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List of impossible puzzles

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This is a list of puzzles that cannot be solved. An impossible puzzle is a puzzle that cannot be resolved, either due to lack of sufficient information, or any number of logical impossibilities.

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  1. ^ Archer, Aaron F. (November 1999). "A Modern Treatment of the 15 Puzzle". The American Mathematical Monthly. 106 (9): 793–799. doi:10.1080/00029890.1999.12005124. ISSN 0002-9890.
  2. ^ Bakst, Aaron; Gardner, Martin (May 1962). "The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions". The American Mathematical Monthly. 69 (5): 455. doi:10.2307/2312171. ISSN 0002-9890.
  3. ^ Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1999). Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid (20th anniversary ed.). New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-394-75682-0.
  4. ^ Starikova, Irina; Paul, Jean; Bendegem, Van (2020). "Revisiting the mutilated chessboard or the many roles of a picture". Logique et Analyse. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.31980.80007.
  5. ^ Holton, Derek Allan; Sheehan, J. (1993). The Petersen graph. Australian Mathematical Society lecture series. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43594-9.
  6. ^ Euler, Leonhard (1953). "Leonhard Euler and the Koenigsberg Bridges". Scientific American. 189 (1): 66–72. ISSN 0036-8733.
  7. ^ Kasner, Edward (1933). "Squaring the Circle". The Scientific Monthly. 37 (1): 67–71. ISSN 0096-3771.
  8. ^ Sanford, A. J. (1987). The mind of man: models of human understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-03960-3.
  9. ^ Kullman, David E. (November 1979). "The Utilities Problem". Mathematics Magazine. 52 (5): 299–302. doi:10.1080/0025570X.1979.11976807. ISSN 0025-570X.
  10. ^ Huczynska, Sophie (October 2006). "Powerline communication and the 36 officers problem". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 364 (1849): 3199–3214. doi:10.1098/rsta.2006.1885. ISSN 1364-503X.