Barry R. Clarke Puzzles for pleasure

Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• A history of recreational mathematics
• Prehistoric man
• Neolithic Age (3000-2500 BC)
• The early second millennium BC
• The Old Babylonian period (1800-1600 BC)
• The first millennium BC
• The Dark Ages
• The second millennium AD
• Popular puzzles
• Wong sum
• Strange street
• Harvey's wall climber
• Word bandit 1
• Prime of life
• The horse and the hurdle
• Cornflakes and porridge
• Railway rhyme
• Safe conduct
• The doubtful die
• Word bandit 2
• Muddle market
• Fractionally mean
• Domino chain
• Signs of confusion
• Room for assistance
• King-size conundrum
• Word bandit 3
• The six sheep pens
• Find the burglars
• The enigmatic interview
• Sorry Dad
• Save the city
• Crumple Towers
• Word bandit 4
• Romance on the stone
• Quite a card
• The three piles of coins
• Cubic incapacity
• Extra sensory deception
• True to the tribe
• Word bandit 5
• The stuff of dreams
• Counting sheep
• The reclusive inventor
• Advanced puzzles
• The engineer's dilemma
• Lost in space
• A tall story
• The mathematical garden
• Round the clock
• Pet hate
• Sum secret
• Selfish son
• The Three Bears
• Cryptic cave lines
• The three prisoners
• Taking a bath The balanced bridge
• Elixir of life
• The great escape
• Logical legacy
• Wire wizards
• The broken pentomino
• One for the road
• In the same boat
• Hints
• Solutions
• References