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Description of  The Man in the Milk Carton: A Miscellany of Puzzles, Mathematical and Otherwise

Table of Contents 1 Two Glasses of Port 1 2 The Web on the Doll's House 2 3 A Patriarchal Cross 3 4 Concealing the Edge 4 5 Cube Formation 5 6 The Man in the Bucket 6 7 How Many Pieces? 7 8 Slow—Therefore Early 8 9 Wolf in Sheep's Compound 9 10 Mutually Faster 10 11 Two Rhymes of Age 11 12 The Seven Animals 12 13 The String and the Salt Shaker 13 14 Spills 14 15 The Vacant Lot 15 16 Paper Stars 16 17 The Moebius Hat Trick 18 18 The Pool and the Patriot 20 19 Anagrams 21 21 Rubber Bands 23 22 Irregular Growth 25 23 The Ingenious Restorer 26 24 Cryptarithmetic 27 25 Man and Belt 28 26 Morse Code 29 27 The Half-Hidden Balance 30 28 Stellated Tetrahedron 31 29 Tetrahedron in Cube 32 30 Section of the Square 33 31 The Unreliable Appliance 33 32 A Photograph in Winter 34 33 Visualizing Puzzles 35 34 97% 36 35 The Man in the Milk Carton 37 36 Five Squares into One 38 37 In Your Head 39 38 Handicapping Puzzle 40 39 Two-in-One Crossword Puzzle 42 40 Strictly Geometrical 45 41 Identifications 46 42 The Mayan Pyramids 47 44 Two Tombstones 49 45 The Great Currency Swindle 50 46 The Frog and the Angle 52 47 Sliding Triangle 53 48 The Short Finger 54 49 The Fuel Pipe 55 50 Paragraph Endings 56 51 Terminal Digit Series 57 52 Trapezoid Areas 58 53 Cut Moebius Strips 59 54 The Handicapped Draftsman 61 55 Dividing the Moebius Strip 62 56 Hokusai's Garden 63 57 The Square Pizza 64 58 Two Mirrors 65 59 Section of Cube 66 60 Box and Curve 67 61 TheTorquous 68 62 Bughouse Binary 70 Answers