Reading about mechanical puzzles is fun (though not as much fun as playing with them). There are but a few good books solely focused on mechanical puzzles - I wish there were more. You can't just waltz into a bookstore and find shelves full of them. Like others with an interest in this topic, I was first "recruited" upon finding van Delft and Botermans' book "Creative Puzzles of the World," and looked forward to each new installment of Slocum's collaboration with Botermans.

Below are some of the books in my library. They are in no particular order, though I have grouped them by subject matter (subjectively, and tongue-in-cheek). Some of these stray into logic and mathematical puzzles. For some of the books, I have listed interesting contents. In some cases items shown on this site are highlighted in bold.

You won't find lots of links to sources here, since many of these books are out of print - try Amazon, sometimes used copies are available. I have had some luck locating books using isbn.nu. You can also try Book Cost.

Sandy Thompson's wonderful Twisty Puzzles site has a comprehensive list of Rubik's-related books. John Rausch's site has a list of books related to mechanical puzzles. You can also find links to several puzzle-related books available for free download at The Online Books Page of the University of Pennsylvania. Many of the books seem to be housed at http://djm.cc/library, which is part of David Moews's home page.

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Core Curriculum
	Creative Puzzles of the World Pieter van Delft, Jack Botermans 1978 Geometrical Problems Moving-Piece Puzzles (he means Tangram-like, not Sliding Piece) pp.12-27 Kopfzerbrecher pp.12-16 Circular Tangram p.17 Pythagoras pp.18,9 The Circle Puzzle (Kreisraatsel) pp.20,1 The Broken Heart (9 pcs) p.22 The Magic Egg (Ei des Columbus, Scrambled Egg) p.23 The Cross Breaker (Kreuzerbrecher / Kreuzspiel, The Lucky Puzzle) pp.24-6 The Nine Puzzle (Alle Neune) p.27 Dissection Puzzles pp.28-39 Greek Cross to Square, others p.29 other dissectons pp.30-33 Snake eating its tail p.34 Cross and Crescent (Moon and Greek Cross) p.34 Disappearance Puzzles (vanishes e.g. Think Square, L'Echiquier Fantastique, Get Off the Earth) p.35 Letter Dissections pp.36,7 Polyforms pp.40-48 rhombus from 12 hexiamonds p.40 Pentominoes pp.41-3 Solid Pentominoes pp.44,5 Soma pp.46,7 The Balacing Soma p.48 Matchstick Puzzles pp.49-56 Domino Puzzles pp.57-65 Construction Puzzles and Packing Problems pp.66-85 OCC p.67 Rattles pp.68,9 The Magic Disc - 3-piece coordinate motion p.70 Van der Poel's 18-piece burr p.71 trad. 6-piece burr, J.H. de Boer pp.72-5 Ball-in-Cage p.76 Japanese Crystal (pagoda burr) pp.77,8 The Cluster (diagonal burr) p.80 O'Beirne Melting Block p.81 Conway 17-pc Packing in 5x5x5 p.82 Haselgrove Box p.83 Chinese Cube (ivory) p.84 The Vanishing Space (ball packing 13/14) p.85 Magic Squares - lo shu pp.86-95 Ring-String-Ball Puzzles - start on p.97 Patience/"tiring irons" - p.97 The Crown Puzzle p.98 (see also Hoffmann p.30 The Balls and Rings) Block and Tackle p.99 Meleda aka Chinese Rings p.100 The Chinese Ladder p.104 (see Hoffmann p.31) Cherry Tree p.105 Trefoil p.111 Imperial Scale p.114 Triplets p.115 String Puzzles - he means magic tricks and string figures p.117 Mazes and Labyrinths pp.124-142 Wire Puzzles Stanley p.143 The Gordian Knot p.146 Triple Cross p.147 Triangular Trickery (Stumpy Originals No. 2) p.148 (see also Hoffmann p.200 The Interlaced Triangles) Jack's Special (spiral, cube, ball) p.149 Loop the Loop (aka Infinity) p.150 Staircase p.152 Ball and Ring (aka Ball and Chain) p.154 Loony Loop (aka Possibly Impossible) p.154 Squaring Off p.155 Number and Logic Puzzles The Number Frame p.160 The Binary System pp.162-3 (I made these cards as a kid!) Mind Reading Cards p.164 The Colormatch Square p.165 (like Pressman Think Through, Nitty Gritty) Positioning Puzzles Fore and Aft p.166 Crossing the Water Puzzles Peg Solitaire pp.170-174 Tower of Brahma (Hanoi) p.175 Railroad Shunting Problems pp.176-177 Puzzles with Checkers Sliding Block - Flying, Ma's, George Washington pp.180-1 Solutions pp.182-200
	Puzzles Old and New Jerry Slocum, Jack Botermans 1987 166pp. Put-Together Puzzles Bug House p.13 Sectional Checker Board p.14 Polyominoes, Pentominoes p.16, Hexiamonds p.18 Tenyo Beat the Computer polyforms p.18 The Egyptian Puzzle (aka Bombing Mystery) p.19 Cross and Letter Dissections pp.20,21 Stomachion / Loculus of Archimedes p.22 Tangrams (McLouglin Bros.) pp.22-25 Richter Anchor Stone puzzles pp.26-33 Lott's Stone Puzzle p.30 Sam Loyd's Trick Mules p.34 Question du Lapin (Rabbit Silhouette) p.35 Heads and Tails (e.g. Calumet, Grandpa's Wonder Soap) p.36 Eight Queens, Jeu des Manifestants p.37 Instant Insanity - Katzenjammer, Four Ace, Symington's, Allies Flags p.38 Magic Squares p.39 Three-Dimensional Assembly Puzzles Solid Pentominoes p.40 Soma p.41 Gordon Giant Pyramid p.42 Dean Hoffman's Packing Puzzle, Kolor Kraze p.43 1934 Chicago World's Fair Scrambled Eggs p.44 Pyramid Puzzle p.46 Puzzle Rings p.47 Take-Apart Puzzles The Masterpiece Puzzles set, Pik-a-Peg p.48 Hoffmann puzzles pp.49-51 Takitapart, Tri-'n'-do-it p.52 Japanese Trick Boxes p.54 Gerald p.55 Kamei p.56-57 The Hello Puzzle p.58, Nuts and Bolts Sputnik p.59, card & Key, Three Ring Puzzle, Puzzle Pants Puzzle Locks pp.60,61 Interlocking Solid Puzzles Kumiki pp.63-65 Naef Swiss Cow p.66 Burrs pp.66-68 Altekruse p.72, Pagoda p.73, Chuck p.74 Arjeu p.75, Gaby Games (Philippe Dubois) p.76 Chestnut Burr (Wyatt) p.78 Plastic Burrs p.79 The Third Dimension (60 sticks) p.80 Van Deventer's Matchboxes p.81 Cuckoo Nest, Three-Piece Block p.82 The Fearsome Four (6-pc burrs) p.83 Stewart Coffin - Four Corners, Scorpius, Second Stellation p.84, Jupiter p.85 Keychains pp.86,87 Disentanglement Puzzles A B C tangle set p.88 French boxed tangles pp.90-91 Amazing Hand, Three Nags, Queen's Jubilee p.92 Doggie Puzzle p.93, Boodle Alderman Fire Irons, Collin's, Keys p.94 The Devil's Keys, Three Snakes, Stars and Crescent, Star and Garter, Four Keys p.95 Gilbert Puzzle Parties set p.96 Hobbles p.97 Uncle Sam's Puzzles sets p.99 Snake and Scissors, Ingenious Ring puzzles (Bob Easter) p.100 Ingenious Ring Puzzle Book, pub. 1958 by Ch'ung-En Yu Double Witch Key, Wedding Ring (Ring and Fetters), Caught Heart, Lyre Star p.102 Varieties of Wire Puzzles p.103 HPG set p.103 Chinese Rings (Patience) pp.105-107, The Brain p.107 Pentangle story p.108,9 Ball and Chain p.110 Tenyo Computer tangles p.110 Swiss Cheese (mouse and cheese per HABA) p.111 Red Goose Shoes card, Un Coeur en Peine p.112 Lumberjack/Stumps - Rikk Kvitek, Sword (like Wit's End) p.113 Strong Man (aka Jolly Ni**er) p.114 Chinese Ladder, Love p.115 Sequential Movement Puzzles Peg Solitaire, Hop Over pp.117-121 Le Moulin Rouge, Question du Jour, So Easy p.123 Shunting Problems (Switchback Puzzle/Chifu-Chemulpo Puzzle) p.124 Draught Board Puzzle p.125, Ten Little Ni**er Boys, Presidential Muddle Sliding Block Puzzles e.g. Get My Goat, Dad's, Moving, Humdinger, Flying, Quinties (Embossing Co.) pp.126-133 different instances of Dad's Puzzle p.130 Tit-Bits Teaser No.4, The Flying Puzzle p.131 Ma's Puzzle p.132 Century of Progress, Line Up the Quinties, Les Bourgeois Punis p.133 La Chevre et le Chou (river crossing) p.134, Capital and Labor Tower of Hanoi, The Brain, Panex p.135 Pike's Peak or Bust p.136 (p.4), The Eclipse, Africa Bolt maze (Screw Loose) - Marvin Glass, Maze Medal (Hoffmann), 16-to-1 p.137 Rubik's-style collection, w/ Columbus' Egg (mid left) p.138-9 Puzzle Vessels pp.140,141 Dexterity pp.142-143 Vanishes - Get Off the Earth, The Lost Jap, Teddy and the Lion p.144, L'Echiquier Fantastique Impossible bottles, dovetails pp.145-147 Folding Puzzles - The Fifth Pig folding puzzle p.148 Pick the Pickaninnies p.149 The Camel folding puzzle (same as fold-a-horse) p.149 Solutions pp.150-156 - includes Pentominoes, Tangrams, Burrs, Sliding Piece
