New Zealand Listener – August 10, 2019

96 LISTENER AUGUST 10 2019

DIVERSIONS

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LAST WEEK’S

SOLUTION

LAST WEEK’S

SOLUTION

683

MEDIUM HARD

Fill the grid so that every column, every row

and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

1 Place a number from 1 to 9

in each empty box.

2. The sum of each vertical or
   horizontal block equals the
   number at the top or on
   the left of that block.


3. Numbers may be used only
   once in each block.

BRIDGE BIDDING QUIZ SOLUTION

You are worth a raise to game in hearts. Once

you have decided that, you should make the

most descriptive bid available, namely 3S.

This is a splinter bid, showing a sound game

raise and a hand that contains at most one

spade. This may allow partner to bid a low

point-count slam when he has no values

wasted in the spade suit.

Awards: 3S (splinter bid) — 10, 2S (sound

heart raise) – 8, 4H – 6, 3H – 3.

CHESS SOLUTION

1 Bxd5 exd5 2 Rxc7! Rxc7 3 Nc5! and Black

resigned. After using up his pawn moves,

Black must move his king, allowing Bxc7, or

his bishop, when Bb7 is met by Nxb7+ and

Bd7 by Nxa6, in every case with an extra

piece for White.

10 QUICK QUESTIONS ANSWERS

1. TS Eliot.


2. Pan American Airways.


3. Poland.


4. Gone with the Wind.


5. Batman.


6. Conga line.


7. Michael Joseph Savage.


8. Neutrality.


9. Snow fell across much of the country,
   including in Northland, for the
   first time in living memory.


10. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.