Read Ebook: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book by Pearson A Cyril Arthur Cyril

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ft. This very curious effect will well repay a little patience, if it is not realised at once.

She loses her head when she joins the brides, He joins them after tea; But both are swept by ruthless tides Away on the western sea.

I have 91 bananas on my barrow, of two qualities; some I sell at four a penny, and the better sort at three a penny. If I had sold them in mixed lots at seven for twopence, I should have made a penny more. How many were there of each quality?

The Puzzle Problem--

A passenger in a first-class railway carriage notices that the top of a factory window due S.W. of him coincides with a mark on the carriage window, and does not move from it while the train is running five and a half miles.

At the end of that distance the compass bearing of the chimney is due N.W. How far was the passenger from the chimney when he first noticed it?

is solved by 3?/? miles.

We give a diagram to make the points clear.

As the chimney top does not move from its place on the window, it is clear that the train is running on a segment of a circle having the chimney for its centre. It follows that the observer's distance throughout is equal to the radius of that circle, and the radius of a circle of which the quadrant measures 5?/? miles is 3?/? miles within about 11 ft.

The cross had been taken out from the centre of this flag, and its owner, who had an ingenious turn of mind, found that by cutting what remained into two pieces, and rejoining them, he could make it into a perfect flag without any waste of material.

How did he accomplish this?

Add two more pieces similar in shape and size to that marked A, and one similar to B, C, and D respectively, and then readjust the eleven parts so that they form a perfect square.

How does the sluggard's garden grow? When ..... are high results are low. His borders ..... and bindweed spoil, No careful culture ..... the soil; But weeds that ..... are all alive Where ..... pink or rose should thrive.

The missing words are spelt with the same letters.

This is a simple arrangement of eight matches, by which two squares and four similar triangles are formed.

Correctly drawn results I yield. Varied, but welcome everywhere; But met with in the open field I'm banned if frequent, blest if rare. To this peculiar difference the clue Is called with much significance the cue.

Wait while I think the matter over, On holiday intent; The best I've seen is surely Dover, That pretty port of Kent.

Three towns are buried in these lines.

A hospital was built in six detached blocks, and it was the duty of the night watchman to go completely round every block at fixed hours to see that all was safe.

What was his shortest course?

So he camped all night by that river side, Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, For he knew that whenever the donkey died No other could be its ?.

Can you rearrange the twelve counters on this board of 36 squares so that there are two counters on each row, column, and diagonal?

There must not be more than these two counters in the same straight line.

This is a course by which the queen on a chessboard, starting from K R sq., passes over every square in fourteen moves.

"Did you score a score?" said Funniman to his schoolboy nephew, after a local cricket match. "No, uncle," said the youngster, "but if I had made as many more runs, half as many more, and two runs and a half, I should have made my twenty." How many runs did he get?

In the "Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book" we gave a figure similar to this, in which there were 653 interlacing triangles in four tiers of this character.

We now add a fifth tier at the base, and ask our solvers to determine how many triangles of all shapes and sizes can be counted within its enlarged borders.

Six letters spell the happy state Of two in love made one. The same six letters tell the fate Of marriage ties undone.

Place eight matches in a row, about an inch apart, as indicated in the diagram.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

The puzzle is to form these into four pairs in four moves, by moving one match clear over two matches every time.

My First's a bond, my Seconds weigh; These own the Rest of all my lay; Busy my Third; Fourth like the Pole, Whose opposite my Fifth makes goal.

For two months at the .... we played, Ere we were .... to Lord's; Alas! the score our champion made Was what a .... affords! The crowd in .... of thousands came But took scant notice of the game.

Place twelve matches, as is shown in the diagram, so that they form four squares.

?????? ?????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??????? ?????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ??????

Now remove three of the matches, and readjust the nine that remain so that they represent three squares.

Edwin and Angelina were far apart, when this message, with its touch of jealous resentment, reached her on the wings of a Marconigram--

"No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind!"

Quite equal to the occasion, she flashed back the reply--

"In love inconstant I no pleasure find!"

How did these messages reveal the places from which they were despatched?

In the four corner and four central cells of this nest of squares four matches are so placed as to represent ?/?, 1, 4, ?/??, 11, 12, 41, and 49.

Can you, still using only four matches in each case, fit different whole numbers or fractions in similar fashion into the other 28 cells?

Set down three figures in a line, Then multiply by four; This, if you use the proper sign, Makes five and nothing more.

Can you complete the top and bottom rows, the two side columns, and the two diagonals of this square by forming in each of them the same sentence so that it can be read in twenty different directions?

There are four words in the sentence of thirteen letters.

Ask anyone to fix upon a number between 1 and 60 inclusive, and to point out to you the square or squares in which it appears:--

Here is a little subtraction sum, which is not quite so simple as it appears to be:--

Try it as it stands, without reducing the distance to inches.

Can you, by supplying the missing words, turn a grilse into a salmon? One letter is changed each time, and, except in one case, the order of the letters varies:--

I never move, and yet I run From place to place all day; Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, Sees Dora in my way.

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