	New Book of Puzzles 101 Classic and Modern Puzzles to Make and Solve Jerry Slocum, Jack Botermans 1992 128pp. Though they do not use section titles, the major divisions of the book follow the classification scheme favored by Slocum and used in the 1987 book. Put-Together Puzzles Tangram pp.8,9 Jigsaw pp.10,11 Dissected Letters pp.12,13, The New L-Square Puzzle, Squares & Oblongs p.13 Square Dissection - Snider's Diamond Puzzle p.14 The Fresh Milk Puzzle (card from National Milk Council) p.15 La Chaine Sans Fin - The Endless Chain p.16 Magic Squares pp.18,19 Les Deux Mulets p.21 Les Quatre Vagabonds, Willard-Johnson Prize Fight p.22 Bucephale, Un Sage dans les Nuages (A Sage in the Clouds) p.23 Pair-It (edgematch) p.24 L'Arc en Ciel p.25 Nut Pyramid p.27 Revolving Century, The 40 Puzzle p.29 25 Y p.30 Diabolical Cube p.32 Diabolical Die (Wil Strijbos) p.33 Splitting Headache p.34 Matchstick Puzzles p.36 Take-Apart Puzzles Puzzle Purse p.38 The Hidden Coin p.39 Misc. Trick Boxes pp.39-43 Paper tangles pp.44-45 Pick-a-Peg p.46 Dualock p.48 Interlocking Solid Puzzles Kumiki pp.50,51 Burrs pp.52-65 Boule Enfermee p.57 Bill Cutler Bin Cross p.60 Finnish Diagonal Burr p.62 Russian Rattle Burr p.64 Bantam Eggs (Scrambled Eggs) p.66 Broken Heart (Technisolid) p.67 Disentanglement Puzzles Violin tangles pp.68-69 Butter-Nut Bread paper tangle p.70 Wit's End p.74-5 (easy and hard versions) Gordian Knot (Gekkenwerk) pp.76,77 (solution) Buttonhole Pencil pp.78,79 Delivrez Mon Coeur p.80 Untie the Bear, Aunt Jemima paper tangles p.81 The Braided Leather Puzzle p.82 Stewart Coffin Super Sleeper Stopper p.83 Horseshoes pp.84,5 various wire puzzles pp.86-95, La Balance de Themis (eq. to Le Bon Geolier), La Bouteille Infernale, Les Tracas de L'Artilleur (eq. to Le Souci de l'Artilleur) Le Petit Porte-Veine, Comment Nous Separer p.90, Le Cavalier et son Sabre (eq. to Le Dragon et son Casque) p.91, Le Divorce, Le Bracelet Egyptien Heartbreaker, Heart's Desire (Uncle's) p.92 Gingerbread Man, Fooler p.94-5 Sequential Movement Puzzles Indians and Travellers (river crossing), Jealous Husbands, Men and Boys pp.96,7 Double Five, Great 13 pp.98,99 Peg Solitaire pp.100-103 Pyramids (Towers of Hanoi) pp.104,5 The Railroad Puzzle (Protheroe - Humpty Dumpty; Great Northern Puzzle) p.106 Oklahoma (string around pegs) p.108 Yankee Puzzle (step maze) p.110 Puzzles with Checkers p.111 The New 15 p.112, The 13 Puzzle p.113 (Slocum's IPP11 gift) No-Jump-O p.114 Dexterity Puzzles Flip-A-Ring p.116, One-In-the-Eye-For-Kruger p.117 Other (including Vanish and Impossible) Devil's Fan (like Loyd's GOtE) p.118 Magic Playing Card p.119 Arrow Through Bottle p.120 Solutions pp.121-125
	The Book of Ingenious and Diabolical Puzzles Jerry Slocum, Jack Botermans 1994 152pp. Organized using the usual Slocum classification. Put-Together Puzzles Tangram and dissections - pp.1-19 Anchor, La Hache du Bourreau p.6 La Cocotte, Anchor Geduldprufer p.7 WAR p.8 The Egyptian Puzzle - Murray Wagons, Patriotic, Bombing Mystery pp.8,9 Anchor copies p.10 - Seven Block 1935 (eq. to Pythagoras), Lucky Puzzle (eq. to Kreuzspiel) Baffle No. 1, Adams Square and Cross p.11 St. Charles Evaporated Milk Seven Card Puzzle p.12 La Croix Brisee (eq. to Jeu de la Croix), Jeu Geometrique / L'Union Fait La Force p.13 Hill's American p.14 Jayne Fishing Puzzle, Mysterious Cross (red cross) p.15 ELZZUP p.16,17 Checkerboard pp.18,19 Edgematching pp.20-23; Daily Mail World Record Net Sale p.20, Royal National Life-Boat, OXO triangles p.21 Le Taquin Japonais p.22 Mosaik, Tesa Mosaic Square p.23, Testa Cross Colour Jeu des Sentinelles p.24 Havana Harbor, Chad Valley Bird's p.25 Quinz Partout (eq. to Les 15), Radcliffe's Magic Hexagon p.26 C'est a Prendre ou a Laisser (Greco-Latin Square), Ivory Soap Bubble Puzzle, playing cards by Jacques Ozanam p.27 weaving - Les Anciennes Provinces de la France, Les Quatre Verites p.28 Le Berger Malin (The Lazy Shepherd - get 10 in each square) p.29; Le Fermier Avise, Le Nombre Treize (no pic) Bismarck's Puzzle, The Doctor on the Shelf pp.30,1 Cover the Red Spot p.32, Olympic Rings Perforated Disc p.33 Ten Spot Domino, Mayblox, Mystic Eight p.34 The Spots Puzzle (dissected Die) p.35 Sivy Farhi's Nonahuebe, Beat the Elf, Kolor Kraze pp.36,7 O'Beirne's Six Block: Six Step - Trevor Wood (read about O'Beirne's six-block cube), Coffin's Unhappy Childhood p.38 Nob's Cube p.39 N pentacube, T packing, Coffin's Pentacube pp.40,1 Take-Apart Puzzles Trick Matchboxes (Vestas) pp.44-49 Trick Locks pp.50-59 Van Houten's Padlock Puzzle (cardboard) p.55 Trick Knives pp.60-63 Trick Boxes pp.64-69 Interlocking Solid Puzzles Philippe Dubois Icosahedron Frequency 2 (120 pcs) p.70 7-piece Ivory Burr, 9-piece Ivory Burr p.72 3-piece burrs p.73 "OCC" 3-piece interlocking p.74 Dubois' Coubion Burr, Rhomak Burr p.75 Stewart Coffin pp.76,77 - General, Twelve Point, Rosebud p.77 Geoff Wyvill's Nova Plexus p.78, various aluminum burrs Kumiki pp.80-89 General Engineering & Design Double Cross Puzzle (6-pc burr) p.84 Dario Uri burr p.85 Gold Moon (1982 Epoch Co.), T-Dof, Perplexity p.85 Shackman Clown, Comic Man, etc. p.86 Kumiki crustaceans, pistols pp.87-9 Mag-Nif Deviled Egg, Fractured Fruit - Apple/Orange & Apple/Watermelon p.90 Lakeside Banana Split, Phony Baloney, Prankfurter, Fickle Pickles, Cheerios pp.90,1 Pacific Puzzle Co. sandwich 1992 p.91 Disentanglement Puzzles Edison Mazda Lamp, Hang the Kaiser, Weil Bros. Bear p.94 National Oats girl, Fairmont milk can, Jewel Stoves and Ranges p.95 Everett Piano, Michelin man & tire p.96 Irish Question, Jayne's Expectorant, Daisy Puzzle, Yankee Mystery p.98 Van Houten's Spider Web p.99 Rastus, Ivory Lotus, Ariel p.100 Ivory Boat p.101 Bovril, Chilean Puzzle p.102 Gardner Screw Corp. Bootlegger and His Flask p.103 Bild-a-Bike p.103 Houddene p.103 Hanging Strongman, Boot and Hand p.103 tangles from China pp.104,5 Sequential Movement Puzzles Fisherman's Puzzle (nails & string) p.106 Cannibals and Missionaries p.107 Ring-in-Plate mazes, Cross & Crown, Razzle Dazzle pp.108-9 Dorstrom Hub (fan blades) p.109 Queen's Jubilee p.109 Stivers' Panama Canal (copyright by J.H. Lynch) (eq. to mountain goats) p.110 Eight Pin Puzzle p.110 La Question Sino-Japonaise (eq. to mountain goats) p.111 Mazawattee Tea and Coffee (eq. to Fore and Aft) p.111 Octo/Okto, Le Disque, Jeu du Zig-Zag (all eq. to Eight-Point Puzzle aka Seven Knights) pp.112,3 L'Horologe Etoile (like 8-point, but 12 points) p.113 Selchow & Righter Spider Web (peg solitaire) p.114 peg solitaire p.115 Au Revoir, Do Svidania, White Eagle Mobil Gas p.116 United States, Mystic Six, Canama Panal (sliding piece) p.117 Blockado p.118 Daughter in a Box, Break Through the Defenses, Germain (all sliding block) p.119 The Premier Puzzle, Silver Label p.120 Hard Time Map, Jungle Gym (eq. to Ma's) p.121 Infant's (Hospital) Progress, Tit-Bits New Game Capture the Kaiser, Kapture the Kron Prinz p.122 1916 Presidential Puzzle, Put Hitler in the Doghouse, George Washington Puzzle p.123 various Rubik-style puzzles pp.124-7 Dexterity Puzzles Garden of Eden p.132 Donkey Puzzle 1897 p.133 Puzzle Vessels pp.136,7 Rabbiduck p.136 Impossible Objects pp.138-141 Solutions pp.142-147, including: Bild-a-Bike, Boot and Flask, St. Charles, Royal National Life-Boat, Daily Mail hexagons, OXO, Ten Spot Domino, Ivory Soap Bubble Puzzle, Mayblox, O'Bierne's Six Block, Unhappy Childhood, Mystic Eight, ...
