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III"'' m Wy c:^. J793.73 ^-[QpAfif^SSeTS Adler book of puzzles and riddles , POCKl o . f DO CARDS LIBRARY PUBLIC FORT WAYNE AND ALLEN COUNTY, IND. i^M*Wnn»r.i> lriLi:^r,!^^,L.'CLIBRARY Oil THE ADLEU BOOK PUZZLES AND EIDDLES OR LOYD UP-TO-DATE BY IRVING AND PEGGY ABLER 7 ^3. 7J THE JOHN DAY COMPANY New York AUTHOR'S NOTE In main fields of accomplishment there is one name that stands out above all the rest. In baseball there is the home-run king, Babe Ruth. In invention there is Thomas Edison. In the composing of waltzes there is Johann Strauss. In the writing of military marches it is John Philip Sousa. And in the invention of puzzles it is Sam Loyd. Sam Loyd was born in Philadelphia in 1841. He began a brilliant career as the inventor of puzzles by making up chess problems at the age of 14. His puzzles later were published in newspapers and magazines all over the country. After he died in 1911, his son, Sam Loyd, Jr., continued to conduct his puzzle columns under the father's name. In 1914, Sam Loyd, Jr. pub- lished a collection of the puzzles under the title, Cyclopedia of Sam Loyd Puzzles. The Cyclopedia has been out of print for a long time and is rare and hard to get. The authors of the book you are now reading are the for- tunate owners of a copy of the Cyclopedia. They have had many hours of fun working through the five thousand puzzles that are in it. And the more fun they had the sadder they became at the thought that the young people of the world who didn't own copies could not share this fun. This sadness was deepened when another owner of a Cyclopedia published a selection of some of the more difficult mathematical puzzles for grown-ups. At this point, we were determined to let young people have their chance, too, to dip into the treasure house of Sam Loyd Puzzles. So we decided to prepare our own selection of the puzzles most suitable for youngsters today. © 1962 by Pegpy Adler All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be re- prcKluced in any form without permission. Published by The John Day Company, 62 West 45th Street, New York 36, N.Y., and simultaneously in Canada by Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 62-14898 MANUKACTURtD IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The preparation of this book went through several stages. First we picked out puzzles of all kinds: mathematical puzzles, word puzzles, riddles, re- buses, hidden geography puzzles, and others. After we had done this, we realized that although the puzzles were as good as ever, the language and the style of the drawings were very old-fashioned. So we rewrote all the puzzles and decided to redraw all the pictures to bring them up to date. The hidden geography puzzles went through two more stages of change. Instead of merely making new copies of Sam Loyd's old pictures, we drew altogether new pictures that we thought would be more interesting. But then, once we had the new pictures, we decided that we might as well make up new puzzles to fit them. So the hidden geography puzzles are all brand new. It is for this reason that it is not merely a book of Sam Loyd puzzles, but is rather an Adler Book of Puzzles and Riddles inspired by Sam Loyd. 118BG73 One of the Sam Loyd puzzles that nearly everybody knows is the "15" puzzle, in which 15 numbered squares, at first arranged in order, are to be rearranged in reverse order. When Sam Loyd first issued this puzzle, he offered a large cash reward to anyone who could solve it. He never had to pay the reward, because the solution is impossible. The authors of this book also promise a reward to its readers, a reward that they certainly will col- lect. Their reward will be the excitement of accepting a challenge every time they try a puzzle, the joy of accomplishment when they succeed in solving it, and the pleasure of knowing a secret when they have the answer and challenge somebody else to try the puzzle. n\' Steve is at an amusement park. He is trying to knock down the dolls with the baseballs. Each doll is wearing a number. If he can knock down the dolls whose num- bers add up to exactly fifty, he will win a prize. Which dolls must Steve knock down?
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