Stories by Martin Gardner

Checkers, a game that can be more interesting than one might think

A pride of problems, including one that is virtually impossible

The random number omega bids fair to hold the mysteries of the universe

Some packing problems that cannot be solved by sitting on the suitcase

In some patterns of numbers or words there may be less than meets the eye

The imaginableness of the imaginary numbers

Douglas R. Hofstadter's “Gödel, Escher, Bach”

Chess problems on a higher plane, including mirror images, rotations and the superqueen

How to be a psychic, even if you are a horse or some other animal

In which players of ticktacktoe are taught to hunt bigger game

On altering the past, delaying the future and other ways of tampering with time

About rectangling rectangles, parodying Poe and many another pleasing problem

The diverse pleasures of circles that are tangent to one another

Is it a superintelligent robot or does Dr. Matrix ride again?

In which a mathematical aesthetic is applied to modern minimal art

Puzzles and number-theory problems arising from the curious fractions of ancient Egypt

Puzzling over a problem-solving matrix, cubes of many colors and three-dimensional dominoes

A Möbius band has a finite thickness, and so it is actually a twisted prism

On Charles Sanders Peirce: philosopher and gamesman

A mathematical zoo of astounding critters, imaginary and otherwise

The Bells: versatile numbers that can count partitions of a set, primes and even rhymes

White and brown music, fractal curves and one-over-f fluctuations

Count Dracula, Alice, Portia and many others consider various twists of logic

On checker jumping, the amazon game, weird dice, card tricks and other playful pastimes