536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

194 Domino Puzzles

pletes the circle. If the dominoes are laid out in the manner shown in our
illustration and I then break the line into four lengths of seven dominoes each,
it will be found th<.t the sum of the pips in the first group is 49, in the second
34, in the third 46, and in the fourth 39.
I want to play them out so that all the four groups of seven when the line
is broken shall contain the same number of pips. Can you find a way of
doing it?

485. LES QUADRILLES

This old French puzzle will, I think, be found very interesting. It is required
to arrange a complete set of twenty-eight dominoes so as to form the figure

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