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• Mathematical Puzzles (revised edition, ca. 2020), by P. Winkler (PDF files at Dartmouth)
• Paper Folding for the Mathematics Class (Washington: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, c1957), by Donovan A. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amusements in Mathematics, by Henry Ernest Dudeney (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, by Stewart T. Coffin (illustrated HTML at johnrausch.com)
• Recreations in Mathematics (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, c1917), by H. E. Licks (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics, by William Frank White (page images at Cornell)
• A Tangled Tale (London: Macmillan and Co., 1885), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by A. B. Frost (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mathematics in fun and earnest (New American Library, 1961), by Nathan Altshiller-Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical, geometrical, and philosophical delights: containing essays, problems, solutions, theorems, &c. selected from an extensive correspondence (Printed for Messrs. Whiting, Davis, Gale, Leybourn, and Kemmish, 1798), by Thomas Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• New mathematical pastimes (The University press, 1921), by Percy Alexander MacMahon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical excursions; side trips along paths not generally traveled in elementary courses in mathematics (Print. by the Norwood press, 1933), by Helen Abbot Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred curious mathematical problems. (J. W. Walch, 1955), by William R. Ransom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lvdvs fortvnae, ad recreandam societatem latinis versibus omnibus in contrario sensu retrogradis exhibitus, & in tres libros distributus (typis Francisci Simonis, 1633), by Jan Storms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geheimnisse der rechenkünstler (B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Philipp Maennchen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die arithmetischen Wunder und der komischpoetische Arithmetiker für Freunde humoristischer Rechenkunst. Sammlung merkwürdiger zahlenergebnisse und unterhaltender entzifferungen verschiedener arten des karten= und würfelspiels; berechnung des lottospiels mit 90 numern, der klassenlotterien, der leibrenten und tontinen. (Gedruckt und verlegt bei Schrämbl., 1835), by Ludwig Bleibtreu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trois heures d'amusement, ou Le nouveau Comus; contenant des tours de cartes, des problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie et de physique, les plus faciles, les plus agréables et les plus interessans (Gille, 1912), by M. Ducœurjoly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A mathematical miscellany in four parts. I. An essay towards the probable solution of the forty-five surprizing paradoxes in Gordon's Geography. II. Fifty-five new and amazing paradoxes, some in verse, some in prose, with their solutions. III. Answers to the hundred arithmetical problems, left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick, and Alexander's Algebra. IV. Miscellaneous rules about forming aenigma's, questions, the doctrine of eclipses, of pendulums, the equation of time, concerning Easter, &c. (Printed by and for S. Fuller, 1730), by Nathaniel Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A mathematical miscellany in four parts. I. An essay towards the probable solution of the forty-five surprizing paradoxes in Gordon's Geography. II. Fifty-five new and amazing paradoxes, some in verse, some in prose, with their solutions. III. Answers to the hundred arithmetical problems, left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick, and Alexander's Algebra. IV. Miscellaneous rules about forming aenigma's, questions, the doctrine of eclipses, of pendulums, the equation of time, concerning Easter, &c. (Printed by and for S. Fuller, 1735), by Nathaniel Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A mathematical miscellany in four parts. I. An essay towards the probable solution of the forty-five surprizing paradoxes in Gordon's Geography. II. Fifty-five new and amazing paradoxes, some in verse, some in prose, with their solutions. III. Answers to the hundred arithmetical problems, left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick, and Alexander's Algebra. IV. Miscellaneous rules about forming aenigma's, questions, the doctrine of eclipses, of pendulums, the equation of time, concerning Easter, &c. (Printed for M. Cooper, 1751), by Nathaniel Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récréations mathématiques (Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1891), by Edouard Lucas, Émile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine, C.