Sliding Piece Puzzles

Sliding Piece Puzzles
Author: Edward Hordern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1986
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Puzzle specialist and collector Edward Hordern has selected 270 of the best puzzles from his collection of over 8,000 and systematically presents them in this book with full solutions. Interlocking solid puzzles, secret-opening puzzles, and maze and route puzzles are all part of a wide array of puzzle "art" that will mystify, intrigue, and entertain. Each puzzle is rated for difficulty and no mathematical knowledge is necessary to solve them. Novice and experts alike will be able to find suitable puzzles to challenge their wits and creativity.

My First Sliding Puzzles: Baby Animals

My First Sliding Puzzles: Baby Animals
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9789463605328

Slide and turn the tabs page after page to discover adorable animals. This learning technique stimulates the fine motor skills and cognitive abilities of toddlers in a fun and dynamic way. Charming rhymes encourage young children to solve the puzzles and they are rewarded with a picture.

My First Sliding Puzzles: Wild Animals

My First Sliding Puzzles: Wild Animals
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9789463605311

Slide and turn the tabs page after page to discover adorable animals. This learning technique stimulates the fine motor skills and cognitive abilities of toddlers in a fun and dynamic way. Charming rhymes encourage young children to solve the puzzles and they are rewarded with a picture.

Puzzles Old & New

Puzzles Old & New
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1994
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780295965796

Shows a variety of antique and modern puzzles, including puzzle locks and rings, and folding, impossible object, vanish, dexterity, sequential movement, disentanglement, interlocking, and take-apart puzzles

Rainy Day Pocket Puzzle Book

Rainy Day Pocket Puzzle Book
Author: Simon Tudhope
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781409598497

A perfectly portable puzzle book, ideal for use anywhere you are on a rainy day or when there's free time! Featuring tricky mazes, colourful picture puzzles, spot-the-difference, true or false, jumbled sequence and number puzzles.

The 15 Puzzle Book

The 15 Puzzle Book
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Board games
ISBN: 9781890980153

The 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years? The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.

Games, Puzzles, and Computation

Games, Puzzles, and Computation
Author: Robert A. Hearn
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1439865051

The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen

Geometric Puzzle Design

Geometric Puzzle Design
Author: Stewart Coffin
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1568814992

This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical d

The Greatest Puzzles of All Time

The Greatest Puzzles of All Time
Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1996
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486292258

Challenging collection includes some of the worldrsquo;s most perplexing brain-teasers by such masters as Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck and Henry Dudeney. Also, the stories behind the creation of the puzzles, the worldrsquo;s earliest riddles, the birth of the crossword puzzle, much more. Introduction. 146 illus.

Not So Ordinary

Not So Ordinary
Author: Dr. Gareth Moore
Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467790656

You just need the simplest everyday items to try these teasers and challenges—but they all stre-e-e-etch your powers of imagination and deduction! See how to... ● make objects appear and disappear ● step through a piece of paper ● create matchstick challenges ● do card tricks ...and lots more. Devised by an expert on brain training, these visual conundrums and fun games will inspire you to find smart solutions to ticklish problems! There are handy tips if you need help, plus an answer key at the back!