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  1. Sam Loyd's Book of Tangram Puzzles: 700 Tangrams by Sam Loyd by Samuel Loyd, 1979-12
  2. Reply To The Reflections, Etc. Of Samuel Jones Loyd, On The Pamphlet Entitled Causes And Consequences Of The Pressure Upon The Money-Market (1837) by John Horsley Palmer, 2010-05-23
  3. Reflections suggested by a perusal of Mr. J. Horsley Palmer's pamphlet on the causes and consequences of the pressure on the money market by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2010-08-20
  4. The evidence given by Lord Overstone before the Select Committee of the House of Commons of 1857, on bank acts, with additions by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2010-08-01
  5. Overstone Tracts On Metallic and Paper Currency by Baron Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2010-02-03
  6. The evidence given by Lord Overstone before the Select Committee of the House of Commons of 1857, on by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2009-10-19
  7. Reflections Suggested by a Perusal of Mr. J. Horsley Palmer's Pamphlet by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2008-12-09
  8. Tracts and other publications on metallic and paper currency by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2010-08-29
  9. The bank act and the currency. Correspondence between the right hon. Lord Overstone and Henry Brookes, esq. ... by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, Henry Brookes, 2010-09-04
  10. Tracts and Other Publications on Metallic and Paper Currency: -1857 by Baron Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2009-07-08
  11. Further reflections on the state of the currency and the action of the Bank of England by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2010-08-30
  12. The Bank Act and the Currency by Baron Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2009-10-21
  13. The evidence before the select committee of the House of Commons of 1857 on Bank Acts; with additions by Samuel Jones Loyd Overstone, 2010-08-16
  14. Masterpieces of Chess Composition: Samuel Loyd (Masterpieces of Chess Compositions) by Yakov Vladimirov, 2002-07-01

101. Magic Pencil
loyd s most successful puzzle the buttonhole puzzle. The famous American puzzle inventor Sam loyd was asked by the head of the New York Life Insurance
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/PUZZLES/magic-pencil.html
Magic Holetite Pencil
Slocum, Botermans; New Book of Puzzles, Freeman, New York, 1992, p78-79
References
  • Clifford W. Ashley; The Ashley Book of Knots, New York, 1944
    (german: Das Ashley-Buch der Knoten, Edition Maritim, Hamburg, 5. Aufl. 1997)
    Chapter 33: tricks and puzzles, diagram 2611 (Pseudo-Magic-Pencil solution)
  • Henry Ernest Dudeney; Puzzles and Curious Problems, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., London 1931,
    Problem 349: Releasing the Stick

  • (German: Geduldsspiele der Welt, Hugendubel, 1987, p114)
    Note: The bet is $100.
  • Jerry Slocum, Botermans; New Book of Puzzles, Freeman, New York, 1992, p78-79
    Name: Buttonhole Puzzle later sold as Magic Holetite Pencil
  • Jerry Slocum; The Puzzle Arcade, Klutz, 1996, ISBN 1-57054-056-X, p4
    Name: The Buttonhole Killer Pencil
    The book contains the buttonhole puzzle.
  • Wei Zhang; Exploring Math Through Puzzles, Key Curriculum Press, 1996, ISBN 1-55953-222-X,
    p29-31, Section: Loop Extension Puzzles. Name: Magic Pencil, puzzle 7
    p70, Name: Bugballs (Dutch: Treiterballen, Treiterkraaltjes), Inventors: Christian Freeling, Anneke Treep, puzzle 27 (Het Knoopeknauwertje No. 5 (April 1997))

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