	The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections Stewart T. Coffin An updated version of this book is hosted on-line at John Rausch's site. Geometric Puzzle Designs, shown below, is an even more recent update of this book. In the contents I show here, sections present only in GPD are enclosed in brackets. Some sections are revised, and a few are omitted in GPD. 1. 2D Dissections Jigsaws Tangram Other Tangram-like Puzzles (Anchor) Loculus of Archimedes Convex Tangrams Sam Loyd's 5-piece Square Dissection Geometrical Dissections Dudeney's Four-Piece Square/Triangle Checkerboards 2. 2D Combinatorial Puzzles Triangles as Building Blocks - Polyiamonds Squares as Building Blocks - Polyominoes Pentominoes More Checkerboards The Cornucopia Puzzle Hexagons as Building Blocks The Snowflake Puzzle [Misdirection-Type Puzzles] Square-Root Type Designs #176-A #177-A Housing Project Cruiser Few Tile (IPP18 Tokyo) - Drop-In? [Variations on Sliding Block Puzzles] Dad's Puzzle Butterfly Puzzle (IPP25) Window Pain Looking Glass The Decoy Drop-Out 3. Cubic Block Puzzles The 3x3x3 Cube The Diabolical Cube - Hoffmann Mikusinski's Cube - Steinhaus Soma Cube - Piet Hein Tetra-cubes and Penta-cubes enumerated The Half-Hour Cube The Solid Tetrominoes The Solid Pentominoes A Checkered Pentacube Puzzle (Unhappy Childhood) Polycubes in General Rectangular Blocks Slothouber-Graatsma Puzzle Conway's Packing Puzzle The Patio Block Puzzle 4. Interlocking Block Puzzles Cubic Block Puzzles [The Involute Puzzle] The Convolution Puzzle The Three-Piece Block Puzzle 5. The Six-Piece Burr The 25 Notchable Pieces Burr No. 305 Difficulty Index and Burr No. 306 Higher-level Burrs and Bill's Baffling Burr Peter Marineau's [Piston] Burr 6. Larger (and Smaller) Burrs Symmetry The Three-Piece Burr Problem Practical 12-Piece Burrs The Altekruse Puzzle Variations of the Altekruse Puzzle The Pin-Hole Puzzle The Corner Block Puzzle A 24-Piece Burr - Pentangle's Squirrel Cage 7. The Diagonal Burr 8. The Rhombic Dodecahedron and its Stellations Theory of Interlock Stellations The Second Stellation The Four Corners Puzzle Color Symmetry The Second Stellation in Four Colors The Third Stellation in Four Colors 9. Polyhedral Puzzles with Dissimilar Pieces The Permuted Second Stellation The Permuted Third Stellation The Broken Sticks Puzzle The Augmented Second Stellation (aka 12-Point) Building Blocks The Augmented Four Corners Puzzle The Diagonal Cube Puzzle The Reluctant Cluster Puzzle 10. Intersecting Prisms The Hexagonal Prism Puzzle The Triangular Prism Puzzle The Star Prism Puzzle The Square Prism Puzzle The Three Pairs Puzzle 11. Puzzles That Make Different Shapes The Star of David Puzzle [All-Star] [Fusion-Confusion] A Puzzle in Reverse 12. Coordinate-Motion Puzzles The Expanding Box Puzzle [Combination Lock] [Vector Diagrams] The Rosebud Puzzle 13. Puzzles Using Hexagonal or Rhombic Sticks The Cuckoo Nest Puzzle [The Nine Bars Puzzle] A Triple-Decker Puzzle A Holey Hex Hybrid Notched Hexagonal Sticks - Hectix Notched Rhombic Sticks - [Twelve Piece Separation] 14. Split Triangular Sticks Scorpius The Dislocated Scorpius Puzzle The Scrambled Scorpius Puzzle [and Scrambled Legs] 15. Dissected Rhombic Dodecahedra The 10 Possible [Garnet] Pieces Two-Tiered Puzzles - [The Split Star] The Pennyhedron Puzzle 16. Miscellaneous Confusing Puzzles The Pseudo-Notched Sticks Puzzle [The Hectic Hexsticks] The Square Face Puzzle The Queer Gear 17. Triacontahedral Designs Thirty Pentagonal Sticks and Dowels Pentagonal Sub-Units Notched Pentagonal Sticks Notched Rhombic Sticks The Jupiter Puzzle [Saturn] The Dislocated Jupiter Puzzle A Scrambled Jupiter? The Dissected Triacontahedron 18. Puzzles Made of Polyhedral Blocks Truncated Octahedra (5-Piece Box Packing) Setting Hen??? Rhombic Dodecahedra The Leftover Block Puzzle (13-14) Substitution of Spheres The Four-Piece Pyramid Puzzle (design of pieces not shown) The Octahedral Cluster Puzzle 19. Intermezzo 20. The Two Tiers Puzzle (Garnet in Garnet) [20 is deleted in GPD] 21. Theme and Variations [The Peanut Puzzle] The Six-Part Invention The Eight-Piece Cube Puzzle (Pieces of Eight) More Variations The Pillars of Hercules Family 22. Blocks and Pins The Lollipop Puzzle 23. Woodworking Techniques
	Geometric Puzzle Design Stewart T. Coffin 2007 A.K. Peters This is an updated version of Stewart's classic "Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections." It contains some new material, including his "Involute" cube design.
	The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections CD-ROM Stewart T. Coffin A gift from Brett. In addition to "The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections" this CD-ROM contains the 1985 and 1992 editions of Stewart's Puzzle Craft. You can get a free copy of the 1992 edition of Puzzle Craft from the g4g4 site.
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	Puzzles Old and New Professor Hoffmann aka Angelo John Lewis The 1988 hardcover reprint by L.E. Hordern and Martin Breese Limited, of the original 1893 Frederick Warne and Co. edition. Find out more about the history of this book at Dalgety's Puzzle Museum. Click for an index compiled by Donald Knuth. Several other books on games and magic appeared under the byline of Professor Hoffmann, including the Illustrated Book of Patience Games, and Drawing Room Amusements (London, George Routledge, 1883). You can purchase some as e-books from Lybrary.com. Chapter I - Dexterity Chapter II - Mechanical, Trick, Secret Chapter III - Dissected or Combination Chapter IV - Arithmetical Chapter V - Word and Letter Chapter VI - Counters Chapter VII - Matchstick Chapter VIII - Wire Puzzles Chapter IX - Quibble or Catch Chapter X - Misc Chapter II describes 52 mechanical puzzles, many of the trick opening type... Barrel and Ball -- BP Dice Box (barrel) The Churn Cannon and Ball -- BP; has extra nozzle unscrew Cage and Ball -- BP; has rotating base Castle Money Box New Castle Money Box Brass Money Box Captive Six-Pence -- corian version Cannon & Cord Heart Puzzle Alliance (aka Victoria) Two Balls = Ox Yoke Ariel (base w/ two pillars, cord) Pen and Wheel Balls and Rings (crown) Chinese Ladder The Staff The Imperial Scale Sceptre (see Donay) Balls and Chain (see Donay) Four Keys -- BP Screw Box -- thin shell, press sides in to grip inner sleeve Ball and Three Strings Lighthouse -- BP Jubilee Puzzle Box Jubilee Penny -- hinged door on coin Invisible Gift Arabi Gun Psycho Matchbox -- the penny safe design Touch-Me-Not Matchbox -- pin prick Magic Drawer Matchbox -- double drawer trick Unique Matchbox -- move bottom plate to release top Surprise Matchbox -- prick, fake hinge New Brass Puzzle Matchbox -- cylinder, coin on top, counter-thread top unscrews Ne Plus Ultra Matchbox Sphinx Matchbox -- ne plus with a hinged side to lock the top Puzzle Snuff-Box New Puzzle Snuff-Box Puzzle Ball -- like ebony ball but no cuts Ebony Ball Puzzle Purse Puzzle Pocket-Knife Automatic Knife Double Ball and Ring Wedding Ring Box New Money Box Zulu Box -- brass magic trick equivalent New Persian Puzzle Magic Handcuff -- Chinese finger trap Key and Ring -- tip unscrews with wingnut New Egg of Columbus -- red, cone in base Chapter III describes 41 "Dissected or Combination" puzzles... The Anchor Puzzle (Kopfzerbrecher #8) The Tormentor Puzzle (Qualgeist #13) The Pythagoras Puzzle (#12) The Cross Puzzle (Kreuzspiel #10, also Lucky Puzzle, Kohner's Voodoo) The Circular Puzzle (Kreisraatsel #9) The Star Puzzle (Stern Raadsel) The Zigzag Square (12 pcs) The Extended Square The Octagon Puzzle The Patchwork Square The Two Squares (eq. to the Cut Out Puzzle) The Latin Cross Puzzle (5 pcs.) The Greek Cross Puzzle The Protean Puzzle The Caricature Puzzle (eq. to Kopfzerbrecher pcs) The Chequers Puzzle (14 pcs.) The Spots Puzzle The Endless Chain (La Chaine sans Fin) The Hexagon (5 pcs.) Eight Squares in One The Five Squares The Geometrical Square The Dissected Square (9 pcs. - form 3 squares or one large one) The Twenty Triangles (eq. to Mystic Wedge) The New Triangle (7 pcs.) The Japanese Square (10 pcs.) The Chinese Square (16 pcs.) The Yankee Square (11 pcs.) Another Cross Puzzle (eq. to Jeu de la Croix) The Carpenter's Puzzle No. 1 The Carpenter's Puzzle No. 2 The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle (divide a circle into two stool seats with holes) The Bonbon Nut Puzzle (burr) The Rattle Puzzle (burr) The Cross-Keys or Three-Piece Puzzle (OCC) The Nut (or Six-Piece) Puzzle (trad. 6-pc burr) The Fairy Tea-Table The Mystery The Diabolical Cube The Chinese Zigzag (3D jigsaw) The Man of Many Parts (Les Quatre Vagabonds) Chapter IV describes 112 Arithmetical puzzles... 7. A Simple Magic Square (Lo Shu) 8. The "Thirty-Four" Puzzle (Thinking Man's 34, 34 Skidoo) 9. The "Sixty-Five" Puzzle 10. The "Twenty-Six" Puzzle (4x4 w/ corners omitted) 28. The Captives in the Tower 54. The Tenth Man Out (circle of 30, leave 15) 55. The Ninth Man Out (circle of 30, leave 15) 56. The Three Travellers (river crossing) 57. The Wolf, the Goat, and the Cabbages 58. The Three Jealous Husbands 68. The Magic Cards (binary cards) 69. The Fifteen or Boss Puzzle 70. The Peg-Away Puzzle 72. The Royal Aquarium Thirteen Puzzle (eq. to Le Nombre Treize) Chapter VI describes 27 Puzzles With Counters... 