The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems
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Dudeney Henry Ernest. The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
1.—The Reve's Puzzle
2.—The Pardoner's Puzzle
3.—The Miller's Puzzle
4.—The Knight's Puzzle
5.—The Wife of Bath's Riddles
6.—The Host's Puzzle
7.—The Clerk of Oxenford's Puzzle
8.—The Tapiser's Puzzle
9.—The Carpenter's Puzzle
10.—The Puzzle of the Squire's Yeoman
11.—The Nun's Puzzle
12.—The Merchant's Puzzle
13.—The Man of Law's Puzzle
14.—The Weaver's Puzzle
15.—The Cook's Puzzle
16.—The Sompnour's Puzzle
17.—The Monk's Puzzle
18.—The Shipman's Puzzle
19.—The Puzzle of the Prioress
20.—The Puzzle of the Doctor of Physic
21.—The Ploughman's Puzzle
22.—The Franklin's Puzzle
23.—The Squire's Puzzle
24.—The Friar's Puzzle
25.—The Parson's Puzzle
26.—The Haberdasher's Puzzle
27.—The Dyer's Puzzle
28.—The Great Dispute between the Friar and the Sompnour
29.—Chaucer's Puzzle
30.—The Puzzle of the Canon's Yeoman
31.—The Manciple's Puzzle
PUZZLING TIMES AT SOLVAMHALL CASTLE
32.—The Game of Bandy-Ball
33.—Tilting at the Ring
34.—The Noble Demoiselle
35.—The Archery Butt
36.—The Donjon Keep Window
37.—The Crescent and the Cross
38.—The Amulet
39.—The Snail on the Flagstaff
40.—Lady Isabel's Casket
THE MERRY MONKS OF RIDDLEWELL
41.—The Riddle of the Fish-pond
42.—The Riddle of the Pilgrims
43.—The Riddle of the Tiled Hearth
44.—The Riddle of the Sack Wine
45.—The Riddle of the Cellarer
46.—The Riddle of the Crusaders
47.—The Riddle of St. Edmondsbury
48.—The Riddle of the Frogs' Ring
THE STRANGE ESCAPE OF THE KING'S JESTER
49.—The Mysterious Rope
50.—The Underground Maze
51.—The Secret Lock
52.—Crossing the Moat
53.—The Royal Gardens
54.—Bridging the Ditch
THE SQUIRE'S CHRISTMAS PUZZLE PARTY
55.—The Three Teacups
56.—The Eleven Pennies
57.—The Christmas Geese
58.—The Chalked Numbers
59.—Tasting the Plum Puddings
60.—Under the Mistletoe Bough
61.—The Silver Cubes
Adventures of the Puzzle Club
62.—The Ambiguous Photograph
63.—The Cornish Cliff Mystery
64.—The Runaway Motor-Car
65.—The Mystery of Ravensdene Park
66.—The Buried Treasure
THE PROFESSOR'S PUZZLES
67.—The Coinage Puzzle
68.—The Postage Stamps Puzzles
69.—The Frogs and Tumblers
70.—Romeo and Juliet
71.—Romeo's Second Journey
72.—The Frogs who would a-wooing go
MISCELLANEOUS PUZZLES
73.—The Game of Kayles
74.—The Broken Chessboard
75.—The Spider and the Fly
76.—The Perplexed Cellarman
77.—Making a Flag
78.—Catching the Hogs
79.—The Thirty-one Game
80.—The Chinese Railways
81.—The Eight Clowns
82.—The Wizard's Arithmetic
83.—The Ribbon Problem
84.—The Japanese Ladies and the Carpet
85.—Captain Longbow and the Bears
86.—The English Tour
87.—The Chifu-Chemulpo Puzzle
88.—The Eccentric Market-woman
89.—The Primrose Puzzle
90.—The Round Table
91.—The Five Tea Tins
92.—The Four Porkers
93.—The Number Blocks
94.—Foxes and Geese
95.—Robinson Crusoe's Table
96.—The Fifteen Orchards
97.—The Perplexed Plumber
98.—The Nelson Column
99.—The Two Errand Boys
100.—On the Ramsgate Sands
101.—The Three Motor-Cars
102.—A Reversible Magic Square
103.—The Tube Railway
104.—The Skipper and the Sea-Serpent
105.—The Dorcas Society
106.—The Adventurous Snail
107.—The Four Princes
108.—Plato and the Nines
109.—Noughts and Crosses
110.—Ovid's Game
111.—The Farmer's Oxen
112.—The Great Grangemoor Mystery
113.—Cutting a Wood Block
114.—The Tramps and the Biscuits
SOLUTIONS
1.—The Reve's Puzzle
2.—The Pardoner's Puzzle
3.—The Miller's Puzzle
4.—The Knight's Puzzle
5.—The Wife of Bath's Riddles
6.—The Host's Puzzle
7.—Clerk of Oxenford's Puzzle
8.—The Tapiser's Puzzle
9.—The Carpenter's Puzzle
10.—The Puzzle of the Squire's Yeoman
11.—The Nun's Puzzle
12.—The Merchant's Puzzle
13.—The Man of Law's Puzzle
14.—The Weaver's Puzzle
15.—The Cook's Puzzle
16.—The Sompnour's Puzzle
17.—The Monk's Puzzle
18.—The Shipman's Puzzle
19.—The Puzzle of the Prioress
20.—The Puzzle of the Doctor of Physic
21.—The Ploughman's Puzzle
22.—The Franklin's Puzzle
23.—The Squire's Puzzle
24.—The Friar's Puzzle
25.—The Parson's Puzzle
26.—The Haberdasher's Puzzle
27.—The Dyer's Puzzle
28.—The Great Dispute between the Friar and the Sompnour
29.—Chaucer's Puzzle
30.—The Puzzle of the Canon's Yeoman
31.—The Manciple's Puzzle
PUZZLING TIMES AT SOLVAMHALL CASTLE
32.—The Game of Bandy-Ball
33.—Tilting at the Ring
34.—The Noble Demoiselle
35.—The Archery Butt
36.—The Donjon Keep Window
37.—The Crescent and the Cross
38.—The Amulet
39.—The Snail on the Flagstaff
40.—Lady Isabel's Casket
THE MERRY MONKS OF RIDDLEWELL
41.—The Riddle of the Fish-pond
