Project Gutenberg 2016-12-31 Public domain in the USA. 402 Stearns, J. N. (John Newton) 1829 1895 Merry, Robert Merry, Uncle (Robert) Merry, R. (Robert) Stearns, John Newton Merry's Book of Puzzles Produced by Chris Curnow, Lesley Halamek, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Merry's Book of Puzzles" by J. N. Stearns is a playful collection of riddles, conundrums, and other brain teasers likely written in the late 19th century. The work aims to amuse and engage young readers with delightful and thought-provoking challenges, promoting intellectual exercise through humor and wit. The opening of the book introduces a cheerful tone through the preface, where the editor, Robert Merry, expresses the goal of bringing joy and laughter to children's lives through puzzles. He aims to instruct and entertain, balancing fun and educational content. The beginning then presents a variety of puzzles, ranging from riddles about young ladies and arrows to questions about peculiar properties of objects, sparking curiosity and inviting readers to engage in playful deduction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Puzzles GV Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Humour 411533 2025-09-21T11:45:23.542826 text/html 394108 2024-10-23T01:34:43 text/html 33444870 2025-09-21T11:48:15.906023 application/epub+zip 33359721 2025-09-21T11:46:34.384999 application/epub+zip 344939 2025-09-21T11:45:26.046786 application/epub+zip 84683728 2025-09-21T11:48:40.969879 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 84509713 2025-09-21T11:47:02.348838 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 336780 2022-09-24T13:46:31.959866 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 250546 2025-09-21T11:45:19.563879 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 230607 2024-10-23T01:34:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15718 2025-09-21T11:48:41.423873 application/rdf+xml 9346 2025-09-21T11:45:26.216817 image/jpeg 1853 2025-09-21T11:45:26.132820 image/jpeg 33804099 2025-09-21T11:45:24.692818 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog