Treasury of 100 brain-twisters includes board games, map games, word games, variations of chess and checker games, "life games," and scores of other recreations. For 80 problems, full solutions included. Remaining 20 unsolved will definitely challenge serious gamesters. 115 illus. Introduction.

Table of Contents for Your Move: Logic, Math and Word Puzzles for Enthusiasts

Introduction
Preface
Part I Potpourri I
1. Monochrome
2. Seven No Trump
3. Woolworth
4. Yes or No?
5. King versus Knight
6. Nothing Ventured
7. Protecting Your Advantage
8. Open Poker
9. The Beginning and the End
10. The Racks
Bridge
11. Green Light
12. Trump Management
13. The Message
14. Those Diamonds
Chess and Variations
15. Hors de Combat
16. Patience Rewarded
17. Minichess
18. Giveaway Chess
19. Don't Mate in One!
20. Kriegspiel
Checkers and Variations
21. Greek Gifts
22. The Stroke
23. Giveaway Checkers
24. The Fox and the Geese
Tic-tac-toe and Variations
25. Toe-tac-tic
26. Quick-tac-toe
27. 3x3x3 Tic-tac-toe
28. 4x4x4 Tic-tac-toe
29. Tour de Force
Other Board Games
30. Hex
31. Minihex
32. Go
33. Go-Moku
34. Connecto
35. Fortress
Map Games
36. Bichrome
37. Trichrome
38. Contact
39. Contact Misere
Problems in Elementary Game Theory
40. Five or One
41. High Stakes
42. Sealed Bids
43. More or Less
44. A Three-Man Game
Word Games
45. Ghost
46. Geography
47. Scrabble
48. Fish Soup
Countdown and Countup Games
49. Triskidekaphilia
50. Second Player Option
51. Triskidekaphilia Misere
52. Restricted Triskidekaphilia
53. Odd Total
54. Aliquot
55. Nim
56. Tsyanshidzi
57. Lasker's Nim
58. Shannon's Nim
59. Kayles
60. Grundy's Game
61. Subtract-a-Square
62. The Last Prime
63. Two-Hand Version of the Last Prime
64. Hybrid
65. Option
"Life Games"
66. Cave Canem
67. Blind Curve
68. Runaway
69. Danger Acute
Potpourri II
70. The Man on First
71. The Pressure Cooker
72. Fifteen
73. Ten or T
74. Russian Roulette
75. Rencontre
76. "Plan Your Moves, Kid!"
77. A War Game
78. The Spider and the Fly
79. The Truel
80. Improving the Odds
Part II Unsolved Games
81. Regulus
82. Quadraphage
83. Loaded Dice
84. Stymie
85. Tripolemos
86. "The "Dating Game"
87. Peek-a-Boo
88. Grid
89. Crapjack
90. Continuous Nim
91. Sabazius
92. Prime Ghost
93. Kriegspiel Tic-tac-toe
94. Escalation
95. Chessboard Trichrome
96. Chessboard Contact
97. Buy or Fold
98. Minipoker
99. Semi-Blind Poker
100. Chess Variations
A. Presto Chess
B. No Threats
C. Semi-Kriegspiel
About the Author
Notes and Sources
Bibliography

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