.55 College Toffee Boys, Au Bon Marche, The Disappearing Bicyclist, Great Baseball Puzzle (1912) p.56 Solutions pp.57-63 Index p.64

See the Journet section on my dexterity page.

Additional images inside this booklet:

Purchased in Montreal at Boutique Strategie.

Contains solutions for the following Toyo Glass puzzles:

Pack the Plums Pack the Rice Crackers Pineapple Delight A-Maize-Ing Pack the Orange Java Tea On The Rocks Hole in One Cross Cross Tongari-Kun and Roppongi Super Cross Assembling Puzzle ... (I have omitted impossible object, tanglements, dexterity, solitaire, vanishes) ...

Red All Through Checkers Pile'Em Up (Six Pieces) Starry Skies Pile'Em Up Orange Happy Hearts Green Grocer Animal Land Bill Cutler's Bin Cross Bottleneck Magical Bottle Bolt & Nut Magical Bottle Double Super Sliding Puzzle Sixteen

Sadly, no solution for Packed in Tokyo or Peanuts.

• 1. Bringing Order Out of Chaos
• 2. From Schoolroom to Playroom
• 3. Grown-Ups Turn to Cut-Ups
• 4. The Great Depression Mania
• 5. The Forties and Beyond
• 6. Luxury Puzzles
• 7. Pieces of Marketing
• 8. Collecting and Collections
• 9. The Sum of All the Pieces
• Appendix A: Making Jigsaw Puzzles for Fun or for Sale
• Appendix B: Selected Websites for Puzzlers
• Endnotes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index

Doug's Circle Puzzler's Manual is hosted online at Jaap's Puzzle Page.

Has a section on keychain puzzles on pages 70 through 80. Dundas shows about 70 puzzles and suggests rarity and dollar values for them.

First Edition - 465 Puzzles - August 2011
The Slocum Puzzle Foundation

Second Edition - August 2015
I was able to contribute a couple of entries,
and the Compendium includes a link to
Rob's Puzzle Page Keychain Puzzles Page!

Selected contents of interest to mechanical puzzlers...

• Purging Pegs Properly - Peg Solitaire
• Pursuing Puzzles Purposefully - Soma, Wire and String, Rubik's Cube, Sliding Block
• What Is Life? - Conway's Game of Life

Introduction The First Etches The Ishango Bone 9000/11000/20000BP The Entrance Into All Obscure Secrets The Rhind Papyrus 1800BC On A Temple Roof The Temple of Kurna 1400BC - Pentalpha, Mill To Measure the Heavens Nine Chapters - China 200BC Bhaskara - Lilavati - Behold Tangrams On a Turtle Shell Magic Square - Lo Shu - 400BC Albrecht Durer - Melencolia I - 1514 Pandiagonal Squares

Speak, Who Can Alcuin of York ca 800AD river crossing problems 17,18,19 Tartaglia (Niccolo Fontana) - measuring wine 3,5,8 -> 4,4 - ca 1500AD Leofric Bishop of Exeter - ribald riddles I Was Regarded With Astonishment Abu Kamil - Book of Precious Things - 900AD al-Khowarezmi - Algebr w'al-Mugabala Archimedes - The Number of the Cattle of the Sun The Merhcants of Pisa and the Digits of the Hindus Liber Abaci - Fibonacci 1202AD coin weighing problems Graphs and Puzzles Bridges of Koenigsberg - Euler Walk Postscript

A nice survey across most of the best-known and classic puzzles, with some nuggets about which I had not previously heard.

The First Puzzles Magic Squares, carried by people as Amulets in China ca. 2400 B.C. Riddles, word puzzles - ca. 2500 B.C. William Hogarth, "Two Anglers by a River", engraving by Thomas Cook, for Brook Taylor frontispiece 1755 Bukhara Camel, 16th century Rebuses Tangrams Don Lemon's Everybody's Illustrated Book of Puzzles Missionaries & Cannibals Birth of a Mania: The Invention of the Crossword Puzzle Through the Looking Glass: The Puzzles of Lewis Carroll Sam Loyd and the Vanishing Puzzle The Quarrelsome Neighbors (connect 3 houses to 3 gates) Trick Mules The Pony Puzzle (Bucephale) The 14-15 Puzzle Get Off the Earth vanish Mel Stover's Pencil Puzzle Hoop Snake Back From the Klondike (number/step maze) Interlude I - About Henry Dudeney Mazes - The Lure of the Labyrinth Houdini, the Incredible Johnny Eck, and the Shadow Interlude II - About Walter B. Gibson ADFGX! Get Out Your Amazing Decoder Ring

Hoaxes, Hokum, and Real Horrors Spot the Spot The Road to Riches Le Vasseur's Treasure F. Gregory Hartswick - rebuses Who Killed the Robbins Family?, Masquerade, Treasure - 1984, Intravision Martin Gardner - The Dean of American Puzzlers More than Meets the Eye Currier & Ives Norman Rockwell - Saturday Evening Post - April 3, 1943 cover Peter Newell's Topsy Turvys Anamorphosis pictures - Erhard Schön other optical illusions 3-D Puzzles (meaning, mechanical puzzles - he refers to Jerry Slocum) matchstick, coins, peg solitaire, tower of Hanoi, sectional checkerboard, Dudeney's Broken Chessboard (shows pieces), Hathaway's New H puzzle (6-piece dissected letter H), polyominoes, mentions Hordern's collection of sliding piece puzzles, Le Moulin Rouge, Sam Loyd's Moving Day, Dudeney's Four Frogs, Dudeney's Railway Puzzle, Don Rubin (like Rush Hour), sokoban, Rubik's cube, Nichol's cube, Rubik's Magic, Optical Conclusions, Jenga, Berrocal Richelieu, Cofanetto, Stewart Coffin's Jupiter Murder and Mayhem David Landau - Murder to Go Hoyle - Crime Buster Baffle Book 1929 New Puzzles and Puzzlers Raymond Smullyan Douglas St. P. Barnard

[ Amazon link]