13. (The Eight-Point Puzzle) 14. "Okto" (variant of 8-point) 17. The "Right and Left" Puzzle (mountain goats) 19. The "Four and Four" Puzzle (related to the 1915 PANAMA puzzle) 20. The "Five and Five" Puzzle 21. The "Six and Six" Puzzle 24. No Two in a Row (8 queens) Chapter VIII describes twelve tanglement puzzles... United Hearts -- eq. Uncle's Heart's Desire Triangle -- simple spiral, single gate Snake and Ring -- ring on spring Hieroglyph Interlaced Triangles -- Stumpy #2, Uncle's TriangleDangle Double Bow and Ring -- classic horseshoes Egyptian Mystery Ball and Spiral -- eq. La Bouteille Infernale Unionist -- eq. Claws Eastern Question -- eq. Hess F069 Handcuff -- four rings Stanley Chapter X describes 48 Miscellaneous Puzzles... The John Bull Political Puzzle (sliding counter) The Pig in the Sty (12-move jumping pegs) Hide and Seek (2-sided boxed maze) The Brahmin's Puzzle (Towers of Hanoi) Cardan's Rings (Patience) The Knight's Tour The Knotted Handkerchief Crossette Single-Stroke Figures The Balanced Egg. Another Method. Solitaire Problems Skihi (construction cards, pat. by Skihi Novelty Co. A Card Puzzle - arrange the four fives from a deck of cards, face up, so only four pips on each is visible. Another Card Puzzle - Graeco-Latin 4x4 using aces and face cards The Floating Corks - make seven corks float upright in a basin of water The Obstinate Cork Fixing the Ring The Treasure at Medinet (four piece version of Jeu des Manifestants / 8 Queens) The Four Wine-Glasses One Peg to Fit Three Holes (circle, triangle, square) The Balanced Pencil To Balance an Egg on the Point of a Walking Stick The Ashantee Horseshoe A Feat of Dexterity The Divided Square - cut a square into 5 equal squares The "Oval" Problem - draw an oval with just a compass The Floating Ball The Cut Playing Card - cut a hole in a playing card so a person can step through the hole The Mitre Puzzle - remove an isoceles-triangular one-fourth of a square, then divide the resulting "mitre" shape into four equal parts The Five Straws The Three Fountains The Two Dogs (same principle as Sam Loyd's Mules) Water Bewitched The Balanced Halfpenny The Balanced Sixpence Silken Fetters (classic two-person handcuffs challenge) The Orchard Puzzle The Cook in a Difficulty (La Question de la Marmite) The Devil's Bridge (La Pont du Diable) The Two Corks (grasp two corks and pull apart without entangling fingers) The Divided Farm The Conjurer's Medal (eq. to The Queen's Jubilee puzzle) The Maze Medal The Puzzle Key-Ring The Singular Shilling The Entangled Scissors The Penetrative Penny The Packer's Secret (Le Secret d'un Emballeur)
	Hoffmann's Puzzles Old and New (Centenary Edition) 1993 Edward Hordern
	Puzzles in Wood Edwin M. Wyatt Copyright 1928 The Bruce Publishing Company Fourth Printing 1939 Cut-Up "T" (=Pa's T) Cut-Up Cross (=Shackman What's Your Score Cross) Cut-Up Square 1 (=tangram) Cut-Up Square 2 (=Crestline Mystic Wedge) Impossible Area (8x8=5x13, as L'Echiquier Fantastique) Band-Sawed Sphere (=3D Jigsaw Sphere) Band-Sawed Square Prism (like Venus Key) Turned Box with Combination Lock Lid The Bewitching Cubes (=6-cube Instant Insanity) Shuffle Puzzle 1 (=15) Shuffle Puzzle 2 (=Dad's) Peg and Disc Puzzle (=Towers of Hanoi) The "Cross" Plug Puzzle (circle/plus/square plug) The "Wedge" Plug Puzzle (square/triangle/circle plug) A Steamed-Wood Puzzle Wood Fan Bottled Cross Savings Bank Three-Piece Cross (=Triple Cross) Three-Piece Burr Puzzle (another 3-piece burr) Six-Piece Burr (15 assemblies from 13 length-8 pieces: AJVTOYNFHDMBI) Diagonal Six-Piece Burr Nine-Piece Burr (=Marian's Puzzle?) The Cross Burr (12 pieces) The Twelve-Piece Burr Puzzle (=Altekruse) Fifteen-Piece Burr The Great Pagoda or Nineteen-Piece Burr Jackstraws Polyburr Built-Up Cube (=Kumiki Cube) The Grill (=Dovetail) Locked Links The Double Dovetail The Impossible Dovetail Joint (=Danzig's Dilemma but no lock) Double-Lock Dovetail Joint Two-Way Fanned Half-Lap Joint Wooden Log Chain Caged Balls The Magic Drawer The Mysterious Coin Purse (=Penny Safe) The Coin Bank Oriental Jewel Box with Secret Lock Secret Lock Tool Box Desk Companion with Secret Stamp Compartment Hidden Key-and-Lock Jewel Box
	Wonders in Wood (sequel to Puzzles in Wood) Edwin M. Wyatt Linden Publishing Inc. 1997 (orig. pub. 1946) The Tetrahedron or Triangular Pyramid (=2-piece pyramid) Nest of Toys (=nesting furniture) Three-Dimensional Jigsaw (like cowboy) Cut-Up Checkerboard (14 pieces) Six-Pointed Star Squaring Triangles (like Loculus of Archimedes) Built-Up Trapezoid Built-Up Square (=Egyptian Puzzle) Lost Area (13x13=8x21) Solitaire Marble Game Board Marbles in a Maze Solitaire Checkerboard (circular 13-hole) Fore and Aft (=Setko) Shuffle Box Number One (14 blocks) Shuffle Box Number Two (11 blocks) Double-Double Dovetail Joint Triple Dovetail Puzzle Double Cross (3-piece burr) Eighteen-Piece Double Cross (=Arjeu CT718 ?) Quadruple Burr The Snowflake (burr) Chestnut Burr Toy Chair Enchanted Dice (=6-cube Instant Insanity) Cross-Barred Ball Cage Concentric Spheres Wooden Pliers Scissors E Puzzle (imp. obj.) Wooden Valentine (imp. obj.) Draftsman's Dream Six-Piece Ball Puzzle Cocklebur The Floating Magnet The Mysterious Block (magic trick) The Lie Detector Fake Pop Gun Plugged Bottle (imp. obj.) Disappearing Coin Device (magic trick) Counterfeit Machine Dominoes String Puzzle (magic trick) Built-Up Turned Work Rope Border Marquetry Geometrical or Chip Carving
	100 Puzzles - How to Make and Solve Them Anthony S. Filipiak A. S. Barnes and Company New York 1942 I found one cheap, but it seems to be pretty rare. I've seen it going for anywhere from $70 to over $400. The dust jacket on mine is mostly intact and shows several puzzles which aren't even mentioned in the book! The Star and Crescent, Valspar, Boot and Hand, and U2 tanglements are all pictured but not discussed. The Kumiki motorcycle and tank aren't, either, but the cube and gun are. I suppose there is something to be said for modern truth-in-advertising laws. Shifting Block Puzzles - 19, 9, 5, 11, 15, 10, and 27 blocks Straight Line Peg Puzzles - Jumping, Flipping in Pairs Circle Peg Puzzles Checker Board Puzzles Checker Board String Puzzles Chinese Chess Board String Puzzles Glass Topped Box Puzzles Six Piece Burr Puzzle Wood Design Puzzles (Kumiki) Geometric Design Puzzles Miscellaneous Puzzles (incl. 4 Ace Puzzle like Katzenjammer, also an original bolt and washer)
	Mathematical Puzzles and Other Brain Twisters 100 Man Made Problems - How to Make and Solve Them Anthony S. Filipiak A. S. Barnes and Company New York 1942 Same contents as above.
	New Mathematical Pastimes Maj. Percy MacMahon Paul Garcia and Tarquin Reprints 2004 Reprinting of the Cambridge University Press 1930 Edition 2nd Impression www.mathsite.co.uk Part I - Pastimes Based Upon Simple Geometrical Forms Double-Six Dominoes Equilateral Triangles (4 colors in 3 compartments per triangle = 24 tiles; see Contack) Square Pastimes (3 colors in 4 compartments per square = 24 tiles) (5 colors in 4 compartments, no repetition = 30 tiles; if all must have a given color, then 24 tiles) Right-Angled Triangle Pastimes The Cube Pastime (6 colors all faces different = 30 cubes; MacMahon Colored Cubes / Mayblox) Pastimes Based Upon the Regular Hexagon (6 colors, always same pair at north and south = 24 tiles) Part II - The Transformation of Part I (Shaped Edges in Lieu of Colors) Part III - The Design of "Repeating Patterns" or Decorative Work
	Mathematical Recreations and Essays W.W. Rouse Ball (revised by H.S.M. Coxeter) Macmillan 11th ed. 6th printing 1973 Fourteen chapters: I. Arithmetical Recreations II. Arithmetical Recreations (continued) III. Geometrical Recreations IV. Geometrical Recreations (continued) V. Polyhedra VI. Chess-Board Recreations VII. Magic Squares VIII. Map-Colouring Problems IX. Unicursal Problems X. Kirkman's School-Girls Problem XI. Miscellaneous Problems XII. Three Classical Geometrical Problems XIII. Calculating Prodigies XIV. Cryprography and Cryptanalysis Some of my favorites: Geometrical Paradoxes (e.g. L'Echiquier Fantastique / L'Incroyable) p.84 triangular edgematch p.111 MacMahon color cubes p.112 Great Northern Puzzle (shunting) p.114 Chifu-Chemulpo (shunting) p.115 ferry-boat problems p.116 Third Problem with Pawns (e.g. Fore-and-Aft) p.124 The Eight Queens Problem p.165 Guarini's Problem (e.g. Knights Exchange on 3x3) p.188 Latin Squares and the Magic Card Square (e.g. Bali Buttons) p.189 Euler's Problem (The Seven Bridges of Koenigsberg) p.242
	Mathematical Snapshots Hugo Steinhaus Dover edition 1999 - reprint of 1983 edition - copyright 1950
	You can peruse Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles online at Ed Pegg's site. Also check Donald Knuth's index.
	Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Volume One ed. by Martin Gardner Dover Publications 1959 Hoop Snake p.15
	More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd ed. by Martin Gardner Dover Publications 1960 The Switch Problem (shunting) p.18
	536 Puzzles & Curious Problems Henry Ernest Dudeney 428pp. 1967 Charles Scribner's Sons ISBN-10: 0684717557 Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems Money Puzzles Age Puzzles Clock Puzzles Speed and Distance Puzzles Weight Puzzles Digital Puzzles Skeleton Puzzles Cryptarithm Puzzles Miscellaneous Puzzles Geometrical Problems Triangle, Square, and Other Polygon Puzzles Circle Puzzles Dividing-the-Plane Puzzles Plane Geometry Puzzles Solid Geometry Puzzles Dissection Puzzles Paper Folding Puzzles Moving Counter Puzzles Combinatorial and Topological Problems Magic Square Puzzles Magic Star Puzzles Liquid Pouring Puzzles Route and Network Puzzles Point Alignment Puzzles Map Coloring Puzzles Miscellaneous Combinatorial Puzzles Game Puzzles Domino Puzzles Match Puzzles Unclassified Puzzles Answers
	The 1917 book Amusements in Mathematics by the noted British Puzzler Henry Ernest Dudeney is available online to read or for free download at Project Gutenberg. I also have the softcover Dover edition, copyright 1970. Many fascinating topics of potential interest to the mechanical puzzle afficionado.
