Acertijos, Desafios y Tableros Magicos: Riddles, Challenges, and Board Games

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Great math puzzle inventor, Henry Dudeney, had a talent for finding solutions to unsolvable problems. This book includes 110 of his puzzles, not as individual problems but as incidents in connected stories; the first 31 are amusingly posed by pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Many require only the ability to exercise logical or visual skills; others offer a stimulating challenge to the mathematically advanced. Solutions included.

 

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