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Puzzles Old and New (Professor Hoffmann's) by Professor Hoffmann (1839-1919) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Natural History of the Puzzle has yet to be written. It is a plant of very ancient growth, as witness the riddle of the Sphinx, solved by Edipas, and the enigma wherewith Samson confounded his Philistine adversaries. Homer is said by Plutarch to have died of chagrin at being unable to guess a riddle; and folklore abounds in instances where the winning of a princess, or the issue of some perilous adventure, is made to depend upon success in solving some puzzle, verbal or otherwise. In more modern times grave mathematicians, like Cardan and Euler, have not disdained to employ their leisure in the fabrication of "posers" for the puzzlement of their less erudite compeers. Contents: 1. Puzzles Dependent on Dexterity and Perseverance 2. Mechanical Puzzles Dependent on some Trick or Secret 3. Dissected or Combination Puzzles 4. Arithmetical Puzzles 5. Word and Letter Puzzles 6. Puzzles with Counters 7. Puzzles with Lucifer Matches 8. Wire Puzzles 9. "Quibble" or "Catch" Puzzles 10. Miscellaneous Puzzles

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Author

Professor Hoffmann (1839-1919)

Publisher

Frederick Warne and Co.

Published

1907

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction