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Early Puzzles
Early Puzzles
Salve
amice, ut vales? Puzzles and riddles are as old as
history itself. Ancient Greeks and Latins - from Epimenides
("all
Cretans are liars") to Eubulides of Miletus ("this
statement is false"), from Archimedes ("Ostomachion
puzzle") to Celsus ("posthumous twins" problem)
- were ingenious inventors of puzzles and paradoxes. They
appreciated particularly simple and neat recreational math
problems, playwords and riddles and used them for educational
purposes. This page is a tribute to the inventiveness of
our ancestors. Some ones of the puzzles presented here
are from the late Roman and medieval period.
On this page you'll find a collection of interesting latin
rebuses and riddles, pangrams,
a vanish puzzle, magic ROTAS squares,
Greek and Latin palindromes, chronograms, tongue
twisters, famous double-meaning sentences, anagrams,
a verbal labyrinth, some jokes,
and finally the Archimedes' puzzle (aka 'Stomachion'
or 'Ostomachion'). Specta, lege atque delecteris. Vale!
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