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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play - A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book - -Author: Cyril Pearson - -Release Date: April 20, 2022 [eBook #67886] - -Language: English - -Produced by: MFR, Branden Aldridge, Harry Lamé and the Online - Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD -PLAY *** - - - - Transcriber’s Notes - - Text printed in italics have been transcribed _between underscores_, - underlined text =between equal signs=, and spaced out text ~between - tildes~. Small capitals have been changed to ALL CAPITALS. - - More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. - - - - -PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY - - - - - _=BY THE SAME AUTHOR=_ - - UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME - - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - STANDARD PUZZLE BOOK - - Crown 8vo. Cloth Extra. Gilt. - - -[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE - -Can you discover by anagram what the ape is saying to the elephant, from -this descriptive sentence? - - A sly tree-ape, he tries a rum telephone. - -_Exactly the same letters must be used._] - - - - - PICTURED PUZZLES - AND - WORD PLAY - - A COMPANION TO - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD - PUZZLE BOOK - - EDITED BY - A. CYRIL PEARSON, M.A. - AUTHOR OF - “100 CHESS PROBLEMS,” “ANAGRAMS, ANCIENT AND MODERN,” ETC. - - _PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_ - - [Illustration] - - LONDON - GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. - NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - FRONTISPIECE PUZZLE - - PAGE - PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY 1 - ENIGMAS, CHARADES, PUZZLES, &C., &C. 130 - ODDS AND ENDS 188 - SOLUTIONS TO PICTURED PUZZLES 202 - „ „ WORD PLAY 283 - „ „ ODDS AND ENDS 375 - - - - -PICTURED PUZZLES - - -No. I.--A GOOD SPECIMEN - -Here is a nest of magic squares, seven of them within the four corners -of one diagram:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║149│ 16│ 33│196│ 47│197│ 44│208│ 42│203│ 57│194│ 38│ 54│217║ - ╟───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╢ - ║177┃ 62│183│ 52│213│ 59│160│ 15│161│ 85│156│190│105│ 28┃ 49║ - ╟───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╢ - ║ 56┃147┃201│146│ 75│155│ 2│220│ 3│153│ 53│ 26│209┃ 79┃170║ - ╟───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╢ - ║162┃ 76┃148┃180│ 83│187│ 41│104│ 22│195│145│ 60┃ 78┃150┃ 64║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 74┃176┃ 4┃124┃119│ 37│154│ 48│186│138│109┃102┃222┃ 50┃152║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║221┃ 24┃175┃ 63┃ 86┃116│ 93│135│ 94│127┃140┃163┃ 51┃202┃ 5║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 10┃215┃ 69┃159┃134┃ 95┃ 98│126│115┃131┃ 92┃ 67┃157┃ 11┃216║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───┼───┼───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║219┃ 19┃165┃ 1┃136┃ 97┃130│113│ 96┃129┃ 90┃225┃ 61┃207┃ 7║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───┼───┼───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 8┃205┃ 84┃191┃ 87┃158┃111│100│128┃ 68┃139┃ 35┃142┃ 21┃218║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║214┃ 34┃144┃ 27┃112┃ 99│133│ 91│132│110┃114┃199┃ 82┃192┃ 12║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 14┃123┃ 55┃106┃117│189│ 72│178│ 40│ 88│107┃120┃171┃103┃212║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║206┃ 89┃181┃166│143│ 39│185│122│204│ 31│ 81│ 46┃ 45┃137┃ 20║ - ╟───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 58┃101┃ 17│ 80│151│ 71│224│ 6│223│ 73│173│200│ 25┃125┃168║ - ╟───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╢ - ║118┃198│ 43│174│ 13│167│ 66│211│ 65│141│ 70│ 36│121│164┃108║ - ╟───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╢ - ║ 9│210│193│ 30│179│ 29│182│ 18│184│ 23│169│ 32│188│172│ 77║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -As each border is removed a fresh magic square remains, in which the -numbers in the cells of each row, column, and diagonal add up to the -same sum, while each of these sums is a multiple of the central 113. - - -No. II.--A BORDERED DIAMOND - -By G. Slater - - ┌ - │ - ┌───┘ - │ 91 - ┌───┘ ┌ - │ 3 │ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 27 │ 25 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌ - │156 │154 │ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │161 │ 15 │138 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌ - │130 │153 │136 │ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │162 │147 │120 │ 69 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 39 │ 22 │ 55 │112 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 4 │152 │ 76 │ 57 56 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │168 │146 │139 │100 99 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 6 │ 21 │ 29 │ 45 44 43 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │157 │ 80 │ 30 │ 88 87 86 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 53 │ 41 │134 │123 122 121 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 10 │132 │ 89 │ 74 73 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │105 │ 67 │ 35 │109 108 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 5 │116 │137 │ 60 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │144 │ 19 │107 │ 95 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 11 │106 │ 68 │ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └ - │118 │ 77 │ 37 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 92 │ 38 │ - └───┐ └───┐ └ - │163 │148 - └───┐ └───┐ - │ 12 │ - └───┐ └ - │ 66 - └───┐ - │ - └ - - ───┐ - 1│ - └───┐ - 117│ - ───┐ └───┐ - 20│ 160│ - └───┐ └───┐ - 129│ 65│ - ───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 42│ 38│ 165│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 36│ 103│ 26│ - ───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 124│ 81│ 54│ 159│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 75│ 135│ 151│ 52│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 111 110│ 33│ 64│ 78│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 62 61│ 63│ 93│ 7│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 98 97 96│ 102│ 142│ 158│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 49 48 47│ 133│ 51│ 104│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 85 84 83 82│ 140│ 90│ 13│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 127 126 125│ 52│ 145│ 79│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 72 71 70│ 34│ 16│ 167│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 114 113│ 50│ 155│ 143│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 59 58│ 115│ 17│ 14│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 101│ 94│ 23│ 9│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 46│ 31│ 148│ 40│ - ───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 41│ 18│ 8│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 128│ 24│ 131│ - ───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 149│ 166│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 130│ 2│ - ───┘ ┌───┘ - 164│ - ┌───┘ - 169│ - ───┘ - -It is a perfect magic diamond as it stands, and equally perfect are the -diamonds that remain when each border of cells is removed, as is -indicated by the lines. - - - - -WORD PLAY - - -1. A PARADOX - - Two words in our region of puzzledom pose, - And claim, through the passage of years - That neither the pages of Johnson disclose, - While either in Murray appears. - - -No. III.--A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE - -Here is a magic square of 81 cells. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ 53│ 8│ 71│ 28│ 73│ 10│ 51│ 6│ 69│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 62│ 44│ 26│ 19│ 37│ 55│ 60│ 42│ 24│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 17│ 80│ 35│ 61│ 1│ 46│ 15│ 78│ 33│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 66│ 21│ 30│ 14│ 59│ 50│ 34│ 79│ 16│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 3│ 39│ 75│ 77│ 41│ 5│ 25│ 43│ 61│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 48│ 57│ 12│ 32│ 23│ 68│ 70│ 7│ 52│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 31│ 76│ 13│ 72│ 27│ 36│ 11│ 56│ 47│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 22│ 40│ 58│ 9│ 45│ 81│ 74│ 38│ 2│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 67│ 4│ 49│ 54│ 63│ 18│ 29│ 20│ 65│ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -If divided, as is shown, into 9 small squares, each of these is also a -magic square, and yet another magic square is formed by the totals of -these 9 squares arranged thus:-- - - ┌───┬───┬───┐ - │396│333│378│ - ├───┼───┼───┤ - │351│369│387│ - ├───┼───┼───┤ - │360│405│342│ - └───┴───┴───┘ - - -No. IV.--A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE - -This magic square, which has in its cells the first sixteen numbers, is -so constructed that these add up to 34 in very many ways. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 4│ 15│ 14│ 1║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 9│ 6│ 7│ 12║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 5│ 10│ 11│ 8║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 16│ 3│ 2│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -How many of these, in addition to the usual rows, columns, and -diagonals, can you discover? They must, of course, be in some sort -symmetrical. - - -2. A PREDOMINANT VOWEL - -Can you fill in the missing letters which are needed to turn the -oft-repeated “u” below into rhyming verse:-- - - .u.. .u.u. .u..u.., ..u...u. .u.. u..u.., - .u... .u.., .u. .u..u.. .u..u... ..u...u. ..u..; - ...u.. .u...., .u.. .u..u.. ..u... .u... .u... u..u.., - U. .u...., .u.. ..u..-.u.u., .u..u.’. .u...u. .u.. - - -No. V.--TESSELATED DIAMOND - -By G. Slater - - ┏ - ┃ - ┏━━━╃ - ┃ 13│ - ┏━━━╃───┼ - ┃113│ │ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼ - ┃ 12│ │110│ - ┌───╄━━━╅───┼───┼ - │ 42│ ┃ 9│ │ - ┌───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼ - │ 74│ │ 81│ ┃112│ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅ - │ 67│ │ 53│ │ 87│ ┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄ - ┃ 27┃ │ 49│ │ 50│ │ 35│ - ┏━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆ - ┃ 96│ │ 26┃ │ 46│ │ 72│ ┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━╃ - ┃ 30│ │ 95│ │ 97┃ │ 76│ ┃ 75│ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼ - ┃ 91│ │ 31│ │ 28│ │ 94┃ ┃ 40│ │ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╅━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼ - ┃ 92│ │ 90│ │ 25┃ │ 64│ ┃ 89│ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅ - ┃ 29│ │ 93┃ │ 58│ │ 62│ ┃ - ┗━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄ - ┃ 32┃ │ 66│ │ 60│ │ 57│ - ┗━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆ - │ 44│ │ 79│ │ 65│ ┃ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━╃ - │ 51│ │ 38│ ┃104│ - └───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼ - │ 88│ ┃ 22│ │ - └───╆━━━╃───┼───┼ - ┃ 99│ │ 23│ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼ - ┃100│ │ - ┗━━━╅───┼ - ┃ 21│ - ┗━━━╅ - ┃ - ┗ - - ━━━┓ - 106┃ - ───╄━━━┓ - │109┃ - ───┼───╄━━━┓ - 16│ │ 14┃ - ───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - │107│ │ 15┃ - ───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┐ - 11│ │100┃ │ 78│ - ───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┐ - │ 10┃ │ 56│ │ 71│ - ───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - 111┃ │ 83│ │43 │ │ 34│ - ━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┓ - │ 59│ │ 63│ │ 84│ ┃ 6┃ - ━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───╄━━━┓ - 68┃ │ 39│ │ 37│ ┃115│ │ 7┃ - ───╄━━━┓───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - │ 33┃ │ 85│ ┃ 3│ │116│ │114┃ - ───┼───╄━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - 61│ │ 82┃ ┃120│ │ 2│ │ 5│ │117┃ - ───┼───╆━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - │ 47┃ │ 41│ ┃119│ │121│ │ 8┃ - ───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - 54┃ │ 69│ │ 86│ ┃ 4│ │118┃ - ━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───╈━━━┛ - │ 73│ │ 52│ │ 80│ ┃ 1┃ - ━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┛ - 19┃ │ 45│ │ 48│ │ 36│ - ───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ 18┃ │ 55│ │ 70│ - ───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┘ - 103│ │105┃ │ 77│ - ───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┘ - │ 20│ │102┃ - ───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - 98│ │ 17┃ - ───┼───╆━━━┛ - │101┃ - ───╆━━━┛ - 24┃ - ━━━┛ - -In this ingenious diamond all rows and both diagonals add up to 671; in -the four corner diamonds all add up to 244; and in the central diamond, -and the 16 rows of threes surrounding it, to 183. - - -3. AN ENIGMA - - I see my first, I see my next, - And both I sigh and see - Joined to my third, which much perplexed - And sorely puzzled me. - ’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more, - Reversed ’twas scarce an ell, - With first and next it forms a whole - Clear as a crystal bell. - What is my whole? A splendid tear - Upheld in cruel thrall; - Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun appear! - And bid me gently fall. - - -No. VI.--MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION - -Here is a magic square, in which the rows, columns, and diagonals yield -the same product, 4096, by multiplication:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║128| 1 | 32║ - ╟───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 4 | 16| 64║ - ╟───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 8 |256| 2 ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It will be seen that the numbers in this square, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, -128, 256, are in regular progression, and 4096 is also the cube of the -central 16. - - -No. VII.--ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC SQUARE - -Here is quite a good example of a bordered magic square of sixty-four -cells:-- - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃ 1│ 56│ 55│ 11│ 53│ 13│ 14│ 57┃ - ┠───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───┨ - ┃ 63┃ 15│ 47│ 22│ 42│ 24│ 45┃ 2┃ - ┠───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───┨ - ┃ 62┃ 49┃ 25│ 40│ 34│ 31┃ 16┃ 3┃ - ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ - ┃ 4┃ 48┃ 28│ 37│ 35│ 30┃ 17┃ 61┃ - ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ - ┃ 5┃ 44┃ 39│ 26│ 32│ 33┃ 21┃ 60┃ - ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ - ┃ 59┃ 19┃ 38│ 27│ 29│ 36┃ 46┃ 6┃ - ┠───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───┨ - ┃ 58┃ 20│ 18│ 43│ 23│ 41│ 50┃ 7┃ - ┠───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───┨ - ┃ 8│ 9│ 10│ 54│ 12│ 52│ 51│ 64┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - - -It is a perfect specimen itself, and as each border is removed a fresh -perfect magic square is revealed. - - -4. A CHARADE - - Take for my first a quadruped, - Transpose one for my second; - My whole, a biped, quick or dead, - Is dainty reckoned. - - -5. BYRON’S ENIGMA - - I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age, - But in infancy ever am known; - I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage, - And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page - I always am greatest alone. - - I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon; - You may search all the sky--I’m not there; - In the morning and evening--though not in the noon-- - You may plainly perceive me--for, like a balloon, - I am midway suspended in air. - - Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain, - I am never in sorrow nor gloom; - Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign, - I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain, - Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb! - - -No. VIII.--A HARDY ANNUAL - -A magic square can be formed with the 81 numbers from 172 to 252 -inclusive, which in all its rows, columns, and diagonals will total -1908. It may interest our solvers to complete the square. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║216│175│224│ │ │ │240│199│248║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║247│215│174│ │ │ │190│239│207║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║206│246│214│ │ │ │230│198│238║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │213│172│221│ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │244│212│180│ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │203│252│211│ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║186│226│194│ │ │ │210│178│218║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║217│185│234│ │ │ │250│209│177║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║176│225│184│ │ │ │200│249│208║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -We have filled in, as a solid start, 45 of the 81 cells. - - -No. IX.--ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI” - -This magic square adds up in rows, columns, and diagonals to 1908:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║469│484│472│483║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║481│474│478│475║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║482│471│485│470║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║476│479│473│480║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Can you decide in how many other symmetrical ways the same total is to -be made? - - -No. X.--A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE - -In this magic square the rows, columns, and diagonals add up always to -33. - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - -Can you rearrange it so that the first stone (three-ace) shall occupy -the centre, now filled by the double six, and it shall still add up in -all ways to 33? - - -6. SHIFTING LETTERS - - I am bright as a whole - Till you cut off my head; - Then as black as a coal, - Or a mortal instead. - - Shaken up and recast - We with science are found, - Read us back from the last - And we live underground. - - -No. XI.--CHESS AND NUMBERS - -The arrangement of numbers in the 36 cells of this square discloses a -very close affinity between chess and arithmetic. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 30│ 21│ 6│ 15│ 28│ 19║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 7│ 16│ 29│ 20│ 5│ 14║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ 31│ 8│ 35│ 18│ 27║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 9│ 36│ 17│ 26│ 13│ 4║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 32│ 23│ 2│ 11│ 34│ 25║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 1│ 10│ 33│ 24│ 3│ 12║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Can you follow this out? - - -7. A GOOD CHARADE - - _By Horace Smith, one of the authors of_ - “_Rejected Addresses._” - - In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still, - All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will; - Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry--a cry that doth express - A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness. - - In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard, - And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third. - Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed, - Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find. - - -No. XII.--NUMBERS PATIENCE - -Those who combine a fancy for “Patience” with some skill in numbers will -find amusement in filling the empty cells of this diagram with -appropriate numbers, each of which must consist of two figures:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 17│ │ │ │ 24║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 32│ │ 46│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ 14│ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 19│ │ 16│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ │ │ │ 20║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It is required that each of the rows across from side to side shall add -up, when all the cells are filled, to 143 exactly. No number must be -used more than once. - - -No. XIII.--THE WINDMILL - -[Illustration] - -Can you divide a square into 15 parts, which can be built up into this -windmill? - - -8. THRICE BEHEADED - - Untouched I tell of budding growth and life; - Beheaded I lead upward more or less; - Again--with varied fragrance I am rife; - Again--but little value I express. - - -No. XIV.--A NEST OF RECTANGLES - -In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to count a great number of -distinct and interlacing figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and -whose angles are all right angles. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -Can you decide exactly the number of these rectangles, and say how many -of them are square? - - -9. AN ENIGMA - - Search Holy Writ and you will see - A victory was won by me. - Behead me, and I may be found - In water or on hilly ground. - Behead again, and then transpose, - A snare my letters now disclose. - If yet again my head you sever, - No matter how sharp-set or clever - ’Tis all in vain you look about, - For no one yet has found me out. - - -No. XV.--ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE - -Can you, using all the dominoes except double five, five-six, and double -six, construct with the twenty-five stones a magic square that adds up -in all rows, columns, and diagonals to 27, and in which the stones in -the cells marked by the same figures in this diagram also add up to that -number? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 2 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 1 │ 3 │ │ 3 │ 1 ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 2 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - -No. XVI.--DOMINO PATIENCE - -The problem is to construct, with all the twenty-eight stones, a domino -pyramid of seven stages, starting with a single stone, and adding one -stone on each successive stage. - -The stones must be so arranged that the number of pips in any row or -column are in all cases exactly three times the number of half-dominoes -of which that line or column is composed. There are many solutions to -exercise the solver’s patience. - - -10. LEGAL PLEASANTRIES - - Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court, - “Now I’d bet, were we not in this place, - That my first is my second a bottle of port,” - Then bright with my whole shone his face. - - -11. RIVALS ON THE ROAD - -Six horse buses and four motor buses travel each hour from Temple Bar to -the Bank. The horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 minutes on the -journey. - -If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as possible, -shall I take the first horse bus that turns up, or wait for a motor? It -must be assumed that I can only see a bus as it actually passes me. - - -No. XVII.--A FRIENDLY HINT - -The father of this venturesome lad, who was on the point of breaking out -of bounds, came on the scene just in time to warn him in a sentence of -nine words, five of which were “Never throw a leg, lad.” - -[Illustration] - -Can you supply the other four words, which are spelt with _exactly the -same letters?_ - - -No. XVIII.--CATASTROPHE - -In this picture we see that a cat has sprung upon the table to interview -the parrot. - -[Illustration] - -The title “Catastrophe” recast by anagram, tells the parrot’s happy -thought at this critical moment, and the appropriate sentence, - - “New parrot-stand in a house,” - -tells, also by anagram, how he put this into instant operation. - - -12. A HISTORICAL CHARADE - - My first, if foolishly or rashly taken, - May mar the future prospects of your life. - My second, by her fickle lord forsaken - (Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife), - May toil and moil to feed his many babies, - While he goes flirting off with other ladies. - The thrifty monarch of a former age - My whole a place in Britain’s history fills. - Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages - As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills! - - -No. XIX.--A PRECOCIOUS BOY - -This is the picture of the first prize boy at a baby show. The judge, -noticing the position of one chubby fist, said to the proud mother, -“Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits.” - -[Illustration] - -To his amazement the baby, removing the comforting hand, replied in -eight words composed of _exactly the same letters_, “So to-day, sir, . -.... .. ...... .....” Can you complete the sentence? - - -No. XX.--AGAINST THE COLLAR - -The lady who is sitting at the back of this overloaded waggonette cries -out, in her sympathy with the struggling horse, “This big load quite -hinders his pull.” - -[Illustration] - -Her husband, full of holiday spirits and energy, answers her in a -sentence of mingled reproof and determination, which forms a perfect -anagram of the words of his wife, and describes his feelings and action. -Can you recast the letters? - - -No. XXI.--IN A BILLIARD-ROOM - -At the moment when a burly and keen player was in this strange and -striking attitude, - -[Illustration] - -a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is -striking!” - -Can you, using exactly the same letters, put into the mouth of the -marker a reply appropriate to the position? - - -13. A SAUCY MAIDEN - - My _second_, worn with pompous pride, - My _first_ had dangling at his side, - On chain securely hooked. - My _first_ he came from o’er the sea, - A bundle of conceit looked he, - And he was all he looked. - - She led him to the village green, - Where in desponding mood was seen - My _whole_, with drooping head. - “Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true, - And striking likeness, sir, of you!” - And, laughing, gaily fled. - - -No. XXII.--EVOLVING A PAINTER - -There are two English words which are appropriate to this picture-- - -[Illustration] - -One of them has as its anagram the very apposite sentence, “Or not a man -first;” the other treated in similar fashion becomes, “O I love nuts!” -What are the two words? - - -14. DOUBLETS - -Who can turn WHEAT into BREAD with six links, changing one letter each -time, and preserving the general order of the letters throughout? - - -No. XXIII.--THE PICK OF THE PACK - -How can we decide by anagram whether this is a fancy portrait of -“William or dear Jack?” - -[Illustration] - -Shake up and recast the words in inverted commas. - - -15. AN OLD ENIGMA - -Can our readers solve this enigma, which was published in 1811, and to -which no answer seems to be known? - - I’m one among a numerous host, - And very useful in my post; - There’s not a house in all the land - Without me properly can stand. - Though men disputed long ago - Whether I did exist or no, - Once more some thousands have been slain - Because they could not me attain. - - -No. XXIV.--A PICTURE PUZZLE - -Take this picture in connection with the lines below it, and find out -what it represents. - -[Illustration] - - Begin with the end of my first, - then you will find out the rest; - For it all will appeal to your thirst, - Or point to a ponderous guest. - - -No. XXV.--AN ANXIOUS POSE - -His wife, who chanced to see Jiggers at the trying moment here depicted, -said that he seemed to be in a “sad pet.” - -[Illustration] - -How was this literally true? - - -No. XXVI.--TOSS NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL - -Never was a cow so troublesome at milking-time. - -[Illustration] - -Our picture was taken at the moment when Farmer Hayseed was exclaiming, -as he held on behind, “See, we hold this cow’s horns and tail!” - -The same letters, recast by anagram, form this sentence spoken by his -foreman-- - -“She cannot toss, ... .... .... .. ..” - -Can you fill in the five missing words? - - -16. ANAGRAM PROVERBS - - These grave lips chatter no ill. - - or - - Elephants, all to richest giver! - -Can you recast the letters of these sentences so that either of them -forms the same homely proverb, to which the first anagram is most akin? - - -No. XXVII.--ACTION AND PASSION - -This very resolute horse and his anxious driver take quite different -views of the situation shown in this picture. - -[Illustration] - -We can fancy that the fast trotter, if he could be endowed with speech, -would say, “I’m a train’d stepper!” - -Can you take these same letters, and recast them into a sentence which -would seem to express the driver’s point of view? - - -17. A SHORT CHARADE - - My first of rudeness has a sound; - The rest is in a city found; - My whole to win its way is bound. - - -No. XXVIII.--A FEAT WITHOUT ARMS - -In this picture a clever artist who has no arms is seen calmly painting -with his feet. - -[Illustration] - -One onlooker says to another, “Why, now I see this fine artist has no -hand!” The other replies in a sentence which contains exactly the same -letters: - -“He draws in any fashion .... ... ... ... .” - -Can you fill in the four missing words? - - -No. XXIX.--NOT TAKING ANY - -“This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” said a crafty fisher of men to -his better half, who was helping him, as he showed her this illustration -of their aims. - -[Illustration: 1834 PORT] - -She knew, however, that the fish he sought to catch was not to be -tempted in this way, and she replied in words spelt with exactly the -same letters, “And see, he will not .... .. ... ....!” - -Can you fill in the four missing words? - - -No. XXX.--MUSIC HATH CHARMS - -This sturdy musical enthusiast, as he settled himself upon his chair, -said, “What shall I play?” and some one replied, “Any strains of -Beethoven, he charms all!” - -[Illustration] - -This suggestion, however, was not acceptable, and he, as he struck up a -piece after his own heart, exclaimed, in a sentence composed of exactly -the same letters-- - -“Nay, for this ’cello ...... .... . ......!” - -Can you supply the missing words? - - -No. XXXI - -This picture represents a parsnip lying across a sturdy swede. - -[Illustration] - -Can you so readjust them that they seem to suggest a successful -dramatist of the day? We give this broad hint by anagram-- - - “Here is our parsnip on swede.” - - ANAGRAM - - _Wise and superior person he!_ - - -No. XXXII.--A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE - -Can you fill the places of these 21 asterisks with only three different -letters, arranging them so that they spell a common English word in -twelve different directions? - - ● ● ● ● ● - ● ● ● ● - ● ● ● - ● ● ● ● - ● ● ● ● ● - - -18. A BURIED POTENTATE - - My first is in cake, but not in bun; - My second in light, but not in sun; - My third is in night, but not in day; - My fourth is in game, but not in play; - My fifth is in head, but not in tail, - My sixth is in wind, but not in sail; - My seventh in wrong, but not in right, - My eighth is in battle, but not in fight; - My ninth is in sword, but not in knife, - My tenth is in lady, but not in wife; - My whole is a monarch at war with strife. - - -No. XXXIII.--ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC - -First form a short sentence with the ten letters that are above the line -in this diagram:-- - - S B - R E - Y D - O T - U O - ------- - O E E - ======= - -Next number the letters of the sentence consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, -7, 8, 9, 0, and then work out a sum in addition with these numbers -substituted for the letters with which they correspond. - - -No. XXXIV.--A BUNCH OF FLOWERS - - -Find within these borders twelve specimens of flowers and foliage:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 ║ - ║ L│ L│ B│ H│ P│ E│ F║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 8 │ 9 │10 │11 │12 │13 │14 ║ - ║ L│ Y│ E│ L│ O│ R│ N║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║15 │16 │17 │18 │19 │20 │21 ║ - ║ I│ V│ B│ R│ I│ V│ K║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║22 │23 │24 │25 │26 │27 │28 ║ - ║ A│ L│ E│ T│ O│ N│ I║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║29 │30 │31 │32 │33 │34 │35 ║ - ║ C│ N│ A│ S│ U│ L│ P║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Move in any direction one square at a time, and so spell out their -names, using the same square only once in each case. - - -19. A CHARADE - - My first except when it is old - Is never seen or heard; - When it is heard the sound is tolled - Out of a Jewish beard. - My next was in Imperial Rome, - It was her power and might; - Then you had but to write _you wish_, - And straightway ’twas in sight. - - My whole was Frank - Of royal rank. - - -No. XXXV.--ON A BLACKBOARD - -To test the powers of his young pupils, Dr Puzzlewitz set the following -little problem on his blackboard:-- - - ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A - B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A ÷ B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ - -What are the values of A and of B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by -B, or of subtracting B from A? - - -20. RECAST - - How great in olden days my power! - Oft have I saved a castle tower - From war’s invading tide. - Transpose me, and how great my fall! - I am then the smallest of the small, - That nothing can divide. - - -21. WORD-BUILDING - - This compact Enigma take, - All apart its letters shake. - Let your 6, 3, 5 be high, - Like 5, 1, 2 do or die. - Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys - More than 5, 6, 2 by boys? - While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine, - May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine. - 4, 1, 5 is rich and rare, - 6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer. - -The figures indicate the position of the letters, which spell new words, -in the original six-letter word. - - -No. XXXVI.--SQUARING A DIAMOND - -Can you fill in the empty cells with letters, so that they form English -words which read alike from top to bottom and from left to right? - - ┌───┐ - │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┐ - │ │ │ │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ s │ │ │ u │ │ │ s │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ │ │ │ - └───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ - └───┘ - - -22. AN ENIGMA - - “Charles the First walked and talked, - Half an hour after his head was cut off.” - _Old Couplet_. - - Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King, - A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow. - Halve what remains, my second is a thing - Which nothing but my third can e’er make go. - My third will vary as you take your line. - This less than human, that way all divine! - - -No. XXXVII. - -Taking the letters as arranged on this diagram for a starting point, can -you place in some of the unoccupied cells five more of A, five of E, -five of I, and five of O, making eight in all of each letter, so that in -no case shall the same vowel be in the same row, column, or diagonal? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | A | I | E | O | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | O | | | A | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | I | | | E | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | E | O | A | I | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Each vowel is to be regarded without any reference to the other vowels, -and, of course, only one may be placed in a cell. - - -No. XXXVIII.--AN ANAGRAM SQUARE - -Mix together the letters which form the eight words on this draught -board-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ V │###│ O │###│ T │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ W │###│ O │###│ V │###│ E │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ P │###│ R │###│ O │###│ W ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ C │###│ A │###│ L │###│ L │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ S │###│ T │###│ E │###│ W ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ N │###│ E │###│ W │###│ S │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ C │###│ O │###│ R │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ N │###│ A │###│ P │###│ E │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -and recast them so that they form eight fresh words, which when placed -in proper order on the white squares, are a word square in which each -word reads alike from left to right, or from top to bottom. The first of -the fresh words is CROW. - - -No. XXXIX.--ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM - -Form a short sentence with the letters above the line in this diagram:-- - - D U - E H - E D - A P - S T - ───── - D E A - ═════ - -Number the letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and then -work a sum in addition, substituting these numbers for the letter with -which they correspond. - - -23. A LOGOGRAPH - - Touch me not, I’m firm and sure; - Behead, I’m used by rich and poor; - In house and cottage, hut and hall, - I stand of service to them all. - Behead again, in time of need - I tell that strength and skill succeed. - - -No. XL.--ANAGRAMS SQUARED - -Shake up the sixteen letters of these four words, and recast them into -four other words:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ S │###│ E │###│ E │###│ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S │###│ L │###│ A │###│ B │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ L │###│ E │###│ E │###│ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ M │###│ O │###│ A │###│ N │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -These fresh words, placed on the white squares, must read alike from -side to side, and zigzag from top to bottom. The first word is MASK. - - -24. A SINGLE ACROSTIC - - What river is that, where it is found, - Which Pope says does with eels abound? - What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded, - Is with bright birch and oak surrounded? - What stream is said in Devon to run - Into the sea near Otterton? - What bay on Cuba’s distant coast - Is justly deemed its pride and boast? - The initials of these names will show - A Scotch reformer, who, we know, - Flourished three hundred years ago. - - -No. XLI.--A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM - -Take the letters which form the words in these sixteen cells-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ A │ F │ A │ R ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T │ A │ S │ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S │ E │ A │ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ L │ E │ A │ L ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -and recast them so that they form a perfect word square. - - -25. A CHARADE - - My whole may be a mother, not a dad, - So former may, or latter; - But twist my tail, and I become as mad - As any hatter! - - Behead me, and behold I am a man, - Who never was called mister; - Cut off my tail, and instantly I can - Become a sister! - - -No. XLII.--QUITE A NOVELTY - -There are five English words in this square:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ c │ h │ e │ s │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ g │ r │ e │ e │ d ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ c │ a │ n │ e │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ r │ e │ a │ r │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ c │ h │ e │ e │ r ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Can you shake up their letters, and recast them into five other words -which form a perfect word square, and read alike from top to bottom and -from left to right? The first fresh word is CRESS. - - -No. XLIII.--HIDDEN PROVERBS - -Five familiar proverbs are hidden in this square of 169 letters, - - R E N O W N E D T H A N W - S Y O U R C A K E A N D A - S T E T O B E F E A R H R - E A R K S S P O I L E A F - L E O O H E R S N T D V O - O T M O T L I N O H T E U - N O S C A L A G M E H I R - S N I Y G O R S O B A T S - E N G N E N O T S R N P A - I A O A M O O T S O A E W - R C D E V I L A H T D A S - O U O Y N O I L D A E C A - T C I V R E H H T A H E Z - -The proverbs are arranged in a regular sequence. - - -26. RINGING SWEET CHANGES - -We are familiar with the anagram that so charmingly points to the -ministrations on the battle-field of Florence Nightingale--_Flit on, -cheering angel_--but it is not so well known that her name can also be -recast with an appropriate wish for her continuance in our loving -memory. Can you frame this? - - -No. XLIV.--A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM - -A French sentence of 100 letters in twenty-two words is concealed in -these 100 cells. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ D │ L │ A │ N │ N │ E │ S │ M │ P │ A ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ L │ I │ R │ D │ L │ E │ E │ M │ L │ H ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I │ L │ U │ E │ E │ A │ I │ N │ T │ J ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ C │ U │ R │ S │ E │ M │ N │ T │ U │ P ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E │ U │ É │ S │ N │ P │ R │ E │ O │ S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O │ L │ I │ É │ D │ X │ S │ M │ A │ N ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ U │ D │ E │ A │ E │ É │ I │ X │ N │ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T │ E │ T │ P │ E │ D │ N │ U │ Q │ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ B │ U │ U │ U │ F │ L │ I │ J │ I │ N ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ Z │ U │ E │ J │ I │ O │ E │ U │ N │ R ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It can be deciphered by means of a cardboard mask of similar size, with -circular holes cut out in some of its cells. This is placed squarely -over the diagram, turned round in four successive positions. And thus -the sequence of letters is found, and falls into words. - - -No. XLV.--SAM LOYD’S PONY PUZZLE - -The instant popularity of this clever puzzle was amazing, and its sale -is said to have run into millions years ago in America. - -[Illustration: The Pony Puzzle] - -Cut the pony into six pieces, as is indicated in the picture, and -rearrange these so that they show a trotting horse. - - -27. A REBUS - - I am - a man - I rate you - a beast - You know me. - -Can you put this into shape? - - -No. XLVI.--A CLEVER PUZZLE - -Here is another of Sam Loyd’s famous trick pictures:-- - -[Illustration] - -Can you rearrange the parts to show jockeys and horses in racing trim? - - -28. A CHARADE - -(_With Latin parts._) - - My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome, - Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread. - Long may it be before that fate shall come, - And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread! - - -No. XLVII.--A NICE BALANCE - -This boy is sure that if he takes his time, and watches his opportunity, -he will be able to reach and secure with his mouth the sugar on the -chair. Will he? - -[Illustration] - - -29. BURIED POETS - -The names of eight famous British poets are buried in these lines--that -is to say, the letters that spell the names form in their proper order -parts of different words:-- - - The sun is darting rays of gold - Upon the moor, enchanting spot, - Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved, - Up open to his shepherd cot. - - And sundry denizens of air - Are flying--aye, each to his nest; - And eager make at such an hour - All haste to reach the mansions blest. - -Can you dig them up? - - -No. XLVIII.--LEAF-FROG - -Here are six little hoptoads, as our cousins across the water call them, -three white and three black, going in opposite directions. A frog may -jump, one, two, or three steps, but no two may be together at any time. - -[Illustration] - -In how few jumps can the black frogs be seated to the left of their -white brothers? It is obvious that one of the white frogs must jump -first to the stool marked 1. - - -30. AN ENIGMA - - This multiplies me, I declare, - Though it reduces one; - A sty is foul if it is there, - By it a deed is done. - - -31. MISSING WORDS - - Lennie ...... the words he read, - Studying ...... fable; - Lennie’s mother ...... the bread, - Sophy ...... the table. - “Work while you are ......,” they said - “...... while you are able!” - - -No. XLIX.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -A very curious old print, of which this might well be the title, was -picked up on a bookstall. This picture shows clever designs for two of -the digits: - -[Illustration: - -1 - - _Se Pierot or Lun, - A Figure of One._ - -2 - - _Again he’s to view, - A Figure of Two._] - - -32. A CHARADE - - When I write with my first in my second, - My whole is quite sure to be in. - Divided afresh, there is reckoned - A wit, or a something that’s thin. - Prefix a letter, and, as dear as paint, - You see the name of an old English Saint. - - -No. L.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is the second pair of this queer company:-- - -[Illustration: - -3 - - _Now ’tis plain you may see, - He’s a Figure of Three._ - -4 - - _Behold him once more, - A Figure of Four._] - - -33. ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER - - My first, though half a noisy bird, - To a slight noise may turn; - My second twist, a stately word, - And it will bend we learn. - - -34. AN ENIGMA - - To half of ten add one, - Then half a score. - When this is duly done - Almost ten more. - This can be good for none, - But trial sore. - - -No. LI.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is the third pair of these quaint characters:-- - -[Illustration: - -5 - - _Now here we contrive - To make him a Five_ - -6 - - _He’s a Six here complete, - With his hands to his feet_.] - - -35. A BURIED PROVERB - -A proverb of eight words is buried here:-- - -I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous attempt to show -illegality, is as a cat chasing snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I -shun his example. - - -36. MISSING WORDS - - Quick ....... in action, now timid, now bold, - Like ....... of ropes far too rotten to hold, - ....... a ....... ....... and disasters - For a State that ....... not incapable masters. - -The six missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -No. LII.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is another pair of these quaint figures:-- - -[Illustration: - -7 - - _With some alteration, - A Seven’s his station._ - -8 - - _Here not being strait, - He forms a good eight._] - - -37. A CHARADE - - My first as an heir, - My second a snare, - My whole is the offspring of fancy, - Which I sent on its way - Last Valentine’s Day, - As a token of love to my Nancy. - - -38. A LOVER’S VOW - - My love shall never know my first, - Shall never be my second; - It shall my all, come best, come worst, - Be surely reckoned. - - -No. LIII.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is the final pair:-- - -[Illustration: - -9 - - _While drinking his Wine, - He appears like a nine._ - -0 - - _Nine Forms having past - He’s a Cypher at last._] - - -39. AN ENIGMA - - I am a letter, and a word, - I am a tree, I am a name, - Cut me in pieces with a sword, - You and your act would be the same. - Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt, - And use it twice if you would find me out. - - -40. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -If you “resist disasters,” how may this affect one of your home circle? - - -No. LIV.--A FREAK OF FIGURES - - 1 × 8 + 1 = 9 - 12 × 8 + 2 = 98 - 123 × 8 + 3 = 987 - 1234 × 8 + 4 = 9876 - 12345 × 8 + 5 = 98765 - 123456 × 8 + 6 = 987654 - 1234567 × 8 + 7 = 9876543 - 12345678 × 8 + 8 = 98765432 - 123456789 × 8 + 9 = 987654321 - - -41. A CHARADE - - My first the rainbow shows - When in rich hues it glows. - My next has vowels three; - My third was once a tree. - My fourth begins the year, - My whole the past makes clear. - - -42. ASK A SCHOOLBOY - -If you tell a schoolboy that the longest side of a triangular field -measures 100 rods, and that each of the other sides measures 50 rods, -and ask him to estimate the value of its grass at £1 per acre, how -should he answer? - - -43. A WHOLE LESS THAN ITS PART - - Less than my last, my whole has place - Between my first and second: - Second has body, arms and face; - First is by inches reckoned. - - -No. LV.--SPINNING WHEELS - -What is the smallest number of straight lines which can be drawn within -this square so as to enclose each of the wheels within separate -boundaries? - -[Illustration] - -While solving this, rotate the paper in your hand, and see the wheels -spin. - - -44. A HISTORICAL CHARADE - - My first at early morn the camp alarms, - And at its sound the soldier springs to arms; - My second nowadays fair ladies scorn, - Though in less dainty days it oft was worn. - My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground, - With victory the rebel forces crowned. - - -No. LVI.--FOUR QUARTERS AMONG FIVE - -A market gardener who has a large square plot of ground wishes to -reserve a fourth of it in the shape of a triangle for himself, as is -shown in the diagram-- - -[Illustration] - -and to divide the remainder among his four sons, so that each shares -equally, with plots of similar shape. How did he mark it out for them? - -This appears in a less perfect form in “The Twentieth Century Standard -Puzzle Book.” - - -No. LVII.--USE YOUR PENCIL - -Here is a simple little puzzle which may amuse anyone who has paper and -pencil at hand:-- - -[Illustration] - -Can you combine three figures similar to Fig. A with two similar to Fig. -B, so that a perfect Latin cross is formed? - -It is, of course, an easier matter to cut out five such pieces in paper -or cardboard, and arrange them in the form required. - - -45. MISSING WORDS - - I love strolling ....... that wander around, - Each ....... a ....... in versatile skill; - Each ....... so quaint, each idea so profound, - My barn’s at their service, whenever they will. - A company played there last night, but to-day - Ducks ......., and poultry have vanished away! - -The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -No. LVIII.--SUBTLE SELFISHNESS - -Four poor men were living in the cottages shown in this diagram, round a -central lake well stocked with fish. Four rich men built their houses -further afield, and selfishly determined to exclude their neighbours -from access to the water. - -[Illustration] - -How could they do this effectually without cutting themselves off from -the lake? - - -46. AN ARITHMOREM - - 150 hat robe or tent - -Can you form from this the name of a famous British author, treating the -150 as Roman numerals? - - -No. LIX.--FOR THE CHILDREN - -Cut out in cardboard four pieces of the shape and size of each of the -large patterns, and two pieces of the small one:-- - -[Illustration] - -Now arrange these ten pieces so that they form a perfect square. - - -47. SHEDDING LETTERS - - I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known, - Of all that are busy in country and town. - Take from me one letter, and yet my good name - In spite of this loss will continue the same. - Take from me two letters, and still you will see - That precisely the same in effect I shall be. - Take from me three letters, or even take more, - Yet still I continue as sound as before. - - -No. LX. - -The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into -nine parts by four straight cuts - -[Illustration] - -which can be reunited to form a perfect cross. - - -48. A SHARP BOY - -Tom Larkins, proud of his prize for arithmetic, challenged his sisters -to show on a blackboard that if 50 is subtracted from the sum of the -nine digits, the result is equal to the number obtained by dividing -their sum by 3. How did he prove his point? - - -No. LXI.--AN EASY ONE - -Take in paper or cardboard a figure made up of a square and half of a -similar square, thus:-- - -[Illustration] - -How can you, in the simplest way, divide it into four equal and similar -parts by four straight cuts? - - -49. GEESE TO MARKET - - B drove a goodly flock of geese, - And met with Farmer A; - Said Farmer A, “How much apiece - For this lot did you pay?” - Said B, “I paid for all I drive - Just six pounds and a crown, - And I am selling all but five - At the next market town. - If fifteen pence a head I charge - Beyond the price I paid. - I shall secure a sum as large - As he who sold all made.” - - -No. LXII - -Can you draw twenty-two straight lines within this circle so that they -divide it into four similar parts, each having three of the dots within -its borders? - -[Illustration] - -Each line must be at right angles to another. - - -50. A QUAINT CHARADE - - When second held first - For best or for worst, - I thought myself happy to win her. - But what could I say - When the very next day - She gave me the whole for my dinner? - - -No. LXIII - -[Illustration: _Cut up this triangle into 5 parts_,] - -[Illustration: _which can be reassembled to form this triangle_.] - - -No. LXIV.--ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE - -The peculiar series of numbers, as arranged in this triangular form, is -said to have been perfected by Pascal. - - ┌───┐ - │ 1│ - ├───┼───┐ - │ 2│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┐ - │ 3│ 3│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 4│ 6│ 4│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 5│ 10│ 10│ 5│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 6│ 15│ 20│ 15│ 6│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 7│ 21│ 35│ 35│ 21│ 7│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 8│ 28│ 56│ 70│ 56│ 28│ 8│ 1│ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -It has the property of showing, without calculation, how many selections -or combinations can be made at a time out of a larger number. Thus to -find how many selections of 3 at a time can be made out of 8 we look for -the third number on the horizontal row that commences with 8, and find -the answer 56. - -The series is formed thus: Set down the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., as far as -you please, in a vertical row. To the right of 2 place 1, add them -together, and set 3 under the 1. Then add 3 to 3, and set the result -below, and so on, always placing the sum of two numbers that are side by -side below the one on the right. - - -No. LXV.--MULTIPLICATION NO VEXATION - -This diagram shows an ancient and curious method of multiplication, -which will be novel to most of our readers. - - ^ - ╱│╲ - 2╱ │ ╲5 - ╱ │ ╲ - ╱ 1 │ 0 ╲ - ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ - 4╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲3 - ╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲ - ╱ 2 │ 0 ╳ 0 │ 6 ╲ - ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ - 3╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲4 - ╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲ - │ 1 │ 5 ╳ 1 │ 2 ╳ 0 │ 8 │ - ╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ - ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ - ╲ 0 │ 9 ╳ 1 │ 6 ╱ - ╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ - ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ - ╲ 1 │ 2 ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ - ╲│╱ - v - ───────────────────────── - 1 8 2 6 2 8 - ───────────────────────── - -In this instance 534 is multiplied by 342. Draw a square of nine cells -with diagonals, fill the three top cells, as is shown, by multiplying -the 5 by the 3, the 4 and the 2. Then multiply in similar way the 3 and -the 4 by these same figures. Turn the square round so that the diagonals -are upright, and add. Of course, placing the numbers thus is the same -practically as carrying them by our ordinary rule. - - -No. LXVI - -In this diagram 27 counters are arranged in 9 rows, with 6 in each row. - - * - ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ - * * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ * ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ - *───────*───────*───────*───────*───────* - ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ - * ╱ ╲ * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ * * ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - *───────*───────*───────────────*───────*───────* - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - *───────*───────────────*───────*───────────────*───────* - ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ - * - -Can you rearrange them so that with similar conditions they all fall -within the borders of one equilateral triangle? - - -51. A BURIED ADAGE - - The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum, - Blending so sweetly with the restful air; - The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come, - And well I ken the lass who meets me there. - -Can you discover a very familiar saying that is buried in these lines? - - -No. LXVII.--AN EIGHT-CARD PUZZLE - -Place eight cards of two different colours alternately in one row, then -with four moves bring all of one colour together. - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ │ 8 │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♡ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - -Two cards (without altering their relative position) are to be moved at -a time, and placed somewhere in the same line, one of them at least -touching another card. - - -52. MUTILATIONS - - A little beast without its head - Becomes a mighty beast instead; - But then the subject of my riddle - Is cut asunder in the middle; - And nothing this division gains, - Though unknown quantity remains. - - -53. MISSING WORDS - - Mary sat with ..... in hand - Writing ..... dramatic. - Did she ..... the plots she planned? - Negative emphatic! - ..... to us the ..... may be - But at ..... they’re new to she! - -The missing words are spelt with the same five letters. - - -No. LXVIII.--THOUGHT READING - -Cut out this diagram, and paste it on a card. Hand it to anyone, and ask -him to fix upon whichever number he pleases, and merely to tell you in -which columns this appears. - - ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐║ - ║│ I. ││ II. ││ III. ││ IV. │║ - ║│ ││ ││ ││ │║ - ║│ 1 33 65 97││ 2 34 66 98││ 4 36 68 100││ 8 40 72 104│║ - ║│ 3 35 67 99││ 3 35 67 99││ 5 37 69 101││ 9 41 73 105│║ - ║│ 5 37 69 101││ 6 38 70 102││ 6 38 70 102││ 10 42 74 106│║ - ║│ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 11 43 75 107│║ - ║│ 9 41 73 105││ 10 42 74 106││ 12 44 76 108││ 12 44 76 108│║ - ║│ 11 43 75 107││ 11 43 75 107││ 13 45 77 109││ 13 45 77 109│║ - ║│ 13 45 77 109││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110│║ - ║│ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111│║ - ║│ 17 49 81 113││ 18 50 82 114││ 20 52 84 116││ 24 56 88 120│║ - ║│ 19 51 83 115││ 19 51 83 115││ 21 53 85 117││ 25 57 89 121│║ - ║│ 21 53 85 117││ 22 54 86 118││ 22 54 86 118││ 26 58 90 122│║ - ║│ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 27 59 91 123│║ - ║│ 25 57 89 121││ 26 58 90 122││ 28 60 92 124││ 28 60 92 124│║ - ║│ 27 59 91 123││ 27 59 91 123││ 29 61 93 125││ 29 61 93 125│║ - ║│ 29 61 93 125││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126│║ - ║│ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127│║ - ║└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘║ - ║ ┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐ ║ - ║ │ V. ││ VI. ││ VII. │ ║ - ║ │ ││ ││ │ ║ - ║ │ 16 48 80 112││ 32 48 96 112││ 64 80 96 112│ ║ - ║ │ 17 49 81 113││ 33 49 97 113││ 65 81 97 113│ ║ - ║ │ 18 50 82 114││ 34 50 98 114││ 66 82 98 114│ ║ - ║ │ 19 51 83 115││ 35 51 99 115││ 67 83 99 115│ ║ - ║ │ 20 52 84 116││ 36 52 100 116││ 68 84 100 116│ ║ - ║ │ 21 53 85 117││ 37 53 101 117││ 69 85 101 117│ ║ - ║ │ 22 54 86 118││ 38 54 102 118││ 70 86 102 118│ ║ - ║ │ 23 55 87 119││ 39 55 103 119││ 71 87 103 119│ ║ - ║ │ 24 56 88 120││ 40 56 104 120││ 72 88 104 120│ ║ - ║ │ 25 57 89 121││ 41 57 105 121││ 73 89 105 121│ ║ - ║ │ 26 58 90 122││ 42 58 106 122││ 74 90 106 122│ ║ - ║ │ 27 59 91 123││ 43 59 107 123││ 75 91 107 123│ ║ - ║ │ 28 60 92 124││ 44 60 108 124││ 76 92 108 124│ ║ - ║ │ 29 61 93 125││ 45 61 109 125││ 77 93 109 125│ ║ - ║ │ 30 62 94 126││ 46 62 110 126││ 78 94 110 126│ ║ - ║ │ 31 63 95 127││ 47 63 111 127││ 79 95 111 127│ ║ - ║ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘ ║ - ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -You can then in a moment, and at a glance, pick out the number that is -chosen. - - -No. LXIX.--FROM PILLAR TO POST - -Let us suppose that these black dots represent a succession of pillar -boxes. It will be seen that a postman, starting from the circle, and -going along the dotted lines, turns round 18 corners. - - ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ○ ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● - -Can he take a course which involves fewer turnings? - - -No. LXX.--TRANSFORMATIONS - -Here is an ingenious paper and scissors puzzle:-- - -[Illustration: 1.] - -[Illustration: 2.] - -[Illustration: 3.] - -Divide a square card into three pieces, so that these can be reunited to -form No. 2 or No. 3 of this diagram. - - -54. COUNTING THE GEESE - -(_From an old Sanscrit source, quoted by Longfellow in his “Kavanagh.”_) - -Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, seeing the clouds -collect, flew to the Manus lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the -edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, and three couples were -seen playing in the water. Tell me, my young girl with beautiful locks, -what was the whole number of geese? - - -55. A THIRD IS A HALF - - Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be - That if you divide the whole number by three - You find the result will exactly express - The half of six hundred and sixty, no less. - - -No. LXXI.--A PUZZLE WITH CHESS PIECES - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │#♚#│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃#♖#│ │###│ │###│ │#♘#│#♖#┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -Leaving the Black King in his position, place the three white men so -that he stands checkmated. - - -56. PRESS PARODIES - -An American paper published the following:-- - - There was a young damsel, oh, bless her! - It cost very little to dress her; - She was sweet as a rose - In her everyday clothes, - But had no young man to caress her. - -Next day this parody appeared in a rival paper:-- - - There was a young ......, oh, bless her! - It cost very little to dress her; - Some ........... and ..... - About Thanksgiving time, - And they ... the last bit from the ....... . - -Can you fill in the missing words? - - -No. LXXII.