Introduction I. Games in General The Constraint-Logic Formalism Constraint-Logic Games Zero-Player Games (Simulations) One-Player Games (Puzzles) Two-Player Games Team Games Perspectives on Part I

II. Games in Particular One-Player Games (Puzzles) TipOver Hitori Sliding-Block Puzzles The Warehouseman's Problem Sliding-Coin Puzzles Plank Puzzles Sokoban Push-2-F Rush Hour Triangular Rush Hour Hinged Polygon Dissections Two-Player Games Amazons Konane Cross Purposes Perspectives on Part II Conclusions

Appendices A Survey of Games and Their Complexities Cellular Automata Games of Block Manipulation Games of Tokens on Graphs Peg-Jumping Games Connection Games Other Board Games Pencil Puzzles Formula Games Other Games Constraint Logic Open Problems Computational Complexity Reference Deterministic Constraint Logic Activation Sequences Constraint-Logic Quick Reference

1 Algorithms 2 Finite Automata 3 Systems of Logic 4 Simulation 5 Godel's Theorem 6 Game Trees 7 The Chomsky Hierarchy 8 Random Numbers 9 Mathematical Research 10 Program Correctness 11 Search Trees 12 Error-Corecting Codes 13 Boolean Logic 14 Regular Languages 15 Time and Space Complexity 16 Genetic Algorithms 17 The Random Access Machine 18 Spline Curves 19 Computer Vision 20 Karnaugh Maps 21 The Newton-Raphson Method 22 Minimum Spanning Trees

23 Generative Grammars 24 Recursion 25 Fast Multiplication 26 Nondeterminism 27 Perceptrons 28 Encoders and Multiplexers 29 CAT Scanning 30 The Partition Problem 31 Turing Machines 32 The Fast Fourier Transform 33 Analog Computing 34 Satisfiability 35 Sequential Sorting 36 Neural Networks That Learn 37 Public Key Cryptography 38 Sequential Cirucits 39 Noncomputerable Functions 40 Heaps and Merges 41 NP-Completeness 42 Number Systems for Computing 43 Storage by Hashing 44 Cellular Automata

45 Cook's Theorem 46 Self-Replicating Computers 47 Storing Images 48 The SCRAM 49 Shannon's Theory 50 Detecting Primes 51 Universal Turing Machines 52 Text Compression 53 Disk Operating Systems 54 NP-Complete Problems 55 Iteration and Recursion 56 VLSI Computers 57 Linear Programming 58 Predicate Calculus 59 The Halting Problem 60 Computer Viruses 61 Searching Strings 62 Parallel Computing 63 The Word Problem 64 Logic Programming 65 Relational Data Bases 66 Church's Thesis

250 milestones in mathematics, each with a one-page writeup and one-page illustration.

1. Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune (ca. 440 B.C.)
2. Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (ca. 300 B.C.)
3. Euclid and the Infinitude of Primes (ca. 300 B.C.)
4. Archimedes' Determination of Circular Area (ca. 225 B.C.)
5. Heron's Formula for Triangular Area (ca. A.D. 75)
6. Cardano and the Solution of the Cubic (1545)
7. A Gem from Isaac Newton (Late 1660s)
8. The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series (1689)
9. The Extraordinary Sums of Leonhard Euler (1734)
10. A Sampler of Euler's Number Theory (1736)
11. The Non-Denumerability of the Continuum (1874)
12. Cantor and the Transfinite Realm (1891)

I have this as an e-book. You can get it free from the G4G4 site.

The contents are now available on the G4G Wiki site as individual PDF files.

A subset of the contents...

• A Maze With Rules - Robert Abbott - Visit Abbott's website.
• O'Beirne's Hexiamond - Richard K. Guy - describes a solution classification method (e.g. Tenyo #6)
• The Japanese Tangram: The Sei Shonagon Pieces - Shigeo Takagi
• Polly's Flagstones - Stewart Coffin
• Those Peripatetic Pentominoes - Kate Jones
• Self-Designing Tetraflexagons - Robert E. Neale
• The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle - Stewart Coffin (aka Possibly Impossible)
• Metagrobolizers of Wire - Rick Irby
• Beautiful But Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle - Scot Morris
• Cube Puzzles - Jeremiah Farrell
• The Nine Color Puzzle - Sivy Fahri (see Kolor Kraze)
• Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle - Edward Hordern (invented by Dario Uri)
• Planar Burrs - M. Oskar van Deventer (Nine and One-Half Moves - see Buffalo Nickel)
• Block-Packing Jambalaya - Bill Cutler (also on Cutler's website)
• Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and Physical Objects Related to Puzzles - James Dalgety and Edward Hordern
• Hollow Mazes - M. Oskar van Deventer (Wedge of Wallis, see Oskar's Cube in the Route-Finding section)

A subset of the contents...

• The Eng Coin Vise - Gary Foshee
• David Klarner's Pentacube Towers - C. J. Bouwkamp
• A Scrub Tile Puzzle - Tom Rodgers (Petersen graphs)
• "Impossible Foldings" - Luc De Smet
• Diabolical Puzzles from Japan - Nob Yoshigahara, Mineyuki Uyematsu, Minoru Abe (incl. Minoru's sliding block puzzles)
• How to Outwit the Parity - Serhiy Grabarchuk
• Inflated Pentominoes - Rudolfo Kurchan
• Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle - Robert J. Lang (origami version of diagonal star)
• A Classification of Burrs - Bill Cutler
• Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s - Jerry Slocum and Rik van Grol
• The Partridge Puzzles - Robert Wainwright (see an example in my Packing section)
• The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares - Barry Cipra
• Shadows and Plugs - Gwen Roberts
• Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting - Yoshiyuki Kotani

A subset of the contents...

