There are a variety of printed sources for situation puzzles.
\nUnfortunately, most of these books are out of print and extremely difficult
\nto find. (Also unfortunately, many books that do contain situation puzzles
\nmix them indiscriminately with well-known riddles and logic puzzles.) Try
\ninter-library loan, and be prepared to wait. If you know of printed sources
\nother than those listed, please send me bibliographical info. <\/p>\n
I’ve included a few puzzles from these books which weren’t in previous
\neditions of my list; in those cases I’ve paraphrased the puzzle statements
\nand cited the sources. Perhaps eventually I’ll contact the copyright owners
\nand ask for permission to include more items from the books…<\/p>\n
Ballard, Jim, Stories With Holes<\/cite> (Mandala Press(?), Downie, Diane, Twila Slesnick, and Jean Kerr Stenmark, Math for Games<\/cite> magazine (bibliographical data unavailable). They Morris, Scot, The Next Book of OMNI Games<\/cite> Rogers, Agnes, How Come?<\/cite> (1953: Doubleday & Company, Rogers, Agnes, and Sheehan, Richard G., How Come — Sloane, Paul, Lateral Thinking Puzzlers<\/cite> (1992: Sterling Sloane, Paul, and Des MacHale, Intriguing Lateral Thinking Weintraub, Richard, and Krieger, Richard, Beyond the Easy There are a variety of printed sources for situation puzzles. Unfortunately, most of these books are out of print and extremely difficult to find. (Also unfortunately, many books that do contain situation puzzles mix them indiscriminately with well-known riddles and logic puzzles.) Try inter-library loan, and be prepared to wait. If you know of printed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5615\/revisions\/5635"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlocation and date unknown (but apparently between 1975 and 1981)). A slim
\nvolume containing twenty situation puzzles, plus instructions for playing
\nthem with an elementary school class. None of the puzzles are original to
\nBallard; in fact, most of them come from How Come?<\/cite> and
\nHow Come — Again?<\/cite>, by way of the folk process. Ballard calls
\nthe puzzles “computer games” because the puzzle-presenter is supposed to act
\nlike a computer and answer only “yes,” “no,” or “does not compute.”
\nContains no publishing or contact information whatsoever, even though it
\nasks for submissions for future volumes. Very hard to find. May or may not
\nbe connected to a series of at least 18 other volumes written by Nathan Levy
\nbetween 1990 and 1992, all of which contain the phrase “stories with holes”
\nin the title.<\/p>\n
\nGirls and Other Problem Solvers<\/cite> (Lawrence Hall of Science, University
\nof California, Berkeley, 1981). Contains one or two new puzzles, several
\ninteresting variants, and a lot of unrelated but interesting material on
\nteaching problem-solving. (Note that this is not the same as the book by
\nCarole Marsh with the same title.)<\/p>\n
\nran a situation-puzzle contest some years back (in 1992?), but I never saw
\nthe results.<\/p>\n
\n(bibliographical data unavailable; out of print). Most of the puzzles I’ve
\nbeen told from this book were printed earlier in one or the other of the
\nAgnes Rogers books.<\/p>\n
\nInc., New York). Library of Congress catalog number 53-5756. OCLC #1612919.
\nThe author may also be listed as Agnes Rogers Allen. With its sequel (see
\nbelow), the classic volume on the subject; is probably the original source
\nfor quite a few standard situation puzzles, though Rogers says she does not
\nknow who invented the form. Nor does she know the source of most of those
\nshe includes — like all good folklore, situation puzzles are difficult to
\ntrace to their origins. (Rogers says about half the items in this volume,
\nand all the items in the second volume, are original to her and her
\nfriends.) Unfortunately, both these books are long out of print. Besides
\ntheir historical value, these two come furnished with delightful
\nillustrations of various wrong approaches to some of the puzzles. These
\nversions were definitely intended to be read from the book, though; the
\npuzzle statements are much lengthier than the versions in my list.<\/p>\n
\nAgain?<\/cite> (1960: Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York). Library of
\nCongress catalog number 60-13745. OCLC #2580602. Again, note that all the
\npuzzles in this volume are original to Rogers and Sheehan.<\/p>\n
\nPublishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, 10016). ISBN
\n0-8069-8227-6. There’s a lot of overlap here with the rec.puzzles archives,
\nincluding a lot of puzzles that I wouldn’t even consider doing as situation
\npuzzles (such as the infamous “12 balls” problem). Still, it does have one
\nor two nice situation puzzles in it. Warning: these are not lateral
\nthinking puzzles in the sense in which I use that term — each puzzle has a
\ndefinite correct answer, and creativity and sideways leaps of logic aren’t
\nrewarded unless they result in that answer. Cover price $US 4.95; should be
\navailable or orderable from most bookstores in the US.<\/p>\n
\nPuzzles<\/cite> (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.). ISBN 0-8069-4252-5. Also
\nin the series: Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles<\/cite>,
\nGreat Lateral Thinking Puzzles<\/cite>, Test Your Lateral
\nThinking IQ<\/cite>, and Improve Your Lateral Thinking<\/cite>.<\/p>\n
\nAnswer: exploring new perspectives through creative problem-solving
\ngames<\/cite> (1979: Zenger Publications, Inc., Gateway Station 802, Culver
\nCity, CA 90230). ISBN 0-934508-00-3. Contains a variety of puzzles and
\ngames, most of which aren’t really situation puzzles (and many of which are
\nin the rec.puzzles archives), plus some creativity games. Out of print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"