96 LISTENER AUGUST 10 2019
DIVERSIONS
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LAST WEEK’S
SOLUTION
LAST WEEK’S
SOLUTION
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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.
- The sum of each vertical or
horizontal block equals the
number at the top or on
the left of that block. - 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
- TS Eliot.
- Pan American Airways.
- Poland.
- Gone with the Wind.
- Batman.
- Conga line.
- Michael Joseph Savage.
- Neutrality.
- Snow fell across much of the country,
including in Northland, for the
first time in living memory. - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.