The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles

Serhiy Grabarchuk, Peter Grabarchuk, Serhiy Grabarchuk, Jr., Serhiy Grabarchuk Jr., Jr. Grabarchuk

• Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN:
  9781568815251
• Print ISBN:
  9780367476236
• Subtopic: Games in Mathematics

This collection of more than one hundred original and highly sophisticated puzzles presents challenges that require creative,outside of the box thinking. Many different types of puzzles are included, such as word, number, logical, visual, spatial, dissection, dividing, dot-connecting, matchstick, coin, and more. Each aesthetically appealing puzz

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Puzzles
• Introduction to Puzzles
• Quadro Block
• Five Buttons
• Twenty-Four-Seven
• Out of the Y
• Broken Square
• Why Tee Tee
• Elliptic Proportions
• Netting
• In the Right Triangle
• Checkered Challenge 58
• Two Unicursal Bricks
• Profiles: The Solids
• The Wrench Dividing
• In the Same Plane
• The Triangle Quest
• A Smooth Way through the Maze
• Elastic Trios
• The Tube Colors
• The Air Bubble Challenge
• Three Fragments
• An Odd Field
• Finding the Solution
• Pentatriangles
• The Drop
• Triangle & Two Matchsticks
• Easy L-Packing
• Golden Budget
• The Shape-Color Connection
• Separate the Shapes
• S-Days and T-Days
• The Puzzling Cross
• Round-Up
• The Square-Triangle Couple
• The Die Stack
• T-Unicursal
• The Square Quest
• Signs & Symbols
• 1-2-3 Transforming Puzzle
• The Viewpoint
• Play with an Erasure
• Trapezoid Contours
• Add a Row
• The M-Shaped Count
• No Magic
• What Dice It Matter?
• Hexa Differing
• The Heart of the Match
• DigitCount
• The Book Staircase
• Two Different Triangles
• Inside the Grid
• Drop & Match
• Mag[sup(2)]netic
• The Antique Ring
• The Factory Block Puzzle
• Puzzle Card
• Coin Upside-Down
• The Puzzle Infinity
• The Caravel
• Twin Cubism
• Three L’s to a T
• Equal Perimeters
• What’s There in the Square?
• G-Knights Exchange
• Rectangle Differing
• Four More Triangles
• The Four Snakes Puzzle
• Black or White in Cube
• Pentomino Switch
• The Ancient Pyramid Puzzle
• Broken Watch
• Coins Apart
• The Deer Puzzle
• Cheap Victory
• Down the Street or... Finding the House
• 97 Question 5
• Triangles & Digits
• Coin Invert
• The Legendary Town
• Cubism
• The Matchstick Needle
• Shore Connecting
• Cube Differing
• The Right-Angle Framework
• The VHS Tricky Packing
• Coin Triangle Theorem
• Guess the Phone Number
• Magnetic Tetrahedron
• Tetrapaving
• The Yawl
• Stairs in the Pyramid
• Cubius
• Penta Duo
• The Jigsaw Square Fusion
• Brick Knights’ Swap
• Solid Chain
• The Tomahawk
• Delta Cube Score
• Around the Table
• The Three I’s
• Butterfly Differing
• NumCount
• Four Matches & Nautilus
• Mag[sup(3)]netic
• Coin Upside-Down 2
• Blue The Tetrahedron Puzzle
• Where Is the Solution?
• Christmas Tree
• Solutions
• Solutions Introduction to Solutions
• Solutions to Individual Puzzles
• Blank Page