218 Unclassified Puzzlesuse it in blowing out the candles. They failed, until he showed them the trick.
Of course, you must blow through the small end.
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530. RELEASING THE STICK
Here is a puzzle that will often cause a good deal of bewilderment amongst
your friends, though it is not so generally known as it deserves to be. I think
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it was invented by Sam Loyd, the American chess and puzzle genius. At any
rate, it was he who first showed it to us more than a quarter of a century ago.
It is simply a loop of string passed through one end of a stick as here shown,