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Sam Loyd's Best Picture Puzzles
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Author/Editor: Sam Loyd
ISBN 10:0486443817
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Put on your thinking cap and dive into this treasury of witty rebus puzzles. These classic brain-ticklers appeal to puzzle-lovers of all ages, offering hours of amusing challenges to the skills of recall, vocabulary, and comprehension.
"Human nature is inquisitive, and will spare no effort in prob...  read more
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Put on your thinking cap and dive into this treasury of witty rebus puzzles. These classic brain-ticklers appeal to puzzle-lovers of all ages, offering hours of amusing challenges to the skills of recall, vocabulary, and comprehension.
"Human nature is inquisitive, and will spare no effort in probing for the solution of a mystery," declared Sam Loyd, creator of these puzzles. "Every thinking person experiences keen satisfaction when a perplexing puzzle has been mastered. 'Eureka! I met the puzzle and the answer is mine.'" America's undisputed puzzle king for nearly half a century, Loyd devised thousands of innovative chess and mathematics puzzles. His timeless rebuses rank among his most popular brain-teasers, and this book contains more than 200 of his best puzzles. (Answers appear at the end--don't peek!)
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Born in Philadelphia in 1841, Sam Loyd went on to create a career for himself as the first and greatest of American puzzle masters, publishing his first efforts while still in his teens and continuing relentlessly for decades in books, magazines, and newspapers. A brilliant mathematical mind, a great composer of chess puzzles, a tireless self-promoter, and something of a rogue, Loyd was not at all above taking credit for composing puzzles he didn't actually compose and accomplishing things he didn't actually do, such as inventing the game of Parcheesi. Loyd nevertheless left behind an indelible puzzlist's legacy, encompassing puzzles of all kinds and varieties, which has not been equaled in the century since he died in 1911.

Loyd once challenged the great chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz to solve an impromptu chess problem in less time than he, Loyd, took to compose it, and barely lost that bet to one of the greatest chess players ever.

Martin Gardner brought his vast knowledge of and fascination with Loyd's work to Dover in the 1950s, and the Dover edition of Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd has been in print continuously since 1959.

Loyd's varied accomplishments underscore the connection that has always existed between mathematics and chess, and between recreational mathematicians and chess players.

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Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486443817
ISBN 13: 9780486443812
Author/Editor: Sam Loyd
Page Count: 64
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: September 2005

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