--HEXAGONAL ILLUSIONS - -If we look with one eye only, or with eyes half-closed, at these groups -of circular dots, they assume the appearance familiar to us in -honeycomb. This is an effect of the contrast and opposition of the black -and white in the sensation of the retina. - -[Illustration] - -Although the black and the white circles are of the same diameter the -irradiation is in their case so intense that the white circles appear to -be larger than the black. - - -No. LXXIII.--AN ILLUSION OF ARCHES - -This excellent illusion appeared in a recent number of the “Strand -Magazine”:-- - -[Illustration] - -Most persons will at first see the passages under these arches as -running upwards from left to right, but presently, as their line of -vision shifts, the arches will take a downward course from right to -left. This very curious effect will well repay a little patience, if it -is not realised at once. - - -57. WHERE WAS THE WEDDING? - - She loses her head when she joins the brides, - He joins them after tea; - But both are swept by ruthless tides - Away on the western sea. - - -58. ON A BANANA BARROW - -I have 91 bananas on my barrow, of two qualities; some I sell at four a -penny, and the better sort at three a penny. If I had sold them in mixed -lots at seven for twopence, I should have made a penny more. How many -were there of each quality? - - -No. LXXIV.--IN THE TRAIN - -The Puzzle Problem-- - - A passenger in a first-class railway carriage notices that the top of - a factory window due S.W. of him coincides with a mark on the carriage - window, and does not move from it while the train is running five and - a half miles. - - [Illustration] - - At the end of that distance the compass bearing of the chimney is due - N.W. How far was the passenger from the chimney when he first noticed - it? - -is solved by 3¹⁄₂ miles. - -We give a diagram to make the points clear. - -As the chimney top does not move from its place on the window, it is -clear that the train is running on a segment of a circle having the -chimney for its centre. It follows that the observer’s distance -throughout is equal to the radius of that circle, and the radius of a -circle of which the quadrant measures 5¹⁄₂ miles is 3¹⁄₂ miles within -about 11 ft. - - -No. LXXV.--MENDING THE FLAG - -The cross had been taken out from the centre of this flag, and its -owner, who had an ingenious turn of mind, found that by cutting what -remained into two pieces, and rejoining them, he could make it into a -perfect flag without any waste of material. - -[Illustration] - -How did he accomplish this? - - -No. LXXVI.--FOR THE CHILDREN - -Add two more pieces similar in shape and size to that marked A, and one -similar to B, C, and D respectively, and then readjust the eleven parts -so that they form a perfect square. - -[Illustration] - - -59. MISSING WORDS - - How does the sluggard’s garden grow? - When ..... are high results are low. - His borders ..... and bindweed spoil, - No careful culture ..... the soil; - But weeds that ..... are all alive - Where ..... pink or rose should thrive. - -The missing words are spelt with the same letters. - - -No. LXXVII.--AN EASY MATCH PUZZLE - -This is a simple arrangement of eight matches, by which two squares and -four similar triangles are formed. - -[Illustration] - - -60. WHAT AM I? - - Correctly drawn results I yield. - Varied, but welcome everywhere; - But met with in the open field - I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare. - To this peculiar difference the clue - Is called with much significance the cue. - - -61. BURIED TOWNS - - Wait while I think the matter over, - On holiday intent; - The best I’ve seen is surely Dover, - That pretty port of Kent. - -Three towns are buried in these lines. - - -No. LXXVIII.--WALKING THE ROUNDS - -A hospital was built in six detached blocks, and it was the duty of the -night watchman to go completely round every block at fixed hours to see -that all was safe. - -[Illustration] - -What was his shortest course? - - -62. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS - - An Arab came to the river side - With a donkey bearing an obelisk, - But he did not venture to ford the tide, - For he had too good an *. - - So he camped all night by that river side, - Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, - For he knew that whenever the donkey died - No other could be its ‖. - - -No. LXXIX - -Can you rearrange the twelve counters on this board of 36 squares so -that there are two counters on each row, column, and diagonal? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -There must not be more than these two counters in the same straight -line. - - -63. A CHARADE - - What ho, my jolly _second!_ never say my _first_ - While my final you can find in Amsterdam. - Think how a sound _whole_ stays your hunger and your thirst, - Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam. - - -No. LXXX.--THE QUEEN’S TOUR - -This is a course by which the queen on a chessboard, starting from K R -sq., passes over every square in fourteen moves. - -[Illustration] - - -64. AFTER THE MATCH - -“Did you score a score?” said Funniman to his schoolboy nephew, after a -local cricket match. “No, uncle,” said the youngster, “but if I had made -as many more runs, half as many more, and two runs and a half, I should -have made my twenty.” How many runs did he get? - - -No. LXXXI.--A NEST OF TRIANGLES - -In the “Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book” we gave a figure similar -to this, in which there were 653 interlacing triangles in four tiers of -this character. - -[Illustration] - -We now add a fifth tier at the base, and ask our solvers to determine -how many triangles of all shapes and sizes can be counted within its -enlarged borders. - - -65. AN ENIGMA - - Six letters spell the happy state - Of two in love made one. - The same six letters tell the fate - Of marriage ties undone. - - -No. LXXXII.--A SIMPLE MATCH PUZZLE - -Place eight matches in a row, about an inch apart, as indicated in the -diagram. - - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - -The puzzle is to form these into four pairs in four moves, by moving one -match clear over two matches every time. - - -66. A TOPICAL RIDDLE - - My First’s a bond, my Seconds weigh; - These own the Rest of all my lay; - Busy my Third; Fourth like the Pole, - Whose opposite my Fifth makes goal. - - -67. MISSING WORDS - - For two months at the .... we played, - Ere we were .... to Lord’s; - Alas! the score our champion made - Was what a .... affords! - The crowd in .... of thousands came - But took scant notice of the game. - - -No. LXXXIII.--A MATCH PUZZLE - -Place twelve matches, as is shown in the diagram, so that they form four -squares. - - ══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ═══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ══════ ══════ - -Now remove three of the matches, and readjust the nine that remain so -that they represent three squares. - - -68. MARCONIGRAMS - -Edwin and Angelina were far apart, when this message, with its touch of -jealous resentment, reached her on the wings of a Marconigram-- - - “No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind!” - -Quite equal to the occasion, she flashed back the reply-- - - “In love inconstant I no pleasure find!” - -How did these messages reveal the places from which they were -despatched? - - -No. LXXXIV.--MATHEMATICS WITH MATCHES - -In the four corner and four central cells of this nest of squares four -matches are so placed as to represent ¹⁄₂, 1, 4, ¹⁄₅₀, 11, 12, 41, and -49. - - │ ╲ ╱ │ - │ ╳ │ = 1 - │ ╱ ╲ │ - - - │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ = 4 - │ │ │ │ - - - │ │ - │ │ - │ │ - ─── = 11 - │ - │ - │ - - ╲ ╱ │ │ - ╳ │ │ = 12 - ╱ ╲ │ │ - - ╱│ │ - ─+─ │ = 41 - │ │ - - │ │ - │ ─── │ = 49 - │___ │ - -Can you, still using only four matches in each case, fit different whole -numbers or fractions in similar fashion into the other 28 cells? - - -69. EASY MENTAL ARITHMETIC - - Set down three figures in a line, - Then multiply by four; - This, if you use the proper sign, - Makes five and nothing more. - - -No. LXXXV.--MANY READINGS - -Can you complete the top and bottom rows, the two side columns, and the -two diagonals of this square by forming in each of them the same -sentence so that it can be read in twenty different directions? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ R | I | | | | | V | | | | | I | R ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ V | | | | | | V | | | | | | V ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | | | | | | V | | | | | I | R ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -There are four words in the sentence of thirteen letters. - - -No. LXXXVI.--TOLD AT A GLANCE - -Ask anyone to fix upon a number between 1 and 60 inclusive, and to point -out to you the square or squares in which it appears:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 3│ 5│ 7│ 9│ 11│ 1║ ║ 9│ 10│ 11│ 12│ 13│ 8║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 13│ 15│ 17│ 19│ 21│ 23║ ║ 14│ 15│ 24│ 25│ 26│ 27║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 25│ 27│ 29│ 31│ 33│ 35║ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 40│ 41║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 37│ 39│ 41│ 43│ 45│ 47║ ║ 42│ 43│ 44│ 45│ 46│ 47║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 49│ 51│ 53│ 55│ 57│ 59║ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 60│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 17│ 18│ 19│ 20│ 21│ 16║ ║ 5│ 6│ 7│ 13│ 12│ 4║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ 23│ 24│ 25│ 26│ 27║ ║ 14│ 15│ 20│ 21│ 22│ 23║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 48│ 49║ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 36│ 37║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 50│ 51│ 52│ 53│ 54│ 55║ ║ 52│ 38│ 39│ 44│ 45│ 46║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 30│ 60║ ║ 47│ 53│ 54│ 55│ 60│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 3│ 6│ 7│ 10│ 11│ 2║ ║ 33│ 34│ 35│ 36│ 37│ 32║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 14│ 15│ 18│ 19│ 22│ 23║ ║ 38│ 39│ 40│ 41│ 42│ 43║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 26│ 27│ 30│ 31│ 34│ 35║ ║ 44│ 45│ 46│ 47│ 48│ 49║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 38│ 39│ 42│ 43│ 46│ 47║ ║ 50│ 51│ 52│ 53│ 54│ 55║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 50│ 51│ 54│ 55│ 58│ 59║ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 60│ 41║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -You can find the number at a glance, by simply adding together the -numbers in _the right-hand top corner cells_ of the square indicated. -Thus, if 45 has been chosen, 32 + 8 + 4 + 1 = 45. - - -No. LXXXVII. - -Here is a little subtraction sum, which is not quite so simple as it -appears to be:-- - - ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║miles furlongs rods yards feet inches║ - ║ 1 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 ║ - ║ 7 „ 39 „ 5 „ 1 „ 5 ║ - ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────── ║ - ║ ║ - ║ ═══════════════════════════════════════════ ║ - ║ ║ - ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -Try it as it stands, without reducing the distance to inches. - - -70. A DOUBLET BY MISSING WORDS - -Can you, by supplying the missing words, turn a grilse into a salmon? -One letter is changed each time, and, except in one case, the order of -the letters varies:-- - - To silver Tweed, or broader Spey, - The _grilse_ of ......, ...... gay, - Glides on; the ...... ...... draws - When _salmon_ follows Nature’s laws. - - -71. AN ENIGMA - - I never move, and yet I run - From place to place all day; - Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, - Sees Dora in my way. - - -No. LXXXVIII.--RANGING THE DIGITS - -These are the arrangements of the nine digits, by which they add up -alike in rows, columns, and diagonals in a square; on all sides in a -triangle; and from top to bottom and from side to side in a cross:-- - - ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║ ┌───┬───┬───┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ║ - ║ │ 8 │ 1 │ 6 │ │ 5 │ │ 5 │ ║ - ║ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 3 7 │ │ 4 │ ║ - ║ │ 3 │ 5 │ 7 │ │ 4 6 │ │ 3 6 9 7 2 │ ║ - ║ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 8 1 9 2 │ │ 8 │ ║ - ║ │ 4 │ 9 │ 2 │ │ │ │ 1 │ ║ - ║ └───┴───┴───┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ ║ - ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -The totals are 15, 20, and 27 respectively. - - -72. WHAT IS THIS WORD? - - HAATTCEUMSSSS - - -73. MULTUM IN PARVO - - Seven words in one of letters five we fix, - Five English, and one Latin; - No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, - If puzzles you are pat in. - - -74. THE GENTLE CRAFT - -The question was asked in a puzzle competition--“Why is every angler -ipso facto an Ananias?” Although no such method was asked for or -expected, we find that the very letters of the question can be recast -into a most apposite reply. Our answer by anagram runs thus-- - -A liar, .. ..... gay fancies to a ..... .... - -Can you complete the sentence by filling in the missing words? - - -No. LXXXIX.--NO TWO IN A ROW - -On a board of sixty-seven squares, arranged as is shown in the diagram, -place nine counters, so that no two are in the same row, column, or -diagonal. - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃###| |###| |###┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -The indentations do not affect the simple conditions. - - -75. A QUAINT RIDDLE - - Peter White - Will never go right; - Shall I tell you the reason why? - Wherever he goes, - He follows his nose; - And that stands all awry! - If this appendage had slanted more - Why would it serve a hole to bore? - - -No. XC.--EXACT ALIGNMENT - -Can you arrange these nine cards so that they form ten rows with three -cards in each row? - - ┌───┐ - │ A │ - │ │ - │ ♣ │ - └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ 1 │ │ A │ - │ │ │ 0 │ │ │ - │ ♢ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♠ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ Q │ │ K │ │ K │ │ J │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♠ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♢ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ - │ K │ - │ │ - │ ♡ │ - └───┘ - -This may, of course, be done with any nine cards. - - -76. A MISSING LETTER - - Thieaonunhinemileuchtormapa - Aitutoaeucceorlo; - Pringweetnetillpoeemoygra, - Aummertreemaofthadeacro. - -Separate these strings of letters into words that scan and rhyme, adding -the same missing letter in 55 places. - - -No. XCI.--AT A FANCY BALL - -Two ladies and their squires, here represented by the White Knights and -the Black, were dressed to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and -Learning, and took their places on the corners of a pavement chequered -to represent a chessboard, as is shown below:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ ♘ │###│ │###│ │###│ │#♞#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║#♞#│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ♘ ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -They undertook to step a figure which should exhibit at each pause a -revolving square, and in three paces bring them together in the centre, -by a course traced upon the lines of their combined monograms. What were -their successive steps? - - -No. XCII.--PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY IN CELLS - -Can you disentangle all this good advice? - - ╔════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ he ║ - ║ tell │you know│ tells │ knows │ tells │ should ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ not ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ you │ │ thinks │ │ is ║ - ║ do │ think │ does │ of │ does │ not ║ - ║ │ of │ │ │ │ good ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ believe│you hear│believes│ hears │believes│is false║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ spend │you have│ spends │ has │ spends │he needs║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ is ║ - ║ judge │ you see│ judges │ sees │ judges │ not ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ there ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ never │ all │ he who │ all he │ often │ what ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╚════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╝ - -It forms 5 excellent maxims in its 36 cells. - - -77. THRICE DOCKED - - Protected, open, plain, - Without my tail I’m flat; - I’m round curtailed again; - Again, you have me pat. - - -No. XCIII.--A DISLOCATED CIRCLE - -Study this quaint figure carefully, and try to discover how it can be -divided into two pieces, so that these can be reunited to form a perfect -circle. - -[Illustration] - - -78. A LOGOGRIPH - - When all are gay this holds the sway, - But take a letter out, - That change of fare is ruling there, - You see, without a doubt. - Behead me twice; it is not nice - To have this in your skin; - Lop head and tail, and find a nail - Or tack to drive it in. - Behind his right, and in your sight - A little word you find; - But you will never make it out, - Though it is in your mind. - - -No. XCIV. - -When Tommy was offered all the money by his uncle if he could place 15 -half-crowns and 15 pennies in such order in a circle that, counting -always by nines, and starting at a fixed point, he came always upon a -penny, and removed it from the circle, he found the key to success in -this Latin line, given to him by a school friend, who shared the -spoil--“Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat.” The vowels, from a to u, -are numbered from 1 to 5, and when they are thus marked in the -sentence-- - - “Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat,” - 4 5 21 3 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 - -they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns and pennies. - -[Illustration] - -Start counting with the half-crown marked _a_, and remove each penny as -you come to it on counting up to nine, and the conditions are fulfilled. - - -No. XCV.--A BUSINESS ANAGRAM - -This smart advertisement of a polish known as “Old Dutch Cleanser” -appeared in an American paper:-- - -[Illustration: - - Cleans - Scrubs - Scours - Polishes - -Old Dutch Cleanser] - -If the eyes of the proprietor should fall upon this column, he will be -surprised to find that his catch words _Cleans_, _Scrubs_, _Scours_, -_Polishes_, can be recast into a perfect anagram, singularly appropriate -to the powder advertised. - -The opening words of the anagram are “O rub on, sir.”--Can our solvers -complete the sentence? - - -No. XCVI.--A NEW CHESS PUZZLE - -By Henry E. Dudeney. - -Replace all these 51 pieces on the chessboard, so that no Queen attacks -another Queen, no Rook another Rook, no Bishop another Bishop, and no -Knight another Knight. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │#B#│ │###│ │###│ B │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ R │#R#│ R │#R#│ R │#R#│ R │#R#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -No account is to be taken of the intervening pieces, but each type of -piece is to be considered as if it stood alone upon the board. - - -No. XCVII.--A GOOD KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is a beautifully symmetrical specimen of the Knight’s tour:-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. XCVIII.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is another beautifully symmetrical Knight’s tour:-- - -[Illustration] - -It starts from the corner square, and the second half of the course has -dotted lines. - - -79. MISSING WORDS - - He ...... himself much on his skill, - In many a burglary tried; - But when he ...... open the till - There was only a ...... inside. - -The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. - - -No. XCIX.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is quite a curious pattern described by another Knight’s tour:-- - -[Illustration] - - -80. AN ENIGMA - - Three-fourths of me an act display, - Three-fourths a bed for man; - Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, - Three-fourths have legs that can. - I have a back without a spine; - An arm without a bone is mine. - - -81. A CHARADE - - My first is the French for my second, - My whole a narcotic is reckoned. - - -No. C.--A GOOD PATTERN - -Here is a very symmetrical Knight’s tour, in which half of the moves are -indicated by dotted, and half by unbroken lines:-- - -[Illustration] - - -82. PALINDROME WORDS - -The letters of this sentence “Arrive to vote at it,” can be so recast as -to form two palindrome words, or words that read alike from either end. -What are they? - - -No. CI.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is another specimen of the Knight’s tour, which is beautifully -symmetrical-- - -[Illustration] - -Half of the course is marked with dotted lines. - - -83. AN ENIGMA - - Sweet till I lose my head, - Sweet-hearted then I show; - Decapitate again, I spread, - And cannot be below. - Served so once more, I am not dead, - But with fresh beauty glow. - - -No. CII.--A KNIGHT’S POETIC TOUR - -On the board below a verse of eight lines runs on the course of a -Knight’s move from square to square:-- - - ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ sor │ to │ king │ good │ say │ luck │ loy │ eth ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ and │ moth │ a │ soon │ dis │ our │ to │ bad ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ place│ ry │church│ his │ force│ is │ hat │ al ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ er │ queen│ him │ wight│ he │ to │ may │ truth║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ man │ his │ and │ and │ chess│ es │knight│ op’s ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ a │ sneer│ the │ and │ un │ lawn │ of │ tates║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ cas │ that │ at │ less │ pawn │ no │ bish │ lant ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ eth │ faith│ tles │ hath │ the │ gal │ in │ love ║ - ╚══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╝ - -Can you disentangle the little poem? - - -84. TOMMY’S MONEY BOX - -“Dad,” said little Tommy, “give me as much as I have in my purse, and I -will put a shilling in my money-box.” This was done, and the process was -repeated for three more days. How much had Tommy originally in his -purse, which was now quite empty? - - -No. CIII.--THE MANX RABBITS - -This is the way to draw three rabbits so that they have but three ears -among them all:-- - -[Illustration] - - -85. AN ENIGMA - - Two articles of English make, - And three from foreign source. - All these together you must take - Where dramas run their course. - - -No. CIV.--SCORING A CENTURY - -On this table is shown in ten different ways how exactly 100 can be -arrived at by the use of the nine digits, each appearing only once. - - ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ - ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │ 9 ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 1 │ 1 │ 4 │ 95³⁄₇│ 56 │ 98 │ 6 │ 15 │ 15 ║ - ║ 3 │ 45 │ 53 │4¹⁶⁄₂₈│ 34 │ 1 │ 2 │ 2 │ 36 ║ - ║ 5 │ 7 │ 6 │ │ 7 │ ³⁄₆ │ -- │ 79 │ 47 ║ - ║ 8 │ 9 │ 8 │ │ 1 │ ²⁷⁄₅₄│ 8 │ ⁸⁄₄ │ -- ║ - ║ 9 │ -- │ -- │ │ -- │ │ 9 │ ⁶⁄₃ │ 98 ║ - ║ -- │ 62 │ 71 │ │ 98 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ - ║ 26 │ 38 │ 29 │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ ║ - ║ 74 │ │ │ │ │ │ 4 │ │ ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ 75 │ │ ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 ║ - ╠══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╣ - ║9 × 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 100. ║ - ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - - -86. IF WE COULD CHOOSE - -“If it were possible, I should choose,” said young Hopeful, “a life -double as long.” - -“Yes,” said old Sobersides, “and you might turn it to better account if -it was also begun old.” - -How did their actual words bear this out? - - -No. CV.--SEEING THROUGH A VEIL - -On a piece of clear tracing paper draw with pen and ink a close network -of lines, such as is shown in this diagram, near enough together to -conceal type of ordinary size. - -[Illustration] - -Place this on the page of a book, and challenge any one to read a -sentence, or even a word, through it, saying that you can do so easily. -How can you succeed? - - -87. A CHARADE - - Lop head and tail, and you will find - I have both tail and head. - Or if for spirits you’ve a mind - Set my tail first instead. - - Life, as “a vapour full of woes,” - With many a darker page, - My whole in picture will disclose, - For “all the world’s a stage!” - - -No. CVI.--THE PAPER RINGS - -In the diagram a strip of paper is shown (1), with its ends simply -gummed together; (2), with a single twist; and (3), with a double twist. -Can you decide, without actual experiment, what will be the result in -each case if these are cut completely round, as is indicated by the -dotted lines? - -[Illustration] - - -88. MISSING WORDS - - A glowing ........ window, graced - With ........ that true art has traced. - - -89. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -How do the actual letters of these words in their union prove that -anæsthetics are “blessed in pain?” - - -No. CVII.--THE MAGIC BUTTONS - -Make two parallel cuts with a penknife along the centre of a slip of -leather or other material, and below them a hole of the same width. Pass -a piece of string under the slit, and through the hole, and tie two -buttons, each much larger than the hole, to the ends of the string. - -[Illustration] - -How can the string be released without removing either of the buttons? - - -No. CVIII.--THE CAPTIVE SCISSORS - -Fasten a pair of scissors securely with a piece of string to some -convenient article, as is shown in this diagram:-- - -[Illustration] - -Can you release them without cutting or unfastening the string? - - -90. A BURIED QUOTATION - -“What sin was it, sonny?” said an American negress to her lover, when -she sat on his best hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her -musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was botany, but not hers, for -she was then a merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer this -mellow pine-apple, Leonidas,” she said; “I guess we Ethiopians just love -fruit!” - - -No. CIX.--A PRIMITIVE TRAP - -This diagram represents in the simplest outline a primitive wolf-trap. - -[Illustration] - -The dotted line is a gate opening into a circular enclosure. How was the -trap set and the wolf caught? - - -91. LADIES AT A SALE - - They .... the dress with grip so keen - That half the .... gives way; - And home return with purses lean - To .... of “bargain-day!” - -What are the missing words? - - -No. CX.--A SPINNING NEEDLE - -To balance a needle on the head of a pin, push the pin into the cork of -a wine bottle, and the needle into a separate cork. - -[Illustration] - -With the aid of three forks, as is shown in the picture, the needle may -be balanced and spun round on the head of the pin. - - -92. MISSING WORDS - -Air--“_Three fishers went sailing_.” - - Three ...... went sailing out into the west, - Out into the west as the sun sank low; - Each thought as they ...... of the lad she loved best, - For they all had ......, and each had a beau. - But seas will rise, and spirits will sink, - And they all were too ill of ...... to think, - So these ...... ...... back moaning. - -Each missing word has the same six letters. - - -No. CXI.--AFTER DINNER - -This diagram shows how, as an after-dinner trick, four similar -wineglasses can be placed on the table - -[Illustration] - -so that the centres of the lowest parts of their stems are equidistant -from each other. - - -93. A CHARADE - - Lurking in riddles oft my first is found; - My second should in ample stores abound, - Or help to make the sweetest songster heard. - Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third. - My whole has found with England’s monarch grace, - The verdant home of many a goodly race. - - -No. CXII.--SECOND SIGHT - -Ask any one, with this diagram to work upon, to think of any number -between 5 and 15, and, while your back is turned, to count up to it, -beginning at the lowest step, and saying one, two, three, four, and so -on, as each step of cards or single card is reached in the direction -indicated by the arrow. When the number thought of has been thus arrived -at, tell him to stop, and beginning afresh on that card, to count one, -two, three, etc., _backwards_, this time _skipping over the double six_ -and the 3 steps until he again reaches the number thought of, and -notices which card he has touched last. - -[Illustration] - -How can you, without having seen any of his movements, at once find that -card? - - -No. CXIII.--AN AFTER DINNER TRICK - -Cut a wedge out of an apple, as is indicated in the diagram, and make -six gashes as is shown. - -[Illustration] - -When this has been done, challenge anyone to divide the apple into six -pieces by only two straight cuts, so that there shall be one of the -gashes in each piece. - - -94. ALIKE TO THE EYE - - Accent my head, - An opening I appear - In other fashions said - I charm all far and near. - - -No. CXIV.--A TOY BOOMERANG - -Cut out in cardboard a boomerang as nearly as possible of the size and -pattern given here:-- - -[Illustration: BOOMERANG] - -Place it flat on the back of the first three fingers of the left hand, -sloping them upward; then flick it smartly with the second finger of the -right hand. It will fly off and return to your lap. Try it. - - -95. LONDON BY ANAGRAM - -Here are two simple sentences:-- - - A lamp shines out for thee. - Win me best by tears. - -Can you recast the letters, so that they form the names of two of the -most important buildings in London? - - -96. HEARD ON THE BRIGHTON BEACH - -It was low tide; two children were throwing pebbles into the sea, and -sending their excited collie in pursuit of them. The Puzzle Editor, who -was on holiday, quickened perhaps by the salt air, bethought him of this -appropriate riddle:--What is the difference between that dog and a -hungry man? - - -No. CXV.--IN THE GRIP OF A RADISH - -Cut a radish in half, press the lower surface firmly against a plate, as -is shown in the diagram:-- - -[Illustration] - -and you can lift the plate, to which it clings as closely as a boy’s wet -leather disc to the pavement. - - -97. FIND THE ANIMAL - - A part of me in rain, - A part in hail must be, - A part belongs to pain, - A part in bones we see, - A part in gleaming gold, - A part in common copper. - A part in peace behold, - A part in any topper; - Two parts are heard in sound, - And in our finals found. - - -No. CXVI.