Books
- Sam Loyd's Book of Tangram Puzzles (ISBN 0-486-22011-7): by Sam Loyd
- Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd (ISBN 0-486-20498-7): selected and edited by Martin Gardner
- More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd (ISBN 0-486-20709-9): selected and edited by Martin Gardner
- The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles (ISBN 1-886846-05-7): edited by Sid Pickard
- The 15 Puzzle (ISBN 1-890980-15-3): by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld
- Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks and Conundrums with Answers ISBN 0-923891-78-1
- Sam Loyd and his Chess Problems by Alain C. White
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