The Book of Medieval Puzzles: Being a fine and perplexing collection of conundrums, riddles, and enigmas

The Book of Medieval Puzzles is a fabulous collection of riddles, brainteasers, and conundrums that will transport you back to the time of knights, castles, and sprawling empires. Challenge your perception and logic to a mental joust in a narrative that spans centuries, from the glory of Byzantium to the horror of the Black Death, from the Golden Age of Islam to the Viking invasions. Each puzzle is beautifully constructed with authentic medieval imagery, and includes full solutions and explanations. Cover Back Cover Title Contents Introduction Simple Puzzles Barcelona Wise Man's Bluff Alcuin Three Boatmen Beam Equity Roll Out Idiot Riddle-Me-Ree Spot the Difference A Serious Meal The Mason of Madrid Smelly Water Birthday Boy A Bed of Roses Looking Ahead The Ox Illumination The Bag In the Village Magic Square Find the Pair The Blacksmith May and June Firenze The Templar Code One Hump Planking Mine Good Morning Sour Milk Matching Pairs A Curious Design Marek Needle’s Eye Premium Brandy The Count Hundred Years Cacciatore Infamy, Infamy Moderate Puzzles Three Jailers Rose Lines The Calipha's Garden The Pigs Three Squares The Top of the Hill Quite Contrary Reales Potato Farming Spot the Difference Black or White The Mathematical Mason Balance The Ale Yard In Norfolk Bucket List The Hunter's Spears Ivan the Rather Unpleasant Spot the Difference The Battle Of Grunwald Operators Cassie Monkey Puzzle Always Alhambra Meissen Old Tom Scaling The Heist The Courier Matching Pairs The Moneylender For the Cheese Heralds Witchcraft Saintly Diptych It’s a Trap The Courtyards Tricky Puzzles Shares The Woodcutter's Sons The Quad Digimancy The Maze Nuremberg The Templar Treasure The Keg The Prisoner Trouble in France Shadows Dealing Leonardo's Balls Alice Rum Business Grand Designs Crossed Lines Embroidery It's Time Century Run, Rabbit Rose Crux Shafir On The Road Scaled The Marmo Set Alignment Issues Calne High Stakes Spot the Difference Affairs of the Heart Knight's Move Bundle Three Squared A Merchant of Venice Several Brothers The Captive Queen Weighting Cannon Hard Puzzles Chicken Lovers Rose Rows The Scarves Diced Doge The Garden of Winding Paths Carter Fill In the Blanks Annual Spot the Difference Toledo Mathic Rhys Countering Square Magic Players The Box The Cloth Matching Pairs The Mysts of History Oily Dominicans Rupert’s Square Al Hazrad Very Nice Curious By Design Black Robb Dice Mathematical Masonry Spot The Difference Savvy Loafing The Urchin Scales Docking Quadruped Triptych Cellar Barras The Dordonnese Way Solutions Simple Puzzles Moderate Puzzles Tricky Puzzles Hard Puzzles Contains puzzles, riddles, enigmas and conundrums that transports you back to the time of knights, castles and sprawling empires. This book helps to challenge your perception and logic to a mental joust in a narrative that spans continents and centuries from glory of Byzantium to horror of Black Death, from Golden Age of Islam to Viking invasions.