A collection of solitaires and games.
Editors Preface
SECTION ONE: Solitaire Games with Toys
Solving Instant Insanity Robert E. Levin The Mayblox Problem Margaret A. Farrell
A Solitaire Game and Its Relation to a Finite Field N. G. de Bruijn
Triangular Puzzle Peg Irvin Roy Hentzel
Parity and Centerness Applied to the SOMA Cube Michael J. Whinihanand Charles W. Trigg
The Tower of Brahma Revisited Ted Roth
Tower of Hanoi with More Pegs Brother Alfred Brousseau
SECTION TWO: Competitive Games
Compound Games with Counters Cedric A. B. Smith The Game of SIM Gustavus J. Simmons
Some Investigations into the Game of SIM A. P. DeLoach
SIM as a Game of Chance W. W. Funkenbusch
SIM on a Desktop Calculator John N. Nairn and A. B. Sperry
A Winning Strategy for SIM E. M. Rounds and S. S. Yau
The Graph of Positions for the Game of SIM G. L. O'Brien
Dots and Squares Ernest R. Ranucci An Analysis of "Square It" Thomas S. Briggs
Dots and Triangles Joseph Viggiano
Dots and Cubes Everett V. Jackson
A Winning Opening in Reverse Hex Ronald Evans
SECTION THREE: Solitaire Games
Arrows and Circuits Brian R. Barwell Knight Interchanges: 1 Robert E. Parkin
Knight Interchanges: 2 Ted Roth
The Stacked Playing Cards Robert E. Parkin
Extension of the Chain-Cutting Problem Donald R. Byrkit and William M. Walters, Jr.
The "12 + 1" False Coin Problem M. H. Greenblatt
BONUS SECTION: The Four-Color Problem The Mathematics of Map Coloring H. S. M. Coxeter
Every Planar Map is Four Colorable Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken