A collection of puzzles that ranges from creations of Ancient Egypt and Imperial China to modern masterpieces from Britain, America and Japan.

More than 200 puzzles are featured, each one with a full page or double-page spread to itself. The puzzles are from everywhere and every era, from Romans and Ancient Britons to Brazilian peasants and Inuit fishermen and from Ancient Egypt and Imperial China to modern-day Japan and the USA. This book is a unique and fascinating collection. Puzzles include:; Rhind Papyrus; Ramesses' Star; Lo Shu Magic Square; The Liar Paradox; The Heap; Ass and Mule Problem; The Crocodile and the Baby; The Cistern Problem; Men Buy a Horse; Hound and Hare; Broken Bamboo; Posthumous Twins Problem; Men Find a Purse; The Bloom of Thymarides; Casting Out Nines; The 100 Fowls; The Dishonest Butler; The Snail and the Well; The Josephus Problem; The Explorers Problem; Strange Families; The Knight's Paths; Meadows of Gold; Robbing and Restoring; The Lazy Worker; Fox and Geese; The Well Between Two Towers; The Jug Problem; The Date Line Problem; The Blind Abbess and her Nuns; The Horseshoe Problem; The Clock Striking; The Vanishing Area; Loop Puzzle; Nine Men's Morris; Prince Rupert's Problem; The Clock Problem; St. Ives; Rope Round the Earth; Newton's Cattle; The St. Petersburg Paradox; Cherries Puzzle; Buffon's Needle Problem; The Schoolmaster's Assistant; The Tethered Goat Problem; Missionaries and Cannibals; That Man's Father; The Mitre Puzzle; Unfair Division; Frogs and Toads; A Number of Buses Met; The Packer's Secret; Hunter and Squirrel; Shunting Puzzle; The Box Paradox; The Towers of Hanoi; The Counterfeit Bill; Cube Dissection Puzzle; The Horseshoes Puzzle; The Monkey Problem; The Barber Paradox; No three in a Line; Spider and Fly Problem; The Visiting Card Paradox; The Columbus Egg Puzzle; Coconuts; Early Commuter Problem; Walking in the Rain; The Prisoner's Dilemma; Forty Unfaithful Wives; Sudoku; Griddler; Kakuro.