Puzzles 101 : a puzzlemaster's challenge / Nobuyuki Yoshigahara ; translated by Richard Weyhrauch and Yasuko Weyhrauch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoshigahara, Nobuyuki, 1936-2004.

Standardized Title:

Ch?och?o nanmon s?uri pazuru. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Mathematical recreations.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Puzzles one hundred and one

Puzzles one hundred one

Place of Publication:

Natick, MA : A K Peters, c2004.

Summary:

What's so fascinating about puzzles? Nearly everyone can be intrigued to solve a riddle or a puzzle and try them out on their friends. This collection of puzzles from the acclaimed puzzlemaster NOB covers a wide variety of puzzles from physical to visual, conceptual to mathematical.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Two Different Lengths

2. Crossing the River

3. Making a Die

4. What Comes Next?

5. Diamond Puzzle

6. The Water Puzzle

7. The Opposite of Puzzle

8. Three Times More

9. Triangular Arithmetic

10. Triangular Solitaire

11. The Same Area

12. Lose Those Squares

13. Two Choice Question

14. Triangulation

15. Rock, Paper, Scissors

16. Four Solutions of Four Pieces I

17. Four Solutions of Four Pieces II

18. Square

19. Simultaneous Equations

20. Even Number Sequence

21. Age Guessing

22. Divide by Four

23. Can You?

24. To Have or Not to Have

25. Pentominos

26. Pandigital (Komachi) Fraction I

27. Pandigital (Komachi) Fraction II

28. Triangulate a Square

29. Challenge by Don Knuth

30. Square Numbers

31. Interlocking Pieces?

32. Change of Heart

33. Fill It Up With Coins

34. LYM

35. Bug House

36. What's Missing?

37. Connecting the Dots

38. Equal Distance

39. Palindrome Time

40. Pandigital (Komachi) Time

41. TROMINO

42. Switching Trains

43. Building Highways

44. Congruent Parts

45. All Gone?

46. Change Direction

47. Arrest Him

48. Pandigital Olympic Circles

49. Massive Multiplication

50. Cut and Rearrange a Cross

51. The Curious Door Sign

52. Triangle Struggle

53. Place the Coins

54. Cut and Paste I

55. Cut and Paste II

56. Trick Name Card I

57. Trick Name Card II

58. Uniform Division

59. Three Contacting Matchsticks

60. Find the Rule

61. Typewriter

62. Seven Straight Lines

63. Four and a Half Tatami Mats

64. Five Consecutive Numbers

65. Chocolate

66. A Go Stone Puzzle

67. Coins in Two Dimensions

68. Make a Square

69. What Comes Next? II

70. Equally Divided.

71. Wild Pig Maze

72. FlipIt

73. A Shining Star

74. Escape from the Tower

75. A Broken Calculator I

76. A Broken Calculator II

77. Switching Frogs

78. All Different

79. Odd Numbers and Even Numbers

80. Magic Trick

81. Time Calculation Using Pandigitals (Komachi)

82. Time Calculation Using Pandigitals Plus 0 (Komachi)

83. How Many Loops?

84. Up and Down Maze

85. Jumping Go Stones

86. Moving Matchsticks

87. One Place the Same

88. The Same Product

89. No Squares

90. Taking a Walk

91. From 1 to N

92. Self-Satisfaction

93. From 1 to 10

94. Height and Weight

95. Tail Becomes Head

96. Is the Opposite Also True?

97. Multi-Level Crossing

98. Squeeze-In! I

99. Squeeze-In! II

100. UN-Balance

101. Surprised Solomon.

ISBN:

1-04-008311-0

1-56881-550-6

OCLC:

567981554