The Canterbury Puzzles
by Henry Ernest Dudeney

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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

Edition 1908, 195 pages; PDF 162 pages.
word count: 51811 which is equivalent to 207 standard pages of text

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