536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

388 Answers number l. The secret is to place six of each of two letters, and five of each of the remaining four, when we get our ...

Answers 389 THE HANDCUFFED PRISONERS The following is a solution. Every prisoner will be found to have been hand- cuffed to ev ...

390 Answers TARGET PRACfICE The total score was 213, so each man scored 71, and this could be done in the following manner: On ...

Answers 391 compelled to take the center, as in Figure G, to save the game, for this will result in a draw. If Nought opens with ...

392 Answers with any square on the board. As second player, Cross, I should take a comer if Nought led with a center and take th ...

Answers 393 below the second player (B) puts off defeat as long as possible. In the second game he prevents A scoring 17 or 30, ...

394 Answers THE NINE SQUARES GAME I should play MN. My opponent may play HL, and I play CD. (Ifhe had played CD, I should have ...

Answers 395 DOMINO FRACfIONS The illustration shows how to arrange the dominoes so that each of the three rows of five sum to ...

396 Answers A DOMINO SQUARE - • • • • • ••• · .' - • , • • • • , ••• •• • • • • • • · • • • • - -• • '-• '-' • -' - ...

Answers 397 DOMINO GROUPS The illustration shows one way in which the dominoes may be laid out so that, when the line is broke ...

398 Answers should have had merely to exchange that rrussmg number with a blank wherever found. There would thus have been no pu ...

Answers 399 DOMINO HOLLOW SQUARES It is shown in the illustration how the 28 dominoes may be arranged in the form of7 hollow s ...

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402 Answers 493. ARRANGING THE DOMINOES There are just 126,720 different ways of playing those 15 dominoes, count- ing the two d ...

Answers 403 you arrange the hurdles in the form of a square, as shown by the dotted lines, you only get room for nine sheep. TH ...

404 Answers AN INGENIOUS MATCH PUZZLE It will be seen that the second I in VII has been moved, so as to form the sign of squar ...

Answers 405 SOl. A MATCH TRICK You must secrete the match inside in the manner shown by the dotted lines in the illustration, so ...

406 Answers TWENTY-SIX MATCHES The illustration shows how the 26 matches may be placed so that the square is divided into two ...

1... ....... 508. HEXAGON TO DIAMONDS The illustration will show by the dotted lines the original position of the two matches th ...