This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world's most popular and intriguing puzzles comes in two parts. It's an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of Tangrams that reveals the mystery and beauty of this ancient art, and also a masterful introduction to Tangram puzzle-solving, with more than 2,000 all-time puzzles which you can try to solve. This accurate history of this classic Chinese art form comes from a Tangram museum owner and his research team. They discovered many treasures, such as the Tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to test Pythagorean theorems. You'll see the Tangrams Napoleon played with during his exile. Photos show how to arrange Tangram-shaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges, flower arrangements, and celebration costumes. Among the puzzles for you to solve: "paradoxical pairs" that appear to be identical, but differ in a hard-to-detect detail.

The Tangram Book: The Story of the Chinese Puzzle With over 2000 Puzzles to Solve

Humor & Entertainment

Slocum, Jerry

Van Splunteren, Carla

Botermans, Jacob

Gebhardt, Dieter

Ma, Monica

Ma, Xiaohe

Raizer, Harold

Sonneveld, Dic

Puzzles & Games

Sterling

With its exquisite photographs and richly informative text, this is simply the best, the most unique, and the most in-depth study of the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game. This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world’s most popular and intriguing puzzles is an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of tangrams, and also a masterful introduction to puzzle solving, with more than 2,000 all-time tangrams. This accurate history of the classic Chinese art form comes from a tangram museum owner and his research team, who discovered many treasures, such as the tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to test Pythagorean theorems. Photos show how to arrange tangram-shaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges and celebration costumes. Among the puzzles for you to solve: Paradoxical Pairs that appear to be identical but differ in a hard-to-detect detail.

The Tangram Book: The Story of the Chinese Puzzle with Over 2000 Puzzles to Solve

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This book presents a little-known and ingenious artefact of the Roman world: a small puzzle padlock whose font plate bears a face or ‘mask’ of ‘Celtic’ style. The padlocks were designed to secure small bags or pouches and their distribution extended across Europe with the majority found in the Danubian region and in the vicinity of Aquileia. The authors examine the cultural context, the origins and uses of the padlocks, and provide detailed solutions to the puzzle mechanisms. The publication provides a fully-illustrated catalog of the known 156 examples, categorises their types according to construction and style, and explores the technicalities of the subject by the process of constructing replica mask puzzle padlocks. Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Types and Locations Chapter 2: Cultural Attributes by Vanessa Muros Chapter 3: Origin and Uses Chapter 4. Mask Puzzle Padlock Solutions and Mechanisms Chapter 5: Conclusions Appendix 1: Catalog of the 156 Mask Puzzle Padlocks Appendix 2: Padlock Groupings Based on Lock Covers by Vanessa Muros Appendix 3: Analysis of Roman Mask Padlocks in the Slocum Collection by Vanessa Muro Appendix 4.: Replicas of Mask Padlocks &amp; Money Pouches Appendix 5: Fakes and Reproductions Appendix 6: Care of Roman Mask Padlocks by Vanessa Muros Bibliography Index

Romano-Celtic Mask Puzzle Padlocks: A Study in their Design, Technology and Security

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Archaeopress Archaeology

The 15 Puzzle Book contains an illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the 15 Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known. Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 Puzzle but other sources claim it was invented by Sam Loyd, who Martin Gardner called, "America's greatest puzzle designer." Or has Sam Loyd, who claimed to invent the puzzle, continued to fool the world for more than 100 years?
The true story of the puzzle is told here for the first time: - The real inventor and his patent application records were found. - The story of how the puzzle came to be manufactured. - Proof that the 15 Puzzle is mathematically impossible to solve. - How a young New Yorker solved it. - The worldwide puzzle craze that it created.

The 15 Puzzle Book: How it Drove the World Crazy

Slocum Puzzle Foundation

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