42.—The Riddle of the Pilgrims
43.—The Riddle of the Tiled Hearth
44.—The Riddle of the Sack of Wine
45.—The Riddle of the Cellarer
46.—The Riddle of the Crusaders
47.—The Riddle of St. Edmondsbury
48.—The Riddle of the Frogs' Ring
THE STRANGE ESCAPE OF THE KING'S JESTER
49.—The Mysterious Rope
50.—The Underground Maze
51.—The Secret Lock
52.—Crossing the Moat
53.—The Royal Gardens
54.—Bridging the Ditch
THE SQUIRE'S CHRISTMAS PUZZLE PARTY
55.—The Three Teacups
56.—The Eleven Pennies
57.—The Christmas Geese
58.—The Chalked Numbers
59.—Tasting the Plum Puddings
60.—Under the Mistletoe Bough
61.—The Silver Cubes
THE ADVENTURES OF THE PUZZLE CLUB
62.—The Ambiguous Photograph
63.—The Cornish Cliff Mystery
64.—The Runaway Motor-Car
65.—The Mystery of Ravensdene Park
66.—The Buried Treasure
THE PROFESSOR'S PUZZLES
67.—The Coinage Puzzle
68.—The Postage Stamps Puzzles
69.—The Frogs and Tumblers
70.—Romeo and Juliet
71.—Romeo's Second Journey
72.—The Frogs who would a-wooing go
73.—The Game of Kayles
74.—The Broken Chessboard
75.—The Spider and the Fly
76.—The Perplexed Cellarman
77.—Making a Flag
78.—Catching the Hogs
79.—The Thirty-one Game
80.—The Chinese Railways
81.—The Eight Clowns
82.—The Wizard's Arithmetic
83.—The Ribbon Problem
84.—The Japanese Ladies and the Carpet
85.—Captain Longbow and the Bears
86.—The English Tour
87.—The Chifu-Chemulpo Puzzle
88.—The Eccentric Market-woman
89.—The Primrose Puzzle
90.—The Round Table
91.—The Five Tea Tins
92.—The Four Porkers
93.—The Number Blocks
94.—Foxes and Geese
95.—Robinson Crusoe's Table
96.—The Fifteen Orchards
97.—The Perplexed Plumber
98.—The Nelson Column
99.—The Two Errand Boys
100.—On the Ramsgate Sands
101.—The Three Motor-Cars
102.—A Reversible Magic Square
103.—The Tube Railway
104.—The Skipper and the Sea-Serpent
105.—The Dorcas Society
106.—The Adventurous Snail
107.—The Four Princes
108.—Plato and the Nines
109.—Noughts and Crosses
110.—Ovid's Game
111.—The Farmer's Oxen
112.—The Great Grangemoor Mystery
113.—Cutting a Wood Block
114.—The Tramps and the Biscuits
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Readers of The Mill on the Floss will remember that whenever Mr. Tulliver found himself confronted by any little difficulty he was accustomed to make the trite remark, "It's a puzzling world." There can be no denying the fact that we are surrounded on every hand by posers, some of which the intellect of man has mastered, and many of which may be said to be impossible of solution. Solomon himself, who may be supposed to have been as sharp as most men at solving a puzzle, had to admit "there be three things which are too wonderful for me; yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid."
Probing into the secrets of Nature is a passion with all men; only we select different lines of research. Men have spent long lives in such attempts as to turn the baser metals into gold, to discover perpetual motion, to find a cure for certain malignant diseases, and to navigate the air.
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It sometimes requires more care than the reader might suppose so to word the conditions of a new puzzle that they are at once clear and exact and not so prolix as to destroy all interest in the thing. I remember once propounding a problem that required something to be done in the "fewest possible straight lines," and a person who was either very clever or very foolish (I have never quite determined which) claimed to have solved it in only one straight line, because, as she said, "I have taken care to make all the others crooked!" Who could have anticipated such a quibble?
Then if you give a "crossing the river" puzzle, in which people have to be got over in a boat that will only hold a certain number or combination of persons, directly the would-be solver fails to master the difficulty he boldly introduces a rope to pull the boat across. You say that a rope is forbidden; and he then falls back on the use of a current in the stream. I once thought I had carefully excluded all such tricks in a particular puzzle of this class. But a sapient reader made all the people swim across without using the boat at all! Of course, some few puzzles are intended to be solved by some trick of this kind; and if there happens to be no solution without the trick it is perfectly legitimate. We have to use our best judgment as to whether a puzzle contains a catch or not; but we should never hastily assume it. To quibble over the conditions is the last resort of the defeated would-be solver.
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