Ask A Scientist Mathematics Archive

Author:      marsh
Would any math teachers know where I could get a good collection of tooth-
pick puzzles?  These are the kind where toothpicks are rearranged to make
new geometric shapes.

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Author:      rcwinther
I looked through several "mathematical recreation" books, and often found
one to a few such puzzles.  However, I also found two books with several
match stick puzzles.  They are: "The Moscow Puzzles - 359 Mathematical
Recreations" by Boris Kordemskii, published by Charles Scribner's Sons
(1972); and "Creative Puzzles of the World" by Pieter van Delft and Jack
Botermans, published by H. N. Abrams Inc. Publishing. (1978)  (The latter
book has some 52 match stick puzzles, as well as a large number of puzzles
of other sorts.)