A Hen and a Half : Intriguing Conundrums, Confusing Paradoxes, Baffling Conjectures and Challenging Puzzles
Intriguing Conundrums, Confusing Paradoxes, Baffling Conjectures and Challenging Puzzles
Published on 1. February 2024
488 pages
978-1-913565-92-3 (ISBN)
Description
A book of puzzles, lateral thinking problems, conundrums, magic, and interesting arithmetical tricks sometimes progressing to and using extremely basic mathematical and scientific principles. The author focuses particularly on situations and solutions to problems that at first glance appear to be incorrect, paradoxical, or even impossible. Often those with a love for problems and puzzles do not always readily understand the solutions. However, audiences confounded by a problem are generally delighted to have the answer given and explained in a straightforward and logical manner. In this book that means occasionally including a simple mathematical solution, even though sometimes, some of these explanations didn''t appear to be what we readily understand to be mathematics!
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John Driscoll
A Hen and a Half
Intriguing Conundrums, Confusing Paradoxes, Baffling Conjectures and Challenging Puzzles
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10/2023
Tarquin Publications
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Publisher's Note and Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Counting and Numbers
- 2. The Lunch and the Missing Shilling
- 3. The King, the Lords and the Gold
- 4. The Spider and the Fly
- 5. The Games Show, the Donkeys and the Car
- 6. One Equals Two
- 7. The Monkey and the Coconuts
- 8. A Piece of String Around the World
- 9. Einstein's Riddle
- 10. Divisional Magic
- 11. The Chess Board and Grains of Wheat
- 12. Think of a Number between 1 and 100
- 13. Definitely not a Birthday Party
- 14. Paper Moon
- 15. Twenty-One Card Trick
- 16. 100 Animals for £100
- 17.1 The Prison Cell with 2 Doors and 2 Guards
- 17.2 SAS and 4 Hats
- 17.3 5 Coins Part Trick
- 17.4 Stack of Coins Party Trick
- 17.5 A Fox, a Rabbit, a Chicken, some Carrots and Grain
- 17.6 Who Earns What?
- 17.7 The Hunter, the Compass and the Bear
- 17.8 A Man was Pushing his Car
- 17.9 Leap Frog
- 17.10 The Man Trapped on the Island on Fire
- 17.11 All the Ones
- 17.12 Buckets of Water
- 17.13 Ernie the Milkman
- 17.14 Mirrored Time
- 17.15 Either or Noughts and Crosses
- 17.16 One Light Bulb 3 Switches
- 17.17 Which Girlfriend Wins
- 17.18 A Piece of Cake for Enid Blyton
- 17.19 Birthday Girl
- 17.20 Poles Apart
- 17.21 Packing Them In
- 17.22 Whisky or Water
- 17.23 The Numbers Game
- 17.24 The Remainders of the Day
- 17.25 A Piece of A Paper
- 17.26 Years of Netball
- 17.27 Match Maker
- 18 The Lateral Thinking Canyon Crossing
- 19 Make Any Number One
- 20 Robin Hood's Life or Death on the Toss of a Coin
- 21. The Quadratic Scratch Card Win
- 22. Ages and Ages
- 23. The Impossible Puzzle
- 24. Sharp Cards of Card Sharps
- 25. Pictorial Pythagoras
- 26. Mutual Bridge
- Appendices - Contents Page
- A1 Counting & Numbers (and Weight)
- A2 The Lunch and the Missing Shilling
- A3 The King, the Lords and the Gold
- A4 The Spider and the Fly
- A5 The Game Show, the Donkeys and the Car
- A6 One Equals Two
- A7 The Monkey and the Coconuts
- A8 - A Piece of String around the World
- A9 Einstein's Riddle
- A10 Divisional Magic
- A11 The Chess Board and Grains of Wheat
- A12 Think of a Number Between 1 & 100
- A13 Definitely not a Birthday Party
- A14 Paper Moon
- A15 Twenty-One Card Trick
- A16 100 Animals for £100
- A17 Coffee Break Corner
- A17.1 The Prison Cell with 2 Doors and 2 Guards
- A17.2 SAS and 4 Hats
- A17.3 5 Coins Party Trick
- A17.4 Stack of Coins Party Trick
- A17.5 A Fox, a Rabbit, a Chicken, some Carrots and Grain
- A17.6 Who Earns What?
