The Puzzle King is a Victorian shop-window of numerical fun: amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious catches, perplexing paradoxes and tricks with figures, cards, draughts and dominoes, all dispensed by John Scott under the excellent motto ‘Laugh and grow fat.’
It is lighter fare than Dudeney — the puzzles rub shoulders with schoolroom jokes and after-dinner tricks — and all the more cheerful for it. Download the free EPUB for an evening of nineteenth-century parlour mathematics.