Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
The Adventures
Introduction
Eccentrics
Minority Rules
The Tower of Lego
Odd Doors Problem
The Coach's Dilemma
Maximum Flow
Critical Paths
First Spies
Spies and Acquaintances
Spies and Double Agents
Rocket Assembly
Offshore Oil Well
Experts
The Campers' Problem
Pebbles and Persuasion
The Architect's Problem
Circuits Checking Circuits
Gossiping Defenders
Delicate Balances
"Polluters, Suitors, and Tigers"
Warehouses and Barrels
Party
Code Breaking
Code Invention
Spacecraft Malfunction
Escaped Tiger
Industrialists and Generals
Speculations
Railroad Blues
Flighty Ideas
The Rotary Problem
The Contract Problem
Command and Control
Wrong Number
Fakes
Fame
Knowledge Coordination I
Knowledge Coordination II
The Couriers Problem
Road Work
Country Roads
Subway Layout
Vanished
Puzzle-Mad Kidnapper
Mystery
Solutions to Puzzles