• Nob Yoshigahara - Jerry Slocum (In Memoriam)
• Chinese Ceramic Puzzle Vessels - Norman L. Sandfield
• Mongolian Interlocking Puzzles - Jerry Slocum and Frans de Vreugd (see the Sphinx/Turtle puzzle in the Interlocking section)
• Fold-and-Cut Magic - Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine
• The Three-Legged Hourglass - M. Oskar van Deventer
• Sliding-Coin Puzzles - Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine
• A History of the Ten-Square - A. Ross Eckler (word squares - see the journal Word Ways)
• Polyform Patterns - Ed Pegg, Jr.
• Another Pentomino Problem - Solomon W. Golomb
• Polyomino Number Theory (III) - Uldis Barbans, Andris Cibulis, Gilbert Lee, Andy Liu, Robert Wainwright
• The Panex Puzzle - Mark Manasse, Danny Sleator, Victor K. Wei, Nick Baxter
• The Complexity of Sliding-Block Puzzles and Plank Puzzles - Robert A. Hearn (PSPACE-completeness, sliding-block logic gates)
  also see another paper, by Hearn and Demaine (PDF)
  also see U.S. patent 3216558 - Marsh 1965, and Kagen Schaefer's Block Box
  also see ref. "Sliding Block Puzzles" in the Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American by Martin Gardner
  also see this FAQ on the NP-completeness of Minesweeper
  also see David Eppstein's page on the Computational Complexity of Games and Puzzles
  also see the Wikipedia entry on Complexity Class
• Hinged Dissections: Swingers, Twisters, Flappers - Greg N. Frederickson
• Rolling Block Mazes - M. Oskar van Deventer

I. Cast A Spell Martin Gardner and His Influence on Magic Martin Gardner - Encore! Low-Down Triple Dealing Products of Universal Cycles II. In Hindsight Tangram: The World's First Puzzle Craze De Viribus Quantitatis by Luca Pacioli: The First Recreational Mathematics Book Magic and Card Tricks in Luca Pacioli's De Viribus Quantitatis III. Move It Railway Mazes Mechanical Mazes Insanity Puzzles: Instant and On-the-Spot The Adventures of Ant Alice

IV. Fitting In Simplicity Extreme Puzzles Satterfield's Tomb Computer-Assisted Seashell Mosaics V. Speak To Me Memories and Inconsistencies A Bouquet for Gardner NetWords: A Fascinating New Pencil-Paper Game The Wizard is Always In VI. Making Arrangements Symmetric Graphs in Mathematical Puzzles Martin Gardenr and Ticktacktoe Scheduling Tennis Doubles Competitions When Multiplication Mixes Up Digits Magic, Antimagic, and Talisman Squares Rectangle Arithmetic: Another Slant on Fractions

This great little book catalogues the designs of various puzzle cubes assembled from polycube pieces. With a set of LiveCube and this book, one can have fun for months!

There are 40 3^3, 81 4^3, 16 5^3, and 20 6^3 puzzles described.

You can find this book and others at Frank Potts' site Potty Puzzles.

Selected contents below...

3^3 The Diabolical Cube The Nine Tricubes (9 non-convex tricubes) Conway's Cube - 6x 1x2x2 + 3x 1x1x1 Mikusinski's Cube (aka the Steinhaus Cube) Nob's Cube Stewart Coffin's Half Hour Cube Coffin's Quartet Piet Hein's The Soma Cube The Impuzzables Cotway's Cube - 6x N-tetracube + 3x 1x1x1 Adrian Fisher's The Minotaur Cube Coffin's Quintet Kolor Kraze Twice Dice The Spots Cube 4^3 Trevor Wood's Holey Squares Cube Stewart Coffin's Convolution The Bedlam Cube Mayer's Cube No. 1 (model 9B) Mayer's Cube No. 2 (model 7B) Mayer's Cube No. 3 (model 10C) King's Court Two sets of the eight tetracubes Martin Watson's The Dutch Cubist Abraxis The Tetrepeat Cube - Holmes The Eclecticube - Holmes

5^3 Conway's 17-piece packing cube Conway's Blocks in a Box 25 Y pentacubes 25 N pentacubes Stewart Coffin's Wookey Hole Pfaffinger No. 208 Pfaffinger No. 646 Watson's Wormhole 6^3 Bill Cutler's Splitting Headache Cubic Equation No. 1 - (similar to Pentangle's 3456 Pythagoras Revisited) 54 N-tetracubes 54 T-tetracubes The full set of 35 planar hexacubes plus one additional planar hexacube assmble to a 6^3. Not every planar hexacube can serve as the extra.

Here is a link to an article on Follette at woodcentral.com, with some nice photos.

• Put-Together - Polyominoes, Checkerboard, ...
• Sequential Movement - Sliding Block, Peg Solitaire, ...

See some folded cards here.

I actually have a folio which includes the 1977 edition and the cardboard sheets.

Here is a link to a nice website about Kaleidocycles.

Wire Puzzles A Clever One (double trapeze) Double Stirrup (double trapeze) Open Heart (heart on single trapeze) Spiral Square String Puzzles Buttonholer Heart Puzzle Scissors Strips Yoke Puzzle Piece Puzzles Greek Cross Checker Board (14 pc dissection) Dice Puzzle Five Piece Cross (3 z's & 2 L's) H Puzzle Letter E Square T Tangram Shifting Puzzles French Solitaire Jump Two Migration (Fore & Aft peg solitaire) Nine Block (sliding piece) Pyramid (Towers of Hanoi) Reversible Frogs Shuttle Puzzle (mountain goats)

Puzzles of Computation Wolf & Goat Ba Gwa Count Four Mathematical Squares Star Puzzle Manipulation Puzzles The Bamboo Puzzle Devil's Needle (Patience) Indian Windmill (propeller rotates when rubbing notched stick) Triangle (peg solitaire, side-5) Attention Puzzles Circling Dots (for triangle of dots, draw a circle around every dot without lifting pen) Japanese Corn Game (Nim) Color Squares Eight Checkers Houdini Puzzle (6 queens) Six Nails

Redstone Press (Julian Rothenstein), with Shambala Publications

I have the box with cards.

Visit Al Seckel's home page.

It's not Seckel's site, but you have to check out the "Rotating Snakes" illusion on Akiyoshi Kitaoka's page. It is by far the best rotational movement illusion I have seen!

Check out Mark's site.

A large folio containing several optical illusions and curiosities.

