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Knight's Tours: See: Knight's Tour Notes
Variant Chess: See: British Chess Variants Society
Grid Dissections: Crossing the parallels, Circular saws, Polyhexes, Pentominoes, Squaring the rectangle, Heptiamonds, Geometric jigsaws, Golden sequences, Gnomonics, Jigsawpuzzle puzzle, Dissections in FCR, Hexominoes, half a cake.
Coloured dissections: Chequered chessboard dissections, Super-domino tangram, Bodged chessboards, Awkward ominoes, Art of the state, Chessboard speaks.
Three and more dimensions: Squaring the cube, Chinese cross, The 6-D cube
What's in a Game? Games history and theory:
Dominoes: Threes & Fives, Odd Primes, French & English Quadrilles, Patterns
Cards: Carpet squares, Space Rummy, Carpet Rummy, Parita, Psychological Jujitsu, Complete information card games, Blackmarkit, 2-5-8-J-A, Soccer as a card game.
Card Patience and Puzzles: Royal carpet, Concertina, Bridge Auctions, Navy, Strategy, Car park.
Mathematical Games: Morris, Hypercube, Ringing the changes, Battle of numbers, Nim, Nimmity, Leapfrog, Circular board, Fanorona, L-game.
Draughts variants: Deep draughts, Double draughts, Quirk, Interlock, Two-colour checkers, Directional draughts, Kentish draughts.
Transitions: Sliding Block Puzzles, Fifteen puzzle, Sliding magic squares, Get my goat, Sopwith manoeuvres, Alphabetical cube, ABC sliding puzle, Letter zigzags, Leapfrog solitaire, Trapezeloyd, Zigzag square solitaire.
Geometry: Triangular billiards, Star points, Cross point, 4-gon conclusion, Centres of a triangle
Arithmetical: Cryptarithms, Enumerations, Multiplication table, Integral part formula, Four Rs, Permutable primes, Probably deranged, Balanced and unbalanced magic squares, Counting derangements, Exponentiation, Circular primes, Incirculable sets, Hole in my bucket; First, last and only numbers; Mersenne primes, Fibonacci and recurring decimals, Calculator keyboard curiosities, Palindromic cubes.
Chessboard Arrangements: Satin squares, Solitaire queens, Bisatins.
Logic: Probable equality, Wheels within wheels, Logical grocers, Sawseeing, Saw saying, Lunar calendar, Exchangeable operations, Singular riddle.
Letter puzzles: Change-chains, Lifebelts, Alpha pairs, Code words, Prime words, Permutable words, Unscrabbleable words, Clock words, Dart words, Elementary words, Are you game?, Pronounceable codes, Word-ladder anagrams, Shuffle-link, Edinburghisms, Autological anagrams.
Wordplay: Structural analysis of verse, Rhyme schemes, Mnemonics for pi, Self-documenting sentence, Cryptic crosswords, Cryptic clueing, Crossword puzzle patterns, Uncommon english, Tangletongue, Simply strange, Language simulation problem.
Mathematical art: Pair trees, Polygrams, Strewberries; Stars, Asterisks and Atoms; Corals, Chessboard mosaics, Rune games, Alphabetical topology, Number symbols, Chess lettering, Reversed keyboard and revised stave notation.