31 Tricks & Treats for October 2014

In Honor of the Centennial of Martin Gardner's birth (October 21, 1914), we have collected Thirty-One Tricks and Treats for you: Magazine articles, new and classic puzzles, unique video interviews, and lots more. Click on an image, or choose from the list below!

`OCT 1 WED`	A Centennial Celebration of Martin Gardner (Scientific American)
`OCT 2 THU`	Kalamazoo K puzzle, a new puzzle to tease your brain!
`OCT 3 FRI`	Squaring the Square, a fresh look at a classic Scientific American column!
`OCT 4 SAT`	A Gardnerian Centennial, by Max Maven, in Genii, Oct 2014, p.31
`OCT 5 SUN`	A Photo-Mosaic Using Covers of Martin Gardner Books by Dana Richards — from Gathering 4 Gardner 8, Mar 2008
`OCT 6 MON`	Martin Gardner's Curious Speller — from M-U-M, Jun 2007
`OCT 7 TUE`	Critical Point Celebrating the Mind — Bob Crease in Physics World. What happens to a balloon in an accelerating car?
`OCT 8 WED`	PATTERNS II — A fun, rare game based on inductive reasoning, from November 1969 Mathematical Games
`OCT 9 THU`	Martin Gardner and Baseball — Martin and Casey, at the Bat!
`OCT 10 FRI`	The 74G4G7 Puzzle — by Michael Tanoff. Play with paper, or use plastic to make a Hex-A-Hexa-Plexigon!
`OCT 11 SAT`	Dr Matrix meets Owen O'Shea a G4G11 paper by Owen O'Shea.
`OCT 12 SUN`	A Gardner's Dozen — Martin's Scientific American Cover Stories
`OCT 13 MON`	13 Omni-potent Puzzles — from Scot Morris — OMNI Games book
`OCT 14 TUE`	Martin's Long Affair with the Square — by Stuart E. Anderson
`OCT 15 WED`	Martin Gardner: In His Own Words — A video from 1994 gets a new audience! (14 minutes)
`OCT 16 THU`	Top Ten Martin Gardner Card Tricks by Max Maven
`OCT 17 FRI`	100 Martin Gardner Wordplay Headscratchers
`OCT 18 SAT`	Martin Gardner's Mathematics Articles
`OCT 19 SUN`	In Honor of Martin Gardner's 100th birthday, by James Randi
`OCT 20 MON`	Thinky the Dragon, a Jerry Andrus / Martin-Gardner-inspired illusion from ThinkFun™
`OCT 21 TUE`	Martin's 100th Birthday! Scientific American — A Centennial Celebration of Martin Gardner Included in the above article is this quiz: How Well Do You Know Martin Gardner? NYT NumberPlay Blog — Remembering Martin Gardner with Scott Kim, by Gary Antonick, 20 Oct 2014 NYT NumberPlay Blog — Martin Gardner: The Three-Card Swindle with Persi Diaconis, by Gary Antonick, 13 Oct 2014 Plus — Five Martin Gardner eye-openers involving squares and cubes BBC — Martin Gardner, Puzzle Master Extraordinaire Guardian — Can you solve Martin Gardner's best mathematical puzzles?, Alex Bellos, 21 Oct 2014 Center for Inquiry — Martin Gardner's 100th Birthday, Tim Binga Scientific American blog — Top Ten Martin Gardner Scientific American Articles 21 October 2014 Wolfram blog — Martin Gardner's 100th Birthday, Ed Pegg Jr, 21 October 2014 Top Ten Martin Gardner Non-Card Tricks — Max Maven Happy Centennial Birthday Brainteasers! by Aziz S. Inan, EE Professor, U of Portland, Oregon
`OCT 22 WED`	Martin Gardner: Reviewer — a new compilation!
`OCT 23 THU`	Tales plus Q&A about Life with Armand T. Ringer — Martin Gardner's son Jim at G4G11 in Atlanta, Mar 2014
`OCT 24 FRI`	Puzzlium — Three special new Celebration of Mind 2014 puzzle offerings from the Grabarchuk family
`OCT 25 SAT`	Mathemagician Crossword — by Dana Richards.
`OCT 26 SUN`	Skeptical Inquirer online — In Celebration of Martin Gardner, Oct 2014. Free access to over a dozen of his columns, including: Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire Bill Maher: Crank and Comic Bobby Fischer: Genius and Idiot and so on!
`OCT 27 MON`	New Gathering 4 Gardner → Videos! New Celebration of Mind → Videos!
`OCT 28 TUE`	NYT NumberPlay Blog — Ignited by Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart Continues to Illuminate, by Gary Antonick.
`OCT 29 WED`	Huffington Post — Top 10 Martin Gardner Books (This List Goes Up to 11), By Colm Mulcahy
`OCT 30 THU`	Top 10 Martin Gardner Alter Egos
`OCT 31 FRI`	Certain Glory Marks Martin Gardner's Centennial — Card Colm completes 10 years!
`OCT 32+...`	The Stragglers These Tricks and Treats just kept coming! Day 32 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Skeptical Contributions Day 33 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Obscure Facts Day 34 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Physics Stumpers Day 35 of 31: 10 Top 10 Martin Gardner Lists, yes 10 x 10 = 100 items to mark his centennial! Day 36 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Edited Books Day 36 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Obscure Books Day 37 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Children's Books — puzzles, math, sci, astronomy, verse, magic, wordplay & illusions. Day 38 of 31: Top 10 Quotes About Martin Gardner Day 39 of 31: Top 10 Quotes By Martin Gardner Day 40 of 31: A Million Business Cards Present a Math Challenge in Huffington Post, by Tim Chartier. Day 41 of 31: Books Edited by Martin Gardner. Day n+1 of 31: Top 10 Martin Gardner Centennial Tributes

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Be sure to visit the Martin Gardner Centennial page for all media releases and activities!

Martin honored with a Brick!

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Memorial Courtyard added bricks to honor columnists Martin Gardner & Massimo Pigliucci.

Martin was a Columnist for SI from 1983 to 2002

Meanwhile, over on Martin's typewriter....

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The Stragglers

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Martin honored with a Brick!