Thanks to all of you who responded to my request for feedback. I will
continue to post CFF Table of Contents. The main area of interest
appears to be in minimum move solution algorithms.

>>>  UPDATE <<<<  to  " PUZZLES OLD AND NEW"  exhibition tour SCHEDULE
    source  Jerry Slocum,  1/90

LOCATION:   the Childrens Museum of INDIANAPOLIS,  317/924-KIDS
            >>>>    1/20/90 - 4/1/90

RE: Rodney Hoffman's review posted in the spring 87 follows.

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PUZZLES OLD AND NEW: Head Crackers, Patience Provers, and Other
Tactile
Teasers [including more variations on Rubik's cube than I've ever
seen before]

Accompanied by the book PUZZLES OLD AND NEW: HOW TO MAKE AND SOLVE
THEM by Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans ($20), [wash univ press,
available from slocum or myself. The reprint of the HOFFMAN book is
also available now from slocum, about $35.]
The exhibit discusses
The Art in Puzzles
The Social Experience
Cultural Values
Puzzles in the Industrial Age
Puzzles in Education
Puzzles and Science
It aims "to explore the history, meanings, and design of mechanical
puzzles." The extensive displays categorize puzzles according to
their
object:
Put-Together Puzzles
Take-Apart Puzzles
Interlocking Solid Puzzles
Disentanglement Puzzles
Sequential Movement Puzzles
Puzzle Vessels
Dexterity Puzzles
Vanish Puzzles
Impossible Object Puzzles
Folding Puzzles
Puzzles have been lent by collectors and museums around the world.
The
exhibit consultants are Benjamin Kilborne and Martin Gardner.

There are hands-on puzzles, but too simple and too few. It's a
wonderful and tantalizing display of puzzles. I was SOOO frustrated
not
to be able to handle all the beautiful, enticing pieces. Of course,
if
I had been permitted to, I would never leave....

REVIEW BY -- Rodney Hoffman