TY - BOOK AU - Hartston, William Roland TI - A brief history of puzzles : : Baffling brainteasers from the Sphinx to sudoku SN - 9781786494269 U1 - 793.7309 HAR-B PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Atlantic Books, KW - Puzzles -- History. N1 - 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 N2 - A mindbending history of the greatest puzzles of all time, by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows ER -