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I am mostly looking for logic puzzles that doesn't require too much indepth mathematics, but rather creative thinking to get to the solution



example of problems I am looking for:

the chessboard corners removed problem


is it possible to use fewer than 6 cuts to get to 3x3x3 rubiks cube problem


any suggestions?
 
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I don't have the book myself, but from reading the reviews on Amazon, Aha! Insight by Martin Gardner may be what you're looking for.
 
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I don't have the book myself, but from reading the reviews on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/dp/071671017X/?tag=pfamazon01-20 by Martin Gardner may be what you're looking for.

just ordered from amazon! thanks for the suggestion!
 
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