536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

328 Answers 349. TABLE TOP AND STOOLS Figure A shows the circle divided into four equal pieces, forming the Great Monad, and in ...

Answers 329 sliding the pieces F and C upwards to the left, and bringing down the little piece D from one corner to the other. [ ...

330 Answers form a true rectangle, then there is a long diamond-shaped space in the middle uncovered, as in the diagram. This sp ...

Answers 331 will be a long diamond-shaped space not covered, exactly equal in area to the supposed extra cell. In this case the ...

332 Answers TWO SQUARES IN ONE Place the two squares together, so that AB and CD are straight lines. Then find the center of t ...

Answers 333 [Victor Meally found many ways to solve this problem with as few as five pieces. Can the reader discover a five-piec ...

334 Answers THE DAMAGED RUG If we cut as in Figure I, the two pieces will fit together, as in Figure 2, and form a square. The ...

Answers 335 the mid-point on BH, and make CL equal to BK. BC is said to be divided in medial section, and we have found KL, the ...

336 Answers SQUARE AND TRIANGLE •••••... H Fold the square in half and make the crease FE. Fold the side AB so that the point ...

Answers 337 A CREASE PROBLEM Bisect AB in C and draw the line CO, parallel to BR. Then bisect AC in D and draw the semicircle ...

338 Answers COUNTER SOLITAIRE Play in the following manner and all the counters except one will be removed in seven moves, and ...

Answers 339 ODDS AND EVENS The fewest possible moves are 24. Playas follows. (It is only necessary to give, by the letters, th ...

340 Answers all being put in their proper places. Write out the numbers in their original order, and beneath them in their requi ...

Answers 341 THE FLANDERS WHEEL Move the counters in the following order: AND A F L N 0 A F 0 N L DRS 0 L N A FRS E R S L N A L ...

342 Answers case the warders have the opposition, and can win. We will give a specimen game. The warders' moves are above the li ...

Answers 343 carefully withdraw number 4 downwards and replace it above against num- bers 2 and 3. Then they will be in the posit ...

344 Answers AN IRREGULAR MAGIC SQUARE If for the 2 and 15 you substitute 7 bers can be arranged to form a magic and 10, repeat ...

Answers 345 SWASTIKA MAGIC SQUARE It will be seen that the square is perfectly "magic" and that all the prime numbers are plac ...

346 Answers yt (^5) 2t 0 5 10 1£^5 21, (SXg)-iS" ,.,.c, " ~^1 + 1.+-1+1t-i -+- -r !( '+'-t-(., i-t-S ,3-3 S (1'1. t)4-1t1t 'I Ii ...

A FOUR-FIGURE MAGIC SQUARE The solution explains itself. The columns, rows, and two diagonals all add up alike to 6,726, and n ...