--ELASTIC PAPER - -The countryman who cut one hole in his door for the cat and another for -the kitten would find it difficult to pass a penny through a hole the -size of a shilling cut in a stout piece of paper. - -This diagram shows how easily it can be done:-- - -[Illustration] - -Fold the paper across the centre of the hole, place the penny in the -fold, and bend the lower corners of the paper upwards. This elongates -the opening, and the coin falls through. - - -98. A SMART ENIGMA - - Men commonly say I am clever, - Book-learning I never could boast; - Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover, - And when I am found I am lost. - - -99. MISSING WORDS - - .... is like a ..... or what is most - Comparative, a ..... is like a . ...; - For when their substances in liquor sink - Both properly are said to be in drink. - -One of the letters of the two short words is used twice in the longer -word. - - -No. CXVII.--THE NIMBLE SIXPENCE - -Place a sixpence on the tablecloth, and over it set a tumbler, as is -shown in the picture below. - -[Illustration] - -How can you pocket the sixpence without removing the glass, or having it -removed? - - -100. A PIED PROVERB - - ~abdeefiinnnoopprrrsssttuw~ - - -101. SELF-DEFINED - - A wordy warfare waged with wit, - In youth its joys none need descry; - But where our elders take to it - Its name points loss of dignity. - - -No. CXVIII.--HOW TO DRAW A SPIRAL - -How can you draw such a spiral as this with very simple appliances? - -[Illustration] - -This spiral is drawn rapidly without removing the pencil from the paper. - - -102. FIND THE HERO - - My first’s in garb, but not in dress; - My next’s in praise, but not in bliss; - My third’s in man, but not in miss; - My fourth’s in we. - - My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog; - My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog; - My next’s in calm, but not in fog; - My eighth’s in we. - - My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine; - My tenth’s in light, but not in shine; - My next’s in four, but not in nine; - My twelfth’s in we. - - -No. CXIX.--FOR HANDY FINGERS - -Take a piece of stout paper or thin cardboard, about 10 in. by 8 in., -and cut it as is shown below, removing the parts that are shaded in the -diagram. - -[Illustration] - -If you hold this between a plain wall, or other surface, and a strong -light, you will, with a little practice, be able to cast a shadow -similar to one or other of these Madonna heads, which will vary in -intensity and expression with the positions of the paper and the light. - - -No. CXX.--THE FOUR KINGS - -This excellent and easy little card trick will commend itself for -fireside use in the long evenings. - -Take the four Kings from a pack, and two other cards. Hold the Kings -thus, in the form of a fan-- - -[Illustration] - -hiding the two other cards behind the King of Diamonds. - -After showing them, place the six cards at the bottom of the pack. Now -move the lowest card to the top, and the two next cards to any part of -the pack, apparently leaving but one King at the bottom. Ask some one to -cut the pack, and all the Kings will be found together. Some appropriate -patter will help the effect. - - -103. PROVERB BY ANAGRAM - -Can you recast this sentence-- - - A defeat whose test is very sure-- - -so that the same letters form an appropriate proverb? - - -No. CXXI.--DOMINO SQUARE - -Its cells add up in columns and rows to 22, and those of the corner -squares add up to 10 and 12 respectively. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ 6 │ 2 2 │ 0 6 │ 5 1 │ - ├ ┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 1 │ 5 │ 4 │ │ 3 │ 3 │ 6 │ - ├───┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┤ - │ 3 │ 3 │ 4 │ │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ - ├ ┼───┴───┘ └───┴───┼───┤ - │ 0 │ │ 0 │ - ├───┼───┬───┐ ┌───┬───┼ ┤ - │ 2 4 │ 6 │ │ 5 4 │ 1 │ - ├───┼───┼ ┤ ├───┼───┼───┤ - │ 4 │ 2 │ 6 │ │ 2 5 │ 3 │ - ├ ┼ ┼───┼───┼───┼───┼ ┤ - │ 6 │ 6 │ 0 0 │ 3 1 │ 6 │ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - - -104. PHONETIC MISSING WORDS - - ’Tis ..... that no one takes a ..... - To .... a .... of ....s; - A .... may often take a .... - To .... away the ....s. - - -No. CXXII.--THE TALKING HEAD - -This, though quite an old illusion, may be a mystery to some of our -readers, so we give it a place among our many curiosities. - -[Illustration] - -The table is placed on the middle of a platform, well away from the -background, and the head, which is very much alive, is prepared to -answer questions, or to whistle, or to sing, at the will of the -audience. “How it is done” will be explained. - - -105. A QUEER OBSTACLE - - I’m in everyone’s way, - Yet no one I stop. - My four horns each day - Horizontally play, - And my head is nailed on at the top. - - -No. CXXIII.--A GENERAL OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - -[Illustration] - -With a little ingenuity, and by slightly warming the wax, and shredding -the matches for some effects, all sorts of comical figures can be -contrived, similar in character to this dignified general on his -high-stepping charger. - - -106. AN OLD ENIGMA - -(By a former Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.) - - Take five from five, and then - Put fifty in the middle; - Twice ten times five times ten - Will finish off my riddle, - And bring it to your ken - As fit as any fiddle! - - -No. CXXIV.--ANOTHER BOOMERANG - -Cut out in cardboard a cross similar to that shown in this diagram:-- - -[Illustration] - -Place one of its limbs under the thumbnail of the left hand, and give -the next projecting limb a sharp flick with the middle finger of the -right hand. The little boomerang will fly sharply forward, and -invariably return rapidly on its tracks. Try it. - - -107. PHONETIC GAPS - -Can you fill these gaps with words of similar sound? - - No ..... will ..... before the wind - A ..... will ... before it; - We cannot .... the ...., or find - That earthly powers ..... o’er it. - -The gaps in line 1 take words that sound alike; so do those in line 2; -and so do the other three in lines 3 and 4. - - -No. CXXV.--A PICTURE CHARADE - -Can you fill in the missing words so as to complete this picture -charade? - -[Illustration] - - My first may .... candle ..., - My second then ..... ..; - My whole in ..... moves ..... - ....... an oar or ... - - -108. SOUND SENSE - - We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty; - Reverse us, and we indicate a county. - - -109. A CRYPTOGRAM - - ~FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN~ - ~LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!~ - -Can you so deal with this as to form a rhyming couplet? - - -No. CXXVI.--WALNUTS AND COBS - -_A good after dinner trick_ - -Place four walnuts and four cobnuts in a row, as indicated on the -diagram. - -[Illustration] - -Now, moving always two that stand together, transfer them to some other -positions along the line, and in four such moves leave them so that the -large and small nuts range alternately. It may, of course, be done with -large and small coins, or with other things that are at hand. - - -110. A BURIED PROVERB - - Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly - Old memories steal anew; - With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry - They return in ghostly hue! - - -111. DOUBLETS - -Here is another exercise in Doublets, from Lewis Carroll’s book on the -subject:-- - -Turn ELM into OAK by seven links, introducing the name of another tree -as one of them. - - -No. CXXVII.--A PICTURE RIDDLE - -Can you read in this picture the question of our riddle? - -[Illustration] - - -112. TWO POSERS - -1. - - My dear Mr Bird, - We are giving a ball; - First second we third, - Pray give us your all. - -2. - - Second, I did my first and last, - Till I became my whole; - And told the tale of my repast, - A sad and greedy soul. - - -No. CXXVIII.--BUY A BROOM - -Here is an excellent example of how a characteristic figure may be -contrived by shredding, warming, and uniting a few wax matches:-- - -[Illustration] - -Many similar figures can be made by handy fingers. - - -113. A CHARADE - - My whole, industrious, wends his way - His daily task to meet; - Behead, transpose, and lo! a sound - Of music soft and sweet; - Behead again, I make my way - With swiftness past belief; - Again, and where the fields are gay - My bounty brings relief. - - -No. CXXIX.--JEU DE PARQUET - -(_For the children_) - -An old book, published more than 100 years ago, gives the following -samples of patterns which may be formed with very simple materials:-- - -[Illustration] - -All that is needed for this pastime is a set of 128 coloured triangles, -64 of each colour, with which an endless variety of patterns can be -arranged by the exercise of taste and ingenuity. - - -114. LINES BY AN OLD OXBRIDGE DON - - ’Tis an absurdity to say - Women should try for a B.A. - To College honours forward looking; - They’d best confine themselves to cooking! - -How could a Girton girl retort, using the same words? - - -115. LESS AND MORE - - Eight letters (start with b) - Three syllables contain; - Take one away, and see - Four syllables remain! - - -116. BURIED BEASTS - -Can you dig out nineteen beasts that are buried in these lines?-- - -Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long ago--at times in -battalions--to attack and harass her. Ambitious democrats now -countermine famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. Anarchy enables -cowards to sow hot terror and all amazement. - - -117. PALINDROMIC VERSE - -Can you recast the following sentences so that their words form a verse -of four lines, which makes good sense, with lines that rhyme -alternately, when read from either end?:-- - -Fading slowly day dies, mournful winds sigh, Stars are waking brightly; -owlet holding high revel flies hooting, breaking nightly silence. - - -118. AN ANAGRAM IN THE MAKING - -“The Observatory at Greenwich, in England,” has been turned into an -excellent anagram, which starts--_On landing here begin_--Can you -complete it? - - -119. AN ENIGMA - - No man at all am I - And, if you turn me round, - To hear my warning cry - Not any men are found. - - -120. ASK A SAILOR - - How can our sailors fare the best - When times are harder? - How do they greet with merry jest - An empty larder? - - -121. AN ENIGMA - - I lose my head when I am here, - Transpose me I am three; - Look in a book, you find me there, - And with me her and he. - - -122. MISSING WORDS - - Jack did ....... that he could square - The circle to a .......; - His friends ....... that a brain so rare - Required attention ........ - -The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -123. A HUMAN PRODIGY - - My father is my son, - And I’m my mother’s mother; - My daughter and sister are one, - I’m grandam to my brother! - -How was this? - - -124. A CHARADE - - Catch my first with nimble wit, - Add a simple word; - Then my whole may help a bit - Opportunely heard. - - -125. A PARADOX - - My mate and I from home did start, - Some little space we were apart. - When we had run a mile or more - We kept our distance, as before; - Shade of Colenso! could this be, - When twice as fast as I ran he? - - -126. AN ENIGMA - -(_From Lewis Carroll’s Papers_.) - - A monument all men agree - Am I in all sincerity, - Half cat, half hindrance made. - If head and tail removed should be, - Then most of all you strengthen me. - Replace my head, the stand you see - On which my tail is laid. - - -127. A CHARADE - - I’m known to the poorest and worst, - And my worth by a child may be reckoned; - The least thing in nature is double my first, - And my whole is just half of my second. - - -128. WHAT IS IT? - - My first without its head and tail - Is one and undivided; - My second shows its teeth, is frail, - And as a rule one-sided. - The two to hold my first avail, - My busy toil provided. - - -129. BURIED TOWNS - -In each of these sentences a town is buried:-- - - His sister played the piano while we sang. - - I saw Nell out here last evening. - - The general rode a large black mare. - - I have ordered a cab at half-past one. - - Meet me in the lane at half-past nine. - -Can you dig them out? - - -130. A GOOD ANAGRAM - -“The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy.” The first seven words of -its anagram are “A funny spot in a sweet city.” Can you complete the -anagram by adding four more appropriate words? - - -131. MISSING WORDS - - When they found that catacomb - Near the ....... at Rome - ’Twas the ....... discussion of the season; - But the ....... effect - Of the skeletons select - Deprived the poor Professor of his reason! - - -132. A CHARADE - - My first is pretence, - My second a dandy; - When fogs are most dense - My whole will be handy. - - -133. A DECISIVE ANAGRAM - -Can you prove by anagram that, whatever may be true of other plays -accredited to Shakespeare, Bacon had certainly no hand in “Much Ado -About Nothinge,” if we adopt the old spelling of the final word? - - -134. RATHER OBSCURE - - Use all your wits to guess my all, - Can any guess it right? - Transposed, and never seen at all, - It still is felt in sight. - Behead, transpose, then let it be, - And you at last a clue may see. - - -135. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS - -Can you recast “Insanitary” and “Sanitary Reform” so as to form two very -appropriate anagrams? - - -136. A CHARADE - - Let my second cut my first - When I come to table; - Though I cannot quench your thirst - Eat me--you are able. - - -137. MISSING LETTERS - - whtmrslndsosdlyswr? - whtdyssdrksdysthtwrslrm? - lssknyskthndfr, - llshllcllwrhrssndhrm. - whycllsblldstlkthtghstlyrt - llgllntctsgrndndmntyprt? - -Can you supply the missing letters? - - -138. A CHARADE - - To me when whole, for I am sweet, - The moon fresh brightness brings; - Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet - To sharpen other things. - - Behead me twice, and I have led - Soldiers to face the foe; - Headless and tailless, one remains - Though all the rest may go. - - -139. IS IT BANTING? - - We start when the ninth hour is past, - Then there’s an end of you. - A vengeful goddess shows at last - What Antifat will do. - - -140. A CHARADE - - When on charades intent I take my pen, - To seek some hidden goal, - Over my first my second comes, and then - Quite overcomes my whole. - - -141. A PRIZE CRYPTOGRAM - -The following cryptic lines were sent as a reliable tip before a race in -which Petronel was to run:-- - - “Tell me, Ben, who tore it - Seek a plant for it, see Bob.” - -Can you discover their hidden meaning? - - -142. AN ENIGMA - - I have no form, I have no friend, - From me all come, in me all end. - And it is strange but very true - That I am here and nowhere too. - - -143. FACING BOTH WAYS - -Can you fill in this broken sentence, first to describe a curse, and -then to proclaim its cure:-- - - A sed end ought eat ease ain. - -using 16, and then 17, extra letters. - - -144. A CHARADE - - My first is a cover, - My second a city; - The whole you discover - With this if you’re witty. - - -145. BURIED RIVERS - -The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating with a message, and her -delivery was ever neat, with graceful pose in every attitude. - -Four rivers are buried here. - - -146. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -If the “shingle” on the beach at Brighton could speak, what would be its -boast? - - -147. A SIMPLE RECIPE - - She is as deaf as any post, - Incurable I fear; - She is my guest, I am her host, - How can I make her hear? - - -148. THE PLAINT OF THE REJECTED - -_A May-Day Dirge_ - - Refused, rejected as before! - Yes,[A] ... .. I know of yore. - ..... of youth, and deadly foe - To genius. Eastward then I go - With ..... undaunted, and my name - Through ..... shall yet resound with fame; - And subjects shall be mine by scores - From far ..... to Ganges’ shores. - - [A] More than one word. - - -149. “BETA IN GREEK MEANS LETTER B.” - -The clever play-writer who suggested these words as a phonetic excuse -for wife-beating might in another fashion invite a man to beat his wife -by merely calling him. What would he say? - - -150. A REBUS - - storm? an umbrella with all - a th me who alls mud. - - -151. BONES OF A PALINDROME - - NRNRMMHDLVLDHMMRNRN. - -Can you, keeping these consonants in their order, fill in vowels so as -to form a sentence which is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike from -either end? - - -152. A NICE POINT - -“Can you tell me,” said an undergraduate to his tutor, who was great at -Ecclesiastical Law, “whether the Pope would be allowed to bury the -Archbishop of Canterbury?” As some slight stress was laid on the -syllables _Canterbury_, the tutor for a moment suspected some trick, but -being assured that it was quite a serious question, promised to consider -the point. What should he reply? - - -153. A BURIED PROVERB - -While there are very many as kind as this, they know no task unkind. Can -you dig a proverb out from this sentence? - - -154. IN THE OPEN - - Kate gathers me where children three, - Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter; - He leads the way, and then we see - The other two come at her! - - -155. A BURIED QUOTATION - -(_From Shakespeare_) - -Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft -breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as -floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast. - - -156. PALINDROME ON A BEETROOT - -Fill in the necessary vowels, and form thus with these consonants in -their present order a perfect palindrome:-- - - ~RDRTPTPTRDR~ - -It must read alike from either end. - - -157. A CHARADE - - My _first_ we all do when we fail; - My _next_ is heard in rain or hail; - My _fourth_ a sheep of gender male; - My _third_ is one without its tail; - My _whole_ for foreign countries sail. - - -158. AMBIGUOUS - -On the outer wall of a Western college this was written: “Young women -should set a good example, for young men .... ...... ....!” What three -words will give a most ambiguous sense to the inscription? - - -159. AN ENIGMA - - I’m but a little letter, still - I have my duties to fulfil; - If off you take - My tail, and make - An alteration in my lot, - Though I seem shorter I am not. - - -160. DIABOLUS! - - Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir, - Why is it that the devil, - In spite of all his naughty ways, - Can never be uncivil?” - - Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain - To any mind that’s bright; - Because the ... .’ ........, sir, - Cannot be ... .’ .....!” - -Can you supply the missing words? - - -161. MISSING WORDS - - Beneath the ..... which shade the lawn - Her bicycle she mounted, - And with a ....., ere she had gone - An hour, ten ..... she counted. - It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her, - Till in the ..... she came a cropper! - - -162. AN INSCRIPTION WITH A POINT - -On the comparatively new organ at Ober Ammergau, on a brass plate above -the keyboard, is the following Latin inscription:-- - - QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT - SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE - IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT - -which may be freely rendered--“May those who sing the praises of Christ -be, by virtue of His Sacred Passion, one in the Father and in Him.” - -These lines contain a hidden point, beyond their obvious interpretation. -Can you discover it? - - -163. BY ANAGRAM - - A woman’s name - Of foreign fame, - Hers was a noble mind. - Now, sir, transpose, - And I suppose - No smaller thing you’ll find. - - -164. A FRENCH CHARADE - - Pour avoir mon _premier_ - Femme qui cache mon _dernier_ - Manque souvent mon _entier_. - - -165. A CHARADE - - Let go! let go! you naughty first, - Or you will make my second; - A stream of words will then outburst, - Swift as my whole is reckoned. - - -166. OUT OF DATE - - My first is first when cruisers charge in line, - And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine. - - Don’t spare my second if you would suggest - To an impulsive child the way that’s best. - - My sporting whole, though now neglected grown, - Travelled by tube before the tube was known. - - -167. AN ENIGMA - - First of men we lead a measure, - Last we end the same. - Starting merrily, our pleasure - Is to finish lame. - - -168. TESTED BY DICTATION - -Tom, home for the holidays, and in teasing mood, declared that he could -give his sister quite a simple sentence of seven common words of one -syllable, which she could not produce with her new typewriter. What was -his sentence? - - -169. ASCRIBED TO VOLTAIRE - -This French charade, ascribed by some to Lady Waterford, and by others -to Voltaire, has neat points:-- - - Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur, - Mon tout est le diable lui-même. - Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien, - Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême. - - -170. AT THE GUILDHALL - -Sydney Smith, when questioned as to the value and satisfaction of a City -feast, said: “I cannot wholly value a dinner by the .... ... ..” Can you -supply the finish of his witty reply? - - -171. - - In youth exalted high in air, - Or bathing in the streamlet fair, - Nature to form me took delight - And clothed my body all in white; - My person tall and slender waist - On either side with fringes graced; - Till me that tyrant Man espied, - And dragg’d me from my mother’s side. - No wonder that I look so thin, - The monster stripp’d me to the skin; - My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d, - And head and foot both off he lopp’d; - And then, with heart more hard than stone, - Pick’d all the marrow from my bone. - To vex me more, he took a freak - To slit my tongue, and make me speak. - But that which wonderful appears, - I speak to eyes and not to ears. - All languages I now command - Yet not a word I understand. - - -172. A YOUNG SHAVER - -Happy in the possession of a KEEN KUT, the newest form of safety razor, -and meeting a friend whose chin bore painful traces of a less trusty -blade, an undergraduate who had a turn for puzzles propounded this -riddle: “What is the difference between my razor and yours?” Can you -answer it? - - -173. DECAPITATIONS - - The ship rode in an ....... bay, - Asleep ...... the master lay. - A ..... and rugged man was he - And, like a .... at home at sea. - Like swooping ... he caught his prey - Whene’er an .. came his way. - But while due . the needle kept - He in his cabin lay and slept. - -The missing word in the first line has seven letters; its first letter -is cut off to form the second missing word, and this process is repeated -throughout the seven lines. - - -174. A CHARADE - - When the tempest roars the loudest - Oft my first a shelter proves. - Say what fair one, though the proudest, - Spurns my next from one she loves? - When the storms of life are past - Earth provides my whole at last. - - -175. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS - - One syllable, I help to turn the scale - Of party strife or faction; - Recast me, and two syllables avail - To stop all further action. - - -176. FILL IN THE VOWELS - -Lines to an owl:-- - - ~HNLDTWRSTHGLMWL~ - ~THLVSTTHTTHLVSTTHWL~ - ~RNLDKSRHLLWTN~ - ~SLSTSSLMNSNDSLN~ - ~SMRNFLNNLVSTG~ - ~RFRHTNGHWLSTKNW~ - -As a hint, the last line is:-- - - Or of your hooting howls to know. - - -177. ARMY ANAGRAMS - -Here is an excellent little exercise for patient or quick-witted -solvers:-- - - I’m free to-day, the _old sire_ said, - _O no cell_ now have I to dread; - For this one happy day to me - _Are glen_ and hill and forest free. - I, if I will, can ride, or fish, - _A pit can_ enter, if I wish, - In search of chalk or sand. - In peace alone I now can dine, - And sing to Anna’s _lute at nine_, - Nor fear a reprimand. - -Each word or group of words in italics forms, when the letters are -shuffled and recast as an anagram, a military title. Can you decipher -them? - - -178. A CHARADE - - My first transposed becomes a name - Which may quite mean be reckoned, - Two syllables combine the same, - With one or two for second. - - My whole when fields are fresh and green, - And softly blows the wind, - Where the first signs of spring are seen - Within the woods we find. - - -179. AN ANAGRAM ENIGMA - - Silent long is the wood-bird’s song, - Bare is the woodland bough; - For waving trees in wintry breeze - Have “no buds now.” - -Can you recast the three words at the end, so that their letters form a -word descriptive of the scene? - - -180. A QUESTION OF TIME - - A farmer with children sixteen - Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock. - To divide it these children between, - What must be the time by the clock? - - -181. A DONKEY DRIVE - - To the far end of any train - Hitch on a pair of neddies; - Then you will hear, like steps of Cain, - The threat that in their tread is. - - -182. EATING BY ALPHABET - - Take all the alphabet and cast - Its final letter out; - Then set the first where was the last, - And this you bring about: - Without a cook, without a fire, - A dainty dish which men desire. - - -183. A CHARADE - - My second with my first we greet; - My whole in earlier days - Gave understanding to the feet - That moved in tragic plays. - - -184. PROVERB ANAGRAM - -Here is another proverb in anagram:-- - - Behest on thy lips, Society! - -Can you recast it, and so recover the proverb, with which it is quite in -keeping? - - -185. WHAT’S IN A NAME? - -An epidemic of anagrams broke out in a public school, and eight of the -prefects, having turned their Christian names into other words, -fashioned from them this sentence, which contains them all in order. - -“I, thy Tom, am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned.” - -Can you decipher them? - - -186. AN ENIGMA - - In any coward’s company you find - That I have place. - Cut off my head, and from your mind - All wrong erase. - - -187. A DOUBLE ACROSTIC - -(From _Punch_, 1875) - - My first elect among the few, - Chooses my second to expose his view. - - 1. Of various colours, changed at will, - I sit or stand for good or ill. - - 2. I rule alone from noon till night, - And when I am not am is right. - - -188. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Why should a man in a rage go to a “shooting gallery?” Each word has its -complete anagram. - - -189. QUITE A BEATITUDE - - Let her be or beat her, - Give her little ease; - Then in safety seat her - All among the bees! - - -190. CLEARING IT UP - - “We,” cried my first and second, - “Are not quite satisfied.” - “The story may be reckoned - Imperfect,” fourth replied. - Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,” - And so at last all ended well. - - -191. PROVERB IN ANAGRAM - - “I dare not admit faint women.” - -Can you recast these words so that their letters form a well-known -proverb? - - -192. A CHARADE - - My first and second are as best they should be, - My third in Latin mouth is what it would be. - My whole would soon be ashes if it could be. - - -193. MISSING WORDS - - Since Spooks, a ...... man is he, - ...... this haunted house to me, - In ...... funk I ...... round, - And fear a ghost in every sound! - -The missing words are spelt with the same letters. - - -194. WHAT IS IT? - -What is that which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, -and in no other place? - - -195. GRANDFATHER’S TURN - -“It’s grandfather’s turn,” cried the children at a Christmas party where -jokes and riddles have been rife. - -With a quiet twinkle in his eye, the old man said, “Do you know why is -the fourth of July?” Not one of them could understand or answer his -question, which seemed to lack finish and grammar. Can you? - - -196. A CHARADE - - My _first_ is never far away, - My _next_ in Latin found; - My _third_ may rage by night or day; - _All_ make melodious sound. - - -197. MISSING WORDS - - Through the ...... trees - Softly coo the doves; - Let a ...... breeze - ...... youthful loves! - - -198. AN ENIGMA - - At starting, half your income take, - Then for my second write; - And let your table help to make - The total cosy quite. - - -199. A CHARADE - - My whole is a circle complete, - Beheaded I fall to your feet. - Behead me again and I fry, - Or am baked in a savoury pie. - - -200. ANAGRAM WORDS - -Can you recast these short sentences into six single words? - - See a pug dog. Red paper. - Fat reward. - Stay, O morn. Set on a dish. - - -201. AN ENIGMA - - If my whole by my second and first you divide, - One more than ten thousand it gives. - In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died, - In museums my memory lives. - - -202. A PARADOX - - Though never present, I appear, - Of perfect form a token; - And all that centres round my ear - Is heard, though never spoken. - - -203. BEST WHEN BEHEADED - - Behead me twice, and it shall be - That I my perfect self regain; - Restore both heads and you shall see - That most perfect I remain. - - -204. MISSING WORDS - - Grant, lady, grant your ..... his whim, - And give the coming ..... to him, - For this will ..... his jealous heart, - Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart. - If not he ..... his hands of you, - To seek fresh ..... and pastures new. - - -205. A SEASONABLE PUZZLE - -(_Quite an ice one_) - - “Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill, - “That thirty-two is freezing-point; - And I can tell you, if you will, - Exactly what is squeezing-point!” - - -206. ILLUMINATING FIGURES - - To fifty add a third of one, - A third to five attach; - You have the means, when this is done, - To kindle any match. - - -207. MISSING WORDS - - The untrained .......... in the City - Is robbed by .......... without pity. - -The missing words are spelt with the same ten letters. - - -208. A CHRISTMAS CRACKER - -Comes Christmas merry? Hungry birds; no bright berries; rents high, not -paid; long bills; empty barns; no peace and prosperity. - -How can we amend this gloomy forecast? - - -209. ANAGRAM FLOWERS - -Six common plants are concealed by anagram in the following sentence. -The letters which spell each plant follow each other, but are in -disorder. - -O rise love it lad never let this lamb chase trains. - - -210. AN ENIGMA - - My first is quite a sin by name, - My third its simple cure; - My second puts an end to fame, - My whole of ease is sure. - - -211. A PARADOX - - Cut off my head, it is unshaken, - Cut off my tail, you turn it round; - But if both head and tail are taken, - Unconquered still I hold my ground. - - -212. WHAT ARE THEY? - - Why should we quarrel, First and Third, - With nought between us but a word? - - Let Third leave Second unessayed - To heal the breach these letters made. - - If your solution be but fair - You find my whole disjointed there. - - -213. A CRYPTIC ADDRESS - -“Next week,” wrote Funniboy from Naples to his friend, “I am going to -‘plant onions, etc.’ Let me hear from you.” How did his friend gather -his destination from these words? - - -214. AMONG THE GHOSTS - - In haunted house to sleep I tried - My dread _first_ was my chum. - “With _second_ of my _first_,” I cried, - “My _whole_ I should become.” - - -215. AN ENIGMA - - My first is possessive and second; - My second possessive and first. - Such banks most attractive are reckoned - By those for rich treasure athirst. - - -216. BONES OF A PALINDROME - - ~RPLVLSLVLPR~ - -Can you insert the missing letters, and complete the palindrome so that -it reads alike from either end? - - -217. A WORD AND A BLOW - -“Now, dad,” said Tom Pickles to his father in the Christmas holidays, -“take this bottle in your left hand, and when I say ‘three!’ try how far -you can blow the cork into it.” - -The cork, smaller than the neck of the bottle, was placed just inside, -and as Tom cried, “One, two, three!” his father gave a lusty blow. What -was the result? - - -218. A GOOD RIDDLE - -When are acorns as strong as oaken posts? - - -219. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME - - PTTPBTNTNTBPTTPBTNTNTBPTTP. - -Can you add the vowels, and make a palindrome that reads alike from -either end? - - -220. MISSING WORDS - - The ..... of Shakespeare and of song - Have fair and dainty features; - But she I ..... my hopes upon - Excels those lovely creatures. - From ..... she ..... her name so dear, - She lives on ..... and honey; - She cannot ..... but she can steer, - And Madeline has money. - - -221. A NOVEL ANAGRAM - -A politician used a high-flown phrase, which implied inaccurate wording, -though some spoke of it as dust thrown in people’s eyes. Can you recover -the _two long words_ which he used, by anagram, from this sentence? - - Axiomatic intelligence, or dust. - - -222. A CHARADE - - My first your bosom friend, or man or maid, - Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid. - - My second, sounded double, tells of fate, - Or sounded single puts an end to hate. - - My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard, - That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d. - - -223. IS THIS TRUE? - -Woman without her man would be helpless. - - -224. SOME ANAGRAMS - -Can you recast these short sentences so that each of them forms a single -word? - - A moment’s cure. The old rocks. - Cod is nice. It lures a cat. - - -225. AN ENIGMA - - Without my head I circulate - With speed and inclination; - Without my tail, at any rate, - I still have circulation. - - Transpose three letters, in unbroken state, - I then receive the ashes of the great. - - -226. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Many will remember how often the great tenor, Sims Reeves, was prevented -from singing by his delicate throat. An excellent anagram can be evolved -from his name which, with some exaggeration, proclaims this. Can you -discover it? - - -227. MISSING WORDS - - Consuming lust for ....., now so rife, - Like ..... ..... mars both love and life. - - -228. FROM BEDLAM - -Here are the bones of a palindrome sentence that might be spoken by some -unhappy criminal lunatic. Can you clothe them with their vowels, so that -the sentence reads alike from either end? - - ~MNCLVDDVLCNM.~ - - -229. FRUITS AND FLOWERS. - - And as trim bees rise or go, - A long aim I’d say, a libel O! - -Fruit and flowers are hidden here in anagrams, each in its order -separately. - - -230. ANSWERS BY ANAGRAM - - NOW ONE OLD FORT. - -What place is this? - - RABID OWL. - -Change this bird into a beast. - - -231. CHARADE - -By W. M. Praed - - Alas, for that forgotten day - When chivalry was nourish’d, - When none but friars learn’d to pray, - And beef and beauty flourish’d; - And fraud in kings was held accursed, - And falsehood sin was reckon’d, - And mighty chargers bore my _first_, - And fat monks wore my _second_! - - Ah, then I carried sword and shield - And casque with flaunting feather, - And earn’d my spurs in battle-field, - In winter and rough weather; - And polish’d many a sonnet up - To ladies’ eyes and tresses; - And learn’d to drain my father’s cup, - And loose my falcon’s jesses! - - But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam, - The mongrel mob grows prouder; - And everything is done by steam, - And men are kill’d by powder; - And now I feel my swift decay, - And give unheeded orders; - And rot in paltry state away - With sheriffs and recorders. - - -232 - - My _first_ you oft savagely pierce through and through; - My _next_ harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust; - But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue, - Should my _whole_, from my _second_, step into my _first_! - - -233. DECAPITATION - - My whole describes the action of a gale, - Decapitation makes an organ play. - Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale; - Again, it tells of what we do not pay. - Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail. - Again behead, and half a string denote; - Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail; - And last of all on music’s notes I float. - - -234. A BURIED PROVERB - -Society--how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases exist -here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting -beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to get her smile. - -A well-known proverb is buried in this sentence. Can you dig it out? - - -235. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a _steel trap_? - - -236. AN ENIGMA - -By Praed - - Across my _first_, with flash and roar, - The stately vessel glides alone. - And mournful on the crowded shore - There stands an aged crone, - Watching my _second’s_ parting smile, - As he bids farewell to his native isle. - - My _whole_ comes back to other eyes, - With beauteous change of fruit and flowers, - But dim to her are those bright skies, - And sad those joyous hours; - For, alas! my _first_ is dark and deep, - And my _second_ cannot hear her weep. - - -237. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS - -THE SEQUEL - - When morning dawned, and the tide was out, - The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s .........., - And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt, - For he had the best donkey in all that §. - - You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over, - Though the donkey was bravest of all his ....; - He luxuriates now in perpetual clover, - And his master has gone to the prophet’s em⏞. - - -238. MISSING WORDS - - A ..... ..... on ....’. strands - Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; - He left the ..... in Cupid’s hands, - And watched her ..... her tresses; - Tresses of ..... coloured gold, - Veiling, like any frock, - A tail which, as it did unfold, - Gave to poor Pat a shock. - - -239. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Where can you be “in a stone-pine garden”? - - -240. MISSING WORDS - - No ..... sympathy was ever shown, - Than when ..... news from Kingston ..... was known. - -The three missing words are spelt with the same five letters. - - -241. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What bodily discomfort follows an _ague-fit_? - - -242. A TANGLED SQUARE - -Can you readjust the 16 letters in this square so that they form a -perfect word square? - - I E I T - I S A S - A S I S - E D E D - - -243. RIVERS IN ANAGRAM - -What European rivers are concealed in these eight anagrams:--Set in red -robe Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter. - - -244. A PIED PALINDROME - -Rearrange these letters so that they form a palindrome, or sentence that -reads alike from either end:-- - - F PPPP RRRR SSSS TT - EEEEII OOOO - - -245 - -What political parrot cry can be evolved by anagram from this sentence, -which condemns it? - - O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe! - - -246. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What statesman’s name was a “terrible poser?” - - -247. A PROVERB IN ANAGRAM - -Can you recast the letters of this sentence into a well-known English -proverb? - - Yea, a glad sun rose red. - - -248. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Has there been a poet of unusual _solemnity?_ - - -249. ANAGRAM ENIGMA - - No, no, I hardly ever touch - The thing which many love so much. - It has a place within these lines, - But is taboo where Delia dines. - - -250. HE SQUARED THE CIRCLE - -“Yes,” said young Biceps of St Boniface, who had failed to satisfy the -examiners, “they have ploughed me in Euclid, and yet if I had half a -chance I could teach them how to square a circle!” - -“Bravo, Biceps!” cried his chum, who was helping him to drown dull care -in fruity port, “don’t keep the great secret to yourself!” And so he -told him--what? - - -251. TO EXTRACT A CIRCLE FROM A GIVEN SQUARE - -When his friend had recovered from the shock of the atrocity described -in our last, he retaliated by assuring Biceps that he could extract a -circle from a given square. What was his method? - - -252. MISSING WORDS - - He said, “You ......” when one lied, - He said, “Don’t ......” when one sped, - His glass held ...... at his side; - He can ...... what he denied. - As all your wits “entranced” you bend - To find the key omit the end. - - -253. A CHARADE - - My captive _second_, sulking in my _first_, - Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst; - Bemoan, or as alternative you find - My _whole_ the word that fits his state of mind. - For meet enclosure, you can take a score - Of captive _seconds_, first deducting four. - - -254. A CIPHER ADVERTISEMENT - - ~THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT,~ - ~MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.~ - -Add two vowels alternately to complete the couplet. - - -255. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Can you discover by anagram what his brother was when he put “Tim in a -pet?” - - -256. MISSING WORDS - - Who knows the .... a land may know - Famed for its ...., and long ago - A .... of sage and seer. - The native there, so full of tricks, - To .... his hunger .... with sticks, - Nor knows his ways are queer! - - -257. A CHARADE - - If doubled you would see my first - Let third and second be reversed. - But if my last you would behold - Increase my first a hundredfold. - Combine them all, and you can trace - The four within an empty space. - - -258. IN THE HAY-FIELD - -In the words welcome to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” -are hidden by anagram the names of an English poet and of one of his -poems. Can you discover them? - - -259. A CHARADE - - My _first_ is small, and seldom reverential; - My next not large enough to heed or prize; - My _whole_ is altogether consequential; - My third, though small, is counted very wise. - - -260. A LETTER PUZZLE - - To be - a a a a a a a a a a - t C r I i O f U l S e s - standing - is the mark of a mean - - -261. WITH IVORY LETTERS - -Can you recast the letters that spell RED NUTS AND GIN so that they form -one long word? - - -262. A HIDDEN NOVEL - -Can you rearrange these letters so that they form the title of a -well-known novel by Charles Dickens? - - ~CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY~ - - -263. “COME OUT, ’TIS NOW SEPTEMBER!” - - --_Old Song._ - - In swift ...... the beaters add - Fresh ...... to the heaps of slain; - And still, with lust of slaughter mad, - The ...... plies his hand amain! - -The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. - - -264. A CHARADE - - My first is nothing but a name, - My second still more small, - My whole shows such a lack of fame - It has no name at all. - - -265. A BREAKFAST TABLE PUZZLE - -“If father gives us a new dog, it will wake the lazy ones!” Can you -discover from these words which of his children were often late for -breakfast? - - -266. A CIPHER - - ~NGOTRDSREAOHR - ETNSVEENUDOEO~ - -Can you decipher the common proverb here concealed? - - -267. AN UNKNOWN NAME - - Well known by story, not by name, - I died a death unknown before, - Nor ever to corruption came; - My shroud the waves cast on the shore. - - -268. UNDA WATER - -How might an oyster, if it could speak, and knew that unda is Latin for -wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed by -thunder under unda? - - -269. MISSING WORDS - - When ....., our puppy, sets out for a run, - Over ..... he ....., all frolic and fun; - For no whistle ..... he in his desperate hurry, - The slow sheep to ....., and the old cow to worry. - -The five missing words are spelt with the same five letters. - - -270. FIND THE GIRLS - -Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily. - -Ten girls’ names are here in anagrams. - - -271. A GOOD DESCRIPTION - - Lord Beaconsfield’s statue, - True as old -- -- -- - -Can you can complete this anagram? - - -272. SHAKESPEARE ANAGRAMS - -These three lines are perfect anagrams of three consecutive lines in -“Romeo and Juliet,” Act II., Scene V.:-- - - The tub sold has old rough shelves. - And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts. - A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow! - -Can you discover the original lines? - - -273. MISSING WORDS - - That mystical gnome never flinches from toil - Who ...... the ...... in Orient soil; - Yet ...... mortals will ever abound - To ...... all the soil till the treasure is found. - - -274. A PUZZLE ACROSTIC - - My feathered first has wings and sings, - Unfledged my second swings its wings; - My third on blackest pinions flies, - My fourth can float beneath the skies. - The letters to my first that fall - Are the initials of them all. - - ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ - ◯ ● ● ● - ◯ ● ● ● - ◯ ● ● ● - -Can you substitute words which fulfil the conditions? - - -275. DROP LETTER PUZZLE - - My first was of the ...... breed, - Their ..... captain, hot and riled, - To .... his men found vain indeed, - They only ... and smoked, and smiled! - -One letter is dropped each time. - - -276. DOUBLETS - -Can you convert HARE into SOUP, using not more than six links, changing -only one letter with each link, and preserving the order of the letters -from link to link? - - -277. A NEW ENIGMA - - Putting two small beasts that you take - To the beginning of an end, - A pointed weapon you will make - To wound a foe or praise a friend. - - -278. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -If a “newspaper” could speak, what might it say of the general work of -its staff? - - -279. BY RULE OF THUMB - -How can you turn the positive quantity 1011 into a negative? - - -280. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What one word can you form from the sentence-- - - “O, I’m man’s trial!” - - -281. A REBUS - - EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee. - - -282. A RIDDLE - -Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber? - - -283. MISSING WORDS - - He ....... to be ....... as a wonderful shot - But he potted the dog, and ....... was his lot! - -The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -284. DOUBLETS - -Can you change ARMY into NAVY with seven links, changing one letter -every time, and preserving their sequence? - - -285. BY ANAGRAM - - ‘I excel not by a pun’-- - Turn these six words into one. - - -286. CAN SUCH THINGS BE? - -When is an onion like music? - - -287. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What is the bitter cry of “Christianity?” - - -288. NO TURNCOAT - -Show by anagram that a Conservative is constant to his cause. - - -289. WHY NOT? - -Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall as a rule upon the same day of the -week. Can any ingenious reader discover why they will not fall upon the -same day of the week in the year 1910. - - -290 - - “War is a game which, were their subjects wise, - Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; - But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, - While kings and subjects are but erring men; - So Britain--native empress of the seas-- - On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed-- - Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free, - Rests on her well-tried _last_ and trusty _first_. - Her _first_ alone can well maintain her right, - Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast; - And though, when needed, foremost in the fight, - Her _first_ (strange paradox!) is always _last_! - But should the tide of war approach the shore - And threaten to engulf her island seat, - My _whole_, replying with defiant roar, - Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet! - - -291. AN EASY CHARADE - - My first is flogged to make it move the faster, - And turns at once to satisfy its master. - My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit, - For those whose simple taste its flavours suit. - My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly, - Stands up aloft and points us to the sky. - - -292. NOT BY CANNING - - A noun there is, of plural number, - In daily use from here to Humber. - Now almost any noun you take - By adding “S” you plural make; - But if you add an “S” to this, - Strange is the metamorphosis! - Plural is plural now no more; - Useless what useful was before. - - -293 - - First, a semi-circle make, - Add to this another - Figure of two little lines - Meeting with each other; - Then a perfect circle form, - Truly, neat, compactly, - Add another form to these, - Like the first exactly; - Then, to make it all complete, - Form a kind of angle, - With a straight line, that should meet - In a kind of tangle; - When you this have rightly done - (’Tis the truth I’m telling), - You will get an article - Useful in a dwelling: - Should you this decapitate, - You may have another - Article, which, in its place, - Is useful as the other. - - -294. A CHARADE - - Veiling the leas, my first may steep - Late autumn’s listless air; - And with my tainting second creep - On idle spade and share. - - When happy days link soul to soul, - And sunny faces shine, - May both combined, a subtle whole, - Be far from me and mine! - - -295. A CHARADE - -By Mark Lemon - - Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned, - Was brought up at my first for making my second; - He was fined, and because he no money would pay - Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway. - - -296 - - Complete, I grow within a field - And pleasant pasture often yield; - Behead me once, a suitor then - Is quickly brought before your ken; - Behead again, I am a word - That on the cricket-ground is heard. - Restore my heads, cut off my tail, - To name a spice you’ll not then fail; - Behead me now, and you will find - The master passion left behind. - Put on my head, my tail restore, - Complete me as I was before, - My second letter take away, - An envelope I am, you’ll say; - But now curtail me just once more, - I am an inlet on the shore. - - -297 - - My _second_ is double my _first_, - My _first_ is but half of my _second_; - And I’m sure you’ll admit that my _whole_ - Is ten times the latter when reckon’d. - - -298 - - My _first_ I went the other day, - And pretty surely reckon’d - A basket of fine fish to catch, - With hook and rod and _second_. - - But I was out in reckoning; - A very pretty she - Of her fair face show’d just my _whole_-- - And pretty soon hook’d _me_. - - -299 - - Of mirth the parent, though the child of art, - A stranger to myself in every part; - Each India has a native in my breast, - The West my sweetness, and my fire the East. - While milder climes my virtue to complete, - Quicken my softness, and correct my heat; - My dearest friends upon my vitals prey, - And as they see me sinking, grow more gay. - - -300. A FLIGHT OF FANCY - - When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find - That my next is not left a great distance behind; - But join them together, and plain to your view - It all is as firm and as tight as a screw. - - -301 - - To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete; - Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet; - Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet; - Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete. - - -302. A CHARADE - - Leader of Vandals and of vice - My head is reckoned; - A Turkish captain will suffice - To be my second. - My third is firm if well selected; - My whole a wanderer neglected. - - -303 - - One thousand, two hundred, - Nothing, and one, - Transposed, give a word - Expressive of fun. - - -304. A CHARADE - -By Praed - - My _first_ was creeping on his way - Through the mists of a dull October day, - When a minstrel came to its muddy bed, - With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head; - “And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried, - “To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?” - - Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown, - And he dash’d the harp and the garland down; - Then he led the bard, with a stately march, - O’er my _second’s_ long and cellar’d arch;-- - “And see,” said the sage, “how every ass - Over the sacred stream must pass!” - - The youth was mournful, the youth was mute, - He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;-- - The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff, - And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff; - And he sits, ever since, in my _whole’s_ kind lap, - In a silken gown and a trencher cap. - - -305 - - Upright and honest is my _first_; - My _second_ you may see - Upon the frozen lake or stream; - My _whole_ is equity. - - -306 - - Never wearied, see us stand, - A glittering and a stately band-- - Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form, - In summer cold, in winter warm; - From hottest duty never swerving, - Night and day our place preserving; - Each serving to a different use, - Not to be changed without abuse. - And, pray, mark well another fact-- - In unison we never act, - Except, as on occasion dread, - We watch the ashes of the dead; - When we are ranged, as you may see - As awful sentries, one, two, three. - - -307. A CHARADE - - My first, though naught, with others is a fruit, - My next is vital to both man and brute. - It should be dear to all who hate the devil, - For it is ever the reverse of evil. - My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace, - Divided it invokes to life that will not cease. - - -308. A CHARADE - -_In English Sapphics_ - - Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover, - Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy. - Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop, - Oft in the chimney! - - See where my second, scorning to be hidden, - Stands at the head of quite a band of others, - Like a virago, straddling with feet apart, - And arms akimbo. - - Surely my next is happy in its office, - Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead; - Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles - For the unwary. - - If by my whole at any time you pass, you - Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs, - Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you, - Peacefully dreaming! - - -309 - - Offspring of nature and of art, I stand - Chief ’midst the monuments of every land; - I may not lengthen life, but I - For centuries forbid to die. - The greatest truth in me you meet - Is but deception most complete. - Unchanged I last the changing crowds among, - And as I older grow, I grow too young. - - -310 - - Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, - Two letters there are, and two only in me; - I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, - I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. - - -311 - - My _first_ is false as false can be; - My _next_ old ladies wear; - My _whole’s_ my _first_, as you will see, - As false, I do declare. - - -312. SHUFFLED LETTERS - - When whole I am indeed a thing - To puzzle you a bit; - Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge - The others make a hit; - Or you may make a car of some, - And fix a head to it. - - -313. FIVE VOWELS - - A word of nine letters explains - How to mitigate bodily pains; - The five vowels are there, - And four consonants share - This function for medical brains. - - -314. A CHARADE - - My second guides my first and third - For pleasure, trade, and war; - My first and second by my third - Are oft transported far. - But when my first my third doth pull, - ’Tis then his lot is worst; - And should my second lack my whole, - He’s apt to leave my first. - - -315. MISSING WORDS - -It is a ...... fact that neither ...... nor ...... grow .. ..... - - -316. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME - - ~DRWNDRRDNWRD~. - -Insert the missing letters, and so form a perfect palindrome, which -reads alike from either end. - - -317 - - The schoolboy likes me well, - For healthful sport I bring, - Yet I can harm create, - Though such a little thing: - Connubial bliss is form’d by me; - My nature is equality. - - -318. A RIDDLE - -What person’s name is doubly evil? - -The answer may be given in a line that rhymes. - - -319 - - I’m a district near London; - If made wrong, I come undone; - O’er sweet strings I swift run, - Or appear with the bright sun, - And though by me fights were won, - I can greet you every one. - - -320. A CHARADE - - I am my first when seen with you, - My next is always bad. - A rogue in grain much harm may do - And make the farmer mad. - - -321. A CHARADE - - When winter comes with frost and cold, - My first is welcome, as of old; - And though its grip may make you thinner, - It helps to cook your Christmas dinner. - - Let me but hear my next rejoice - At early dawn with cheerful voice, - I haste to find, with eager pleasure, - Some specimen of hidden treasure. - - A traveller my whole may find - Far from his English kith and kind; - Though some at home, to England’s shame, - Are this in fact, if not in name. - - -322. - - It was to-morrow, and - It will be yesterday; - Now it is near at hand - What is it? Who can say? - - -323. A CHARADE - - My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes, - The second shadows all the mother’s brow; - My whole all men, all women, girls and boys, - Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now; - But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how. - - -324. ON THE BLOCK - - Complete, though not of human race, - A soul in me may dwell; - Behead, I held a higher place, - Until, like man, I fell. - - Again behead, and in the song - Of Burns I’m all your own; - Behead once more, it would be wrong - To find me out when known. - - -325. AN ENIGMA - - With head good for naught, - And with tail always drunk, - You know well what to say - Of the worth of my trunk. - First cut off my tail, - I am Greek, and I’m not; - Then cut off my head, - And some Latin you’ve got. - Lopping both you know best - What remains, as I said, - For I really am you - If I lose tail and head! - - -326. AN ENIGMA - - One guiding eye I need - In running through the gaps; - My tail, as on I speed, - Is caught in many traps. - - -327. A CHESS CHARADE - -By H. J. C. Andrews - -In the ’seventies no one was more popular at Simpson’s Chess Room in the -Strand than the gentle and brilliant subject of these lines, a clever -water-colourist. The charade is by his friend, the well-known problem -composer. Both have passed away, but they are not forgotten by those who -had the happiness to know them:-- - - Of all the birds that ever sought a mate, - My first is to but one appropriate, - So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo. - To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo! - My whole is a magician of the squares, - But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares, - So this, indeed, to him may be a law - When _winning_’s hopeless, grandly still to _draw_. - - -328. WHAT AM I? - - Though poor and humble was my birth - I sit enthroned on high; - My footsteps far above the earth, - My canopy the sky. - - O’er toiling subjects thus in state - I bear despotic sway; - Yet on them hand and foot I wait - At break and close of day. - - -329. - - I am not of flesh and blood, - Yet have I many a bone; - No limbs, except one leg, - And can’t stand on that alone. - - My friends are many, and dwell - In all lands of the human race; - But they poke my poor nose into the mud, - And shamefully spatter my face. - - Thrust me into each other’s ribs, - Stick me in gutter and rut; - I have never a window, and never a door, - Yet I often open and shut. - - -330. AN ENIGMA - - Before the crown descended on - The head of England’s Queen, - Four Kings upon that royal throne - Of the same name had been. - Now if the signs which marked their name - Be joined unto a beast, - We have a food on which the same - (A quadruped) will feast. - - -331. AN OLD ENIGMA - -By _Charles James Fox_ - - I am pretty, and useful in various ways, - Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days; - Behead me, and then in my place will appear - What youngsters admire every day in the year; - Behead me once more, and without any doubt, - You must be what is left if you don’t find it out. - - -332. A CHARADE - - My first, when skilfully performed - (Its doer by applauses warmed), - Bespeaks both skill and vigour. - When with my whole, so soft and light, - I saw my second gay bedight, - She made a splendid figure. - - -333. MISSING WORDS - - The man who ..... the common ..... - Above the ..... chaste, - ..... as he may, the world declares - Is not a man of taste. - And though my sympathy he shares, - No ..... on him I waste! - - -334. A CHARADE - - When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated, - Endangered the peace of his soul, - To atone for my second my first he repeated - Quite ten times a day on my whole. - - -335. AN ENIGMA - - An insect small and fell - Makes a weird sound, - If, as its name you spell, - You turn it round. - - One letter cast, and still - Shift what remains, - Another insect will - Reward your pains. - - -336. A DECAPITATION - - Where head and body duly meet - I am as slender as a bee; - Whether I stand on head or feet - My figure shows its symmetry. - - But when my head is cut away - The metamorphosis is strange; - Though both of them unaltered stay, - Body and head to nothing change. - - -337. A NUT TO CRACK - - First is in coast, second in ghost, - Third must be reckoned part of second; - Fourth in boat, fifth in float, - Sixth you will find within your mind. - Seventh in blue, eighth in true, - These letters tell a fruit that they spell. - - -338. - - The hunter and his steed are known - My first to see. - Though men may call my next a stone, - Wood it may be. - My whole, an exile from his home, - Is doomed from place to place to roam. - - -339. A CHARADE - - My first expresses power to do, - My next that it is done. - To be my whole belongs to few, - And perfectly to none. - - -340. A CHARADE - - In my first, as in a shell, - All the sweetest sounds may