What are some errors made in puzzle books?
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What are some errors made in puzzle books?
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geometry/fence Charles W. Trigg, Mathematical Quickies, Dover, 1985, #93 logic/calibans.will Hubert Phillips, Caliban's Problem Book: Mathematical, Inferential and Cryptographic Puzzles, T. De La Rue & Co Ltd., London, 1933 logic/hundred Angela Dunn, ed., Mathematical Bafflers, Dover, 1980, p. 112 David Wells, The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles, Penguin, 1992, #373 & #554 probability/apriori Dodgson, Charles L. (AKA Lewis Carroll), Pillow-Problems, Macmillan, 1895, #5
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physics/juggling.bridge Paul Sloane, Lateral Thinking Puzzlers [ Editor: entry added for the juggling answer questioned by Paul Leyderman; the edition is not given in the posting. ]