536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

408 Answers 4 D., 2 S., ace H., ace c., 7 S., 5 D., 9 H., 2 H., Jack S., 6 D., Queen c., 6 c., 10 H., 3 S., 3 H., 7 D., 4 c., 2 ...

Answers 409 A SQUARE WITH FOUR PENNIES The illustration indicates how we may show a square with four pennies. The sides of the ...

410 Answers last mentioned, that is Saturday, because there are 5217 weeks and only 5 days. It will now be convenient to put the ...

Answers 411 SURPRISING RELATIONSHIP If there were two men, each of whom marries the mother of the other, and there is a son of ...

412 Answers three steps forward for one step backward, we perform the required feat in nineteen steps. AN AWKWARD TIME The Col ...

Answers 413 COIN AND HOLE Strange though it may at first ap- pear, a half-dollar may be passed through that small hole (made b ...

414 Answers 531. THE KEYS AND RING First cut out the keys and ring in one piece, as here shown. Now cut only half through the ca ...

Answers 415 therefore, be less above the brim of the vessel, and consequently it will hold less at the top of a mountain than at ...

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Index Absolute Skeleton, An, 45, 260 Accommodating Squares, 63, 273 Adding Their Cubes, 43, 258 Addition: Cryptic, 215, 412; A Q ...

420 Index Bhndness m Bats, 68, 276 Blocks and Squares, 70, 278 Blowing out the Candle, 217, 413 Blunder, Correctmg a, 92, 293 Bo ...

Counters, Adjusting the, 134, 339 Counters, Transferring the, 131,338; 132,338 Counting: the Loss, 74, 281; the Matches, 207, 40 ...

422 Index Economy in String, 108, 308 Effervescent Puzzle, An, 176,387 Egg: Cabinet, The, 79, 283; Laying, 50, 263 Eggs, Selling ...

General Election, A, 171, 381 Generous Gifts, 3, 225 Geometrical Progression, 75, 282 Going to Church, 156,365 Golf: Competition ...

424 Index Magistenal Bench, The, 171, 381 Making: a Pentagon, 83, 284; a Square, 122, 327; Squares, 63, 273 Maltese Cross, The, ...

Partner, A New, 6, 228 Party, Seating the, 179, 389 Passenger, The Pedestnan, 23, 241 Pat and His Pig, 105, 307 Patchwork: Cushi ...

426 Index Robinson's Age, 13, 233 Root Extraction, 36, 253 Rope, The Bell, 106, 307 Rose Garden, The, 92, 293 Roses, Shamrocks, ...

Star: (cont.) 347; The Hidden, 87, 289; The Seven- Pointed, 146, 351; The Six-Pointed, 145, 349; Squanng a, 114,317 Stars and Cr ...