• instruction booklet
• 2 pairs of red/green 3-d glasses
• a poster with 3-d image of midtown Manhattan, and a dinsoaur
• 8 two-sided cards of invertible heads
• a flip-book
• 4 cards to make pencil-tops
• 21 optical illusion cards
• a pair of the classic "which is bigger" arcs
• a pair of finger-tip balancing butterflies
• seat-the-riders
• a 3-piece vanish puzzle
• a 16-card never-ending mural
• a booklet of hand-shadow puppets
• 4 large mazes
• 9 3-d mazes, including a jigsaw

• Pyraminx
• Missing Link
• Barrel
• Rubik's Magic Snake
• Picture Cube
• Octagon
• Ranking the Puzzles
• Other Puzzles (e.g. Whip-It, Varikon)

• Other Magic Polyhedrons
• Meffert's Pyraminx

A collection of 33 chapters or essays, including 26 of Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas" columns from Scientific American during January 1981 to July 1983. Hofstadter succeeded Martin Gardner and Martin's "Mathematical Games" column.

Section IV: Structure and Strangeness contains two chapters of interest to Cubers, written during the heyday of the Rubik's Cube craze and discussing analysis and solution techniques, Uwe Meffert's Pyraminx and plans to issue many varied twisty puzzles, and the Skewb. Also commentary on the Rubik's Cube bust that followed.

• Chapter 14: Magic Cubology (appeared in SA Mar. 1981) [Google Books]
• Chapter 15: On Crossing the Rubicon (appeared in the July 1982 issue as "Beyond Rubik's Cube")

A table of contents can be found at cut-the-knot.org.

Nick Baxter proofread the book and has an errata sheet online.

The book contains 1000 puzzles (surprised?) - I will mention some below as I run across those that I believe may be of particular interest to mechanical puzzlers...

• #8 - Consecutive Rectangle Squares
• #12 - Arrow Number Boxes; see #416 for the inversion of this
• #52 - Colored Dodecagons (edgematching)
• #55 - Convex Tangrams
• #56 - Domino Patterns
• #61 - Fault-Free Square
• #205,206 - The Tree Game
• #219 - Serpent
• #227 - (= Mattel Profound Round)
• #231 - Crescents of Hippocrates - This brings to mind a potential dissection puzzle - can the two crescents be dissected into pieces that can be re-assembled into the triangle? According to Greg Frederickson, it's not possible because of the curves.
• #283 - Packing Box
• #348 - Fitting Shapes
• #386 - Mathemagic - In the section that covers magic, Latin, and Greco-Latin squares. I've seen this as a physical puzzle - I don't have it but it's easy to try on paper. Arrange the eight numbered blocks in the tray so that no consecutive numbers adjoin each other orthogonally or diagonally. The picture does not show a solution.


• #389 - Strip Tease - equal to More Madness and Bird's Puzzle
• #397 - Magic Triangle I
• #400 - Magic Color Shapes - a special problem using Bali Buttons
• p.155 - Order-10 Greco-Latin Square
• #414 - Octopuzzle 2 - like Mattel Block Shock
• #417 - Cubes in Perspective 2 - a 25-tile edgematching
• #425 - Color Triangles 1 - MacMahon
• #432 - Hexagons 1 - edgematch like Adams
• #435 - Abdul Wefa's 9-piece three squares to one dissection
• #437 - Square Dissected 20 - Mystic Wedge
• #439 - 6-piece three squares to one
• #470 - Perigal's Puzzle - prove the Pythagorean Theorem
• #470 - Pythagorino
• #477 - Rectangling Circle - sand-dollar to rectangle
• p.182 - Packing Unit Squares

Check out Tom Cutrofello's new website, Gotta Solve It, home of Lab Mice puzzles. (Try some samples.) Tom organizes the annual New York Puzzle Party.

Martin Watson made me aware of this online puzzle called 3D Logic which I think is a kind of 3D version of the Lab Mice idea.

Historical Folk Toys 2004

I bought this as a souvenir from our visit to Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine.

There have been several "books as puzzles" - this and the following three are some of the better-known (surely not the only?) ones.

Here is a link to a page-by-page solution.

Wikipedia entry

Clues here

Play the Maze book on-line.

Another on-line version, with better illustrations.

And here is another (but with the small pix).

The solution is given on Wikipedia.

Here is a review with which I agree, citing the overly inscrutable riddles.

Decipher a series of 45 illustrated spoonerisms. E.g. "keys and parrots" -> peas and carrots, "better Nate than lever" -> better late than never.

A lavishly illustrated abecediary. The pictures took 3 years to complete. Each contains numerous, and often hard-to-spot, items whose names begin with the letter in question. An "I-Spy" type puzzle for each letter, but with no list of items - you'll be discovering new ones with each re-reading - either with your kids or on your own. In addition, a boy hides in each picture - pre-dating the less-artistic "Where's Waldo."

See info at the publisher's site, greenronin.com.
See a "companion guide" by Matt Tarbit.
Also read some interesting factoids compiled by Alan De Smet.

See info at the publisher's site, greenronin.com.

Bell discusses over 70 games, including Fox and Geese, and the two puzzles Pentalpha and [Peg] Solitaire

Written for children but an informative little book - I learned about ancient Egyptian wooden locks (see a good illustration of one here), the Royal Travelling Lock, Record-Keeping Locks, Jeremiah Chubb's Detector Lock (never picked!), and anti-blowtorch safes.

