| #1123503 in Books | A K Peters/CRC Press | 2006-12-22 | 2007-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.70 | File Name: 1568813120 | 220 pages |
||10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| MUST HAVE for puzzle builders|By J. T. Sandgren|Coffin does it again, with the quintessential wooden puzzle builder's guide. If you're fortunate enough to have previous works by Stewart, keep in mind that this is an updated version, so a lot will be repetitive. Then again, if you have the previous version, you're probably a Puzzle Junkie, in which case the updates alone ar|||There are many books on solving puzzles, but Coffin’s book is different. It is one of the few books on the design and making of puzzles. . . . Coffin successfully gives the reader an insight into how a puzzle designer thinks; one can begin to see how h
This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical design and woodworking tips to encourage the reader to build his own puzzles and experiment with his own designs. Aesthetics,...
