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 Dover is the well known leader in this challenging and rewarding area. We are proud to be the preeminent publisher of works by the late Martin Gardner and to continue his tradition with the logic puzzles of Raymond Smullyan. We also feature books by the popular maze designer Dave Phillips. But life is not all fun and games — Dover offers a rich selection of pre-calculus math texts and problem books on statistics, geometry, algebra, linear algebra, topology, game theory, and more, including Dirk J. Struik's perennial bestseller, A Concise History of Mathematics.
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Recommendations... 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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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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| |  Adrian Fisher's Quick Mazes
by Adrian Fisher
Dozens of intriguing puzzles based on subway maps, constellations, honeycombs, and other labyrinths offer quick, captivating challenges. Suitable for all ages, each maze typically takes only 6 minutes to solve. Solutions.
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 Amazing Puzzle Mazes
by Dave Phillips
This full-color compilation by an expert features over 100 mazes of many different types, with clues and solutions. Connect islands and bridges, follow a route without left turns, play rock-scissors-paper, and much more.
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by Dover
Are you ready for the challenge? Mind-Boggling Mazes, Maze Craze, and Dazzling Mazes are joined by a poster and bonus CD-ROM featuring mazes you can print out or e-mail to friends! 176 mazes in all.
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Products in Recreational Mathematics | | |  | 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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by Adrian Fisher
Dozens of intriguing puzzles based on subway maps, constellations, honeycombs, and other labyrinths offer quick, captivating challenges. Suitable for all ages, each maze typically takes only 6 minutes to solve. Solutions.
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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 Dave Phillips
This full-color compilation by an expert features over 100 mazes of many different types, with clues and solutions. Connect islands and bridges, follow a route without left turns, play rock-scissors-paper, and much more.
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by Henry E. Dudeney
One of the largest puzzle collections — 430 brainteasers based on algebra, arithmetic, permutations, probability, plane figure dissection, properties of numbers, etc. More than 450 illustrations.
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by Ian Stewart
Sixteen columns from the French edition of Scientific American feature oddball characters and wacky wordplay in a mathematical wonderland of puzzles and games that also imparts significant mathematical ideas. 1992 edition.
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|  | Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles
by David Wells
This collection by a bestselling author consists of more than 560 puzzles from around the world and throughout history. "Of immense interest." — Mathematical Gazette. 382 illustrations.
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by Norvin Pallas
Perform amazing feats of mathematical magic, answer clever riddles, solve a baffling murder, and much more with this clever introduction to calculator games. Answers included.
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|  | The Canterbury Puzzles
by H. E. Dudeney
110 ingenious puzzles, presented as incidents in connected stories, including 31 problems amusingly posed by pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Solutions included.
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by Lee Daniel Quinn
In addition to the traditional escapes from the center and wanderings through the garden, 48 mazes offer experiments with "under and over" mazes, "one-way" street versions, and numbered pathways. 16 pages of solutions.
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by Ulrich Koch
Famous German artist and designer offers a fabulous collection of convoluted constructions designed to dazzle the most practiced puzzlist. Includes op art effects, Escher-like illusions, more.
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by Martin Gardner
A mixture of old and new riddles covering a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. 65 black-and-white illustrations.
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by John Pazzelli
Welcome to kakuro, sudoku's bigger (and tougher) brother. The rules are easy, but the game isn't. These 101 puzzles are designed for novices. Solutions included.
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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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