Introduction Games and Puzzles Tic-tac-toe—The Illusion of the Tall Glass—Expansion of a Bridge—The Result Is Always—Problems with Liars—The Missing Dollar—A Geometric Fallacy—Pennies and Nickels—Tricks with Coins—A Bet You Can't Lose—Proving -1 = 1—The Principle of Indifference—Sum of Irrationals—Points on a Line—The Wheel Paradox—The Shadow Puzzle—Diagonals of Squares, Cubes, and Hypercubes—Are There Really Four Dimensions?—Time Travel
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The Great Book of Mind Teasers and Mind Puzzlers
This book consists of 75 utterly original and totally tantalizing brain teasers from master puzzler George J. Summers. He brings out fascinating challenges in situations as common as a game of tic-tac-toe or tennis, or as strange as a land of habitual Truth tellers and Liars. These puzzles and teasers are constructed with clues, helpful solution and detailed answers that show you step-by-step how a teaser or a puzzle is unravelled
Mathematical_Teasers is a collection of some 300 carefully selected, unusual, and above all, challenging mathematical problems, puzzles, riddles, and a number of playing-card and dice tricks for both students and laymen, and especially for those who have a modicum of mathematical ability or a bent for puzzle-solving.
This book consists of 75 utterly original and totally tantalizing brain teasers from master puzzler George J. Summers. He brings out fascinating challenges in situations as common as a game of tic-tac-toe or tennis, or as strange as a land of habitual Truthtellers and Liars. These puzzles and teasers are constructed with clues, helpful solution and detailed answers that show you step-by-step how a teaser or a puzzle is unravelled.
