The Canterbury Puzzles
by Henry Ernest Dudeney

This is a collection of many wonderful puzzles and riddles. The title stems from the fact that the first part of the book features a series of puzzles based on the characters from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

• INTRODUCTION
• THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
  • 1. - The Reve's Puzzle
  • 2. - The Pardoner's Puzzle
  • 3. - The Miller's Puzzle
  • 4. - The Knight's Puzzle
  • 5. - The Wife of Bath's Riddles
  • 6. - The Host's Puzzle
  • 7. - The Clerk of Oxenford's Puzzle
  • 8. - The Tapiser's Puzzle
  • 9. - The Carpenter's Puzzle
  • 10. - The Puzzle of the Squire's Yeoman
  • 11. - The Nuns Puzzle
  • 12. - The Merchant's Puzzle
  • 13. - The Man of Law's Puzzle
  • 14. - The Weavers Puzzle
  • 15. - The Cook's Puzzle
  • 16. - The Sompnour's Puzzle
  • 17. - The Shipman's Puzzle
  • 18. - The Monk's Puzzle
  • 19. - The Puzzle of the Prioress
  • 20. - The Puzzle of the Doctor of Physic
  • 21. - The Ploughman's Puzzle
  • 22. - The Franklin's Puzzle
  • 23. - The Squire's Puzzle
  • 24. - The Friar's Puzzle
  • 25. - The Parsons Puzzle
  • 26. - The Haberdasher's Puzzle
  • 27. - The Dyer's Puzzle
  • 28. - The Great Dispute between the Friar and the Sompnour
  • 29. - Chaucer's Puzzle
  • 30. - The Puzzle of the Canon's Yeoman
  • 31. - The Manciple's Puzzle
• PUZZLING TIMES AT SOLVAMHALL CASTLE
  • 32. - The Game of Bandy-Ball
  • 33. - Tilting at the Ring
  • 34. - The Noble Demoiselle
  • 35. - The Archery Butt
  • 36. - The Donjon Keep Window
  • 37. - The Crescent and the Cross
  • 38. - The Amulet
  • 39. - The Snail on the Flagstaff
  • 40. - Lady Isabel's Casket
• THE MERRY MONKS OF RIDDLEWELL
  • 41. - The Riddle of the Fish-pond
  • 42. - The Riddle of the Pilgrims
  • 43. - The Riddle of the Tiled Hearth
  • 44. - The Riddle of the Sack Wine
  • 45. - The Riddle of the Cellarer
  • 46. - The Riddle of the Crusaders
  • 47. - The Riddle of St. Edmondsbury
  • 48. - The Riddle of the Frogs' Ring
• THE STRANGE ESCAPE OF THE KING'S JESTER
  • 49. - The Mysterious Rope
  • 50. - The Underground Maze
  • 51. - The Secret Lock
  • 52. - Crossing the Moat
  • 53. - The Royal Gardens
  • 54. - Bridging the Ditch
• THE SQUIRE'S CHRISTMAS PUZZLE PARTY
  • 55. - The Eleven Pennies
  • 56. - The Three Teacups
  • 57. - The Christmas Geese
  • 58. - The Chalked Numbers
  • 59. - Tasting the Plum Puddings
  • 60. - Under the Mistletoe Bough
  • 61. - The Silver Cubes
• ADVENTURES OF THE PUZZLE CLUB
  • 62. - The Ambiguous Photograph
  • 63. - The Cornish Cliff Mystery
  • 64. - The Runaway Motor-Car
  • 65. - The Mystery of Ravensdene Park
  • 66. - The Buried Treasure
• THE PROFESSOR'S PUZZLES
  • 67. - The Coinage Puzzle.
  • 68. - The Postage Stamps Puzzles
  • 69. - The Frogs and Tumblers
  • 70. - Romeo and Juliet
  • 71. - Romeos Second Journey
  • 72. - The Frogs Who Would a-Wooing Go
• MISCELLANEOUS PUZZLES
  • 73. - The Game of Kayles
  • 74. - The Broken Chessboard
  • 75. - The Spider and the Fly
  • 76. - The Perplexed Cellarman
  • 77. - Making a Flag
  • 78. - Catching the Hogs
  • 79. - The Thirty-one Game
  • 80. - The Chinese Railways
  • 81. - The Eight Clowns
  • 82. - The Wizard's Arithmetic
  • 83. - The Ribbon Problem
  • 84. - The Japanese Ladies and the Carpet
  • 85. - The English Tour
  • 86. - Captain Longbow and the Bears
  • 87. - The Chifu-Chemulpo Puzzle
  • 88. - The Eccentric Market-woman
  • 89. - The Primrose Puzzle
  • 90. - The Round Table
  • 91. - The Five Tea-Tins
  • 92. - The Four Porkers
  • 93. - The Number Blocks
  • 94. - Foxes and Geese
  • 95. - Robinson Crusoe's Table
  • 96. - The Fifteen Orchards
  • 97. - The Perplexed Plumber
  • 98. - The Nelson Column
  • 99. - The Two Errand Boys
  • 100. - On the Ramsgate Sands
  • 101. - The Three Motor-Cars
  • 102. - A Reversible Magic Square
  • 103. - The Tube Railway
  • 104. - The Skipper and the Sea-Serpent
  • 105. - The Dorcas Society
  • 106. - The Adventurous Snail
  • 107. - The Four Princes
  • 108. - Plato and the Nines
  • 109. - Noughts and Crosses
  • 110. - Ovid's Game
  • 111. - The Farmer's Oxen
  • 112. - The Great Grangemoor Mystery
  • 113. - Cutting a Wood Block
  • 114. - The Tramps and the Biscuits
• SOLUTIONS