• Put-Together
• Cross, Mysterious Cross, Five Block, Zany, FourAce, Katzenjammer, Allies Flag, Combination Lock, Diabolical Dice, Eclipse, Puzzle Ring
• Take-Apart
• various Hoffmann, Indian Ball, Imp Bottle, Dice Barrel, Takitapart, Hello, White City Pail
• Interlocking
• Disentanglement
• Cast: Star and Garter, Lucky Star, Tango, Snake and Scissors, Salmon and Grid, Three Snakes, Ring and Plate, Keys, Loop the Loop, Faith/Hope/Charity, Elk, Hearts, Three Nags, Aeroplane, ABC, Fire Irons, Anchor, Sandow
• Wire: Stars and Crescent, Bootlegger, Triangle (F029), Button Hook (F024), Claws, C and U, Three Witches, Doggie, Heart and String, Teddy Bear, Chinese Ladder, Jolly Ni**er
• Sequential Movement
• Peg Solitaire, 15, Humdinger, Bramah, Automobile, Perplexity, Bootlegger and His Flask, Boo Bogey Mans
• Dexterity
• Journet, Trench Football, Query, Mountain Climber, Bughouse, Ring Pin, Quintuplets
• Miscellaneous
• Boxes of Assorted Puzzles
• Catalog References

The catalogue contains a zillion different novelty items and provides an interesting perspective on life during the early part of the 20th century. There are many puzzles offered for sale (163 by my count)...

p.25 No. 3096 The Tennis Racquet Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX - pick it out) p.170 No. 2578 White City Puzzle Time Lock Safe #326 - $1 (OPN) p.170 No. 2579 White City Puzzle Safe #10 - $1.25 (OPN) p.170 No. 2580 Puzzle Pail Bank - 75 cents (OPN) p.171 No. 2577 New Puzzle Basket Bank - $1.50 (OPN) P.171 No. 2586 Automatic Dime Bank - 15 cents (OPN) p.174 No. 3055 Lovers Link - 10 cents (OPN - eq. to Chinese Finger Trap) p.188 No. 3667 The Three Nags Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.191 No. 3631 The Arcade Keyless Lock - 50 cents (OPN) p.191 No. 3632 The Clinch Keyless Lock - 25 cents (OPN) p.199 No. 3035 The Mysterious Cross - 15 cents (ASM - 5 pieces) p.221 No. 3027 The Bootlegger Hand Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.221 No. 3053 Combination Lock Puzzle - 15 cents (PAT - 4 dials, align to total 40 in all 16 columns) p.222 No. 3662 Heart and String Puzzle - 10 cents (TNG) p.226 No. 3060 The Great Nail Puzzle - 12 cents (TNG) p.228 No. 3099 Puzzle Picture Mirror - 10 cents (DEX - balls into holes) p.233 No. 3097 Nut and Bolt Puzzle - 35 cents (OPN) p.236 No. 3033 Checker Puzzle - 25 cents (ASM - aka Bug House) p.237 No. 3041 The Enchanted Bottle - 10 cents (Imp Bottle trick - will not lie down) p.238 No. 3341 Gravity Ball - 15 cents (DEX - blow into tube) p.241 No. 3051 Jockey Key Puzzle - 50 cents (OPN - get ring off key) p.241 No. 3044 Gordian Knots - 25 cents (INT - a multi-piece burr) p.244 No. 3073 Spider's Web Puzzle - 12 cents (TNG - ring in plate step maze) p.247 No. 3675 Pyramids Puzzle - 65 cents (SEQ - Gray Code - Towers of Hanoi) p.247 No. 3679 The Spoophem Puzzle - 10 cents (DEX) p.247 No. 3676 Faith, Hope, & Charity Puzzle - 15 cents(TNG) p.247 No. 3677 Spider & Flies Puzzle - 65 cents (DEX) p.247 No. 3678 See-Saw Puzzle - 65 cents p.248 No. 3688 Goofy Bugs - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3689 Goofy Hill - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3690 Goofy Cats - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3691 Goofy Spider - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3692 Goofy Golf - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3693 Goofy Luke - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3695 Zulu Chief Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3670 The Clock Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX - 70-74 under celluloid dome) p.249 No. 3671 The Whirl Dice - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3672 Pigs in Clover - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3673 The Spiral - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3674 The Ring Pin - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3003 The Four Ball Puzzle - 20 cents (DEX - get a ball in each corner) p.250 No. 3650 Star and Garter - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3651 The Snake Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG - cast 3 snakes) p.250 No. 3652 The Anchor Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG - cast anchors) p.250 No. 3653 Lucky Star - 15 cents (TNG - cast horseshoes w/ star) p.250 No. 3654 Fire Irons - 15 cents (TNG) (No. 3655 The Hearts Puzzle (cast hearts) appears on p.442) p.250 No. 3656 Salmon and Grid - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3657 Snake and Scissors - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3658 Sandow - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3659 Tango - 15 cents (TNG) p.251 No. 3023 Cabinet of 8 Puzzles - 65 cents (TNG - compendium) p.251 No. 3024 Cabinet of 15 Puzzles - $1 (TNG - compendium) p.251 No. 3168 Puzzle Barrel of Dice - 50 cents (OPN) p.252 Nos. 1-22 Collection of Wire Puzzles No. 1 - 12 cents each or all 22 for $2.50 (TNG) No. 1 Plate metal Horseshoes w/ 3rd shoe No. 2 Devil's Keys No. 3 Stars and Crescent No. 4 wire horseshoes - lightbulb loops No. 5 scissors (wire monkey) No. 6 (Le Bon Geolier design) No. 7 (TJ Conestoga Playmate design) No. 8 (The Lance design) No. 9 wire horseshoes - large loops No. 10 heart on trapeze No. 11 F017 G's No. 12 D023 Fooler design No. 13 3 witches (?) No. 14 F079 Over the Top No. 15 linked hearts No. 16 ring and 2 clips No. 17 No. 18 No. 19 No. 20 Elks No. 21 Devil's Claws No. 22 F069 double rings with straight handles p.253 Collection of Wire Puzzles No. 2 - 12 cents each or all 22 for $2.50 (TNG) No. 3005 wire monkey No. 3010 heart on trapeze No. 3011 2 G's No. 3012 Le Bon Geolier design No. 3014 Over the Top No. 3021 Devil's Claws No. 3022 F002 Pig Tail No. 3037 La Croix du Sud design No. 3038 horseshoes var. No. 3039 No. 3046 No. 3047 Stilts No. 3048 No. 3049 jacob's ladder chain (?) No. 3050 Porte Veine No. 3062 double trapeze No. 3065 ring on spring No. 3067 No. 3068 Bicycle No. 3069 ring and fetters No. 3070 C and U No. 3074 wire 3 snakes

