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Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Paperback – June 1, 1959

by Sam Loyd (Author),
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  • Paperback: 167 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications; REPRINT Edition edition (June 1, 1959)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0486204987
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486204987
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Classics that still delight after a century
By Charles Ashbacher HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 14, 2001
Format: Paperback
A good puzzle is much like a classic novel. You read it and then after a certain period of time, you can read it again and enjoy it just as much as the first time. These puzzles of Sam Loyd, which were published over a century ago, stretch the brain cells as much now as they did when they dazzled the people of a younger country.
The problems follow very standard themes. Having read many puzzle books, I recognized the form of all of the puzzles in this one. However, they are so well stated that reading them is a significant part of the fun. It is also an interesting piece of historical perspective that puzzles were also a very popular staple in newspapers over a century ago. Reading the puzzles and looking at the diagrams also takes you back to a different age. Some of the caricatures of the figures could not be used in the politically correct atmosphere of today. It also seems most unlikely that a problem involving nuns being abducted by soldiers would be published in a modern newspaper. Therefore, it is necessary to cut a little historical slack when you read the book.
Sam Loyd was the best puzzlist that America has ever had. The only possible challenger is the editor of this collection, which is most fitting. I enjoyed the book immensely, even though I was in most cases rereading rather than solving for the first time.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
The Creator of Unsolvable Puzzles
By A Customer on October 2, 2000
Format: Paperback
If you really like tough puzzles, that is the book and the writer that you were looking for. In one book there is enough puzzles for a human being life.
The puzzle categories are also quite wide from tangram to chess problems.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Timeless Classic
By Creative on August 9, 2012
Format: Paperback
Actually I'm a big fan from the good old days. Mathematical puzzles? My Big Old love.
Here we have 2 of the 3 or 4 absolute giants of the matter (put Raymond Smullyan in). Their father of them all : Sam LOYD, and, and one of the modern poetical leaders: Martin GARDNER for the selection and the edition.
This compilation of the best Classical Puzzles imagined by Sam LOYD has been published several times before, and each publication brings up the same sentiment, the one you have when you meet back a good old friend. That's what happens when you fall in love with a book, and develop sweet warm memories with it.

The format is 1 puzzle by page, presented each and every time by a smart story and illustrated by the drawing of the original edition, a very beautiful vintage look. I love it.
There are some 200 puzzles divided into 2 volumes, they range from somehow easy to really difficult, and some of them require some basic knowledge in algebra and/or geometry, just the basics, and not all of them.

This edition is a simple paperback pocket size, nothing fancy about it, in my opinion any paperback binding doesn't do justice to this book anyway, but it's the only one available I think.

Me? I bought it again!
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