536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

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Unclassified Puzzles 213

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the table. Later I noticed that a fly pitched on the ring and walked in a line
over every one of the squares on both sides, returning to the point from which
it started, without ever passing over the edge of the paper! Its course passed
through the centers of the squares all the time. How was this possible?



  1. A MUSICAL ENIGMA


Here is an old musical enigma that has been pretty well known in Germany
for some years.

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  1. SURPRISING RELATIONSHIP


ANGELINA: You say that Mr. Tomkins is your uncle?
EDWIN: Yes, and I am his uncle!

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ANGELINA: Then-let me see-you must be nephew to each other, of
course! Funny, isn't it?
Can you say quite simply how this might be, without any breach of the
marriage law or disregard of the Table of Affinity?

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