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Mr Puzzle - We've got puzzles!
Mr Puzzle at IPP
Below are pictures from
the opening of the Slocum Puzzle Room on 3rd August 2006
in the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
You can read more about
the opening on the exhibition in this New York Times article
titled "Celebrating Puzzles, in 18,446,744,073,709,551,616
Moves (or So) "
By MARGARET WERTHEIM Published: July 25, 2006 at
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/science/25puzz.html
Or visit the Lilly Library web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/index.html
Click here
to go back to IPP26
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The Lilly Library is one of the top research
libraries in the USA.
Lilly Library holdings include about 400,000 books, more than
100,000 pieces of sheet music, and more than 6.5 million manuscripts
including amazing books like "The Eleventh Book of Euclides
Elementes". |
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Mr Breon Mitchell, Director of the Lilly
Library, gave a fascinating talk to groups of puzzlers about
some of the wonderful books and manuscripts they have in the
Lilly. On the table is the original copy of the Declaration
of Independence printed for Thomas Jefferson. |
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Jerry Slocum displaying
some of the wonderful storage facilities he will move his puzzles
to in the Slocum Puzzle room at the Lilly. |
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Many of Akio Kamei's puzzles feature
in a special exhibition in the Slocum Puzzle room at the Lilly
Library. Here Akio demonstrates his Grenade puzzle for Sue Young. |
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A very rare and special puzzle on display
in the
Slocum Puzzle room at the Lilly.
An ivory Tangram set, includes puzzle in small carved ivory slide
lid box accompanied by two carved ivory covered books. One book
has shapes to make with the puzzle. The other the solutions.
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