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Title: Merry's Book of Puzzles

Note: Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Lesley Halamek, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net (This
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Summary: "Merry's Book of Puzzles" by J. N. Stearns is a playful collection of riddles, conundrums, and other brain teasers likely written in the late 19th century. The work aims to amuse and engage young readers with delightful and thought-provoking challenges, promoting intellectual exercise through humor and wit. The opening of the book introduces a cheerful tone through the preface, where the editor, Robert Merry, expresses the goal of bringing joy and laughter to children's lives through puzzles. He aims to instruct and entertain, balancing fun and educational content. The beginning then presents a variety of puzzles, ranging from riddles about young ladies and arrows to questions about peculiar properties of objects, sparking curiosity and inviting readers to engage in playful deduction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Stearns, J. N. (John Newton), 1829-1895

EBook No.: 53847

Published: Dec 31, 2016

Downloads: 134

Language: English

Subject: Puzzles

LoCC: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

Title: Merry's Book of Puzzles

Note: Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Lesley Halamek, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)

Summary: "Merry's Book of Puzzles" by J. N. Stearns is a playful collection of riddles, conundrums, and other brain teasers likely written in the late 19th century. The work aims to amuse and engage young readers with delightful and thought-provoking challenges, promoting intellectual exercise through humor and wit. The opening of the book introduces a cheerful tone through the preface, where the editor, Robert Merry, expresses the goal of bringing joy and laughter to children's lives through puzzles. He aims to instruct and entertain, balancing fun and educational content. The beginning then presents a variety of puzzles, ranging from riddles about young ladies and arrows to questions about peculiar properties of objects, sparking curiosity and inviting readers to engage in playful deduction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Stearns, J. N. (John Newton), 1829-1895

EBook No.: 53847

Published: Dec 31, 2016

Downloads: 134

Language: English

Subject: Puzzles

LoCC: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.