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From riddles and perplexing paradoxes to number games, these books provide a banquet of food for thought. Most of these puzzles offer hints to speed you along your way, and feature complete solutions.
Recommendations... King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles
by Raymond M. Smullyan
This fanciful, original collection for readers of all ages features arithmetic puzzles, logic problems related to crime detection, and logic and arithmetic puzzles involving King Arthur and his Dogs of the Round Table.
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Products in Thought and Logic Puzzles | | |  | 101 Puzzles in Thought and Logic
by C. R. Wylie, Jr.
Solve murder problems and robberies, see which fishermen are liars and how a blind man can identify color — purely by reasoning! Hours of mind-strengthening entertainment.
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|  | Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty
by Raymond M. Smullyan, Martin Gardner, Greer Fitting
Characters from Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. The charmingly illustrated challenges range from easy to difficult and include solutions.
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by Raymond M. Smullyan
This fanciful, original collection for readers of all ages features arithmetic puzzles, logic problems related to crime detection, and logic and arithmetic puzzles involving King Arthur and his Dogs of the Round Table.
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|  | The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles
by Raymond M. Smullyan
Created by a renowned puzzle master, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex. 1982 edition.
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|  | Mathematical Recreations and Essays
by W. W. Rouse Ball, H. S. M. Coxeter
This classic work offers scores of stimulating, mind-expanding games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical problems, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring problems, cryptography and cryptanalysis, much more. Includes 150 black-and-white line illustrations.
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|  | Mental Gymnastics: Recreational Mathematics Puzzles
by Dick Hess
Suitable for dedicated puzzlists ages 12 and older, these challenges involve numbers, geometry, logic, and probability and include story puzzles and playful puzzles. More than 120 problems of varying difficulty, plus solutions.
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|  | The Monty Hall Problem and Other Puzzles
by Ivan Moscovich
Assembled by a prominent puzzle-maker, this intriguing full-color book's challenges range from riddles of ancient geometry to modern issues of traffic patterns and interstellar communications. Dynamic illustrations help define underlying mathematical concepts. Solutions.
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|  | Professor Hoffmann's Best Math and Logic Puzzles
by Louis Hoffmann
These pleasantly perplexing highlights from the classic 1893 puzzle book abound in Victorian charm. They include both arithmetic problems and challenges involving words and letters. Complete solutions.
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|  | Puzzles in Math and Logic
by Aaron J. Friedland
100 original problems in math and logic, featuring permutations, combinations, properties of numbers, algebra, solid and plane geometry, logic, and probability. Even accomplished mathematicians are likely to find some surprises here. 31 drawings.
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|  | The Pyrgic Puzzler: Classic Conundrums
by Christopher Maslanka, Michael Harrington, Iris Murdoch
Eighty mind-bending problems feature eccentric characters, delightfully surrealistic illustrations, and humorous situations. The author offers hints as well as solutions in a splendid tangle of storytelling that provides both chuckles and challenges.
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|  | Satan, Cantor and Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles
by Raymond M. Smullyan
A renowned mathematician tells stories of knights and knaves in an entertaining look at the logical precepts behind infinity, probability, time, and change. Requires a strong background in mathematics. Complete solutions.
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|  | Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic
by Lewis Carroll
Over 350 ingenious problems involving classical logic: logic expressed in symbols; syllogisms and the sorites diagrammed; logic as a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters.
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|  | Test Your Logic
by George J. Summers
50 puzzles with new turns of thought and new subtleties of inference.
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| |  | Your Move: Logic, Math and Word Puzzles for Enthusiasts
by David L. Silverman
Treasury of 100 board, map and word games, variations of chess and checker games, "life games," many more. Solutions for 80 included; 20 unsolved puzzles will challenge serious gamester. 115 illustrations.
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