dwell; - In my second, shells abound - That can catch no sort of sound; - In my whole securely rest - Those who neither jeer nor jest. - - -341. A CHARADE - - My first, though of the feathered kind - Is never known to fly; - My next all who improve their mind - Seize as it passes by. - My whole may much occasion find - To make the truthful lie. - - -342. AN ENIGMA - - Divide a piece of beef or pork - Without the aid of knife and fork; - It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill, - Where you may set this if you will. - Strike off instead the end, its place - Is plain as nose upon your face. - Cut this asunder in your mind, - And what is first put now behind; - Part of our foot you thus discover, - And in a measure all is over. - - -343. A CHARADE - - Seen as a whole, my form is now - Akin to strife and malice; - Split, it may grace a princely brow, - Or crown the curls of Alice. - - Recast my letters, and I tell - That nourishment is lacking; - Stir them afresh until they spell - The needle’s help in tacking. - - -344. AN ENIGMA - - If I write with my first in my second - My whole you can never find out; - Add a letter, and all will be reckoned - A patron of water devout. - - -345. WHAT DID THE COLONEL SAY? - -After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum -was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was -ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by -this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; -and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much -did you say the ..............” Can you complete this? - - -346. WHERE WAS IT? - - Loss of love between us - Never can be nice; - Yet we live where Venus - Changes us to ice. - - -347. A LOVER TO HIS LASS - - Tell me, my sweet, - Why are your feet - Like fairy tales? - - -348. MISSING WORDS - - Our parson ....... every man who has leisure - To study ....... windows, the glory of fanes; - And ....... of devoting his income to pleasure, - Our ....... old dean spends his money on panes. - - -349. AN EASY ONE - - Though much attached to merriment, - Or crime for a variety, - To prison I am never sent, - But sparkle in society. - - -350. A CHARADE - - Without my first and second’s aid - No pudding worth its sauce is made. - Take on my third, my fourth I am, - My fifth includes myself and Sam. - My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero, - And shows him as an unheroic hero. - - -351. BURIED PLACES - -What geographical names are buried in these lines? - - He has my R. N. as a monogram - I am her stupid sister. - The calmest man is sometimes made irate. - - -352. - - My first’s a fruit of foreign clime, - Sweet to the taste, in price not dear; - My second does my first produce, - And yet my whole my first doth bear. - - -353. AN ENIGMA - - A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath, - My firm embrace is harbinger of death; - Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art, - Complete and perfected in every part; - Crush me to-day with all-determined care, - Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there! - - -354. AN ENIGMA - - Six letters in my name are found, - Though only three we see and sound; - The shepherd by the running river - May hear me where the rushes quiver; - And should a stroke my whole divide, - Leaving but half on either side, - These, backward read, will surely tell - What many a toper loves too well. - - -355. A RIDDLE - - Upon a battle-field of learned men - Hundred and fifty were by none divided. - “Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten - And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.” - - -356. - - Though the stations of mortals are many - And the _last_ is the head of his race; - Yet he, just as often as any, - Is won by my _first’s_ fell embrace; - Yet we most of us apt are to fall, - When our heads cease our hearts to control, - Let us hope that not one of us all - May be e’er in the state of my _whole_. - - -357. WHAT IS IT? - - My whole is no matter, - And light as the air, - Yet it is good on the platter, - And excellent fare. - Curtail and transpose, - And a lady you see, - Who will flatter and pose, - And with many do me. - - -358. WHAT IS IT? - - My first, for ages out of mind, - All men have always worn behind; - And yet alike by sea and land - They carry it upon their hand. - My second, carefully matured, - Is never ill but often cured. - My whole, within unchanging lines - Black men and white alike confines. - - -359. WHAT IS THIS? - - “We westand fall.” - - -360. A CHARADE - - My second is pressed tightly round - To guard from any ill; - And when preparing to engage, - Men find it useful still. - My first against attraction set - Will neutralise its power; - Aided by it, with bargains, some - May spend a happy hour. - You find my whole by careful search - Which must not be forsaken; - It stands before what comes beyond, - Which may from it be taken. - - -361. A GOOD ANAGRAM - -George Thompson, the zealous anti-slavery advocate, was asked to go into -Parliament, the better to press his point and cause. When he hesitated a -friend produced, as a conclusive reason, this anagram, spelt with the -letters of his name--“O go, the negro’s M.P.!” - - -362. WHAT AM I? - - Scorned by the meek and humble mind, - And often by the vain possessed, - Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind, - I give the troubled spirit rest. - - - - -ODDS AND ENDS - - -1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES - -Here is a long-division sum without figures:-- - - UGI)GEVPPNDO(IDTPO - GVNI - ---- - DNTP - UGI - ----- - NETN - NEOT - ------ - DUDO - DUDO - ===== - -These letters form a sentence of three words .... .... .., and represent -the figures 1234 5678 90; the puzzle is to discover this key sentence, -by working out the sum in the corresponding figures. - - -2. A DAY’S SPORT - -At the invitation of a farmer in the country I went out with my gun for -a day’s shooting on his farm. “What sport had you?” said a friend -afterwards at the Club. “I shot only birds and rabbits,” was my reply, -“and the bag showed 36 heads and 100 feet.” How many birds were there, -and how many bunnies? - - -3. THE SQUAREST WORD - - D E L F - E V I L - L I V E - F L E D - -How many distinct readings of these four words can you find, taking -their letters in any “go as you please” direction, without jumping over -any letter? - - -4. A CROSS PURPOSE - -Can our readers rearrange these letters in the form of a similar cross, -so that they form two words familiar to us all? - - A - A - E - D N R E G D N - I - T - V - S - -One of the letters, to be placed where the lower E now stands, is common -to both words. - - -5. - -“Take this sovereign, my boy,” said a man to his son who had a turn for -arithmetic, “and buy for yourself and for your three sisters the best -present possible for each, of different values, expending in each case -an aliquot part of the pound, that is to say, a fraction of it whose -numerator is one. If there is any change you can give it to the Fresh -Air Fund.” How was this commission carried out? - - -6. A WORD SQUARE - -Can you complete this word-square? - - . E . A . - E . A . E - . A . . E - A . . E . - . E E . . - - -7. VERBAL ARITHMETIC - -First find a word that is spelt with the ten letters above the line, and -number its letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. - - A I - L C - P R - U N - B E - _____ - E C C - -Substitute the corresponding figures for the letters, and then work out -the addition sum which they represent. - - -8. A WORD SQUARE - -Can you complete this word square? - - T . . . T - . T . . . - . . O . . - . E . S . - T . . . S - - -9. - -Take the twelve first prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, -29, 31, which have no factors but themselves and unity, and write down -the value of their product, using no figures but 0, 1, 2, and 3, and of -these using 2 and 3 only once. - - -10. AT THE WASH - - Six collars seven cuffs there be - When pence we charge you thirty-three; - Seven collars and six cuffs to do - The charge is only thirty-two; - The work is good and up-to-date, - So figure out in pence the rate. - - -11. GAPS TO FILL - -Can you complete this word square? - - W . E . S - . . . . . - E . U . E - . . . . . - S . E . R - - -12. IS IT POSSIBLE? - -Fill a wineglass with water to the brim, and set it on the corner of a -table-napkin, which should be in immediate contact with the polished -surface of a table, allowing the rest of the napkin to fall over the -edge. Can you remove the napkin without touching the glass or spilling -any of the water? - - -13. A NICE CALCULATION - -My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is -half of them, and my third is half. What am I? - - -14. FOR THE CHILDREN - -A London firm, having sent an order by telegram to a manufacturer in -Paris for 480 sets of Diabolo, received to their amazement a huge -consignment of 6336 sets. How did this mistake arise? - - -15. A WINTER VALENTINE - - Thy heart is like some icy lake - On whose cold brink I stand; - On my sore plight sweet pity take, - And lead me by the hand. - Then buckle on my spirit’s skate - Where all the ice is thin, - That it may break beneath my weight, - And let a lover in! - - -16. A QUESTION OF AGES - -“My husband’s age,” said Mrs Evergreen, “is represented by the figures -of my age reversed. He is older than I am, and the difference between -our ages is one-eleventh of their sum.” What were their respective ages? - - -17. MISSING FIGURES - -Can you complete this multiplication sum? - - 4 * * - 3 * - ------- - 3 6 * * - * * 7 * * - --------- - * * 3 * * - - -18. STRANGE ADDITION - - Add 3 to 10, and then divide - Till 8 the sum has satisfied. - - -19. BEDDING OUT - -I bought less than 100 plants for my new rosery, and found that if I set -them 3 in a row there would be one over; if 4 in a row there would be -two over; if 5 in a row, three over; and if 6 in a row, four over. How -many rose trees did I buy? - - -20. - -Can you arrange three nines so that they represent exactly 20? - - -21. - -A house has nine windows on its front. How many signals can be given by -merely leaving one or more of them open? - - -22. ON MY BIRTHDAY - -(By Sir John Evans) - - “Reader, whether man or woman, - Write my age in figures Roman. - My first divided by my second - Will make my third, if rightly reckoned; - Ten times the whole, and then you see - My university degree.” - - -23. MOSAIC VERSE - - The heath this night must be my bed, (Scott) - Ye vales, ye streams, ye groves, adieu! (Pope) - Farewell for aye; e’en love is dead; (Proctor) - Would I could add remembrance too! (Byron) - - -24. SIGNS AND SEASONS - - The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots - Shoot forward one and all; - Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves - The leaves to fall in fall! - - -25. THE TEN DIGITS - -This arrangement of the digits represents 20, one being a whole number, -the others a fraction:-- - - 13258 - 6----- = 20 - 947 - - -26. CHRONOGRAM - -The battle of Montl’héry was fought in 1465. Its date can be committed -to memory in the sentence which might have been a battle-cry--“A cheval, -à cheval, gendarmes, à cheval!” For it is arrived at by the addition of -the Roman numerals which this contains, thus:-- - - C = 100 - V = 5 - L = 50 - C = 100 - V = 5 - L = 50 - M = 1000 - C = 100 - V = 5 - L = 50 - ---- - Total = 1465 - - -27. A TOUR DE FORCE - -In this most remarkable sentence of only twenty-eight letters, every -letter of the alphabet is used-- - - IF JACK QUIZ BALD NYMPHS GROW VEXT. - - -28. AN OLD TALE OF A TUB - -Tom Hood, seeing over the door of a public-house BEAR SOLD HERE, said -that it was rightly spelt if it was the landlord’s _own bruin_! - - -29. ALL THE ALPHABET - -Here is an ingenious rhyming couplet of only 33 letters, in which every -letter of the alphabet is used-- - - Quick! go on, Jim! why - Stop lazy fox? Drive by! - - -30. AN IMPERIAL ANAGRAM - - A sa Majesté impériale le Tsar Nicolas, souverain et autocrate de - toutes les Russies. - -The same letters exactly spell-- - - O, ta vanité sera ta perte. O, elle isole la Russie; tes successeurs - te maudiront à jamais! - -This most remarkable anagram was published in the early days of the -Crimean war. - - -31. A FOURFOLD ANAGRAM - -“Notes and Queries.” - - _A question sender. - Enquires on dates. - Reasoned inquest. - I send on a request._ - - -32. A GOOD ANAGRAM - -The name of John Abernethy, a very brusque doctor of bygone days, lends -itself to this most apposite anagram--_Johnny the bear!_ - - -33. TWO EXCELLENT ANAGRAMS - -(After the Irish famine.) - - Duchess of Marlborough. - _She labours much for God._ - - Or, - - The Duchess of Marlborough. - _Lo, she sought much for bread._ - - -34. “ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE” - -French guest to his host after a big shoot:-- - -“How many braces have you to your bags?” - - -35. A PRIZE ANAGRAM - -It would be difficult to find a more ingenious and appropriate anagram -than this, which took a prize in “Truth” in 1902, and connects the -King’s recovery with the Coronation. - -The sentence set was-- - -“God save our newly crowned King and Queen! Long life to Edward and -Alexandra!” - -The letters of this were recast thus-- - -Can we wonder an anxious devoted England followed drear danger -quakingly? - - -36. A PRIZE ANAGRAM - -“Truth” offered a prize for the best anagram on the sentence--“‘Truth’ -Toy and Doll Fund, Christmas, nineteen hundred and seven.” The winning -anagram, by the Editor of these pages, was, “A sunny tender mind -understands that the children do love fun!” - - -37. TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE - -In a moment of economy I told my wife that I would put by a farthing the -first week of the New Year, a halfpenny the second week, a penny the -third, and so on, doubling the sum each week to the end of the year. She -had a turn for figures, and staggered me by showing that I should have -to provide £4,691,249,611,844, 5s. 3³⁄₄d. to carry out my plan! - - -38 - -Now that Ellen Terry has written “The Story of My Life,” this anagram -has a special interest:-- - - LYCEUM THEATRE, STRAND. - _Teach and melt us, Terry!_ - - -38a. RING OUT, WILD BELLS! - -More startling than the well-known calculation of payment by -continuously doubling the farthing given for the first nail in a horse’s -shoe, is the fact that the possible changes on a peal of 24 bells would -not be exhausted if every minute of 4000 years were prolonged to a -period of 10,000 years! - - -39. A SCHOLAR AT PLAY - -Erasmus himself was responsible in one of his lighter moments for the -following ingenious play upon his name:-- - - Quæritur unde mihi sit nomen Erasmus, _eras mus_; - Si _sum mus_ ego, te judice, _summus_ ero! - - -40. QUITE AN EYESORE! - -“Well!” cried an agitated carpenter to his mate, “of all the saws that I -ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw as this saw saws!” - - -41. THE PUNSTER’S LAMENT - - If I be duly punished - For every foolish pun I shed, - I shall not find one puny shed - In which to hide my punnish head! - - -42. A GOOD ANAGRAM - - CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER. - -The same letters recast spell-- - - _If so, man, refuse poison at once!_ - - -43. A TOUR DE FORCE - -The following curiosity, constructed some years ago for prize purposes -by the Editor, shows how, in word or letter juggling, difficulties can -be overcome:-- - -A sentence in which each letter of the alphabet is used exactly twice: - -“XLV gruff nymphs jerk XLV jaws,” quoth wag B. Dick, Q.C., to Ben Dizzy, -M.P. - - -44. THE MISSING LINK - -If anagrams count, our “ancestor” was not a monkey but a _Norse cat_! - - -45. A STRIKING ANAGRAM - -The name of Randle Holmes, author of a notable book on heraldry, was so -recast that it formed the words: “Lo, men’s herald!” - - -46. A CURIOUS PALINDROME - - Dog as a devil deified lived as a god. - - -47. AFTER THE EVENT - -_An Anagram._ - - The Oxford and Cambridge annual Boat-race. - _Cantab blue had raced in an extra good form._ - - -48. TO FIND THE GOLD - -Tell a person who holds a sovereign in one hand and a shilling in the -other to reckon 4 for the gold, and 3 for the silver. Then bid him -triple what is in the right hand, and double what is in the left, and -give you the added product. If this is an _even_ number the gold is in -the right hand, if _odd_ it is in the left. - - -49. A MUSICAL ANAGRAM - - ADELINA PATTI. - _Adept Italian._ - - -50. A HAPPY THOUGHT - -Sir Charles Napier’s witty despatch, “Peccavi!” “I have Scinde!” is -familiar to us. Not so well known is the happy phrase attributed to Sir -Colin Campbell, “Nunc sum fortunatus!” “I am in Lucknow!” - - -51. A CLEVER TRIPLE ANAGRAM - -Owen, the Welsh epigrammatist, composed this very clever Latin line:-- - - In _verbis, ubi res_ postulat, esto _brevis_. - - (“In words, where the matter requires it, be brief.”) - - The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters. - - -52. CAN SUCH THINGS BE? - -Take a long strip of paper, say 9 in. by 2 in., which will have, of -course, an upper and an under surface and two edges along its length. -How can you arrange this strip, by quite a simple method so that it will -have only _one_ surface and _one_ edge? - - -53. - -Can you divide nine into two parts which are together equal to ten? - - -54. FOLDING A FLOCK - -A shepherd had a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 100 hurdles. His -master made a large purchase at the annual fair, and required him to pen -some pigs with 16 of the hurdles, and to arrange the remainder so that -they could accommodate nine times as many sheep as the 100 hurdles had -contained. How was this possible? - - -55. A NEAT TRICK - -Here is a neat final trick, if you have some reputation for sleight of -hand. Place three biscuits on the table in a row, and cover each of them -with a borrowed hat. Raise each hat in turn, gravely eat the biscuit, -and replace the hat. Then undertake that the three biscuits shall be -under whichever hat is selected. How can you contrive this? - - -56. VERY SMALL CHANGE - -In how many different ways can 7s. 3d. be paid away in current coin of -the realm, without ever using exactly the same set of coins a second -time? - - - - -SOLUTIONS - - -FRONTISPIECE - -The words which describe this picture can be recast, letter for letter, -into the perfect anagram-- - -[Illustration: “Please, Mister Elephant, are you there?”] - - -No. IV. - -It is said that there are 86 ways in which the numbers in this model -magic square can be added up so that they make 34. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 4│ 15│ 14│ 1║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 9│ 6│ 7│ 12║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 5│ 10│ 11│ 8║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 16│ 3│ 2│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It is not difficult to discover more than half this number that are -symmetrical, including, of course, the 4 rows, 4 columns and 2 -diagonals. Here are a dozen samples, from which others can be seen-- - - 4, 1, 16, 13. - 15, 14, 3, 2. - 14, 12, 5, 3. - 6, 7, 10, 11. - 15, 8, 9, 2. - 1, 6, 11, 16. - 14, 8, 9, 3. - 9, 15, 2, 8. - 4, 5, 12, 13. - 4, 5, 11, 14. - 4, 9, 8, 13. - 9, 14, 3, 8. - - -No. VIII - -Here is the completed magic square-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║216│175│224│183│232│191│240│199│248║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║247│215│174│223│182│231│190│239│207║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║206│246│214│173│222│181│230│198│238║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║237│205│245│213│172│221│189│229│197║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║196│236│204│244│212│180│220│188│228║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║227│195│235│203│252│211│179│219│187║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║186│226│194│243│202│251│210│178│218║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║217│185│234│193│242│201│250│209│177║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║176│225│184│233│192│241│200│249│208║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Every row, column and diagonal adds up to exactly 1908. - - -No. IX - -This up-to-date magic square adds up to 1908 in quite 56 different -symmetrical ways. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║469│484│472│483║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║481│474│478│475║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║482│471│485│470║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║476│479│473│480║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Here are 44 of them-- - - Rows 4 - Columns 4 - Diagonals 2 - The corners 1 - Corners of squares of 9 cells 4 - Squares of 4 cells 9 - Opposite pairs of outside cells 6 - Opposite pairs of short diagonals - Such combinations as 469, 481, 485, 473 8 - Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 - -- - Total 44 - -There are a dozen other ways, more or less symmetrical, such as 481, -474, 483, 470; or 474, 485, 470, 479. - - -No. X - -This is the rearrangement of the domino magic square-- - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - -The three-ace, which was a corner stone in the former diagram now -occupies the centre, and the rearrangement was effected by first -transferring the two bottom rows to the top, and then the fourth and -fifth columns to the extreme left. This method of shifting the stones -does not affect the magic quality of the square. - - -No. XI - -The affinity between chess and numbers is well illustrated by the -Knight’s tour on this diagram-- - -[Illustration] - -The Knight starts from the square marked 1, and returns at last to it. -The constant difference between any opposite and corresponding numbers -in cells that are equidistant from the centre is 18. - - -No. XII - -Here are the cells in the diagram of our Numbers Patience, so filled in -that each of the rows across from side to side adds up exactly to 143. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 17│ 30│ 41│ 31│ 24║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 18│ 32│ 13│ 46│ 34║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 11│ 12│ 14│ 50│ 56║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 51│ 19│ 42│ 16│ 15║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ 21│ 35│ 45│ 20║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Each cell contains, in accordance with the conditions, a different -number. - - -No. XIII - -This is the division of a square into fifteen parts, which will form the -windmill:-- - -[Illustration] - -This puzzle may, of course, be reversed, the parts of the square being -given, and the solver asked to form with them a symmetrical windmill. - - -No. XIV - -In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to count 784 distinct -interlacing figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and whose angles -are all right angles. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -Of these 784 rectangles 140 are squares. - - -No. XV - -This is the domino magic square, in which all the stones are used except -double-six, double-five and six-five. - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - -All rows, columns and diagonals add up to 27, as do the stones in the -four corner cells and the four central border cells of the full square, -and of the square of nine cells in the middle. - - -No. XVI - -Those to whom games of Patience appeal will find an interesting and -pretty form of it in the construction of a pyramid with a complete set -of dominoes. - - ┌───┬───┐ - │ 5 1 │ - └───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 3 1 ║ 5 3 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 2 ║ 3 3 ║ 6 4 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 2 1 ║ 5 6 ║ 1 ║ 5 4 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 3 4 ║ 2 6 ║ 6 ║ 4 ║ 2 3 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ ║ 5 5 ║ 2 2 ║ 4 4 ║ 1 1 ║ 6 6 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 3 6 ║ 6 1 ║ 5 2 ║ 4 2 ║ 4 ║ 5 ║ 3 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - -Solvers may like to study the position given, which is one of many that -are possible, and to discover for themselves the ruling conditions which -are its characteristics. - - -No. XVII - -When the boy’s father came up just in time to stop him from breaking out -of bounds, and said, “Never throw a leg, lad,” - -[Illustration] - -the rest of the sentence, spelt with _exactly the same letters_, was -“over the garden wall!” - - -No. XVIII - -“Catastrophe,” the title of the tragedy foreshadowed, can be recast into -“_A cat! stop her!_” By similar process the words, “New parrot stand in -a house,” become “_He turns on a soda-water tap!_” - -[Illustration] - -The parrot’s ready resource and triumph is depicted here with striking -effect. - - -No. XIX - -When the judge at a baby show said to the mother of the small boy whose -thumb was in his mouth, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits,” the -precocious child replied, as he removed his comforting hand, in a -sentence spelt with _exactly the same letters_, “So to-day, sir, I suck -my little thumb.” - -[Illustration] - - -No. XX - -When the lady sitting at the back of this overloaded wagonette said to -her husband, “This big load quite hinders his pull,” in her sympathy -with the struggling horse, - -[Illustration] - -he made this very practical reply, in a sentence spelt with _exactly the -same letters_: “Do sit quiet, girl; I shall push behind!” - - -No. XXI - -When a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is -striking!” - -[Illustration] - -an appropriate reply, spelt with _exactly the same letters_, would have -been: “He plays without taking a rest, sir.” - - -No. XXII - -The two English words appropriate to this picture-- - -[Illustration] - -which have as their anagrams “Or not a man first,” and “O I love nuts!” -are _Transformation and Evolutions_. - - -No. XXIII - -This is a fancy portrait of William-- - -[Illustration] - -We decide by anagram whether this is _William or dear Jack_, for these -words, when recast, spell “I am Will, a card joker!” - - -No. XXIV - -The word indicated by this picture in combination with the lines below -it-- - -[Illustration] - - Begin with the end of my first, - And then you will find out the rest; - For it all will appeal to your thirst, - Or point to a ponderous guest. - -is _Stout_. - - -No. XXV - -The words of Jigger’s wife, when she said that he seemed to be in a “sad -pet,” were true by anagram. - -[Illustration] - -His ball hugs the cushion so closely as to be completely _pasted_. - - -No. XXVI - -When, as they held on to the fractious cow, the farmer exclaimed, “See, -we hold this cow’s horns and tail,” - -[Illustration] - -his foreman, using exactly the same letters in his sentence, said-- - - “She cannot toss, her wild head is low.” - - -No. XXVII - -While the horse shown in this picture might be saying, if it could -speak, “I’m a train’d stepper!”-- - -[Illustration] - -the driver, from his point of view, might say, as he held him in check, -“Spirit and a temper!” making use in his words of _exactly the same -letters_. - - -No. XXVIII - -When one onlooker, seeing the artist working with his feet, said-- - - “Why, now I see this fine artist has no hand!” - -[Illustration] - -the other replied, using exactly the same letters, - - “He draws in any fashion with his ten toes!” - - -No. XXIX - -When her husband, showing this picture - -[Illustration] - -said to his wife, “This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” she, knowing -that temptation in this form would fail, said, as she glanced at his -illustration of their aims, in words spelt with exactly the same -letters:-- - - “And see, he will not rise at our bait!” - - -No. XXX - -The sturdy musician, who had said, “What shall I play?” to which some -one replied, “Any strains of Beethoven, he charms all!” as this was not -an acceptable suggestion, struck up a piece after his own heart. - -[Illustration] - -He said, as he struck the strings, in a sentence composed of exactly the -same letters--“Nay, for this ’cello heaven sent a Brahms!” - - -No. XXXI - -Here is the picture of a parsnip lying across a swede readjusted and -reversed. - -[Illustration] - -We gave as a clue the anagram-- - - “Here is our parsnip on swede.” - - ANAGRAM - - _Wise and superior person he!_ - -but this is now hardly needed to show who is thus represented in -friendly caricature: (With apologies to G. B. S.) - - -No. XXXII - -The letter puzzle is solved thus-- - - L E V E L - E E E E - V V V - E E E E - L E V E L - -Within this square the word LEVEL runs in twelve different directions, -being itself a palindrome. - - -No. XXXIII - -The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the -key to this sum, is _Do your best_. If these letters are numbered -consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding -figures are substituted for the letters, the sum works out as is shown -in the second diagram-- - - S B 9 7 - R E 6 8 - Y D 3 1 - O T 4 0 - U O 5 2 - ------ ----- - O E E 2 8 8 - ===== ===== - - -No. XXXIV - -The twelve names of flowers and foliage that may be gathered within -these borders, by moving in any direction one square at a time, - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 ║ - ║ L│ L│ B│ H│ P│ E│ F║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 8 │ 9 │10 │11 │12 │13 │14 ║ - ║ L│ Y│ E│ L│ O│ R│ N║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║15 │16 │17 │18 │19 │20 │21 ║ - ║ I│ V│ B│ R│ I│ V│ K║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║22 │23 │24 │25 │26 │27 │28 ║ - ║ A│ L│ E│ T│ O│ N│ I║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║29 │30 │31 │32 │33 │34 │35 ║ - ║ C│ N│ A│ S│ U│ L│ P║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -are 18, 26, 32, 24, _Rose_; 25, 33, 34, 28, 35, _Tulip_; 35, 28, 27, 21, -_Pink_; 31, 32, 25, 24, 18, _Aster_; and, in similar ways, _Verbena_; -_Salvia_; _Ivy_; _Lily_; _Lilac_; _Heliotrope_; _Fern_; and _Bell_. - - -No. XXXV - -The solution of this little problem, set by Dr Puzzlewitz on his -blackboard to test the powers of his young pupils--“What are the values -of A and B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting B -from A?”-- - - ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A - B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A ÷ B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ - -is that A = 5¹⁄₃ and B = 1¹⁄₃. - - -No. XXXVI - -This is the diamond squared:-- - - ┌───┐ - │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┐ - │ h │ i │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ h │ i │ n │ t │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ s │ i │ n │ u │ o │ u │ s │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ t │ o │ r │ m │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ u │ m │ - └───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ - └───┘ - -in which the words read alike from top to bottom, and from left to -right. - - -No. XXXVII - -This is the arrangement of the 32 letters in the 64 cells-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ │ A │ │ E │ I │ │ O │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E │ O │ │ │ │ │ A │ I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ A │ I │ E │ O │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I │ │ O │ │ │ A │ │ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O │ │ I │ │ │ E │ │ A ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ E │ O │ A │ I │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ A │ I │ │ │ │ │ E │ O ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ E │ │ A │ O │ │ │ I ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -No A is in the same column, row, or diagonal with another A, no E with -another E, no I with another I, and no O with another O. - - -No. XXXVIII - -This is the anagram square, with the letters, which in the former -diagram spelt the words _vote_, _wove_, _prow_, _call_, _stew_, _news_, -_core_, _nape_, recast into fresh words which now read alike from top to -bottom and from left to right of the square. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ C │###│ R │###│ O │###│ W ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ C │###│ L │###│ A │###│ W │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ L │###│ O │###│ V │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ R │###│ O │###│ P │###│ E │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ A │###│ P │###│ E │###│ S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O │###│ V │###│ E │###│ N │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ W │###│ E │###│ N │###│ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ W │###│ E │###│ S │###│ T │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -The empty squares and diagonal setting are necessary for this particular -puzzle, as the words would not form a word square if their letters were -placed below one another in the usual way. - - -No. XXXIX - -The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the -key to this sum, is--_Add these up_. If these letters are numbered -consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding -figures are substituted for the numbers, the sum works out as is shown -below. - - D U 2 9 - E H 6 5 - E D 8 3 - A P 1 0 - S T 7 4 - ----- ----- - D E A 2 6 1 - ===== ===== - - -No. XL - -The four words, seek, slab, leek, moan, which were placed on the white -squares when recast form the following combination:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ M │###│ A │###│ S │###│ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ A │###│ B │###│ L │###│ E │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ S │###│ L │###│ O │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ K │###│ E │###│ E │###│ N │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -These fresh words read alike from side to side, and zigzag from top to -bottom. - - -No. XLI - -These are the four words, recast by anagram from afar, task, seat, leal, -and which now form a perfect word square. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ F │ A │ S │ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ A │ R │ E │ A ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S │ E │ A │ L ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T │ A │ L │ K ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - -No. XLII - -The word square is recast thus-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ c │ r │ e │ s │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ r │ e │ a │ c │ h ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ e │ a │ g │ e │ r ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ s │ c │ e │ n │ e ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ s │ h │ r │ e │ d ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Its words are spelt with the same letters as the words _chess_, _greed_, -_canes_, _rears_, _cheer_, which formed the original square, but did not -read alike from top to bottom, and from left to right, as these do. - - -No. XLIII - -The five familiar proverbs hidden in this square of 169 letters are: A -rolling stone gathers no moss. Too many cooks spoil the broth. A live -dog is more to be feared than a dead lion. You cannot eat your cake and -have it. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. - - R E N O W N E D T H A N W - S Y O U R C A K E A N D A - S T E T O B E F E A R H R - E A R K S S P O I L E A F - L E O O H E R S N T D V O - O T M O T L I N O H T E U - N O S C A L A G M E H I R - S N I Y G O R S O B A T S - E N G N E N O T S R N P A - I A O A M O O T S O A E W - R C D E V I L A H T D A S - O U O Y N O I L D A E C A - T C I V R E H H T A H E Z - - -No. XLIV - -[Illustration] - -If the shaded circles are cut out and the diagram is placed squarely -over the jumbled letters, with the I., II., III., IV. in turn at the top -left-hand corner, this sentence is disclosed-- - - Le premier Supplément du Journal de la Jeunesse a été publié dans le - Numéro du Dix-neuf Juin Mil huit cent soixante-quinze. - - -No. XLV - -This is the way to reconstruct Sam Loyd’s black pony--so that, while its -legs and tail are strangely misplaced, they form the spirited outline of -a white galloping horse. - -[Illustration] - - -No. XLVI - -Here is the key to Sam Loyd’s ingenious puzzle-- - -[Illustration] - -which shows the jockeys and horses in full racing trim. - - -No. XLVII - -This is the inevitable result of the boy’s attempt to annex with his -mouth the sugar on the chair-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. XLVIII - -The leap-frog puzzle is solved in nine hops thus:-- - -[Illustration] - -First jump from stool 2, then from 5, 3, 6, 7, 1, 3, and 6 in turn to -the vacant stools. - - -No. LV - -This diagram shows that the seven wheels, which spin so merrily when the -paper is rotated in the hand, can be divided off into separate -enclosures by only three straight lines-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LVI - -The diagram below shows how the market-gardener, keeping one-fourth of -his square field for himself in the shape of a triangle, was able to -divide the remainder so that each of his four sons had an equal portion -of similar shape-- - -[Illustation] - - -No. LVII - -Here is a drawing of the perfect Latin cross-- - -[Illustation] - -The position of the two long pieces does not readily suggest itself to -those who try to arrange the five on paper with a pencil. - - -No. LVIII - -This diagram shows the effectual means taken by four rich men, whose -houses were further afield, to exclude four poor men from all access to -a central lake, that they might reserve the fishing for themselves. - -[Illustration] - -They built a high wall on the lines that are indicated which, while it -left a way for each of them to the water, altogether shut it away from -their poor neighbours. - - -No. LIX - -This is the square that can be formed with the ten pattern pieces -given-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LX - -The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into -nine parts by four straight cuts - -[Illustration] - -which can be reunited to form a perfect cross. - - -No. LXI - -This is a simple way by which the figure given can be divided by four -straight cuts into four equal and similar parts-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LXII - -This is the way to draw twenty-two straight lines within the circle at -right-angles to each other, so that they divide it into four similar -parts-- - -[Illustration] - -and each part has three dots within its borders. - - -No. LXIII - -These diagrams show how the upper triangle is divided into five parts, -which can be rearranged to form the equilateral triangle below. - -[Illustration] - -The originator of this ingenious novelty says, “The method of -construction is not shown, but its application is general, and the -result is easily verified by measurement.” - - -No. LXVI - -This is an arrangement of the twenty-seven counters in nine rows, six in -a row, within the borders of an equilateral triangle. - - * - ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ - * * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - * * * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ * * ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ * ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - *─────*─────*───────*─────*─────* - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - *─────*─────*───────────*─────*─────* - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - *─────*─────*───────────────*─────*─────* - - -No. LXVII - -All the cards of one colour, when placed alternately, can be brought -together in four moves, two at a time, thus-- - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ │ 8 │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♡ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - Place two and three beyond eight; Place five and six between one and - four; Place eight and two between four and seven; Place one and five - between seven and three. - - -No. LXVIII - -You can in a moment tell the number chosen on these cards, when you are -told on which of them it appears, - - ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐║ - ║│ I. ││ II. ││ III. ││ IV. │║ - ║│ ││ ││ ││ │║ - ║│ 1 33 65 97││ 2 34 66 98││ 4 36 68 100││ 8 40 72 104│║ - ║│ 3 35 67 99││ 3 35 67 99││ 5 37 69 101││ 9 41 73 105│║ - ║│ 5 37 69 101││ 6 38 70 102││ 6 38 70 102││ 10 42 74 106│║ - ║│ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 11 43 75 107│║ - ║│ 9 41 73 105││ 10 42 74 106││ 12 44 76 108││ 12 44 76 108│║ - ║│ 11 43 75 107││ 11 43 75 107││ 13 45 77 109││ 13 45 77 109│║ - ║│ 13 45 77 109││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110│║ - ║│ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111│║ - ║│ 17 49 81 113││ 18 50 82 114││ 20 52 84 116││ 24 56 88 120│║ - ║│ 19 51 83 115││ 19 51 83 115││ 21 53 85 117││ 25 57 89 121│║ - ║│ 21 53 85 117││ 22 54 86 118││ 22 54 86 118││ 26 58 90 122│║ - ║│ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 27 59 91 123│║ - ║│ 25 57 89 121││ 26 58 90 122││ 28 60 92 124││ 28 60 92 124│║ - ║│ 27 59 91 123││ 27 59 91 123││ 29 61 93 125││ 29 61 93 125│║ - ║│ 29 61 93 125││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126│║ - ║│ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127│║ - ║└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘║ - ║ ┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐ ║ - ║ │ V. ││ VI. ││ VII. │ ║ - ║ │ ││ ││ │ ║ - ║ │ 16 48 80 112││ 32 48 96 112││ 64 80 96 112│ ║ - ║ │ 17 49 81 113││ 33 49 97 113││ 65 81 97 113│ ║ - ║ │ 18 50 82 114││ 34 50 98 114││ 66 82 98 114│ ║ - ║ │ 19 51 83 115││ 35 51 99 115││ 67 83 99 115│ ║ - ║ │ 20 52 84 116││ 36 52 100 116││ 68 84 100 116│ ║ - ║ │ 21 53 85 117││ 37 53 101 117││ 69 85 101 117│ ║ - ║ │ 22 54 86 118││ 38 54 102 118││ 70 86 102 118│ ║ - ║ │ 23 55 87 119││ 39 55 103 119││ 71 87 103 119│ ║ - ║ │ 24 56 88 120││ 40 56 104 120││ 72 88 104 120│ ║ - ║ │ 25 57 89 121││ 41 57 105 121││ 73 89 105 121│ ║ - ║ │ 26 58 90 122││ 42 58 106 122││ 74 90 106 122│ ║ - ║ │ 27 59 91 123││ 43 59 107 123││ 75 91 107 123│ ║ - ║ │ 28 60 92 124││ 44 60 108 124││ 76 92 108 124│ ║ - ║ │ 29 61 93 125││ 45 61 109 125││ 77 93 109 125│ ║ - ║ │ 30 62 94 126││ 46 62 110 126││ 78 94 110 126│ ║ - ║ │ 31 63 95 127││ 47 63 111 127││ 79 95 111 127│ ║ - ║ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘ ║ - ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -by adding together the numbers at the top left-hand corner of these. - - -No. LXIX - -This diagram shows that the postman can take a course which involves -fewer turnings than that indicated, when he had to pass round eighteen -corners. - - ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● - ┇ ┇ - ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ●┅┅┅○ ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● - - -It will be seen that he has to turn only fifteen times. - - -No. LXX - -This shows how a square can be divided into three parts, so that these -can be reunited to form No. 2 and No. 3 of the diagram. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: 1.] - -[Illustration: 2.] - -[Illustration: 3.] - -Try it with scissors and paper or cardboard. - - -No. LXXI - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │#♘#│ ♖ │#♚#│ ♖ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │# #│###┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -This position fulfils the conditions of the puzzle. Obviously it could -not occur in actual play. - - -No. LXXV - -The dotted lines in this diagram show where the flag with a cross taken -out from its centre must be cut, so that the two pieces can be rejoined -to form a perfect flag. - -[Illustration] - -The piece on the right is moved upward, and to the left. - - -No. LXXVI - -This is a way in which the eleven parts can be readjusted to form a -square:-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LXXVIII - -This shows the shortest course-- - -[Illustration] - -This track takes him completely round every block, passing only once -round four of them. - - -No. LXXIX - -Here is a very simple and symmetrical arrangement, by which on a board -of 36 squares twelve counters are so placed that there are two, and two -only, on each line, column, and diagonal. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ ◎ │ │ │ │ │ ◎ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ ◎ │ │ │ ◎ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ ◎ │ │ │ ◎ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ ◎ │ │ │ │ │ ◎ ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - -There are other arrangements which fulfil the conditions. - - -No. LXXXI - -In this nest of triangles of five tiers there are 1196 separate -triangles, or nearly double the number (653) of a similar nest of four -tiers. - -[Illustration] - -In such a figure with 10,000 tiers there would be 6,992,965,420,332 -different triangles! - - -No. LXXXII - -The match puzzle, in which eight matches set in a row are to be -rearranged in four pairs, by passing one match over two four times-- - - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - -is solved, if the matches are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, by moving -4 to 7, 6 to 2, 1 to 3, and 5 to 8. - - -No. LXXXIII - -The lower diagram shows how, when three matches are removed from the -four squares, the remaining nine can be readjusted to represent three -squares-- - - ══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ═══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ══════ ══════ - - /-----\/-----\ - /-----\ - ═════ ═════ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ═════ ═════ - - -No. LXXXIV - -This diagram shows how different arrangements of four matches are -possible in all the thirty-six cells of the square. - - │ ╲ ╱ │ - │ ╳ │ = 1 - │ ╱ ╲ │ - - │ │ │ - │ │ ── │ = 1 - │ │ │ - ___ - ╱ │ - ╲ ╱ │ = 1 - V │ - - │ │ │ - │ ──+── │ = 2 - │ │ │ - - │ │ - │ │ - │ │ - ─── = 2 - │ - │ - │ - - │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ = 4 - │ │ │ │ - - ╲ ╱ │ - ╲ ╱ ── │ = 4 - V │ - - ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ - V - ───── = 5 - │ - │ - │ - - ___ - ╱ │ - ╱ ── │ = 6 - ╱ │ - - ___ - ╱ - ╱ - ╱ - ─── = 7 - │ - │ - │ - - ╲ ╱ │ │ - ╲ ╱ │ │ = 7 - V │ │ - - ╲ ╱ │ - ╳ ── │= 9 - ╱ ╲ │ - - │ │ │ - │ │ ── │ = 10 - │ │ │ - - ╲ ╱ - ╳ - ╱ ╲ - ─── = 10 - │ - │ - │ - - │ │ - │ │ - │ │ - ─── = 11 - │ - │ - │ - - ╲ ╱ │ │ - ╳ │ │ = 12 - ╱ ╲ │ │ - - │ ╱│ - │ ─┼─ = 14 - │ │ - - - ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ - ╳ ╲ ╱ = 15 - ╱ ╲ V - - ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ - ╳ ╳ = 20 - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - - ╲ ╱ │ - ╳ │ = 40 - ╱ ╲ │___ - - ╱│ │ - ─+─ │ = 41 - │ │ - - │ │ - │ ─── │ = 49 - │___ │ - - │ - │ - │___ - ───── = 50 - │ - │ - │ - - │ │ │ - │ │ │ = 52 - │___ │ │ - - │ ╲ ╱ - │ ╳ = 60 - │___ ╱ ╲ - - ___ - │ │ ╱ - │ │ ╱ = 117 - │ │ ╱ - - ___ - │ ╱ │ - │ ╱ │ = 171 - │ ╱ │ - - ___ - ╱ │ │ - ╱ │ │ = 711 - ╱ │ │ - - │╲ ╱│ - │ V │ = 1000 - │ │ - - ──── - │ │ - │ │ = 0 - │ │ - ──── - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ─── = ─── - │ │ 2 - │ │ - │ │ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ───── = ─── - ╲ ╱ 5 - ╲ ╱ - V - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ──── = ─── - ___ 7 - ╱ - ╱ - ╱ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ─── = ─── - ╲ ╱ 10 - ╳ - ╱ ╲ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ─── = ─── - │ │ 11 - │ │ - │ │ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ──── = ─── - │ 50 - │ - │__ - -In every case a whole number or a fraction is represented, with such -signs or lines as are necessary, and only four matches are used. - - -No. LXXXV - -It will be seen from the diagram below that the sentence, when filled in -as required, is “Rise to vote, sir.” - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ R | I | S | E | T | O | V | O | T | E | S | I | R ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S | | S | | | | | | | | S | | S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E | | | E | | | | | | E | | | E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T | | | | T | | | | T | | | | T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O | | | | | O | | O | | | | | O ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ V | | | | | | V | | | | | | V ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O | | | | | O | | O | | | | | O ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T | | | | T | | | | T | | | | T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E | | | E | | | | | | E | | | E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S | | S | | | | | | | | S | | S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ R | I | S | E | T | O | V | O | T | E | S | I | R ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -As this sentence is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike from either -end, it can be traced in a great number of different directions. - - -No. LXXXVII - -This subtraction sum may be very neatly worked, without reducing the -distances to inches, thus:-- - - ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║miles furlongs rods yards feet inches║ - ║ 1 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 ║ - ║ 7 „ 39 „ 5 „ 1 „ 5 ║ - ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────── ║ - ║ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 1 ║ - ║ ═══════════════════════════════════════════ ║ - ║ ║ - ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -Instead of borrowing one foot, we borrow half-a-foot--_i.e._, 6 inches; -taking 5 from the 6 we have 1 as a remainder; now carrying the 6 inches -to the 1 foot, and borrowing half a yard, and subtracting, we have 0 as -remainder; carrying the half-yard to the 5 yards, we borrow the full -5¹⁄₂ yards, which are one rod, and proceed in the usual manner -afterwards, with the result that is shown. - - -No. LXXXIX - -This is an arrangement of nine counters on the irregular board of 67 -squares. - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |#●#┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃###| |#●#| |###| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ ● |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |###| ● |###┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃#●#| |###| |###┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |#●#| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| ● ┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃ ● │###| |###| |###| |###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |#●#| |###| |###┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -No two counters are in the same row, column, or diagonal. - - -No. XC - -This is the arrangement of nine cards in ten rows, three in each row-- - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ K │ │ Q │ │ K │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♢ │ │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ A │ │ A │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♠ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ 1 │ │ K │ │ J │ - │ 0 │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - -No. XCI - -The following diagram shows how the two ladies and their squires -represented by white Knights and black, and dressed to impersonate -Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, started from the four comer squares, -and stepped a figure which exhibited at each pause a revolving square, -and in three paces came together in the centre, by a course traced upon -the lines of their combined monograms. - -[Illustration] - - -No. XCII - -The 5 maxims in these 36 cells-- - - ╔════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ he ║ - ║ tell │you know│ tells │ knows │ tells │ should ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ not ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ you │ │ thinks │ │ is ║ - ║ do │ think │ does │ of │ does │ not ║ - ║ │ of │ │ │ │ good ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ believe│you hear│believes│ hears │believes│is false║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ spend │you have│ spends │ has │ spends │he needs║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ is ║ - ║ judge │ you see│ judges │ sees │ judges │ not ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ there ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ never │ all │ he who │ all he │ often │ what ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╚════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╝ - -are disentangled by reading the lowest line with each of the upper ones -in turn. Thus the first maxim runs:--“Never tell all you know, he who -tells all he knows often tells what he should not,” and so on -throughout. - - -No. XCIII - -The dislocated circle is solved by making a single cut through the -dotted line shown in the diagram below, and join up the pieces. - -[Illustration] - -The second diagram shows how this figure is arrived at, by drawing three -similar and intersecting circles, which have their centres at the angles -of an equilateral triangle. The piece cut off by the dotted line -corresponds to the section that completes the circle below. - - -No. XCV - -The catch-words Cleans, Scrubs, Scours, Polishes, which proclaim the -merits of an “Old Dutch Cleanser” on the sails of this windmill, - -[Illustration] - -can be recast so that the same letters form the singularly appropriate -sentence-- - - “O rub on, sir, success spells cash!” - - -No. XCVI - -The following diagram shows the solution of this new chess puzzle, and -fulfils its conditions that no Queen should attack a Queen, no Rook a -Rook, no Bishop a Bishop, and no Knight a Knight. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ B ║#B#║ B ║#B#║ Q ║#R#║ B ║#B#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║###║ N ║###║ Q ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║ N ║#R#║ N ║#Q#║ N ║###║ N ║#B#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║#Q#║ N ║###║ N#║ R#║ N ║###║ B ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║ B ║###║ N ║###║ N ║###║ Q ║#R#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║#B#║ Q ║###║ N ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║ N ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║#Q#║ N ║###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║#R#║ B ║#Q#║ N ║#B#║ B ║#B#║ N ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Mr Dudeney explains that only 8 Queens or 8 Rooks can be thus placed -upon the board, while the greatest number of Bishops is fourteen, and of -Knights thirty-two. But as all Knights must be placed on squares of the -same colour, while the Queens occupy four of each colour, and the -bishops seven of each colour, it follows that only twenty-one Knights -can be placed, and the arrangement shown above contains the maximum -number of these pieces under the conditions. - - -No. CII - -This diagram shows the order in which the syllables or words of the -eight-line verse are to be read on the course of a Knight’s moves at -chess-- - - ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ - ║ 14 │ 55 │ 22 │ 37 │ 12 │ 51 │ 18 │ 35 ║ - ║ sor │ to │ king │ good │ say │ luck │ loy │ eth ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 23 │ 38 │ 13 │ 54 │ 17 │ 36 │ 11 │ 50 ║ - ║ and │ moth │ a │ soon │ dis │ our │ to │ bad ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 56 │ 15 │ 40 │ 21 │ 52 │ 9 │ 34 │ 19 ║ - ║ place│ ry │church│ his │ force│ is │ hat │ al ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 39 │ 24 │ 53 │ 16 │ 33 │ 20 │ 49 │ 10 ║ - ║ er │ queen│ him │ wight│ he │ to │ may │ truth║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 2 │ 57 │ 28 │ 41 │ 8 │ 61 │ 32 │ 47 ║ - ║ man │ his │ and │ and │ chess│ es │knight│ op’s ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 25 │ 42 │ 1 │ 60 │ 29 │ 48 │ 7 │ 62 ║ - ║ a │ sneer│ the │ and │ un │ lawn │ of │ tates║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 58 │ 3 │ 44 │ 27 │ 64 │ 5 │ 46 │ 31 ║ - ║ cas │ that │ at │ less │ pawn │ no │ bish │ lant ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 44 │ 26 │ 59 │ 4 │ 45 │ 30 │ 63 │ 6 ║ - ║ eth │ faith│ tles │ hath │ the │ gal │ in │ love ║ - ╚══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╝ - -They run thus:-- - - The man that hath no love of chess, - Is, truth to say, a sorry wight; - Disloyal to his King and Queen, - A faithless and ungallant Knight. - He hateth our good mother Church, - And sneereth at the bishop’s lawn; - May bad luck force him soon to place - His castles and estates in pawn! - - -No. CV - -If such a network as is shown in the diagram below is drawn on clear -tracing-paper and placed on the page of a book, it will conceal the -words beneath it. - -[Illustration] - -But if, while lying close to the page, it is moved quickly round and -about, the letters and words will be distinctly seen, just as objects on -the other side of close lattice-work become visible as we pass them -quickly in a train. - - -No. CVI - -These are the results of cutting, in the direction of the dotted lines, -completely round a simple paper ring, a ring with one twist, and a ring -with a double twist. - -[Illustration] - -We have (1) two simple rings; (2) one large-twisted ring; (3) two rings -linked together. If a third twist is given before cutting, a curious -knot is formed. - - -CVII - -The string when it has been placed in the position shown in the diagram, -and two buttons larger than the hole have been fixed upon its ends can -be easily removed if the narrow slip of the leather is drawn through the -hole. - -[Illustration] - - -CVIII - -The scissors, when securely fastened, as is shown in the diagram, - -[Illustration] - -can be easily released by passing the loop upward through the handle, -and then completely over them. - - -CIX - -The primitive wolf-trap consisted of two circular fences higher than a -wolf could scale, with a gate as was shown on the former diagram. To set -the trap a lamb was placed in the safe centre, and the gate was opened -as is shown below-- - -[Illustration] - -Attracted by the bleating of the lamb, the wolf entered the outer -circle, made his way round, and presently pushed aside the gate, which -closed with a spring, and shut off all escape. - - -No. CXII - -When you have told someone to think of a number between 5 and 15, and -while you are not looking, to count upwards from the lowest card step, -and round in the direction indicated by the arrow, until that number is -reached, and then, starting afresh with “one” on that card to count -backwards round the semi-circle, this time _not including the central -upright or the steps below it_, until the number thought of is again -reached, you can tell at once which is the final card arrived at, for it -will be as many places _upwards on the left_ as there are _step cards -and their upright_. - -[Illustration] - -Thus if there are 3 steps, it must always be the fourth card upwards on -the left of the semi-circle. To keep up the puzzle, the number of steps -should each time be changed, on the pretext that their number does not -signify. - - -No. CXIII - -This diagram shows how the apple may be divided into six pieces by two -straight cuts, so that there shall be a gash in each piece. - -[Illustration] - -First cut the apple through the dotted line, then place the upper piece -shown at the side of the larger piece, and make the second cut straight -through, where the line is drawn. - - -No. CXVII - -The sixpence under the middle of the tumbler can be easily removed -thus-- - -[Illustration] - -Slip larger coins under opposite edges of the tumbler to raise it -slightly, and then scratch firmly on the cloth, from just outside the -rim, in the direction you wish the sixpence to take. It will at once -respond, and makes its own way gradually outside the circle that had -surrounded it. - - -No. CXVIII - -This is the way to draw the spiral-- - -[Illustration] - -Tie a piece of strong thread with a loop at its end round the upper part -of the windings of a screw. Drive the screw into a board, through the -middle of a card, wind the thread down the screw so that its loop just -reaches the card, place a pencil in this loop, and draw the spiral -freely, unwinding the thread from the grooves of the screw, and keeping -it always taut. A perfect spiral is the result. - - -No. CXXII. - -The secret of the talking head is simple indeed when you know it. - -[Illustration] - -Between the front and two side legs of the table mirrors are fixed, -which reflect the similar surroundings, so that the performer, kneeling -behind these, and putting his head through a hole in the table top, -completely conceals his body and limbs from the audience. - - -No. CXXV - -The picture charade is completed thus-- - -[Illustration] - - My first may blow the candle out, - My second then comes in; - My whole in water moves about - Without an oar or fin-- - - -and is solved by _Puffin_. - - -No. CXXVI - -When the walnuts and cobnuts have been arranged as is shown on the -diagram-- - -[Illustration] - -they can be shifted so that they stand alternately, by moving two that -are close together at a time, in four moves, as follows:-- - -(1) Move 2 and 3 beyond 8. - -(2) Move 5 and 6 between 1 and 4. - -(3) Move what are now 6th and 7th in the gap. - -(4) Move what are now 1st and 2nd in the gap, and the alternate -arrangement is complete. - - -No. CXXVII - -The question suggested by this picture riddle is: Why is a waiter like a -racehorse? And the solution is: Because he runs for cups and plates. - -[Illustration] - - - - -WORD PLAY SOLUTIONS - - -1 - -The paradox-- - - Two words in our region of puzzledom pose, - And claim, through the passage of years, - That neither the pages of Johnson disclose, - While either in Murray appears. - -is solved by the lines-- - - This