p.254 No. 3075 (6 piece burr) - 15 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3076 burr - 35 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3077 burr bank - 35 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3078 burr - 50 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3079 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3080 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3081 kumiki cube - $1 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3082 kumiki sphere - $1 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3083 kumiki egg - $1 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3084 kumiki apple - $1.50 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3085 double burr - 35 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3086 burr table - $1.50 (INT) p.254 No. 3087 burr - $1 (INT) p.254 No. 3088 burr - $1 (INT) p.254 No. 3089 burr (like Fancy Square design) - $1 (INT) p.254 No. 3090 kumiki coffee pot - (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3091 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3092 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3093 kumiki pear - $1.50 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3094 kumiki barrel - $1.50 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3095 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.256 No. 3061 Max and Fritz (linked keys) - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3043 Lucky Horseshoe - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3071 Stars and Crescent - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3032 Centrifugal Puzzle - 10 cents (DEX) p.256 No. 3664 cast ABC - 15 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3668 The Twin Links (ring and 2 clips) - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3666 Aeroplane Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3681 Shamrock Puzzle (3 wire snakes) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3683 Button Hook Puzzle (F024) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3684 The Chain Puzzle (chain on spiral) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3682 Devil's Keys (F026 Offset Keys) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3020 Elk Horn Puzzle - 12 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3687 The Chilian Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3685 The Three Witches - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3662 Heart and String - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3686 The Triangle Puzzle (F029 Triangle and key) - 10 cents (TNG) p.258 No. 2042 The Fifteen Puzzle - 15 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.258 No. 3056,7,8 Puzzle Money Box - .5,.75,$1 (OPN) p.275 No. 3662 Heart and String - 10 cents (TNG) p.277 No. 3028 Teddy Bear Puzzle - 10 cents (TNG) p.277 No. 3031 Automobile Puzzle - 20 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.281 No. 3003 Four Ball Puzzle - 20 cents (DEX) P.312 No. 3171 Egg of Columbus - 15 cents (DEX - balancing ovoid) P.312 No. 3036 Chinese Ring Bar Puzzle (patience) - 15 cents (SEQ - Gray Code) p.399 No. 1031 New Book of 200 Puzzles - 10 cents (EPH - Book) p.427 No. 3029 Humdinger Puzzle - 25 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.433 No. 3665 The Four Ace Puzzle - 30 cents (PAT - Inst Insanity family) p.442 No. 3655 The Hearts Puzzle (cast hearts) - 15 cents (TNG) p.442 No. 3660 Mutt and Jeff - 10 cents (TNG) p.442 No. 3661 Over the Top - 10 cents (TNG) p.442 No. 3663 The Three Rings Puzzle (F010) - 10 cents (TNG) p.456 No. 4543 Flexible Key Ring - 15 cents (OPN) p.465 No. 3040 Diabolical Dice - 25 cents (ASM - dissected die) p.472 No. 2282 The Fakir Who Swallows Eggs - 25 cents (EPH - mechanical card) p.474 No. 3649 Furniture Puzzle - 35 cents (ASM - dissected block) p.475 No. 3065 Spiral Ring Puzzle (ring on spring) - 10 cents (TNG) p.476 No. 3664 cast ABC - 15 cents (TNG) p.476 No. 3668 The Twin Links - 10 cents (TNG) p.476 No. 3669 Puzzle Ring - 35 cents (TNG - puzzle ring) p.490 No. 3072 Pea and Pot Puzzle - 20 cents (DEX) p.573 No. 3064 Perplexity Puzzle - 20 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.586 No. 3000 Rat Trap Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX) p.589 No. 2293 Puzzle Peg (cross solitaire) - 55 cents (SEQ - solitaire) p.595 No. 3066 Tantalizing Puzzle (F020 pat. Deck 1903)- 12 cents (TNG) p.599 No. 2585 The Dime Registering Bank - 35 cents (OPN) p.599 No. 3052 Jolly Ni**er Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX - pick it out) p.630 No. 2835 Puzzle Scissors - 35 cents (OPN) p.638 No. 2851 Miniature Golf Game - 35 cents (DEX) According to Slocum, I missed the following: No. 3063 Puzzle Padlock (OPN) No. 2943 Chinese Puzzle Purse (OPN) No. 3645 Puzzle Milk Bottle (OPN) No. 3030 Magnetic Puzzle (PAT)

By Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans - 2007 - Terra Lannoo B.V.

This hardcover was issued in the Netherlands, in Dutch.

Two- and Three- Dimensional Mathematical Puzzles Furniture Set The Chequers Puzzle Petite Mere (La Cocotte) American Geometric Puzzle of 1850 created by Trentsensky and Myers (Tangram) Soma The Colored Egg Puzzle The Ultimate Hex Convertible Puzzle by Harold Cataquet (Trevor Wood's version here) 10 checkered hexacubes plus a checkered tetracube make a 4x4x4 and a checkerboard Tangram - Kreisratsel, Qualgeist, Blitzableiter, Pythagoras, French Puzzle Brain Edi Nagata - Cat Case, Shirt Case Checkerboard Puzzles - The Sectional Checkerboard, Baffel, Mysto Squares, Sam Loyd Battle Royal Zodiac Pentomino Deluxe by Sabu Oguro Coffin's Four Fit (#217), Coffin's Trap (#153) The Emblematical Puzzle of 1788 (based on the Egyptian Puzzle described in Les Amusements in 1749) Sam Loyd Trick Mules, Willard-Johnson Prizefight Radcliffe's Magic Hexagon, L'Etoile Filante (Shooting Star), Symington's The T Puzzle (White Rose, Chase & Sanborn, White Swan), Lox in Box II by Vesa Timonen Soma, Coffin's Ball Room (#197A), Coffin's Boxed LUV (#189), The Cursed Pyramid by Torsten Silke Dice Puzzle, Mayblox, Mystic Eight Scrambled Eggs, also jigsaw Cross, Rabbit, Broken Heart, Bear, Elephant, Furniture Puzzle Food - incl. Something Fishy, Fickle Pickles, Toyo Puzzle Rings The Pyramid Puzzle (2-piece, 4-piece) Disassembly Puzzles Rocky Chiaro's Toe-Key-Yo Yarger's Stickman #2 (Gear Box) Hoffmann Puzzles - by John Berkeley Hungarian Bookcase Puzzle, Puzzle Chest, Michael Hipple's Box, Yuma Prison Box, Russian Boxes, Akio Kamei and the Karakuri Creation Group Kagen Schaefer, Hiroshi Iwahara, Allan Boardman, Chinese Boxes, Snuff Boxes, Trick Coins Puzzle Locks

