H.E. Dudeney, who was born in 1847 in Mayfleet, Sussex, England was Sam Loyd’s British counterpart. The two men corresponded frequently, and there is no doubt that they exchanged ideas and did not hesitate to modify each other’s inventions. Dudeney contributed puzzles to Strand’s Tit-bits column under his pseudonym of Sphinx, and he was soon given his own column, Perplexities. Dudeney believed that puzzle-solving was an intellectual process of the highest order and that no-one could be more clear thinking and logical than one who constructed such works. Among his publications are: The Canterbury Puzzles (1917), The World’s Best Word Puzzles (1929) and Amusements in Mathematics, which has a preface dated 25 March 1917 and which is a marvellous collection of arithmetical. algebraical, geometrical, point and line, route, chessboard and magic square problems.
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