	Puzzles and Paradoxes Thomas H. O'Beirne Oxford University Press 1965 One More River to Cross False Coins and Trial Balances New Weighs With False Coins Jug and Bottle Department A Gamut of Geometry from A to Y Race-Track Problems and Legal Fictions Cubism and Colour Arrangements Gamesman, Spare That Tree "Nim" You Say, and "Nim" It Is Ten Divisions Lead to Easter Problematic Lies and Unexpected Truths A Christmas Cracker With 100 Birds
	Everybody's Illustrated Book of Puzzles Don Lemon Saxon 1890 Download this from The Internet Archive. "Don Lemon" is a pseudonym of Eli Lemon Sheldon who, according to Greg Frederickson in Dissections: Plane & Fancy, was an American mortgage broker posted in London. Sheldon was born in Michigan in 1848 and died in London in 1892.
	1929 Johnson Smith & Co. Catalogue Reproduction hardcover in slipcase, by Chelsea House Publishers 1970 The catalogue contains a zillion different novelty items and provides an interesting perspective on life during the early part of the 20th century. There are many puzzles offered for sale (163 by my count)... p.25 No. 3096 The Tennis Racquet Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX - pick it out) p.170 No. 2578 White City Puzzle Time Lock Safe #326 - $1 (OPN) p.170 No. 2579 White City Puzzle Safe #10 - $1.25 (OPN) p.170 No. 2580 Puzzle Pail Bank - 75 cents (OPN) p.171 No. 2577 New Puzzle Basket Bank - $1.50 (OPN) P.171 No. 2586 Automatic Dime Bank - 15 cents (OPN) p.174 No. 3055 Lovers Link - 10 cents (OPN - eq. to Chinese Finger Trap) p.188 No. 3667 The Three Nags Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.191 No. 3631 The Arcade Keyless Lock - 50 cents (OPN) p.191 No. 3632 The Clinch Keyless Lock - 25 cents (OPN) p.199 No. 3035 The Mysterious Cross - 15 cents (ASM - 5 pieces) p.221 No. 3027 The Bootlegger Hand Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.221 No. 3053 Combination Lock Puzzle - 15 cents (PAT - 4 dials, align to total 40 in all 16 columns) p.222 No. 3662 Heart and String Puzzle - 10 cents (TNG) p.226 No. 3060 The Great Nail Puzzle - 12 cents (TNG) p.228 No. 3099 Puzzle Picture Mirror - 10 cents (DEX - balls into holes) p.233 No. 3097 Nut and Bolt Puzzle - 35 cents (OPN) p.236 No. 3033 Checker Puzzle - 25 cents (ASM - aka Bug House) p.237 No. 3041 The Enchanted Bottle - 10 cents (Imp Bottle trick - will not lie down) p.238 No. 3341 Gravity Ball - 15 cents (DEX - blow into tube) p.241 No. 3051 Jockey Key Puzzle - 50 cents (OPN - get ring off key) p.241 No. 3044 Gordian Knots - 25 cents (INT - a multi-piece burr) p.244 No. 3073 Spider's Web Puzzle - 12 cents (TNG - ring in plate step maze) p.247 No. 3675 Pyramids Puzzle - 65 cents (SEQ - Gray Code - Towers of Hanoi) p.247 No. 3679 The Spoophem Puzzle - 10 cents (DEX) p.247 No. 3676 Faith, Hope, & Charity Puzzle - 15 cents(TNG) p.247 No. 3677 Spider & Flies Puzzle - 65 cents (DEX) p.247 No. 3678 See-Saw Puzzle - 65 cents p.248 No. 3688 Goofy Bugs - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3689 Goofy Hill - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3690 Goofy Cats - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3691 Goofy Spider - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3692 Goofy Golf - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3693 Goofy Luke - 35 cents (DEX) p.248 No. 3695 Zulu Chief Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3670 The Clock Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX - 70-74 under celluloid dome) p.249 No. 3671 The Whirl Dice - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3672 Pigs in Clover - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3673 The Spiral - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3674 The Ring Pin - 15 cents (DEX) p.249 No. 3003 The Four Ball Puzzle - 20 cents (DEX - get a ball in each corner) p.250 No. 3650 Star and Garter - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3651 The Snake Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG - cast 3 snakes) p.250 No. 3652 The Anchor Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG - cast anchors) p.250 No. 3653 Lucky Star - 15 cents (TNG - cast horseshoes w/ star) p.250 No. 3654 Fire Irons - 15 cents (TNG) (No. 3655 The Hearts Puzzle (cast hearts) appears on p.442) p.250 No. 3656 Salmon and Grid - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3657 Snake and Scissors - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3658 Sandow - 15 cents (TNG) p.250 No. 3659 Tango - 15 cents (TNG) p.251 No. 3023 Cabinet of 8 Puzzles - 65 cents (TNG - compendium) p.251 No. 3024 Cabinet of 15 Puzzles - $1 (TNG - compendium) p.251 No. 3168 Puzzle Barrel of Dice - 50 cents (OPN) p.252 Nos. 1-22 Collection of Wire Puzzles No. 1 - 12 cents each or all 22 for $2.50 (TNG) No. 1 Plate metal Horseshoes w/ 3rd shoe No. 2 Devil's Keys No. 3 Stars and Crescent No. 4 wire horseshoes - lightbulb loops No. 5 scissors (wire monkey) No. 6 (Le Bon Geolier design) No. 7 (TJ Conestoga Playmate design) No. 8 (The Lance design) No. 9 wire horseshoes - large loops No. 10 heart on trapeze No. 11 F017 G's No. 12 D023 Fooler design No. 13 3 witches (?) No. 14 F079 Over the Top No. 15 linked hearts No. 16 ring and 2 clips No. 17 No. 18 No. 19 No. 20 Elks No. 21 Devil's Claws No. 22 F069 double rings with straight handles p.253 Collection of Wire Puzzles No. 2 - 12 cents each or all 22 for $2.50 (TNG) No. 3005 wire monkey No. 3010 heart on trapeze No. 3011 2 G's No. 3012 Le Bon Geolier design No. 3014 Over the Top No. 3021 Devil's Claws No. 3022 F002 Pig Tail No. 3037 La Croix du Sud design No. 3038 horseshoes var. No. 3039 No. 3046 No. 3047 Stilts No. 3048 No. 3049 jacob's ladder chain (?) No. 3050 Porte Veine No. 3062 double trapeze No. 3065 ring on spring No. 3067 No. 3068 Bicycle No. 3069 ring and fetters No. 3070 C and U No. 3074 wire 3 snakes p.254 No. 3075 (6 piece burr) - 15 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3076 burr - 35 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3077 burr bank - 35 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3078 burr - 50 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3079 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3080 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3081 kumiki cube - $1 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3082 kumiki sphere - $1 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3083 kumiki egg - $1 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3084 kumiki apple - $1.50 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3085 double burr - 35 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3086 burr table - $1.50 (INT) p.254 No. 3087 burr - $1 (INT) p.254 No. 3088 burr - $1 (INT) p.254 No. 3089 burr (like Fancy Square design) - $1 (INT) p.254 No. 3090 kumiki coffee pot - (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3091 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3092 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.254 No. 3093 kumiki pear - $1.50 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3094 kumiki barrel - $1.50 (INT - Kumiki) p.254 No. 3095 burr - 75 cents (INT) p.256 No. 3061 Max and Fritz (linked keys) - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3043 Lucky Horseshoe - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3071 Stars and Crescent - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3032 Centrifugal Puzzle - 10 cents (DEX) p.256 No. 3664 cast ABC - 15 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3668 The Twin Links (ring and 2 clips) - 10 cents (TNG) p.256 No. 3666 Aeroplane Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3681 Shamrock Puzzle (3 wire snakes) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3683 Button Hook Puzzle (F024) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3684 The Chain Puzzle (chain on spiral) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3682 Devil's Keys (F026 Offset Keys) - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3020 Elk Horn Puzzle - 12 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3687 The Chilian Puzzle - 15 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3685 The Three Witches - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3662 Heart and String - 10 cents (TNG) p.257 No. 3686 The Triangle Puzzle (F029 Triangle and key) - 10 cents (TNG) p.258 No. 2042 The Fifteen Puzzle - 15 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.258 No. 3056,7,8 Puzzle Money Box - .5,.75,$1 (OPN) p.275 No. 3662 Heart and String - 10 cents (TNG) p.277 No. 3028 Teddy Bear Puzzle - 10 cents (TNG) p.277 No. 3031 Automobile Puzzle - 20 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.281 No. 3003 Four Ball Puzzle - 20 cents (DEX) P.312 No. 3171 Egg of Columbus - 15 cents (DEX - balancing ovoid) P.312 No. 3036 Chinese Ring Bar Puzzle (patience) - 15 cents (SEQ - Gray Code) p.399 No. 1031 New Book of 200 Puzzles - 10 cents (EPH - Book) p.427 No. 3029 Humdinger Puzzle - 25 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.433 No. 3665 The Four Ace Puzzle - 30 cents (PAT - Inst Insanity family) p.442 No. 3655 The Hearts Puzzle (cast hearts) - 15 cents (TNG) p.442 No. 3660 Mutt and Jeff - 10 cents (TNG) p.442 No. 3661 Over the Top - 10 cents (TNG) p.442 No. 3663 The Three Rings Puzzle (F010) - 10 cents (TNG) p.456 No. 4543 Flexible Key Ring - 15 cents (OPN) p.465 No. 3040 Diabolical Dice - 25 cents (ASM - dissected die) p.472 No. 2282 The Fakir Who Swallows Eggs - 25 cents (EPH - mechanical card) p.474 No. 3649 Furniture Puzzle - 35 cents (ASM - dissected block) p.475 No. 3065 Spiral Ring Puzzle (ring on spring) - 10 cents (TNG) p.476 No. 3664 cast ABC - 15 cents (TNG) p.476 No. 3668 The Twin Links - 10 cents (TNG) p.476 No. 3669 Puzzle Ring - 35 cents (TNG - puzzle ring) p.490 No. 3072 Pea and Pot Puzzle - 20 cents (DEX) p.573 No. 3064 Perplexity Puzzle - 20 cents (SEQ - Sliding) p.586 No. 3000 Rat Trap Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX) p.589 No. 2293 Puzzle Peg (cross solitaire) - 55 cents (SEQ - solitaire) p.595 No. 3066 Tantalizing Puzzle (F020 pat. Deck 1903)- 12 cents (TNG) p.599 No. 2585 The Dime Registering Bank - 35 cents (OPN) p.599 No. 3052 Jolly Ni**er Puzzle - 15 cents (DEX - pick it out) p.630 No. 2835 Puzzle Scissors - 35 cents (OPN) p.638 No. 2851 Miniature Golf Game - 35 cents (DEX) According to Slocum, I missed the following: No. 3063 Puzzle Padlock (OPN) No. 2943 Chinese Puzzle Purse (OPN) No. 3645 Puzzle Milk Bottle (OPN) No. 3030 Magnetic Puzzle (PAT)
Electives
The Oxford University Press Recreations in Mathematics series edited by David Singmaster includes the following books (I have found copies of each of them):   (1984) Mathematical Byways in Ayling, Beeling, and Ceiling - Hugh ApSimon (1985) The Ins and Outs of Peg Solitaire - John D. Beasley (1987) Rubik's Cubic Compendium - Erno Rubik, Tamas Varga, Gerszon Keri, Gyorgy Marx, Tamas Verkerdy (1986) Sliding Piece Puzzles - L.E. Hordern (1989) The Mathematics of Games - John D. Beasley (1990) The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections - Stewart T. Coffin (1990) More Mathematical Byways - Hugh ApSimon   There was also a book called "Recreations in Mathematics" by H. E. Licks (Helix?) published in 1917 by Van Nostrand. It is available as a PDF for free download here. I found this link at The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania. Subjects covered in the book include: The Fifteen Puzzle, Magic Squares, Geometric Fallacies (such as L'Echiquier Fantastique), Map Coloring, the Cells of the Honeybee, the Sun Dial, and the Diaphote hoax. Here are other links to free online books on the topic of Mathematical Recreations. Also take a look at free online books on Puzzles.
