The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious ProblemsGood Press, 21 lis 2019 - 2500 Intellectual fun awaits in Henry Dudeney's work, 'The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems'. A world of mathematical puzzles inspired by the timeless tales of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' is one of the book's highlights. From challenging logic puzzles to whimsical brain teasers, this collection offers a symphony of perplexing enigmas to captivate and entertain. |
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... answer is simply that it gave us pleasure to seek the solution—that the pleasure was all in the seeking and finding for their own sakes. A good puzzle, like virtue, is its own reward. Man loves to be confronted by a mystery, and he is ...
... answer is simply that it gave us pleasure to seek the solution—that the pleasure was all in the seeking and finding for their own sakes. A good puzzle, like virtue, is its own reward. Man loves to be confronted by a mystery, and he is ...
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... reply, she at once said: "Then can He make a stone so heavy that He can't lift it?" Many wide-awake grown-up people do not at once see a satisfactory answer. Yet the difficulty lies merely in the absurd , though cunning.
... reply, she at once said: "Then can He make a stone so heavy that He can't lift it?" Many wide-awake grown-up people do not at once see a satisfactory answer. Yet the difficulty lies merely in the absurd , though cunning.
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... answer was , " A honey - comb in the body of a dead lion . " To - day this sort of riddle survives in such a form as , " Why does a chicken cross the road ? " to which most people give the answer , " To get to the other side ; " though ...
... answer was , " A honey - comb in the body of a dead lion . " To - day this sort of riddle survives in such a form as , " Why does a chicken cross the road ? " to which most people give the answer , " To get to the other side ; " though ...
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... answer by accident—a process that generally results in our getting hopelessly entangled in the trap that has been artfully laid for us. Occasionally, however, a problem is of such a character that, though it may be solved immediately by ...
... answer by accident—a process that generally results in our getting hopelessly entangled in the trap that has been artfully laid for us. Occasionally, however, a problem is of such a character that, though it may be solved immediately by ...
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... answer . Of course , he demurred , so that he might catch me either way . I therefore said that , taking the words in their ordinary and correct meaning , most certainly the boy went around the monkey . As was expected , he retorted ...
... answer . Of course , he demurred , so that he might catch me either way . I therefore said that , taking the words in their ordinary and correct meaning , most certainly the boy went around the monkey . As was expected , he retorted ...
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THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES & OTHER CURIOUS PROBLEMS: A Mathematical Puzzle Book Henry Ernest Dudeney Ograniczony podgląd - 2017 |
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