A Brief History of Puzzles by William Hartston

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A Brief History of Puzzles by William Hartston

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A mindbending history of the greatest puzzles of all time, by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.

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A Brief History of Puzzles by William Hartston

From ancient riddles to modern Sudoku, people have been fascinated by puzzles. Whether they are seen as a glorious waste of time, a harmless way to spend a train journey or a valuable way of exercising the mind, the lure of puzzles has been irresistible. By using over a hundred examples of the most mindbending, the most challenging, the most satisfying, or simply the most humorous of puzzles throughout the ages, William Hartston traces the development of brainteasers of all varieties and the increasing ingenuity of puzzle setters from ancient civilisations to modern puzzle crazes.
If you love quizzes, A Brief History of Puzzles by William Hartston will let you know whom to thankCompetently charting the development of riddles, crosswords and logic problems, from the Sphinx to sudoku, it offers examples to illustrate each great leap forward in the history of brain-teasing. * Literary Review *
William Hartston is a Cambridge-educated mathematician, an international chess master and the author of The Things That Nobody Knows and Even More Things That Nobody Knows. He now writes the off-beat Beachcomber column for the Daily Express and is a viewer on Channel 4's Gogglebox.
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ISBN 13 9781786494269
ISBN 10 1786494264
Title A Brief History of Puzzles
Author William Hartston
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Binding type Hardback
Publisher Atlantic Books
Year published 2019-11-07
Number of pages 160
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