-A. Laisant, and Henri Auguste Delannoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problèmes plaisants & délectables qui se font par les nombres. (Gauthier-Villars, 1874), by Claude Gaspard Bachet and A. Labosne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problèmes d'arithmétique amusante. (Vuibert, 1914), by Paul Alexandre Pierre Delens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amusements in mathematics (Nelson, 1917), by Henry Ernest Dudeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récréations mathématiques et problèmes des temps anciens et modernes. (A. Hermann, 1907), by W. W. Rouse Ball and J. Fitz-Patrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Matematica dilettevole e curiosa. Problemi bizarri--Paradossi albegrici, geometrici e meccanici--Moto perpetuo--Grandi numbei--Curve e loro tracciamento meccanico--Sistemi articolati--Quadratura del circolo--Trisezione dell'angolo--Duplicazione de cubo--Geometria della rige, e del compasso--Rompicapo geometrici--Iperspazio--Probalitià--Giochi--Quadrati, poligon e poliedre magici. (U. Hoepli, 1913), by Italo Ghersi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische unterhaltungen und spiele. (B.G. Teubner, 1901), by W. Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Altes und neues aus der Unterhaltungs-Mathematik (J. Springer, 1918), by W. Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Problèmes plaisants & délectables (Gauthier-Villars, 1879), by Claude-Gaspard Bachet and A. Labosne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times. (Macmillan and co., 1892), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of mathematical and reasoning problems; fifty brain twisters. (Van Nostrand, 1962), by D. St. P. Barnard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical recreations of Lewis Carroll [pseud.] (Dover Publications, 1958), by Lewis Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterhaltende Probleme und Spiele in Mathematischer Beleuchtung. (Quandt & Händel, 1897), by Wilhelm Grosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rational amusement for winter evenings, or, A collection of above 200 curious and interesting puzzles and paradoxes relating to arithmetic, geometry, geography, & c. with their solutions, and four plates. Designed chiefly for young persons... (Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brouwn [etc.], 1821), by John Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giochi di aritmetica e problemi interessanti. Operazioni curiose--Indovinelli aritmetici--Abaco-Operazioni aritmetiche semplificate--Problemi sul calendario ... Problemi pratici. (G. B. Paravia & c.; [etc., etc., 1920), by Giuseppe Peano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Math miracles. ([Durham, N.C., 1950), by Wallace Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recreations in mathematics (D. Van Nostrand company, 1917), by H. E. Licks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recreations in mathematics (D. Van Nostrand Company, inc., 1928), by H. E. Licks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recreations in mathematics (D. Van Nostrand Company, inc., 1946), by H. E. Licks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lustiges und merkwürdiges von Zahlen und Formen; Beispiele aus der Unterhaltungsmathematik (F. Hirt, 1923), by Walther Lietzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wo steckt der Fehler? Trugschlüsse und Schülerfehler (B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Walther Lietzmann and Viggo Peter Trier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'arithmétique amusante (Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1895), by Edouard Lucas, Émile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine, C.-A. Laisant, and Henri Auguste Delannoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical excursions; side trips along paths not generally traveled in elementary courses in mathematics. (Dover Publications, 1957), by Helen Abbot Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes, recreations, essays. (The Open Court Publishing Company; [etc., etc.], 1908), by William Frank White (page images at HathiTrust)
• A scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes, recreations, essays. (Open Court Pub. Co., 1923), by William Frank White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan and co., limited;, 1919), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riesen und zwerge im zahlenreich; plaudereien für kleine und grosse freunde der rechenkunst (B.G. Teubner, 1918), by Walther Lietzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan and co., limited, 1931), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematica delectans; ausgewählte kapitel aus der mathematik der spiele in gemeinverständlicher darstellung (W. Engelmann, 1921), by Gerhard Kowalewski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische Unterhaltungen und Spiele (B. G. Teubner, 1918), by W. Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lustiges und merkwürdiges von zahlen und formen ... (F. Hirt, 1928), by Walther Lietzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A tangled tale (Macmillan, 1885), by Lewis Carroll, A. B. Frost, Richard Clay and Sons, and Macmillan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Géométrie de situation et jeux (Gauthiers-Viulars et cie, 1929), by André Sainte-Laguë (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations (W.W. Norton & Company inc., 1942), by Maurice Kraitchik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical prodigies... (n.p., 1907), by Frank D. