With Fashion Week here, it's time to introduce a new collection of puzzles.
The challenge was originally included in Ingenious Mathematical Problems and Methods, a collection of puzzles by the columnist Louis A. Graham.
The emperor Charlemagne hired a scholar to compile "Problems to Sharpen the Young," a collection of puzzles like the old one about ferrying animals across a river (without leaving the hungry fox on the same bank as the defenseless goat).
Nintendo's DS hand-held console also captured a wider audience than rival mobile machines, with hit software like Brain Age, a collection of puzzles and tests meant to help people keep their brains active.
Earlier this year, Mr. Stadther flew to California where he filmed a half-hour infomercial to advertise the $29.95 book with its package of a collection of puzzles, poster-size illustrations, the recorded version of the story and a stuffed Pook doll.
These two questions are an extract from Problems for Metagrobologists: A Collection of Puzzles with Real Mathematical, Logical or Scientific Content by David Singmaster, which will be released at the end of the year.
"A physical puzzler, wrapped in a mystery game, inside a beautifully tactile 3D world," as its developer put it, this is a well-crafted collection of puzzles challenging your logic skills.
What we said: Some fans of Blow's earlier work seem to have been hoping that the mazes they saw in the trailers are just a veneer for a deeper, mind-blowing experience, but really the world and whatever narrative you can find in it are dressing for an incredibly impressive collection of puzzles.
After an analysis of a large collection of puzzles, we decided to use an open architecture in which independent programs specialize in solving specific types of clues, drawing on ideas from information retrieval, database search, and machine learning.
