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The Book of Modern Puzzles by Gerald Lynton Kaufman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Book of Modern Puzzles about?
More than 100 fascinating puzzles comprise this collection by a master puzzle-maker. Here are puzzles involving logic, for beginners and advanced fans alike — not the old-time variety but the kind of ultra-modern material that scores a hit at parties, supplies fun and recreation for travelers, and provides the ideal gift for vacationers and young people going to summer camp. Eight full chapters guarantee lots of fun and mental exercise. There are puzzles involving words, sentences, bull's-eye patterns. Dianagrams, design, drawing, playing cards, jabberwocky, observation, imagination, and intelligence tests. There are intriguing brain-teasers to suit every taste — scrambled headlines, alphabet soup, lap-words, crisscross dots, linking rings, murples and quallies, mixed sticks, pierced word cards, Funnels of Death, Blood and Gold. Zodiac, and a hundred others. The book progresses from fairlv easy to difficult, with hints and diagrams to help with the latter sections. A separate chapter contains detailed answers to all puzzles. “Will keep the most avid fan scratching his head for weeks,” Retail Bookseller. “The finest of the modern puzzle books and the most up-to-date . . . highly rec
Who reads The Book of Modern Puzzles?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerald Lynton Kaufman
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 1954
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486201436
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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