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Matematica allegra, con appendice, non matematica, ma abbastanza allegra ... (P. Carrara, 1912), by Luigi Vincenzo Brugnatelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Puzzle papers in arithmetic. (Mills & Boon, 1925), by F. C. Boon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations and essays. (Macmillan and co., 1926), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical nuts for lovers of mathematics (S. I. Jones, 1936), by Samuel I. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Spiele (B.G. Teubner, 1911), by W. Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische Mussestunden : eine Sammlung von Geduldspielen, Kunststücken und Unterhaltungsaufgaben mathematischer Natur (Göschen, 1900), by Hermann Schubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fun with mathematics. (World Pub. Co., 1952), by Jerome Sydney Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enimmistica : storia dell'enimmistica, guida per risolvere e comporre enimmi, sciarade, anagrammi, logogrifi, giuochi geometrici, rebus, ecc., curiosita enimmistiche (Hoepli, 1926), by Demetrio Tolosani and Alberto Rastrelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan, 1920), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan, 1937), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problèmes d'arithmétique amusante (Vuibert, 1922), by Paul Delens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische Mussesstunden : eine Sammlung von Geduldspielen, Kunstücken und Unterhaltungsaufgaben mathematischer Natur (G. J. Göschen, 1907), by Hermann Schubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les amusemens mathématiques precédes des eleḿens d'arithmétique, d'algébre & de géométrie nécessaires pour l'intelligence des problêmes ... (chez André-Joseph Panckoucke, 1749), by A. J. Panckoucke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récréations mathématiques (Gauthier-Villars, 1882), by Édouard Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les amusemens de la campagne, contenant...tout ce qui peut contribuer à charmer les loisirs de ceux qui habitent la campagne. (Audot, 1826), by A. O. Paulin-Désormeaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récréations mathématiques : Questions curieuses et utiles extraites des auteurs anciens et modernes (Larousse,), by Joseph Vinot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A scrap-book of elementary mathematics : notes, recreations, essays (The Open Court Publishing Company, 1910), by William F. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matematica dilettevole e curiosa. (U. Hoepli, 1913), by Italo Ghersi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical wrinkles for teachers and private learners ... (S. I. Jones, 1912), by Samuel I. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lustiges und Merkwürdiges von Zahlen und Formen; Beispiele aus der Unterhaltungsmathematik (F. Hirt, 1922), by Walther Lietzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan, 1917), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problèmes plaisants & délectables qui se font par les nombres (Gauthier-Villars, 1905), by Claude-Gaspard Bachet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paradoxien des unendlichen (Berlin, 1889), by Bernard Bolzano and F. Přihonský (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recreations in mathematics (D. Van Nostrand company, 1921), by H. E. Licks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Spiele. (B.G. Teubner, 1919), by W. Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geheimnisse der Rechenkünstler (B.G. Teubner, 1918), by Philipp Maennchen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische Mussestunden; eine Sammlung von Geduldspielen, Kunststücken und Unterhaltungsaufgaben mathematischer Natur. (B. G. Teubner, 1900), by Hermann Schubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scientific amusements in philosophy and mathematics : including arithmetic, acoustics, electricity, magnetism, optics, pneumatics : together with amusing secrets in various branches of science, the whole calculated to form an agreeable and improving exercise for the mind (A. K. Newman, 1821), by William Enfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical puzzles : and other brain twisters (Bell Pub. Co., 1942), by Anthony S. Filipiak (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical recreations and essays. (Macmillan, 1914), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan and Co., limited, 1911), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité des applications de l'analyse mathématique au jeu des échecs, précédé d'une introduction à l'usage des lecteurs soit étrangers aux échecs, soit peu versés dans l'analyse. (Dufour et cie; [etc., etc.], 1862), by C. F. de Jaenisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur le problème de la marche du cavalier au jeu des échecs et solution du problème des huit dames. (A. Cretaine, 1865), by A. Cretaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arithmétique amusante (Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1895), by Edouard Lucas, Émile Michel Hyacinthe. Lemoine, C.