Trilogy

The Big Game together with Three Cuts and Taino-Coffers belongs to a trilogy of mathematical puzzles formed during period 2010 - 2014. The game ABox was added additionally and is an appendix of the trilogy.

Although a primary aim was to create puzzles for an entertainment especially it refers to the Big Game a true is that the trilogy is a specific form of a presentation of a mathematical research covering a period more than 30 years. But the stories like the Legend about the Big Game telling about the friendship of 3 numbers 4 and their fourth friend the number 4, show that these parts of puzzles belong rather to realm of fantasy and mystery than to a serious mathematical research. They were added there first of all for entertainment but also in order to underline importance of fantasy in mathematical research because cultivation of fantasy still does not belongs to goals of mathematical research if I know. And it is a big pity because I believe that mathematical research and fantasy go hand in hand. (AB)