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by Lewis Carroll,Edward Wakeling
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ISBN: 0486288617 Dover Publications Price: $6.95 |
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Challenging collection of 42 mathematical mind-benders, compiled by Lewis Carroll scholar, includes Castle Croquet, A Sticky but Polished Riddle, Who's Coming to Dinner?, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Eligible Apartments, Predicting the Total, and more. Solutions.
Table of Contents for Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles
| Introduction | |||||||
| 1. Why Is a Raven Like a Writing-Desk? | |||||||
| 2. A Rebus Letter | |||||||
| 3. A Spiral Letter | |||||||
| 4. The Captive Queen | |||||||
| 5. A New Way to Pay Old Debts | |||||||
| 6. The Day of the Week for Any Given Date | |||||||
| 7. A Geometrical Paradox | |||||||
| 8. The Rule of Three | |||||||
| 9. The Monkey and Weight Problem | |||||||
| 10. Crossing the River | |||||||
| 11. Castle Croquet | |||||||
| 12. More Doublets | |||||||
| 13. Names in Poems | |||||||
| 14. Anagrams | |||||||
| 15. The Flower Riddle | |||||||
| 16. Feeding the Cat | |||||||
| 17. The Sun and the Moon | |||||||
| 18. Tangrams | |||||||
| 19. A Sticky but Polished Riddle | |||||||
| 20. Anagrammatic Sonnet | |||||||
| 21. A Charade | |||||||
| 22. Fish Riddle | |||||||
| 23. Cats and Rats | |||||||
| 24. Syzygies | |||||||
| 25. "Pounds, Shillings and Pence" | |||||||
| 26. Three Triangles | |||||||
| 27. Every Triangle Has a Pair of Equal Sides! | |||||||
| 28. A Good Prospect | |||||||
| 29. The Telegraph Cipher | |||||||
| 30. Division by 9 and 11 | |||||||
| 31. Coins | |||||||
| 32. Bag Containing Tickets | |||||||
| 33. Going to the Theatre | |||||||
| 34. Two Tumblers | |||||||
| 35. Roman Numerals | |||||||
| 36. Spheres and Dodecahedrons | |||||||
| 37. Predicting the Total | |||||||
| 38. The Impossible Hole | |||||||
| 39. Excelsior | |||||||
| 40. Eligible Apartments | |||||||
| 41. Who's Coming to Dinner? | |||||||
| 42. Memoria Technica |