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Shows how to make magic tricks, puzzles, sculpture, and optical illusions with paper, pencils, and matchboxes
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The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps w
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This is a stimulating and delightful collection of mind benders which has been enormously popular in France since it was
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Divide a rectangular cake into five even pieces, calculate the cost of running a successful casino, figure out the maxim
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The world of sharking does not apply only to table billiards and pool. Sharking exists in every aspect of your life. You
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Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Water; Cartesian Matches; The Gorilla Effect; Somesault Shell; T
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Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was the all time greatest inventor and developer of puzzles. He is described by Martin Gardner, the
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A Dazzling and Stimulating Collection of Mindbenders, Brain Teasers, and Puzzles Pierre Berloquin, who put together thi
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Discusses games with numbers, geometrical figures, logic, probability, and paradoxes, and looks at their mathematical ba
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