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of Sam Loyd Math Puzzles, by Don Knuth The Association for Games & Puzzles International (previously the Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors, and prior

other similar puzzles have been published since. Chess player and recreational mathematician Sam Loyd patented rotary vanishing puzzles in 1896 and published

pouring puzzles (also called water jug problems, decanting problems, measuring puzzles, or Die Hard with a Vengeance puzzles) are a class of puzzle involving

and sometimes pluralized as Towers, or simply pyramid puzzle) is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of disks of various

different combinations by a group of operations. Many such puzzles are mechanical puzzles of polyhedral shape, consisting of multiple layers of pieces

problem. In the philosophy of mathematics, it has been examined in studies of the nature of mathematical proof. The puzzle is impossible to complete. A

In common mathematical parlance, a mathematical result is called folklore if it is an unpublished result with no clear originator, but which is well-circulated

Mystery (1956), was about mathematically based magic tricks. Mathematical magic tricks were often featured in his "Mathematical Games" column–for example

of: Chess/Puzzles Open-source chess puzzles (Lichess) Lifetime updates and many chesspuzzles Chess puzzles anyone can add or edit Collection of tactical

puzzle is not just task scheduling, but creative thinking, similarly to the Nine dots puzzle. The puzzle is one of a number of river crossing puzzles