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Read Ebook: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book by Pearson A Cyril Arthur Cyril
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev PageEbook has 1349 lines and 62659 words, and 27 pagesI never move, and yet I run From place to place all day; Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, Sees Dora in my way. These are the arrangements of the nine digits, by which they add up alike in rows, columns, and diagonals in a square; on all sides in a triangle; and from top to bottom and from side to side in a cross:-- The totals are 15, 20, and 27 respectively. HAATTCEUMSSSS Seven words in one of letters five we fix, Five English, and one Latin; No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, If puzzles you are pat in. The question was asked in a puzzle competition--"Why is every angler ipso facto an Ananias?" Although no such method was asked for or expected, we find that the very letters of the question can be recast into a most apposite reply. Our answer by anagram runs thus-- A liar, .. ..... gay fancies to a ..... .... Can you complete the sentence by filling in the missing words? On a board of sixty-seven squares, arranged as is shown in the diagram, place nine counters, so that no two are in the same row, column, or diagonal. The indentations do not affect the simple conditions. Peter White Will never go right; Shall I tell you the reason why? Wherever he goes, He follows his nose; And that stands all awry! If this appendage had slanted more Why would it serve a hole to bore? No. XC.--EXACT ALIGNMENT Can you arrange these nine cards so that they form ten rows with three cards in each row? This may, of course, be done with any nine cards. Thieaonunhinemileuchtormapa Aitutoaeucceorlo; Pringweetnetillpoeemoygra, Aummertreemaofthadeacro. Separate these strings of letters into words that scan and rhyme, adding the same missing letter in 55 places. Two ladies and their squires, here represented by the White Knights and the Black, were dressed to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, and took their places on the corners of a pavement chequered to represent a chessboard, as is shown below:-- They undertook to step a figure which should exhibit at each pause a revolving square, and in three paces bring them together in the centre, by a course traced upon the lines of their combined monograms. What were their successive steps? Can you disentangle all this good advice? It forms 5 excellent maxims in its 36 cells. Protected, open, plain, Without my tail I'm flat; I'm round curtailed again; Again, you have me pat. Study this quaint figure carefully, and try to discover how it can be divided into two pieces, so that these can be reunited to form a perfect circle. When all are gay this holds the sway, But take a letter out, That change of fare is ruling there, You see, without a doubt. Behead me twice; it is not nice To have this in your skin; Lop head and tail, and find a nail Or tack to drive it in. Behind his right, and in your sight A little word you find; But you will never make it out, Though it is in your mind. When Tommy was offered all the money by his uncle if he could place 15 half-crowns and 15 pennies in such order in a circle that, counting always by nines, and starting at a fixed point, he came always upon a penny, and removed it from the circle, he found the key to success in this Latin line, given to him by a school friend, who shared the spoil--"Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat." The vowels, from a to u, are numbered from 1 to 5, and when they are thus marked in the sentence-- "Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat," 4 5 21 3 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns and pennies. This smart advertisement of a polish known as "Old Dutch Cleanser" appeared in an American paper:-- The opening words of the anagram are "O rub on, sir."--Can our solvers complete the sentence? Replace all these 51 pieces on the chessboard, so that no Queen attacks another Queen, no Rook another Rook, no Bishop another Bishop, and no Knight another Knight. No account is to be taken of the intervening pieces, but each type of piece is to be considered as if it stood alone upon the board. Here is a beautifully symmetrical specimen of the Knight's tour:-- Here is another beautifully symmetrical Knight's tour:-- It starts from the corner square, and the second half of the course has dotted lines. He ...... himself much on his skill, In many a burglary tried; But when he ...... open the till There was only a ...... inside. The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. Here is quite a curious pattern described by another Knight's tour:-- Three-fourths of me an act display, Three-fourths a bed for man; Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, Three-fourths have legs that can. I have a back without a spine; An arm without a bone is mine. My first is the French for my second, My whole a narcotic is reckoned. No. C.--A GOOD PATTERN Here is a very symmetrical Knight's tour, in which half of the moves are indicated by dotted, and half by unbroken lines:-- The letters of this sentence "Arrive to vote at it," can be so recast as to form two palindrome words, or words that read alike from either end. What are they? Here is another specimen of the Knight's tour, which is beautifully symmetrical-- Half of the course is marked with dotted lines. Sweet till I lose my head, Sweet-hearted then I show; Decapitate again, I spread, And cannot be below. Served so once more, I am not dead, But with fresh beauty glow. On the board below a verse of eight lines runs on the course of a Knight's move from square to square:-- Can you disentangle the little poem? "Dad," said little Tommy, "give me as much as I have in my purse, and I will put a shilling in my money-box." This was done, and the process was repeated for three more days. How much had Tommy originally in his purse, which was now quite empty? This is the way to draw three rabbits so that they have but three ears among them all:-- Two articles of English make, And three from foreign source. All these together you must take Where dramas run their course. On this table is shown in ten different ways how exactly 100 can be arrived at by the use of the nine digits, each appearing only once. "If it were possible, I should choose," said young Hopeful, "a life double as long." Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page |
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