Construction Puzzles Kagen Schaefer's Maze Burr, 150-piece Chuck Burr, George Hart's Six Pentagons, Lee Krasnow's Merkaba Vaclav Obsivac's Sphere Icosahedrons Josef Pelikan puzzles - incl. Yin Yang, George Yagorvch Mongolian Chess Set, Mongolian Zodiac Puzzles, Kumiki Puzzles, Shackman Figures Keychain Puzzles Four-piece Jigsaw Puzzle Stewart Coffin - Jupiter, Design 72, Triumph, Not-Broken Sticks, Hexagonal Prism, Siamese Locked Nest, Three-Piece Block Wayne Daniel's All Five, Yashirou Kuwayama's Polyhedron 32 Wire, Rope, and Knot Puzzles Gilbert set, Oskar's Chain, The Clown in a Barrel, Horseshoes, Heart, Devil, Hobbles French Wire, ABC, Vintage Cast puzzles, Solomon's Seal, Mongolian Talus Chinese Rings, Rings "O" 7, Kirill Grebnev, various Paper & String Tangles incl. Aunt Jemima, Michelin Man Move Problems 15, A New Game (eq. Eight Point), Draught Board, Peg Solitaire The Great 13 Puzzle, Thinkfun Hoppers, Hop-Over Les Bourgeois Dupes, Aux Quatre Coins, Long Live the King, Put Hitler in the Dog House Tokyo Parking and Rush Hour, Frustr8tor Iwahiro's Jam Puzzles Rubik's Cube variants Oskar's Maze Key, Markus Goetz's Culax, Pike's Peak or Bust, The Eclipse by Myart Manufacturing Co. of 1936 Towers of Hanoi Puzzle Jars and Pots Dexterity Puzzles Vanishing Puzzles Great Baseball Puzzle, L'Incroyable Impossible Objects

This beautiful Czech book is an expanded edition based on Slocum and Botermans' Puzzles Old and New.

Seems to be available from Amazon France.

A softcover book with black and white pictures (pictures are poor photocopy quality). Devoted to a listing of over 130 French boxed puzzles of several varieties which were manufactured during the period from 1878 to 1914, most of them by the five Paris-based firms:

• [Charles]Watilliaux
• Mauclair et Dacier
• Nicolas et Keller
• Simonin Cuny
• Revenez et Tabernat

Accompanied by four loose addendum sheets dated June 1990, December 1993, June 1996, and January 2000, which bring the total number of puzzles covered to over 200. Also accompanied by four cards printed with cut-out puzzles including: Fend-L'Air et Pegase (seat two riders on two mules), Le President Loubet, Les Quatre Vagabonds, and Un Sage dans les Nuages.

Rifaux categorizes the puzzles into eight basic classes, and also assigns some to "combination" classes:

• A - dexterity puzzles (Jeux d'Adresse) - by far the largest class
• I - logic puzzles (Casse-Tete Intellectuels)
• FM - wire puzzles (Casse-Tete en fil de fer)
• T - tactical problems, e.g. sequential movement (Problemes de tactique)
• D - prediction/divination games
• C - games of chance
• E - educational games
• AM - unclassifiable diversions

I ordered mine from the Yamanaka Kumiki Works.
Amazon Japan also has it.

• Part 1. 組み合わせパズル - Put-together Puzzles
• Part 2. 開けるパズル - Take-apart Puzzles
• Part 3. はずして組むパズル - Interlocking Puzzles
• Part 4. ほどくパズル - Hodoku Pazuru - Disentanglement Puzzles
• Part 5. ー連の動きのパズル - Sequential Movement Puzzles
• Part 6. その他のパズル - Impossible Objects and Miscellanies

cover; inside cover 2pp - Hanayama cast ad; brain exercise ad - www.be-en.co.jp - rice cake, sandwich, star, apple p4 - contents p5 (5 spans 2 physical pages) - intro pictured: patience, trick cup, tangram, ball in cage, cast elk, handcuffs, cast ring, buttonhole puzzle, various small tangles, Rectangular Jam, Pencil Case, Rubik's 3x3x3, 15, karakuri small secret box, cast duet, Abe's Block 10, Cast Radix, Pack the Plums, Tenyo pentominoes rectangle 6x10, Block House by Kuozi Kitashima - woodpecker p6 - intro p7 - intro - uneasy checkerboard 5x5 Mine Uematsu - Woodpecker torito.jp/shopping/_un-easy-checkered5x5.shtml p8 - intro p9 - Cast Radix, burr, Lunar Lockout, Cast Dolce p10 - intro (categories?) p11 - 3x3x3 assembly cube (which design?), cast chain, Lunar Lockout, Cast Heart, folding triangles, Oskar's Cube (maze) p12 - *************** PART 1 - PUT TOGETHER ************** - cat case p13 - tangram, lucky puzzle, blue 4-piece (?) p14 - shape by shape, Block House torito.jp/shopping/_house.shtml, Cross II torito.jp/shopping/_cross2.shtml p15 - Sato Manabu - 3 dissections; classic T dissection; wooden dissection (?) p16,17 - pencil case, arrow case, shirt case, cup case, cat case p18 - pentominoes p19 - Block by Block, Uneasy Checkerboard 5x5, Unique Cube II (polycube assembly) p20, 21 - Toyo packing - Plums, Beans, Peanuts, Pineapple, Beer, Pudding p22 - Hexahedroom, Osho's Packing puzzle p23 - Hide the Animal (= Thinkfun Cover Your Tracks) - Lixy, Sheep Puzzle torito.jp/shopping/_sheep-puzzle.shtml, Janken (hands edgematching) p24, 25 - puzzle finger rings - Cast Ring, Cast Ring II, others p26 - Dorobo 5-cube inst. insanity, Kinato, Tantrix Discovery p27 - ************** PART 2 - TAKE APART ************** - Cast NEWS p28,29 - Cast Cage, Flag, Star (& Garter), Cuby p30 - secret boxes (only 3) p31 - *************** PART 3 - INTERLOCKING *************** - pagoda p32,33 - ball in cage, burrs p34 - Yamanaka burr set, kumiki group, Framed Burr 2x2 p35 - TIC 3x3x3 (polycube), Cast Spiral, trick dovetails illustration p36 - CD case versions of Nagata's "case" series p37 - shaped food p38 - Karakuri small boxes list of 1-6 p39 - twisted sushi p40 - czech animals in cage p41 - burr sushi p42,43,44 - Lilly Library / Slocum collection p45 - ***************** PART 4 - DISENTANGLEMENT ********************* p46,47 - Cast ABC, Cast W-U, Cast Bicycle, Cast Horse, Laby, Key, Hoffmann Book PO&N p48 - various wire tangles p49 - Euro, Saturn, Nail the Giant, other wire p50,51 - Akio Yamamoto's World - Cast Radix, Cast Baroq p52,53 - Cast Violon, Cast Cricket, Cast S&S, Elk, Heart, Plate, Devil p54,55 - Cast Enigma, Chain, Duet, Keyring p56 - Cast Dolce, Amour, Sofa Problem p57 - Hikimi tangles, Buttonhole puzzle

