Amazing Creativity of an Anonymous Reader
摘要
This chapter presents the results of an uncommon case study of amazing creativity shown by an anonymous reader who has drawn by hand her or his solutions in the recent Anaconda’s re-edition of the fourth edition of Tromholt’s book “Games with matchsticks”. After buying it as a second-hand book, I was in position to compare the reader’s hand-drawn solutions with puzzle formulations and the solutions published by Tromholt and other book authors. For 13 puzzles, the reader was able to find Tromholt’s solutions. More important is the fact that anonymous reader found different correct solutions to 12 puzzles. Three solutions were visually different and nine solutions were fundamentally different from the solutions published by Tromholt in the Anaconda’s re-edition of the book.