A brief history of puzzles : Baffling brainteasers from the Sphinx to sudoku

Hartston, William Roland

A brief history of puzzles : Baffling brainteasers from the Sphinx to sudoku Hartston, William Roland - 1st Ed. - London : Atlantic Books, 2019. - viii+151p.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 0 Primeval Puzzle Prelude; 1 Medieval Maths, Mysteries and Merriment; 2 Parisian Perplexities, Problems and Posers; 3 The Great Victorian Puzzlers; 4 Puzzles Worthy of the Name; 5 More Word Puzzles; 6 The Logic of Hats; 7 The Most Baffling Logic of All; 8 Weights, Measures, Speed; 9 Psychological Puzzles; 10 Miscellaneous and Mysterious; The Prize Puzzle; Solutions; A Note about the Author

A mindbending history of the greatest puzzles of all time, by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows

9781786494269


Puzzles -- History.

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