Dissection Puzzles 119amusing puzzle to discover just where these two portions are joined together.
Can you divide the quilt into two parts, simply by cutting the stitches, so that
the portions shall be of the same size and shape? You may think you have
solved it in a few minutes, but-wait and see!
- THE IMPROVISED CHECKERBOARD
Some Englishmen at the front during the Great War wished to pass a rest-
fuJ hour at a game of checkers. They had coins and small stones for the men,
but no board. However, one of them found a piece of linoleum as shown in
the illustration, and, as it contained the right number of squares, it was decided
to cut it and fit the pieces together to form a board, blacking some of the
squares afterwards for convenience in playing.
An ingenious Scotsman showed how this couJd be done by cutting the stuff
in two pieces only, and it is a really good puzzle to discover how he did it.
Cut the linoleum along the lines into two pieces that will fit together and form
the board, eight by eight.- TESSELLATED PAVEMENTS
The reader must often have noticed, in looking at tessellated pavements
and elsewhere, that a square space had sometimes to be covered with square
tiles under such conditions that a certain number of the tiles have to be