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Mathematical Games Vol. 2 Knowledge Cards Deck
Mathematical Games Vol 2 Knowledge Cards Deck Author:Pomegranate The sharpest puzzle purveyor working in the English language, the great Martin Gardner wrote his first Mathematical Games column for 'Scientific American' in 1956. He has regularly baffled the brilliant ever since. The 48 diabolical Gardner puzzles collected in this deck have rewardingly offbeat setups, featuring learned professors who gallup up... more » down-moving escalators, rose-red cities as old as time itself, and the walking habits of Immanuel Kant. The fun really comes in, however, with the demands they make on the would-be solver's powers of reason and the exquisite simplicity of their eventual answers. It is not too much to say that Gardner's puzzles, not merely in a class by themselves, constitute a science unto themselves.« less