Best of
Puzzles

1986

The Ultimate Alphabet


Mike Wilks - 1986
    His four-year painting odyssey resulted in a suite of magnificent compilations, all minutely detailed, masterfully rendered, and slightly surreal. Each image contains dozens, if not hundreds, of items all starting with the same letter.The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition brings two best-selling volumes together in this deluxe slipcase edition. One volume presents the paintings with introductory text by the artist; the other offers numbered drawings and alphabetical lists of words. Accompanied by the key, you’ll delight in identifying all that Wilks has drawn—7,819 objects at last count!

Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments


Martin Gardner - 1986
    Introduces puzzles and math problems involving coincidence, ciphers, games, the I Ching, geometric figures, and paradoxes.

The Best Move


Vlastimil Hort - 1986
    Hort was one of the world's top ten players in the 1970's, and competed in several Candidates matches.

Simple Solutions To Rubik's Magic


James G. Nourse - 1986