-A. Laisant, and Henri Auguste Delannoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récréations mathématiques (Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1891), by Edouard Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recreations in mathematics (D. Van Nostrand Co., 1917), by H. E. Licks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trois heures d'amusement, ou Le nouveau Comus; contenant des tours de cartes, des problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie et de physique, les plus faciles, les plus agréables et les plus interessans. (A. G. Debray, 1806), by M. Ducœurjoly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische unterhaltungen und spiele (B.G. Teubner, 1919), by Wilhelm Ernst Martin George Ahrenw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récréations intellectuelles; jeux d'esprit à la portée de tous, théorie et applications (A. Hennuyer, 1901), by L. Harquevaux and L. Pelletier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical register (G. Robinson, 1774), by A Society of Mathematicians (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen du livre des recreations mathematiques, et de ses problemes en geometrie, mechanique, optique, & catoptrique. Ou sont aussi discutées & restablies plusieurs experiences physique et proposées. (chez Iean Bovlley, 1643), by Claude Mydorge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buch der Probleme, Kunststücke und Gesellschaftsscherze (Hermann Zieger, 1909), by Hermann Pfeiffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Récréations arithmétiques (Vuibert, 1899), by É. Fourrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Unterhaltung und Spiele (B. G. Teubner, 1921), by W. Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Family herald and weekly star (Family Herald and Weekly Star, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Problèmes plaisants & délectables : qui se font par les nombres (Gauthier-Villars, 1884), by Claude Gaspard Bachet and A. Labosne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Spiele. (B. G. Teubner, 1907), by Wilhelm Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Canterbury puzzles, and other curious problems (E. P. Dutton and co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matematica allegra : con appendice, non matematica, ma abbastanza allegra (La Gutenberg di A. Suita, 1912), by Luigi Vincenzo Brugnatelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische Kurzweil : 333 Aufgaben, Kunststu cke, geistanregende Spiele, verfa ngliche Schulu sse, Scherze, U berraschungen u. dergl. aus der Zahlen- und Formenlehre fu r Jung und Alt zur Unterhaltung und Belehrung (Julius Klinkhardt, 1912), by Louis Mittenzwey and Verlag Julius Klinkhardt in Leipzig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• V t︠s︡arstve smekalki, ili : arifmetika dlya vsiekhsch. ([publisher not identified], 1911), by E. I. Ignatʹev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die natürliche Zauberkunst : aller Zeiten und Nationen, in einer vollständigen Sammlung der überraschendsten, bewunderungswürdigsten und belehrendsten Kunststücke aus der Physik, Chemie, Optik, Mechanik, Mathematik und Experimentierkunst nach Philadelphia, Bosco, Petorelli, Comte, Döbler, Becker und Anderen (B.F. Voigt, 1886), by Carl Ferdinand Leischner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Unterhaltungen (Otto Maier, 1900), by Emil Ernst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes, recreations, essays. (The Open Court Pub. Co., 1908), by William Frank White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan, 1905), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Unterhaltung en und Spiele (B.G. Teubner, 1918), by Wilhelm Ernst Martin Georg Ahrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fun with figures (D. Appleton-Century Co., 1935), by A. Frederick Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numbergrams (The Van Press, 1932), by Norman F. Sparhawk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematics for pleasure (McGraw-Hill, 1962), by Oswald Jacoby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The math entertainer (Emerson Books, 1959), by Philip Ernest Heafford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elementary number games and puzzles; EGNAP (The Council, 1959), by Bernard H. Gundlach and Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• There is fun in geometry. (Fortuny's, 1937), by Louis Kasper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical recreations and essays (Macmillan, 1922), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Récréations arithmétiques. (Vuibert et Nony, 1907), by E. Fourrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cat's cradles from many lands (New York : Bombay Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), by Kathleen Haddon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Récréations arithmétiques (Vuibert, 1923), by É. Fourrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The magic and oddities of numbers. (Vantage Press, 1953), by William F. Gilles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Puzzle King: Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc., by John Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays, by William Frank White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mathematical Recreations and Essays, by W. W. Rouse Ball (Gutenberg ebook)
• Amusements in Mathematics, by Henry Ernest Dudeney (Gutenberg ebook)

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