- A17.7 The Hunter, the Compass and the Bear
- A17.8 A Man was Pushing his Car
- A17.9 Leap-Frog
- A17.10 The Man Trapped on the Island on Fire
- A17.11 All the ones!
- A17.12 Buckets of Water
- A17.13 Ernie the Milkman
- A17.14 Mirrored Time
- A17.15 Either Or Noughts and Crosses (EONAC)
- A17.16 One Light-Bulb and 3 Switches
- A17.17 Which Girlfriend Wins
- A17.18 A Piece of Cake for Enid Blyton
- A17.19 Birthday Girl
- A17.20 Poles Apart
- A17.21 Packing Them In
- A17.22 Whisky or Water
- A17.23 The Numbers Game
- A17.24 The Remainders of the Day
- A17.25 A piece of A paper
- A17.26 Years of Netball
- A17.27 Match-maker
- A18 THE LATERAL THINKING CANYONCROSSING
- A19 MAKE ANY NUMBER ONE
- A20 ROBIN HOOD'S LIFE OR DEATH ONTHE TOSS OF A COIN
- A21 - THE QUADRATIC SCRATCH CARD WIN
- A22 AGES AND AGES
- A23 THE IMPOSSIBLE PUZZLE
- A24 SHARP CARDS OR CARD SHARPS
- A25 PICTORIAL PYTHAGORAS
- A26 MUTUAL BRIDGE
- A27 A HEN AND A HALF
- The Ebook
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - The Lunch and the Missing Shilling
- 3 - The King the Lords and the Gold
- 4 - The Spider and The Fly
- 5 - The Game Show, the Donkeys and the Car
- 6 - One Equals Two
- 7- The Monkey and the Coconuts
- 8 - A Piece of String Around the World
- 9 - Einstein's Riddle
- 10 - Divisional Magic
- 11 - The Chess Board and Grains of Wheat
- 12 - Think of a Number Between 1 and 100
- 13 - Definitely not a Birthday Party
- 14 - Paper Moon
- 15 - Twenty-One Card Trick
- 16 - 100 Animals for £100
- 17.1 - The Prison Cell with 2 Doors and 2 Guards
- 17.2 - SAS and 4 Hats
- 17.3 - 5 Coins Party Trick
- 17.4 - Stack of Coins Party Trick
- 17.5 - A Fox, a Rabbit, a Chicken, someCarrots and Grain
- 17.6 - Who Earns What?
- 17.7 - The Hunter, the Compass and the Bear
- 17.8 - A Man was Pushing His Car
- 17.9 - Leap-Frog
- 17.10 - The Man Trapped on the Island on Fire
- 17.11 - All the Ones!
- 17.12 - Buckets of Water
- 17.13 - Ernie the Milkman
- 17.14 - Mirrored Time
- 17.15 - Either Or Noughts and Crosses (EONAC)
- 17.16 - One Light-Bulb and 3 Switches
- 17.17 - Which Girlfriend Wins
- 17.18 - A Piece of Cake for Enid Blyton
- 17.19 - Birthday Girl
- 17.20 - Poles Apart
- 17.21 - Packing Them In
- 17.22 - Whisky or Water
- 17.23 - The Numbers Game
- 17.24 - The Remainders of the Day
- 17.25 - A Piece of A Paper
- 17.26 - Years of Netball
- 17.27 - Match-maker
- 18 - The Lateral Thinking Canyon Crossing
- 19 - Make Any Number One
- 20 - Robin Hood's Life or Death on the Tossof a Coin
- 21 - The Quadratic Scratch Card Win
- 22 - Ages and Ages
- 23 - The Impossible Puzzle
- 24 - Sharp Cards or Card Sharps
- 25 - Pictorial Pythagoras
- 26 - Mutual Bridge
- 27 - A Hen and a Half
