#fridayreads: National Puzzle Day

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January 29 is National Puzzle Day. Here is something puzzling about the photo on the right: why is this Jessup Library Staff member doing puzzles on the floor? Can she read the book titles upside-down? When will this blog post links to the book recommendations?

Your patience is rewarded! Ready Player One you may begin the game. Ready Player Two prepare to solve a riddle. It's All a Game: the history of board games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan might have the answers you seek.  Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles covers a variety of topics from money, speed, geometry, and probability to topology, tricky puzzles, and more.  The ebook An Anthropology of Puzzles explores how humans solves puzzles in everyday life. Puzzles for Pleasure is an ebook that gathers puzzles such as The Three Piles of Coins, Find the Burglars, and Cornflakes and Porridge.

Now the answer to why the staff member is doing puzzles on the floor: because she is a good sport!