BRIEF HISTORY OF PUZZLES

Competently charting the development of riddles, crosswords and logic problems from the Sphinx to Sudoku, mathematician William Hartston offers examples to illustrate each great leap forward in the history of brainteasing. By selecting some of the most challenging satisfying or simply humorous of puzzles throughout the ages, chapters cover Primeval Puzzles, Medieval Maths, Mysteries and Merriment, Parisian Perplexities, Problems and Posers, The Great Victorian Puzzlers, Weights, Measures and Speed, Psychological Puzzles and The Most Baffling Logic of All. 152pp, diagrams.