	Ap-Art - A Compendium of Puzzle Designs Stewart Coffin
	Puzzle Instructions and Ephemera Stewart Coffin
	Polyominoes Solomon W. Golomb Table of contents of the revised edition. Read about polyominoes at Mathworld. More from Jan Kok.
	Spiele mit Pentakuben Ekkehard Kunzell See Kunzell's website.
	Puzzle Master Solution Booklet for Wire Puzzles Copyright 2004 Puzzle Master Inc. Purchased in Montreal at Boutique Strategie. King Cobra Heart Breaker Handcuffs Iron Maiden "A" Puzzle Lion's Lair Jester Beetle Bug Wedding Vows The Rack Scorpion Mosquito Silent E Cupid's Dart Cowboy's Hobble Catacombs Fantastic Five Rat Race Black Widow Infinity Blue Knight Mirror Image Annihilator Sidewinder Man-O-War Anomaly Derringer Parallel Dimensions Scorpion's Sting Arrow Dynamics Tree Puzzle Missing: Butterfly's Revenge G Factor The Yak
	A Century of Checkerboard Puzzles Additional Checkerboard Puzzle Designs Jacques Haubrich
	Compendium of Card Matching Puzzles (volumes 1-3) and About, Beyond, and Behind Card Matching Puzzles Jacques Haubrich 1995, 1996, 2002
	The Glass Puzzle Answer Book Toyo Glass Contains solutions for the following Toyo Glass puzzles: Pack the Plums Pack the Rice Crackers Pineapple Delight A-Maize-Ing Pack the Orange Java Tea On The Rocks Hole in One Cross Cross Tongari-Kun and Roppongi Super Cross Assembling Puzzle ... (I have omitted impossible object, tanglements, dexterity, solitaire, vanishes) ... Red All Through Checkers Pile'Em Up (Six Pieces) Starry Skies Pile'Em Up Orange Happy Hearts Green Grocer Animal Land Bill Cutler's Bin Cross Bottleneck Magical Bottle Bolt & Nut Magical Bottle Double Super Sliding Puzzle Sixteen Sadly, no solution for Packed in Tokyo or Peanuts.
	Compendium of Over 10500 Wire Puzzles Seventh Edition Dec. 2003 Richard I. Hess
	The Collector's Guide to Cluster Puzzles of the 1960s and 1970s Kelvin Palmer
	The Tangram Book Jerry Slocum
	The 15 Puzzle Jerry Slocum
	Puzzles from Catel's Cabinet and Bestelmeier's Magazine 1785 to 1823 Jerry Slocum and Dieter Gebhardt
	Compendium of Mechanical Puzzles from Catalogs 1785 to 1946 Jerry Slocum First Ed. Sept. 1977, Corrected and Revised 2006 46 pp. Put-Together Cross, Mysterious Cross, Five Block, Zany, FourAce, Katzenjammer, Allies Flag, Combination Lock, Diabolical Dice, Eclipse, Puzzle Ring Take-Apart various Hoffmann, Indian Ball, Imp Bottle, Dice Barrel, Takitapart, Hello, White City Pail Interlocking Disentanglement Cast: Star and Garter, Lucky Star, Tango, Snake and Scissors, Salmon and Grid, Three Snakes, Ring and Plate, Keys, Loop the Loop, Faith/Hope/Charity, Elk, Hearts, Three Nags, Aeroplane, ABC, Fire Irons, Anchor, Sandow Wire: Stars and Crescent, Bootlegger, Triangle (F029), Button Hook (F024), Claws, C and U, Three Witches, Doggie, Heart and String, Teddy Bear, Chinese Ladder, Jolly Ni**er Sequential Movement Peg Solitaire, 15, Humdinger, Bramah, Automobile, Perplexity, Bootlegger and His Flask, Boo Bogey Mans Dexterity Journet, Trench Football, Query, Mountain Climber, Bughouse, Ring Pin, Quintuplets Miscellaneous Boxes of Assorted Puzzles Catalog References
	The Puzzle Arcade 1996 Klutz Jerry Slocum A fun, portable, self-contained puzzle kit - including all the actual puzzles: The Button-hole Killer Pencil Playing Card Puzzle Sam Loyd's Mules (get two riders on two mules) The Richter Cross The Wheel of Disappearing Pirates (Get Off the Earth) Illusion Puzzles The Wired Heart The Pyramid Heads & Tails Puzzle (Edge Matching) Stick Puzzles (Matchstick figures & transformations) The Bulldog (String through holes) The Broken Heart (Ox-Yoke) The Trapdoor Maze (clever multi-page maze with holes in pages) Picture Puzzles a bonus I-Spy-type puzzle inside the back cover
	Matchstick Puzzles Jack Botermans
	Coin Games and Puzzles Maxey Brooke Dover Publications 1973 originally published as "Fun For the Money" by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1963
	Dissections: Plane & Fancy Greg N. Frederickson Cambridge University Press 1997
	Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting Greg N. Frederickson Cambridge University Press 2002
	Geometric Dissections Harry Lindgren
	The Jigsaw Puzzle Anne D. Williams
	Antologica Berrocal
	Jerry Slocum's Directory of Puzzle Collectors & Puzzle Sellers 5th Ed. June 2003 Jerry Slocum
	Puzzletts Saga 1 Puzzletts (Mike Green)
R. Journet & Company. A Brief History of the Company & its Puzzles James Dalgety See the Journet section on my dexterity page.
	George Hardy is an expert on Anchor Stone building blocks and puzzles. You can download a copy of George's book Richter's Anchor Stone Building Sets, which includes some info about the Anchor puzzles, from ankerstein.de.
	The Circle Puzzler's Manual Doug Engel Doug's Circle Puzzler's Manual is hosted online at Jaap's Puzzle Page.