p58,59 - **************** PART 5 - SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT ******************* Patience, Cast Disks, 15, Huarong Path, 5x6 sliding, Loyd's Moving 2x3 5-piece p60,61 - Lunar Lockout, Stormy Seas, Rush Hour, Hoppers, Flip It, River Crossing p62,63 - Oskar van Deventer's Space - Oskar's Cube, Cast O'Gear, Cast Disk, L'Oeuf p64 - Abe's Block 10, Pentangular Jam, Rectangular Jam p65 - Chinese Rings / Patience p66 - folding; Chameleon (Chiroriangemusofuto Research) p67 - ring onto chain, and trick snapper p68 - javascript code (?), staples cube p69 - paper links, cabbage/sheep/wolf, dissected square packing p70,71,72,73,74 - **************** PUZZLE SHOP GUIDE **************** - Jyuta, Torito, puzzlein www.jyuta.net torito.jp torito.jp/puzzles/cosmo.shtml www.puzzlein.com www.mmjp.or.jp/icarus www.okunokaruta.com www.yosegi.jp www.karakuri.gr.jp/creation www.hyakuchomori.co.jp/toy/item_puzzle www.hikimi-wp.com www9.ocn.ne.jp/~yonekoya p75 - web sites p76 - books p77 - quiz? p78,79 - ************** index? with web links ******************** p80 - masthead p81 - ******************* Rubik's Cube group ***************** - 3x3x3 p82,83 - 2x2x2, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, Platypus, Snake, Pyraminx, Olympic cubes, golden cube (in sidebar) p84,85 - ***************** impossible objects and misc ********************* - greedy cup p86 - mirror cube puzzles (Setteducati type) p87 - rattle-back, cube-in-cube p88 - Dalgety-Hordern classification p89 - Slocum classification p90,91 - interviews? Edi Nagata, Akio Yamamoto, Kohfuh p92,93 - Kohfuh folding puzzle - "flat chain weather changer" p94 Kohfuh Snowy p95 Kohfuh Cloudy p96 - torito ad inside back cover - What is Law ad back cover

Amazon Japan has it.

1. ways to flatten a cube; cube cross-sections; dice; magic squares; The Mystic Eight puzzle; shortest path; cube penetrations; sugar cubes; resistor networks
2. The Diabolical Cube; chart of #'s of n-ominoes, tri-ominoes, tetrominoes; Slothouber-Graatsma puzzle; Mikusinski Cube; Kev's Cubic Equation; The Spots Puzzle; colored cubes; Instant Insanity; The Allies Flag puzzle; MacMahon's Colored Cubes; Conway's matrix
3. jigsaws; magnetic globe jigsaw; chinese zigzag puzzle; Mag-Nif; chart of #'s of planar polyominoes; pentominoes; Back in the Box; checkerboard puzzles; Tangram; Soma; The 15 puzzle; Piet Hein's Qrazy Qube and other 3-D sliding block puzzles; picture slice and cube puzzles; edge-matching puzzles; Knot So Easy, Perplexing Python; Mazes
4. assembly puzzles (woody cube? hook cube?); Mine's Cube in Cage 333; Rubik's Bricks; Dean Hoffman's Sugar Cube puzzle; Anti-Slide; rolling cube puzzles; eight queens; paper chains; flexagons; Ivan Moskovich's Puzzling Reflections
5. split cubies; Pieces of Eight; Nob's Neverending; Naef Gemini; platonic solids
6. six-piece burr; kumiki burrs; cage burrs; Synergistics Kiss and Love cubes; Happy Cubes; Snafooz; Crazy Cube; velcro cubes; cube snakes; Happy Cubes (Adult Games); secret boxes; log stacking / crossed sticks
7. matchstick assembly; plate burrs; staples cube; unit Origami; weaving; string lattices; Hiroshi Endoh Gadget Box
8. Rubik's Cube & relations
9. folding cubes; kaleidoform; stacking nested boxes; inside-out sponge figures; snap-open cubes; impossible illusion bank; Juno's spinner (like Hoberman); impossible objects

Amazon Japan has it.

Amazon Japan has it.

Amazon Japan has it.

An English-language translation called Puzzles 101 - A Puzzlemaster's Challenge is available.

Amazon Japan has it.

See many Happiness Cube designs at Yukiyasu Sekoguchi's website.

Purchased from Mr. Puzzle Australia.

Purchased from Mr. Puzzle Australia.
Cover price $18US.

Purchased at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).