536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

208 Match Puzzles were matches. And using another six matches he could again do precisely the same. How many matches were there ...

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Unclassified Puzzles A PUZZLE WITH CARDS Take from the pack the thirteen cards forming the suit of diamonds and arrange them i ...

212 Unclassified Puzzles again. What is the lowest price it must cost him to join all the pieces together so as to form an endle ...

Unclassified Puzzles 213 I J r I I J I I I I I , the table. Later I noticed that a fly pitched on the ring and walked in a line ...

214 Unclassified Puzzles AN EPITAPH (A.D. 1538) Two grandmothers, with their two granddaughters; Two husbands, with their two ...

Unclassified Puzzles 215 very simple matter it is. Yet it is more than likely that you will at first take a great many more step ...

216 Unclassified Puzzles getting the tail of the other in its mouth, so that the circle formed by the snakes becomes smaller and ...

Unclassified Puzzles 217 "We were standing with a child in front of a large mirror that reflected the whole body. 'Why is it,' a ...

218 Unclassified Puzzles use it in blowing out the candles. They failed, until he showed them the trick. Of course, you must blo ...

Unclassified Puzzles 219 but not long enough to pass round the other end. The puzzle is to suspend it in the manner shown from t ...

220 Unclassified Puzzles included one here which, although not new, is really worthy of honorable mention. An English officer, a ...

Unclassified Puzzles 221 TANGRAMS Those readers who were interested in the article on "Tangrams" in Amuse- ments in Mathematic ...

222 Unclassified Puzzles [The reader interested in tangrams will enjoy two excellent new paperbacks: Tangrams: 330 Puzzles, by R ...

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Answers CONCERNING A CHECK The amount must have been $31.63. He received $63.31. After he had spent a nickel there would remai ...

226 Answers THE PERPLEXED BANKER The contents of the ten bags (in dollar bills) should be as follows: $1,2,4, 8, 16,32,64, 128 ...

Answers 227 A purely arithmetical solution is not difficult by a method of averages, the average cost per animal being the same ...