	Neo Sliding Block Puzzles A spiral bound compendium (two parts combined into one booklet) I bought from Serhiy Grabarchuk at IPP28 in Prague
	The IPP28 Souvenir Book
	The Art of the Puzzle A catalogue from a past exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art
Extra Credit
	Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 4, 2nd Ed. 2004 Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy Purging Pegs Properly - Peg Solitaire Pursuing Puzzles Purposefully - Soma, Wire and String, Rubik's Cube, Sliding Block What Is Life? - Conway's Game of Life
	The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler Ed. by Berlekamp and Rogers I have this as an e-book. You can get it free from the G4G4 site. The contents are now available on the G4G Wiki site as individual PDF files. A subset of the contents... A Maze With Rules - Robert Abbott - Visit Abbott's website. O'Beirne's Hexiamond - Richard K. Guy - describes a solution classification method (e.g. Tenyo #6) The Japanese Tangram: The Sei Shonagon Pieces - Shigeo Takagi Polly's Flagstones - Stewart Coffin Those Peripatetic Pentominoes - Kate Jones Self-Designing Tetraflexagons - Robert E. Neale The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle - Stewart Coffin (aka Possibly Impossible) Metagrobolizers of Wire - Rick Irby Beautiful But Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle - Scot Morris Cube Puzzles - Jeremiah Farrell The Nine Color Puzzle - Sivy Fahri (see Kolor Kraze) Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle - Edward Hordern (invented by Dario Uri) Planar Burrs - M. Oskar van Deventer (Nine and One-Half Moves - see Buffalo Nickel) Block-Packing Jambalaya - Bill Cutler (also on Cutler's website) Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and Physical Objects Related to Puzzles - James Dalgety and Edward Hordern Hollow Mazes - M. Oskar van Deventer (Wedge of Wallis, see Oskar's Cube in the Route-Finding section)
	Puzzlers' Tribute - A Feast for the Mind David Wolfe, Tom Rodgers Eds. A. K. Peters Ltd. 2002 A subset of the contents... The Eng Coin Vise - Gary Foshee David Klarner's Pentacube Towers - C. J. Bouwkamp A Scrub Tile Puzzle - Tom Rodgers (Petersen graphs) "Impossible Foldings" - Luc De Smet Diabolical Puzzles from Japan - Nob Yoshigahara, Mineyuki Uyematsu, Minoru Abe (incl. Minoru's sliding block puzzles) How to Outwit the Parity - Serhiy Grabarchuk Inflated Pentominoes - Rudolfo Kurchan Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle - Robert J. Lang (origami version of diagonal star) A Classification of Burrs - Bill Cutler Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s - Jerry Slocum and Rik van Grol The Partridge Puzzles - Robert Wainwright (see an example in my Packing section) The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares - Barry Cipra Shadows and Plugs - Gwen Roberts Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting - Yoshiyuki Kotani
	Tribute to a Mathemagician Edited by Barry Cipra, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Tom Rodgers A. K. Peters Ltd. 2005 A subset of the contents... Nob Yoshigahara - Jerry Slocum (In Memoriam) Chinese Ceramic Puzzle Vessels - Norman L. Sandfield Mongolian Interlocking Puzzles - Jerry Slocum and Frans de Vreugd (see the Sphinx/Turtle puzzle in the Interlocking section) Fold-and-Cut Magic - Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine The Three-Legged Hourglass - M. Oskar van Deventer Sliding-Coin Puzzles - Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine A History of the Ten-Square - A. Ross Eckler (word squares - see the journal Word Ways) Polyform Patterns - Ed Pegg, Jr. Another Pentomino Problem - Solomon W. Golomb Polyomino Number Theory (III) - Uldis Barbans, Andris Cibulis, Gilbert Lee, Andy Liu, Robert Wainwright The Panex Puzzle - Mark Manasse, Danny Sleator, Victor K. Wei, Nick Baxter The Complexity of Sliding-Block Puzzles and Plank Puzzles - Robert A. Hearn (PSPACE-completeness, sliding-block logic gates) also see another paper, by Hearn and Demaine (PDF) also see U.S. patent 3216558 - Marsh 1965, and Kagen Schaefer's Block Box also see ref. "Sliding Block Puzzles" in the Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American by Martin Gardner also see this FAQ on the NP-completeness of Minesweeper also see David Eppstein's page on the Computational Complexity of Games and Puzzles also see the Wikipedia entry on Complexity Class Hinged Dissections: Swingers, Twisters, Flappers - Greg N. Frederickson Rolling Block Mazes - M. Oskar van Deventer
	The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science A. K. Dewdney 480pp. 1993 Owl Books ISBN-10: 0805071660
	The Tinkertoy Computer A. K. Dewdney 238pp. 1993 W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN-10: 071672491X
Shop Class
	A Compendium of Cube-Assembly Puzzles using Polycube Shapes Kevin Holmes, Rik van Grol This great little book catalogues the designs of various puzzle cubes assembled from polycube pieces. With a set of LiveCube and this book, one can have fun for months! There are 40 3^3, 81 4^3, 16 5^3, and 20 6^3 puzzles described. You can find this book and others at Frank Potts' site Potty Puzzles. Selected contents below... 3^3 The Diabolical Cube The Nine Tricubes (9 non-convex tricubes) Conway's Cube - 6x 1x2x2 + 3x 1x1x1 Mikusinski's Cube (aka the Steinhaus Cube) Nob's Cube Stewart Coffin's Half Hour Cube Coffin's Quartet Piet Hein's The Soma Cube The Impuzzables Cotway's Cube - 6x N-tetracube + 3x 1x1x1 Adrian Fisher's The Minotaur Cube Coffin's Quintet Kolor Kraze Twice Dice The Spots Cube 4^3 Trevor Wood's Holey Squares Cube Stewart Coffin's Convolution The Bedlam Cube Mayer's Cube No. 1 (model 9B) Mayer's Cube No. 2 (model 7B) Mayer's Cube No. 3 (model 10C) King's Court Two sets of the eight tetracubes Martin Watson's The Dutch Cubist Abraxis The Tetrepeat Cube - Holmes The Eclecticube - Holmes 5^3 Conway's 17-piece packing cube Conway's Blocks in a Box 25 Y pentacubes 25 N pentacubes Stewart Coffin's Wookey Hole Pfaffinger No. 208 Pfaffinger No. 646 Watson's Wormhole 6^3 Bill Cutler's Splitting Headache Cubic Equation No. 1 - (similar to Pentangle's 3456 Pythagoras Revisited) 54 N-tetracubes 54 T-tetracubes The full set of 35 planar hexacubes plus one additional planar hexacube assmble to a 6^3. Not every planar hexacube can serve as the extra.
	Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles Self & Lensch
	New Wood Puzzle Designs James W. Follette Here is a link to an article on Follette at woodcentral.com, with some nice photos.
	All Screwed Up John Berkeley
	Rose and Twinkleberry's Guide to Building Your Own Puzzles Using Lego Building Blocks 2001 Doug Walker Put-Together - Polyominoes, Checkerboard, ... Sequential Movement - Sliding Block, Peg Solitaire, ...
	The Puzzle Action Pack
	3D Puzzles - 10 Classic-Style Sculptural Puzzles to Cut and Construct & Solve 1989 Alan Robbins
	Paper Capers 122pp. Jack Botermans 1986 Henry Holt ISBN-10: 0805001395 See some folded cards here.
	Fast & Funny Paper Toys You Can Make 1991 E. Richard Churchill
	M.C. Escher Kaleidocycles Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker I actually have a folio which includes the 1977 edition and the cardboard sheets. Here is a link to a nice website about Kaleidocycles.
	Magic Arrow Tile Puzzles Ivan Moscovich
	Puzzling Reflections Ivan Moscovich 1990 Tarquin Publications
	The Mirror Puzzle Book Marion Walter Tarquin 1986 ISBN 0906212391
Psych. 101
	The Paradoxicon 1983 Nicholas Falletta
	The Paradox Box Patrick Hughes ISBN: 1870003616 (Redstone) ISBN-10: 0877739412 (Shambala 1993) ISBN-10: 1570625123 (Shambala 1999) Redstone Press (Julian Rothenstein), with Shambala Publications I have the box with cards.
	Can You Believe Your Eyes 1992 J. Richard Block and Harold Yuker
	Great Book of Optical Illusions More Optical Illusions Masters of Deception Ambiguous Optical Illusions Al Seckel Visit Al Seckel's home page. It's not Seckel's site, but you have to check out the "Rotating Snakes" illusion on Akiyoshi Kitaoka's page. It is by far the best rotational movement illusion I have seen!
	The Magic Show Mark Setteducati, Anne Benkovitz Workman Publishing N.Y. Check out Mark's site.
	Optical Trix 'n' Kicks 2003 Red Bird Publishing Ltd. A large folio containing several optical illusions and curiosities. instruction booklet 2 pairs of red/green 3-d glasses a poster with 3-d image of midtown Manhattan, and a dinsoaur 8 two-sided cards of invertible heads a flip-book 4 cards to make pencil-tops 21 optical illusion cards a pair of the classic "which is bigger" arcs a pair of finger-tip balancing butterflies seat-the-riders a 3-piece vanish puzzle a 16-card never-ending mural a booklet of hand-shadow puppets 4 large mazes 9 3-d mazes, including a jigsaw
	Five Star Mind 1995 Tom Wujec
Rubik-ology
	The Simple Solutions to Cubic Puzzles 1981 James G. Nourse Pyraminx Missing Link Barrel Rubik's Magic Snake Picture Cube Octagon Ranking the Puzzles Other Puzzles (e.g. Whip-It, Varikon)
	Puzzle It Out
	The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube 1981 James G. Nourse
	The Winning Solution 1982 Minh Thai
	How To Solve Rubik's Revenge 1982 Jeffrey Adams
	The Official Solution to Alexander's Star 1982 Adam Alexander
	Unscrambling The Cube 1980 M. Razid Black and Herbert Taylor
	Inside Rubik's Cube and Beyond 1982 Christoph Bandelow Other Magic Polyhedrons Meffert's Pyraminx
	Notes on Rubik's Magic Cube 1981 David Singmaster
	Adventures in Group Theory David Joyner
	Rubik's Puzzles 1999 Albie Fiore
	The Cube Black Dog & Leventhal 2009 Jerry Slocum, et. al.
Additional Reading
	Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities Ian Stewart
	Dictionary of Mathematical Games, Puzzles, and Amusements Harry Edwin Eiss Copyright 1988 Greenwood Press
	The Puzzle Instinct Marcel Danesi Copyright 2002 Indiana University Press
	1000 Play Thinks Ivan Moscovich 2001 Workman Publishing Co. Inc. NY large format, spiral bound, 420 pp. Nick Baxter proofread the book and has an errata sheet online. The book contains 1000 puzzles (surprised?) - I will mention some below as I run across those that I believe may be of particular interest to mechanical puzzlers... #8 - Consecutive Rectangle Squares #12 - Arrow Number Boxes; see #416 for the inversion of this #52 - Colored Dodecagons (edgematching) #55 - Convex Tangrams #56 - Domino Patterns #61 - Fault-Free Square #205,206 - The Tree Game #219 - Serpent #227 - (= Mattel Profound Round) #231 - Crescents of Hippocrates - This brings to mind a potential dissection puzzle - can the two crescents be dissected into pieces that can be re-assembled into the triangle? According to Greg Frederickson, it's not possible because of the curves. #283 - Packing Box #348 - Fitting Shapes #386 - Mathemagic - In the section that covers magic, Latin, and Greco-Latin squares. I've seen this as a physical puzzle - I don't have it but it's easy to try on paper. Arrange the eight numbered blocks in the tray so that no consecutive numbers adjoin each other orthogonally or diagonally. The picture does not show a solution. #389 - Strip Tease - equal to More Madness and Bird's Puzzle #397 - Magic Triangle I #400 - Magic Color Shapes - a special problem using Bali Buttons p.155 - Order-10 Greco-Latin Square #414 - Octopuzzle 2 - like Mattel Block Shock #417 - Cubes in Perspective 2 - a 25-tile edgematching #425 - Color Triangles 1 - MacMahon #432 - Hexagons 1 - edgematch like Adams #435 - Abdul Wefa's 9-piece three squares to one dissection #437 - Square Dissected 20 - Mystic Wedge #439 - 6-piece three squares to one #470 - Perigal's Puzzle - prove the Pythagorean Theorem #470 - Pythagorino #477 - Rectangling Circle - sand-dollar to rectangle p.182 - Packing Unit Squares
	The Think Tank Ivan Moscovich
	Super-Games Ivan Moscovich
	The New Puzzle Classics Serhiy Grabarchuk Sterling 2005 ISBN 1402717420
	PuzzleGrams
	More PuzzleGrams
	Pentagames
	Lab Mice Puzzles Volumes 1 & 2 Tom Cutrofello Check out Tom Cutrofello's new website, Gotta Solve It, home of Lab Mice puzzles. (Try some samples.) Tom organizes the annual New York Puzzle Party. Martin Watson made me aware of this online puzzle called 3D Logic which I think is a kind of 3D version of the Lab Mice idea.
