6/22/2023 0 Comments Martin watson artI probably believed that Magic Squares truly were magic! Having a childhood love of numbers, and having only recently started wearing glasses, I somehow acquired the nickname “Professor”. Beaumont who encouraged my interest in number systems, Napier’s Bones, geometry and polyhedra. I remember at primary school, having a maths teacher (it has always seemed so unfair that in England we do ˜maths” but in the US they only have to do one of them.) called Mr. I remember very clearly, aged 10, (I still wore small shoes.) in bed one Tuesday night, working out that if 1+100=101, and 2+99=101 etc that I could add up all the numbers from one to a hundred in my head. Who knows what happened to it, but I did buy a replacement copy a few years ago as an adult - or was it by chance the same one, having engrossed several more generations of puzzler in between times. In later years I recall having a big boy’s version with many more tiles, featuring a map of the world. Somehow the edges of the tray always seemed to break, and the tiles would fall out. I remember the pleasure I discovered after getting 1-2-3 in place and then working out the shift-sequence for getting the 4 in place. I recall having small plastic 4x4 versions of the 15-puzzle, and also a similar version with letters. Recent discoveries and Puzzle News are here. That was in the days when Sir Winston Churchill was still alive, my bare knees got cold at school and England was yet to win a Football World Cup. It’s hard to remember from whence they came Probably from evil aunts and uncles who didn’t realise that at that age, what you might call “British-child-shoe-size-old”, that I had enough to worry about. One day I just realised that I had a few. I don’t remember actually starting to collect mechanical or ‘real’ puzzles. Since I was a child I have enjoyed mathematical and puzzling things. This is mainly due to me getting very hooked on tracing my family history, which seems to have more skeletons than a medieval plague pit, and as many black sheep as a farm with several black sheep.Ģ6th April 2016 - It was with very great sadness that I heard that our very good friend Robert Reid died earlier today. Regular visitors here will have noticed the refurbishment is taking longer than expected. Something will go here one day soon.Gaiety, merriment and dancing, etc.
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