文档介绍：Contents
Foreword iÜ
Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers
I Personal Magic ½
Martin Gardner: A “Documentary”¿
Dana Richards
Ambrose, Gardner, and Doyle ½¿
Raymond Smullyan
A Truth Learned Early ½9
Carl Pomerance
Martin Gardner = Mint! Grand! Rare! ¾½
Jeremiah Farrell
Three Limericks: On Space, Time, and Speed ¾¿
Tim Rowett
II Puzzlers ¾5
A Maze with Rules ¾7
Robert Abbott
Biblical Ladders ¾9
Donald E. Knuth
Card Game Trivia ¿5
Stewart Lamle
Creative Puzzle Thinking ¿7
Nob Yoshigahara
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Number Play, Calculators, and Card Tricks:
Mathemagical Black Holes 4½
Michael W. Ecker
Puzzles from Around the World 5¿
Richard I. Hess
OBeirnes Hexiamond 85
Richard K. Guy
Japanese Tangram (The Sei Shonagon Pieces) 97
Shigeo Takagi
How a Tangram Cat Happily Turns into the Pink Panther 99
Bernhard Wiezorke
Pollys Flagstones ½¼¿
Stewart Coffin
Those Peripatetic Pentominoes ½¼7
Kate Jones
Self-Designing Tetraflexagons ½½7
Robert E. Neale
The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle ½¾7
Stewart Coffin
Metagrobolizers of Wire ½¿½
Rick Irby
Beautiful but Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle ½¿5
Scot Morris
Cube Puzzles ½45
Jeremiah Farrell
The Nine Color Puzzle ½5½
Sivy Fahri
Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle ½6¿
Edward Hordern
Planar Burrs ½65
M. Oskar van Deventer
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Block-Packing Jambalaya ½69
Bill Cutler
Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and
Physical Objects Related to Puzzles ½75
James Dalgety and Edward Hordern
III Mathemagics ½87
A Curious Paradox ½89
Raymond Smullyan
A Powerful Procedure for Proving Practical Propositions ½9½
Solomon W. Golomb
Misfiring Tasks ½9¿
Ken Knowlton
Drawing de Bruijn Graphs ½97
Herbert Taylor
Computer Analysis of Sprouts ½99
David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator
Strange New Life Forms: Update ¾¼¿
Bill Gosper
Hollow Mazes ¾½¿
M. Oskar van Deventer
Some Diophantine Recreations ¾½9
David Sing