	Amazing Backseat Book-a-ma-thing Klutz Staff Scholastic U.S. 1998
	Collector's Digest Dexterity Games 1995 L-W Book Sales 1995
	Merlin's Puzzle Pastimes Charles Barry Townsend
	After Dinner Tricks and Puzzles
	Toys and Games From Times Past... and Still Enjoyed Today George Rice Historical Folk Toys 2004 I bought this as a souvenir from our visit to Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine.
	Ancient Puzzles Dominic Olivastro 280pp. 1993 Bantam Books ISBN 0553372971 Introduction The First Etches The Ishango Bone 9000/11000/20000BP The Entrance Into All Obscure Secrets The Rhind Papyrus 1800BC On A Temple Roof The Temple of Kurna 1400BC - Pentalpha, Mill To Measure the Heavens Nine Chapters - China 200BC Bhaskara - Lilavati - Behold Tangrams On a Turtle Shell Magic Square - Lo Shu - 400BC Albrecht Durer - Melencolia I - 1514 Pandiagonal Squares Speak, Who Can Alcuin of York ca 800AD river crossing problems 17,18,19 Tartaglia (Niccolo Fontana) - measuring wine 3,5,8 -> 4,4 - ca 1500AD Leofric Bishop of Exeter - ribald riddles I Was Regarded With Astonishment Abu Kamil - Book of Precious Things - 900AD al-Khowarezmi - Algebr w'al-Mugabala Archimedes - The Number of the Cattle of the Sun The Merhcants of Pisa and the Digits of the Hindus Liber Abaci - Fibonacci 1202AD coin weighing problems Graphs and Puzzles Bridges of Koenigsberg - Euler Walk Postscript
	New Media Puzzle Workout Scott Kim
	More Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Brain Teasers Stan Gibilisco
	Even More Puzzicles Alan Robbins
	The Ultimate Book of Puzzles, Mathematical Diversions, and Brainteasers Erwin Brecher
	Second Miscellany of Puzzles Mathematical and Otherwise Stephen Barr The Macmillan Company 1969 First Printing
	Puzzles, Perplexities & Obfuscations George Hardy
	Dr. Broth and Ollie's Brain-Boggling Search for the Lost Luggage 2000 Michael Abrams, Jeffrey Winters
	The Lady or the Tiger? 1982 Raymond Smullyan
	Masquerade Kit Williams There have been several "books as puzzles" - this and the following three are some of the better-known (surely not the only?) ones. Here is a link to a page-by-page solution.
	The Eleventh Hour Graeme Base
	The Egyptian Jukebox Nick Bantock
	Maze - Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle 1985 Christopher Manson Play the Maze book on-line!
	The Rails I Tote Christopher Manson
	Animalia Graeme Base A lavishly illustrated abecediary. The pictures took 3 years to complete. Each contains numerous, and often hard-to-spot, items whose names begin with the letter in question. An "I-Spy" type puzzle for each letter, but with no list of items - you'll be discovering new ones with each re-reading - either with your kids or on your own. In addition, a boy hides in each picture - pre-dating the less-artistic "Where's Waldo."
	MENSA Logic Puzzles
	Wordplay John Langdon
	The Amazing Book of Mazes Adrian Fisher
	Secrets of the Maze Adrian Fisher
	Mind Boggling Mazes and Loopy Labyrinths Klaus Eid, et al
Foreign Language Studies
	Hlavolamy This beautiful Czech book is an expanded edition based on Slocum and Botermans' Puzzles Old and New.
	Petits Jeux et Casse Tete de la Belle Epoque (Small Games and Puzzles of the Golden Age) Yves Rifaux Haute - Savoie ISBN 2910067173 144pp. Seems to be available from Amazon France. A softcover book with black and white pictures (pictures are poor photocopy quality). Devoted to a listing of over 130 French boxed puzzles of several varieties which were manufactured during the period from 1878 to 1914, most of them by the five Paris-based firms: [Charles]Watilliaux Mauclair et Dacier Nicolas et Keller Simonin Cuny Revenez et Tabernat Also mentions the firms: Fernand Nathan, N. K. Atlas, Saussine, Jeux et Jouets Francais, Wogue et Levy, Perret, Delhaye Freres, Villard et Weill, and L. Baudot. Accompanied by four loose addendum sheets dated June 1990, December 1993, June 1996, and January 2000, which bring the total number of puzzles covered to over 200. Also accompanied by four cards printed with cut-out puzzles including: Fend-L'Air et Pegase (seat two riders on two mules), Le President Loubet, Les Quatre Vagabonds, and Un Sage dans les Nuages. Rifaux categorizes the puzzles into eight basic classes, and also assigns some to "combination" classes: A - dexterity puzzles (Jeux d'Adresse) - by far the largest class I - logic puzzles (Casse-Tete Intellectuels) FM - wire puzzles (Casse-Tete en fil de fer) T - tactical problems, e.g. sequential movement (Problemes de tactique) D - prediction/divination games C - games of chance E - educational games AM - unclassifiable diversions
	Mechanical Puzzles 130 92pp. pub. 2006 by "Three Guess Corp." and Kodansha ISBN 4063171647 I ordered mine from the Yamanaka Kumiki Works. Amazon Japan also has it. Part 1. 組み合わせパズル - Put-together Puzzles Part 2. 開けるパズル - Take-apart Puzzles Part 3. はずして組むパズル - Interlocking Puzzles Part 4. ほどくパズル - Hodoku Pazuru - Disentanglement Puzzles Part 5. ー連の動きのパズル - Sequential Movement Puzzles Part 6. その他のパズル - Impossible Objects and Miscellanies
	Cube Puzzle Reader Akiyama 239pp. Pub. 2004 by New Era Corp. ISBN 4775302841 Amazon Japan has it. ways to flatten a cube; cube cross-sections; dice; magic squares; The Mystic Eight puzzle; shortest path; cube penetrations; sugar cubes; resistor networks The Diabolical Cube; chart of #'s of n-ominoes, tri-ominoes, tetrominoes; Slothouber-Graatsma puzzle; Mikusinski Cube; Kev's Cubic Equation; The Spots Puzzle; colored cubes; Instant Insanity; The Allies Flag puzzle; MacMahon's Colored Cubes; Conway's matrix jigsaws; magnetic globe jigsaw; chinese zigzag puzzle; Mag-Nif; chart of #'s of planar polyominoes; pentominoes; Back in the Box; checkerboard puzzles; Tangram; Soma; The 15 puzzle; Piet Hein's Qrazy Qube and other 3-D sliding block puzzles; picture slice and cube puzzles; edge-matching puzzles; Knot So Easy, Perplexing Python; Mazes assembly puzzles (woody cube? hook cube?); Mine's Cube in Cage 333; Rubik's Bricks; Dean Hoffman's Sugar Cube puzzle; Anti-Slide; rolling cube puzzles; eight queens; paper chains; flexagons; Ivan Moskovich's Puzzling Reflections split cubies; Pieces of Eight; Nob's Neverending; Naef Gemini; platonic solids six-piece burr; kumiki burrs; cage burrs; Synergistics Kiss and Love cubes; Happy Cubes; Snafooz; Crazy Cube; velcro cubes; cube snakes; Happy Cubes (Adult Games); secret boxes; log stacking / crossed sticks matchstick assembly; plate burrs; staples cube; unit Origami; weaving; string lattices; Hiroshi Endoh Gadget Box Rubik's Cube & relations folding cubes; kaleidoform; stacking nested boxes; inside-out sponge figures; snap-open cubes; impossible illusion bank; Juno's spinner (like Hoberman); impossible objects
	Picture and Shape Puzzle Reader Akiyama 227pp. Pub. 2005 by New Era Corp. ISBN 4775304127 Amazon Japan has it.
	Tanglements Reader Akiyama 183pp. Pub. 2003 by New Era Corp. ISBN 4775301705 Amazon Japan has it.
	Super Difficult Mathematical Puzzles Nobuyuki Yoshigahara 174pp. Pub. 2002 by Kodansha ISBN 4062573776 Amazon Japan has it. An English-language translation called Puzzles 101 - A Puzzlemaster's Challenge is available.
	Happiness Cube Miyabe 79pp. Pub. 2006 by New Wind Building ISBN 4797437995 Amazon Japan has it. See many Happiness Cube designs at Yukiyasu Sekoguchi's website.
	50 Puzzles - Chinese wire puzzle book. Illustrated solutions to many common designs. 2005 ISBN 7-5441-2864-4 No English, but illustrations are self-explanatory. Purchased from Mr. Puzzle Australia.
	The Amazing Rope-Rings - Illustrative Designs of 50 Intellectual Rope-Ring Toys Wang Zong Yi Shenyang Press 2003 ISBN 7-5441-2256-5 230pp. Includes English translations. Purchased from Mr. Puzzle Australia. Cover price $18US.
Books from the Karakuri Club:

Martin Gardner merits his own section. There are a lot of web resources devoted to Gardner:

• Start with the g4g4 website.
• Then look at the Gathering 4 Gardner Wiki.
• David Langford's nice list of contents in each book.
• Carl Lee's list of contents in Martin Gardner's books.
• Carl Lee's index - find where a particular problem is discussed.
• Torsten Silke's index
• Seth David Schoen's Gardner bibliography.

Books I own by Martin Gardner:

All of Martin Gardner's Recreational Mathematics columns are now available on a CD-ROM. (I don't have it, yet.)

Some Flexagon resources:

• Jurgen Koeller's great site
• Hexaflexagon Toolkit at Sourceforge
• A list of books about flexagons
• A 3-D hexaflexagon of tetrahedrons, at EnchantedLearning
• Kaleidocycles
• Antonio C. M. de Queiroz
• David King's Flexagons site
• Moote Points gallery
• Origami Heaven
• The 12-gon
• Build Your Own Polyhedra book

More Puzzle Book Lists Out in the Aether...

• Dan Garcia
• Math Pro Press
• Matti Linkola
• George Helm's list of sources of Rubik-type puzzle solutions
• Magic Squares site (not a list per se)
• covehurst.net - a nice survey of math and science books
• cut-the-knot
• on-line Chapter 4 of "Engineer Through the Looking Glass" (PDF)