Through Brainwagon, I found a great book by Sam Loyd on mathpuzzle.com. The full title of the book is Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Trick, and Conundrums with Answers. Published in 1914, the work is now in the public domain and Ed Pegg, Jr. has graciously made it available on his site. On the site, you’ll find 193 high quality scans containing all of the books pages. It’s a little hard to look through, but the full illustrations are available this way. I haven’t had a chance to look through the whole book yet, but puzzles of all kinds are available.
Get Off The Earth
Passion For Puzzles has an article about a commemorative edition of Sam Loyd’s Get Off The Earth puzzle. The puzzle features 13 Chinese warriors positioned around a globe. Rotate the puzzle slightly and there are only 12. The challenge is to figure out where the 13th Warrior disappears to. There’s an excellent representation of this on this page along with an explanation of how the puzzle works.
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