key unlocks our puzzle-box, - Johnson and Murray both give “neither,” - While, to complete the paradox, - Murray and Johnson both give “either!” - - -2 - -The verse is completed thus-- - - Rude Eurus murmurs, trustful buds uncurl, - Bulbs push, due culture nurtures fruitful flush; - Thrush builds, full sunhued plumes furze tufts unfurl, - Up bursts, pure flute-fugue, Bulbul’s tuneful gush. - - -3 - -The enigma-- - - I see my first, I see my next, - And both I sigh and see - Joined to my third, which much perplexed - And sorely puzzled me. - ’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more, - Reversed ’twas scarce an ell, - With first and next it forms a whole - Clear as a crystal bell. - What is my whole? A splendid tear - Upheld in cruel thrall; - Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun, appear! - And bid it gently fall. - -is solved by ICICLE. - - -4 - -The charade-- - - Take for my first a quadruped, - Transpose one for my second; - My whole, a biped, quick or dead - Is dainty reckoned. - -is solved by _Pigeon_ (_one_ becomes _eon_). - - -5 - -Byron’s enigma-- - - I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age, - But in infancy ever am known; - I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage, - And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page - I always am greatest alone. - - I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon; - You may search all the sky--I’m not there; - In the morning and evening--though not in the noon-- - You may plainly perceive me--for, like a balloon, - I am midway suspended in air. - - Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain, - I am never in sorrow nor gloom; - Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign, - I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain, - Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb! - -is solved by the letter I. - - -6 - - I am bright as a whole - Till you cut off my head; - Then as black as a coal, - Or a mortal instead. - Shaken up and recast - We with science are found, - Read us back from the last - And we live underground. - -is solved by _Star_, _tar_, _arts_, _rats_. - - -7 - -Horace Smith’s charade-- - - In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still, - All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will; - Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry--a cry that doth express - A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness. - In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard, - And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third. - Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed, - Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find. - -is solved by _Reformatory_. - - -8 - - Untouched I tell of budding growth and life; - Beheaded I lead upward more or less; - Again--with varied fragrance I am rife; - Again--but little value I express. - -is solved by _Nascent_, _ascent_, _scent_, _cent_. - - -9 - -The enigma-- - - Search Holy Writ and you will see - A victory was won by me. - Behead me, and I may be found - In water or on hilly ground. - Behead again, and then transpose, - A snare my letters now disclose. - If yet again my head you sever, - No matter how sharp-set or clever, - ’Tis all in vain you look about, - For no one yet has found me out. - -is solved by _Sling_, _ling_, _gin_, _in_. - - -10 - -The charade-- - - Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court, - “Now I’d bet, were we not in this place, - That my first is my second a bottle of port,” - Then bright with my whole shone his face. - -is solved by _Pleasure_. - - -11 - -The answer to the problem-- - - Six horse ’buses and four motor ’buses travel each hour from Temple - Bar to the Bank. The horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 minutes - on the journey. - - If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as - possible, shall I take the first horse ’bus that turns up, or wait for - a motor? It must be assumed that I can only see a ’bus as it actually - passes me-- - - is (1) Take a motor if it comes first. - - (2) Take a horse ’bus if it comes first, and comes within 2¹⁄₂ minutes - of waiting. - - (3) Wait for a motor if a horse ’bus comes first, but does not come - till after 2¹⁄₂ minutes. - -As I may have to wait 0 minutes or 15 minutes, the average time of -waiting will be 7¹⁄₂ minutes. - -If I wait _x_ min., and a horse ’bus arrives, I should reach the Bank in -15 mins, if I took it. - -If I waited longer for a motor, which, on the average, will now turn up -in 7¹⁄₂ - _x_ mins., I should reach the Bank in 17¹⁄₂ - _x_ mins. - -If, therefore, _x_ is greater than 2¹⁄₂, the motor is the quicker. - - -12 - -The historical charade-- - - My first, if foolishly or rashly taken, - May mar the future prospects of your life. - My second, by her fickle lord forsaken - (Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife). - May toil and moil to feed his many babies, - While he goes flirting off with other ladies. - The thrifty monarch of a former age - My whole a place in Britain’s history fills. - Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages - As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills! - -is solved by _Stephen_ (Step-hen). - - -13 - - - My _second_, worn with pompous pride, - My _first_ had dangling at his side, - On chain securely hooked. - My _first_ he came from o’er the sea, - A bundle of conceit looked he, - And he was all he looked. - - She led him to the village green, - Where in desponding mood was seen - My _whole_, with drooping head. - “Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true - And striking likeness, sir, of you!” - And, laughing, gaily fled. - -is solved by _Donkey_. - - -14 - -Lewis Carroll turns WHEAT into BREAD, changing one letter each time, and -preserving their general order throughout, thus-- - - WHEAT; cheat; cheap; cheep; creep; creed; - breed; BREAD. - - -15 - -_Unity_ is a probable solution of the old enigma, part of which -evidently refers to “a house divided against itself”-- - - I’m one among a numerous host, - And very useful in my post; - There’s not a house in all the land - Without me properly can stand. - Though men disputed long ago - Whether I did exist or no, - Once more some thousands have been slain - Because they could not me attain. - - -16 - -The anagram proverbs, “These grave lips chatter no ill,” and “Elephants, -all to richest giver,” are both founded on _Little pitchers have long -ears_, and spelt with exactly the same letters. - - -17 - -The charade-- - - My first of rudeness has a sound; - The rest is in a city found; - My whole to win its way is bound. - -is solved by _Pertinacity_. - - -18 - -The buried potentate in the lines-- - - My first is in cake, but not in bun; - My second in light, but not in sun; - My third is in night, but not in day; - My fourth is in game, but not in play; - My fifth is in head, but not in tail; - My sixth is in wind, but not in sail; - My seventh in wrong, but not in right; - My eighth is in battle, but not in fight; - My ninth is in sword, but not in knife, - My tenth is in lady, but not in wife; - My whole is a monarch at war with strife. - -is _King Edward_. - - -19 - -The charade-- - - My first except when it is old - Is never seen or heard; - When it is heard the sound is tolled - Out of a Jewish beard. - My next was in imperial Rome, - It was her power and might; - Then you had but to write _you wish_, - And straightway ’twas in sight. - - My whole was Frank - Of royal rank. - -is solved by _Clovis_ (_vis_ in Latin is both _power_ and _you wish_). - - -20 - - How great in olden days my power, - Oft have I saved a castle tower - From war’s invading tide. - Transpose me, and how great my fall! - I am then the smallest of the small, - That nothing can divide. - -is solved by _Moat_--_atom_. - - -21 - -The puzzle-- - - This compact Enigma take, - All apart its letters shake. - Let your 6, 3, 5 be high, - Like 5, 1, 2 do or die. - Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys - More than 5, 6, 2 by boys? - While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine, - May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine. - 4, 1, 5 is rich and rare, - 6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer. - -is solved by the word Enigma, from which are formed, as is indicated, -the words _aim_, _men_, _game_, _man_, _mine_, _gain_, _gem_, and -_amen_. - - -22 - -The enigma-- - - “Charles the First walked and talked, - Half an hour after his head was cut off.” - _Old Couplet_. - - Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King, - A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow. - Halve what remains, my second is a thing - Which nothing but my third can e’er make go, - My third will vary as you take your line, - This less than human, that way all divine! - -is solved by _Dog_ (Og, go, dog, God). - - -23 - -The logograph-- - - Touch me not, I’m firm and sure; - Behead, I’m used by rich and poor; - In house and cottage, hut and hall, - I stand of service to them all. - Behead again, in time of need - I tell that strength and skill succeed. - -is solved by _Stable_, _table_, _able_. - - -24 - -The names that satisfy the conditions of this Single Acrostic-- - - What river is that, where it is found, - Which Pope says does with eels abound? - What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded, - Is with bright birch and oak surrounded? - What stream is said in Devon to run - Into the sea near Otterton? - What bay on Cuba’s distant coast - Is justly deemed its pride and boast? - The initials of these names will show - A Scotch reformer, who, we know, - Flourished three hundred years ago. - -are _Kennet_, _Ness_, _Otter_, _Xagua_, which give _Knox_. - - -25 - -The charade-- - - My whole may be a mother, not a dad, - So former may, or latter; - But twist my tail, and I become as mad - As any hatter! - - Behead me, and behold I am a man, - Who never was called mister; - Cut off my tail, and instantly I can - Become a sister! - -is solved by _Madam_ (_ma_, _dam_, _mad_, _Adam_, _Ada_). - - -26 - -In addition to the singularly appropriate anagram that has been so -happily attached to the name of Florence Nightingale, _Flit on, cheering -angel_, the same group of letters can be recast as an aspiration for her -continuance in our loving memory, so that they form the sentence, _Cling -on, feeling heart_. - - -27 - -The rebus-- - - I am - a man - I rate you - a beast - You know me - -reads thus:--I rate you lower than a man, above a beast. Know between -you and me I am above the rest. - - -28 - -The charade-- - - My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome, - Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread. - Long may it be before that fate shall come - And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread! - -is solved by _Scissors_ (Lat. _scis_, thou knowest; _sors_, a lot). - - -29 - -The poets’ names buried in the lines-- - - The sun is darting rays of gold - Upon the moor, enchanting spot; - Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved, - Up open to his shepherd cot. - - And sundry denizens of air - Are flying--aye, each to his nest; - And eager make at such an hour - All haste to reach the mansions blest. - -are Gray, Moore, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Gay, Keats and Hemans. - - -30 - -The enigma-- - - This multiplies me, I declare, - Though it reduces one; - A sty is foul if it is there, - By it a deed is done. - -is solved by the letter _n_ (_me_ becomes _men_; _one_, _none_; _a sty_, -_nasty_.) - - -31 - - Lennie _parsed_ the words he read, - Studying _Praed’s_ fable; - Lennie’s mother _rasped_ the bread, - Sophy _drapes_ the table. - “Work while you are _spared_,” they said, - “_Spread_ while you are able!” - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -32 - -The charade-- - - When I write with my first, in my second, - My whole is quite sure to be in. - Divided afresh, there is reckoned - A wit, or a something that’s thin. - Prefix a letter, and, as clear as paint, - You see the name of an old English Saint, - -is solved by _Within_ (Swithin). - - -33 - -The puzzle lines-- - - My first, though half a noisy bird, - To a slight noise may turn; - My second-twist, a stately word, - And it will bend we learn. - -are solved by _Pardon_ (rap-nod). - - -34 - -The enigma-- - - To half of ten add one - Then half a score. - When this is duly done - Almost ten more. - This can be good for none, - But trial sore. - -is solved by _Vixen_. - - -35 - -The buried proverb-- - - I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous attempt to show - illegality, is as a cat chasing snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I - shun his example--is-- - - _If you swear you will catch no fish_. - - -36 - - Quick _veerers_ in action, now timid, now bold, - Like _reevers_ of ropes far too rotten to hold, - _Reserve_ a _severer reverse_ and disasters - For a State that _reveres_ not incapable masters. - -The six words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -37 - - My first is an heir, - My second a snare, - My whole is the offspring of fancy, - Which I sent on its way - Last Valentine’s Day, - As a token of love to my Nancy. - -is solved by _Sonnet_. - - -38 - -The lover’s vow-- - - My love shall never know my first, - Shall never be my second; - It shall my all, come best, come worst, - Be surely reckoned. - -is solved by _Endless_. - - -39 - -The enigma-- - - I am a letter, and a word, - I am a tree, I am a name, - Cut me in pieces with a sword, - You and your act would be the same. - Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt, - And use it twice if you would find me out. - -is solved by U, You, Hugh, Yew, How. - - -40 - -If you “resist disasters,” this may, by anagram, _distress a sister_. - - -41 - -The charade-- - - My first the rainbow shows - When in rich hues it glows. - My next has vowels three; - My third was once a tree. - My fourth begins the year, - My whole the past makes clear. - -is solved by _Archæology_. - - -42 - -If you ask a schoolboy to estimate the value of the grass in a -triangular field, of which the longest side measures 100 rods, and each -of the other sides 50 rods, at £1 per acre, it may take him some little -time to see that he is being sold, since the condition is not fulfilled -that any two sides of a triangle _must be greater than the third side_. - - -43 - - Less than my last, my whole has place - Between my first and second: - Second has body, arms and face; - First is by inches reckoned. - -is solved by _waistcoat_. - - -44 - -The historical charade-- - - My first at early morn the camp alarms, - And at its sound the soldier springs to arms; - My second nowadays fair ladies scorn, - Though in less dainty days it oft was worn. - My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground, - With victory the rebel forces crowned. - -is solved by the battle of _Drumclog_. - - -45 - - I love strolling _troupes_ that go wandering round, - Each _spouter_ a _Proteus_ in versatile skill; - Each _posture_ so quaint, each idea so profound, - My barn’s at their service, whenever they will. - A company played there last night, but to-day - Ducks, _pouters_, and poultry have vanished away! - -The five words in italics are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -46 - -The Arithmorem “150 hat robe or tent” forms the name Charlotte Bronte. - - -47 - -The Shedding Letters enigma-- - - I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known, - Of all that are busy in country and town. - Take from me one letter, and yet my good name - In spite of this loss will continue the same. - Take from me two letters, and still you will see - That precisely the same in effect I shall be. - Take from me three letters, or even take more, - Yet still I continue as sound as before. - -is solved by _The Postman_! - - -48 - -When Tom Larkins challenged his sisters to prove on a blackboard that if -50 is subtracted from the sum of the nine digits the result equals the -number obtained by dividing their sum by 3, he showed them that the sum -of the digits may be written thus: XLV, and that if the L, which -represents 50, is removed, XV, or 15, the third of 45, remains. - - -49 - -In the “Geese to Market” problem-- - - B drove a goodly flock of geese, - And met with Farmer A; - Said Farmer A, “How much apiece - For this lot did you pay?” - Said B, “I paid for all I drive - Just six pounds and a crown, - And I am selling all but five - At the next market town. - If fifteen pence a head I charge - Beyond the price I paid, - I shall secure a sum as large - As he who sold all made.” - -B bought 25 geese at 5s. each, and proposed to sell 20 of them at 6s. -3d. - - -50 - -The charade-- - - When second held first - For best or for worst, - I thought myself happy to win her. - But what could I say - When the very next day - She gave me the whole for my dinner? - -is solved by _Herring_. - - -51 - -In the lines-- - - The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum, - Blending so sweetly with the restful air; - The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come, - And well I ken the lass who meets me there-- - -the familiar adage, “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home” -is buried. - - -52 - -The mutilations in-- - - A little beast without its head - Becomes a mighty beast instead: - But then the subject of my riddle - Is cut asunder in the middle; - And nothing this division gains, - Though unknown quantity remains. - -are _Fox_, _ox_, _o_, _x_. - - -53 - - Mary sat with _slate_ in hand, - Writing _tales_ dramatic. - Did she _steal_ the plots she planned? - Negative emphatic! - _Stale_ to us the _tales_ may be, - But at _least_ they’re new to she! - - -54 - -The old Sanscrit problem, quoted by Longfellow in his “Kavanagh,” - - Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, seeing the clouds - collect, flew to the Manus lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the - edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, and three couple - were seen playing in the water. Tell me, my young girl with beautiful - locks, what was the whole number of geese? - -is solved by 144. - - -55 - -The enigma-- - - Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be - That if you divide the whole number by three - You find the result will exactly express - The half of six hundred and sixty, no less-- - -is solved by turning the sixes of 660 upside down, when it becomes 990, -and satisfies the conditions. - - -56 - -The press parody ran thus-- - - There was a young turkey, oh, bless her! - It cost very little to dress her; - Some breadcrumbs and thyme - About Thanksgiving time, - And they ate every bit from the dresser! - - -57 - - She loses her head when she joins the brides, - He joins them after tea; - But both are swept by ruthless tides - Away on the western sea. - -is solved by _Hebrides_. - - -58 - -If I have 91 bananas on my barrow, and find, when I have sold one -quality at four a penny, and the other at three a penny, that in mixed -lots at seven for twopence I should have made a penny more, I had 64 of -inferior and 27 of better sort. - - -59 - -The words in italics have the same letters-- - - How does the sluggard’s garden grow? - When _rates_ are high, results are low. - His borders _tares_ and bindweed spoil, - No careful culture _tears_ the soil; - What weeds that _stare_ are all alive - Where _aster_, pink, or rose should thrive. - - -60 - - Correctly drawn results I yield, - Varied, but welcome everywhere; - But met with in the open field - I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare. - To this peculiar difference the clue - Is called with much significance the cue. - -is solved by _Cheque_, _check_ (the letter Q). - - -61 - -The three towns buried in the lines-- - - Wait while I think the matter over, - On holiday intent; - The best I’ve seen is surely Dover, - That pretty port of Kent. - -are _Leith_, _Thebes_, _St Ives_. - - -62 - - An Arab came to the river side, - With a donkey bearing an obelisk; - But he did not venture to ford the tide, - For he had to good an ass to risk (_asterisk_). - - So he camped all night by that river side, - Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, - For he knew that whenever the donkey died, - No other could be its _parallel_ (‖). - - -63 - -The charade-- - - What ho, my jolly _second!_ never say my _first_ - While my final you can find in Amsterdam. - Think how a sound _whole_ stays your hunger and your thirst, - Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam. - -is solved by _Dietary_ (Amsterdam is on the River Y). - - -64 - -The schoolboy who calculated that if he had made as many more runs at a -cricket match, and half as many more, and two runs and a half, he would -have made a score, scored seven runs. - - -65 - -The enigma-- - - Six letters spell the happy state - Of two in love made one. - The same six letters tell the fate - Of marriage ties undone. - -is solved by _United_, _untied_. - - -66 - -The riddle-- - - My first’s a bond, my second’s weigh; - These own the rest of all my lay; - Busy my third; fourth like the pole, - Whose opposite my fifth makes goal. - -is solved by _Shackle_, _Tons_, _Ant_, _Arctic Expedition_. - -[Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton, R.N., leader of his South Polar -Expedition.] - - -67 - - For two months at the _nets_ we played, - Ere we were _sent_ to Lord’s; - Alas! the score our champion made - Was what a _nest_ affords. - The crowd in _tens_ of thousands came, - But took scant notice of the game. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -68 - -When Edwin and Angelina received these mutual Marconigrams-- - - “No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind.” - “In love inconstant I no pleasure find,” - -he was at Lisbon and she was at Constantinople, as is indicated by the -fact that the names of these places are “buried” in the messages. - - -69 - -The Mental Arithmetic-- - - Set down three figures in a line, - Then multiply by four; - This, if you use the proper sign, - Makes five, and nothing more. - -is solved by 1.25. In 1¹⁄₄ the figures are not _in a line_. - - -70 - -The doublet by missing words, in which a grilse is turned into a salmon, -is solved thus-- - - To silver Tweed, or broader Spey, - The _grilse_ of _silver_, _sailer_ gay, - Guides on; the _sailor morals_ draws - When _salmon_ follows Nature’s laws. - -One letter is changed in each link. - - -71 - -The enigma-- - - I never move, and yet I run - From place to place all day; - Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, - Sees Dora in my way-- - -is solved by _Road_, which spells also _Dora_. - - -72 - -The Letters-- - - ~HAATTCEUMSSSS~ - -form the name of the State _Massachusetts_. - - -73 - -The enigma-- - - Seven words in one of letters five we fix, - Six English, and one Latin; - No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, - If puzzles you are pat in. - -is solved by _There_: the words are--_there_, _here_, _her_, _the_, -_ere_, _he_, _re_. - - -74 - -The full solution of the answer by anagram to the question, “Why is -every angler ipso facto an Ananias?” is-- - - A liar, he spins gay fancies to a woven yarn. - -Question and answer are spelt with _the same letters_. - - -75 - -The quaint riddle-- - - Peter White - Will never go right; - Shall I tell you the reason why? - Wherever he goes, - He follows his nose, - And that stands all awry! - If this appendage had slanted more. - Why would it serve a hole to bore? - -is solved thus--It would be _Askewer_ (a skewer!) - - -76 - -“S” is the missing letter which occurs 55 times, and these are the four -lines:-- - - This season’s sunshine smiles, such storms as pass - Assist us to assess success or loss. - Spring’s sweetness still possesses mossy grass, - As summer’s tresses mass soft shades across. - - -77 - -The enigma-- - - Protected, open, plain, - Without my tail I’m flat; - I’m round, curtailed again; - Again, you have me pat! - -is solved by _Patent_, _paten_, _pate_, _pat_. - - -78 - -The logogriph-- - - When all are gay this holds the sway, - But take a letter out, - That change of fare is ruling there, - You see, without a doubt. - Behead me twice; it is not nice - To have this in your skin; - Lop head and tail, and find a nail - Or tack to drive it in. - Behead this right, and in your sight - A little word you find; - But you will never make it out, - Though it is in your mind. - -is solved by _feasting_, _fasting_, _sting_, _tin_, _in_. - - -79 - - He _prides_ himself much on his skill, - In many a burglary tried; - But when he _prised_ open the till - There was only a _spider_ inside. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -80 - -The enigma-- - - Three-fourths of me an act display, - Three-fourths a bed for man; - Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, - Three-fourths have legs that can. - I have a back without a spine, - An arm without a bone is mine. - -is solved by _Coat_. - - -81 - -The charade-- - - My first is the French for my second, - My whole a narcotic is reckoned - -is solved by _Lethe_. - - -82 - -The two palindrome words which can be formed from the letters of the -sentence “Arrive to vote at it,” are _Rotator_ and _Evitative_. - - -83 - -The enigma-- - - Sweet till I lose my head, - Sweet-hearted then I show; - Decapitate again, I spread, - And cannot be below. - Served so once more, I am not dead, - But with fresh beauty glow. - -is solved by _Clover_, _lover_, _over_, _ver_ (Latin for Spring). - - -84 - -When Tommy undertook to put a shilling in his money-box if his father -would give him as much as he had in his purse, and after repeating the -process for three more days found himself penniless, he had elevenpence -farthing in his purse at first. - - -85 - - Two articles of English make, - And three from foreign source. - All these together you must take - Where dramas run their course. - -is solved by _Theatres_ (_tres_, Latin for _three_). - - -86 - -When young Hopeful said, “If it were possible I should choose a life -double as long,” and old Sobersides answered, “Yes, and you might turn -it to better account if it was also begun old,” and the fact that their -actual words “double as long,” and “also begun old,” were spelt with -_exactly the same letters_, gave emphasis to the reply. - - -87 - -The charade-- - - Lop head and tail, and you will find - I have both tail and head. - Or if for spirits you’ve a mind - Set my tail first instead. - - Life, as “a vapour full of woes,” - With many a darker page, - My whole in picture will disclose, - For “all the world’s a stage!” - -is solved by _Drama_, _ram_, _a dram_. - - -88 - - A glowing _transept_ window, graced - With _patterns_ that true art has traced. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -89 - -The proof by anagram that the words of commendation “blessed in pain,” -are properly applied to anæsthetics, is that exactly the same letters -spell _indispensable_. - - -90 - -The quotation buried in the sentence-- - - “What sin was it, sonny?” said an American negress to her lover, when - she sat on his best hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her - musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was botany, but not hers, - for she was then a merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer - this mellow pineapple, Leonidas,” she said; “I guess we Ethiopians - just love fruit!” - -is “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would -smell as sweet.” - - -91 - - They _grab_ the dress with grip so keen - That half the _garb_ gives way: - And home return with purses lean - To _brag_ of “bargain-day”! - -The words in italics are spelt with the same four letters. - - -92 - - Three _ladies_ went sailing out into the West, - Out into the West as the sun sank low; - Each thought as she _sailed_ of the lad she loved best - For they all had _ideals_, and each had a beau. - - · · · · · · · - - But seas will rise, and spirits will sink, - And they all were too ill of _ideals_ to think, - So these _ladies sailed_ back moaning! - -The words in italics have the same six letters. - - -93 - -The charade-- - - Lurking in riddles oft my first is found; - My second should in ample stores abound, - Or help to make the sweetest songster heard. - Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third. - My whole has found with England’s monarch grace, - The verdant home of many a goodly race, - -is solved by _Punchestown_. - - -94 - -The enigma-- - - Accent my head, - An opening I appear; - In other fashion said - I charm all far and near-- - -is solved by _Entrance_. - - -95 - -The two sentences-- - - A lamp shines out for thee, - Win me best by tears, - -are anagrams of _The Houses of Parliament_ and _Westminster Abbey_. - - -96 - -When on the Brighton beach an excited collie in pursuit of stones thrown -into the sea, suggested the riddle, “What is the difference between that -dog and a hungry man?” The appropriate answer was, “The one stops and -shakes himself; the other chops and steaks himself!” - - -97 - -The hidden animal in-- - - A part of me in rain, - A part in hail must be, - A part belongs to pain, - A part in bones we see, - A part in gleaming gold, - A part in common copper. - A part in peace behold, - A part in any topper, - Two parts are heard in sound, - And in our finals found. - -is _Rhinoceros_. - - -98 - -The smart enigma-- - - Men commonly say I am clever, - Book-learning I never could boast; - Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover, - And when I am found I am lost. - -is solved by _A Fox_. - - -99 - - _A sot_ is like a _toast_, or what is most - Comparative, a _toast_ is like _a sot_; - For when their substances in liquor sink - Both properly are said to be in drink. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters, the _t_ being -repeated in _toast_. - - -100 - -The pied proverb is “Fine words butter no parsnips.” - - -101 - -The puzzle verse-- - - A wordy warfare waged with wit, - In youth its joys none need descry; - But where our elders take to it - Its name points loss of dignity, - -is solved by _Badinage_ (bad in age). - - -102 - -The hero’s name, hidden in-- - - My first’s in garb, but not in dress; - My next’s in praise, but not in bliss; - My third’s in man, but not in miss; - My fourth’s in we. - - My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog; - My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog; - My next’s in calm, but not in fog; - My eighth’s in we. - - My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine; - My tenth’s in light, but not in shine; - My next’s in four, but not in nine; - My twelfth’s in we. - -is _General Wolfe_. - - -103 - -Here is the sentence given with its appropriate and perfect anagram-- - - A defeat whose test is very sure. - _Sweet are the uses of adversity._ - - -104 - -The phonetic missing words are given in italics:-- - - ’Tis _plain_ that no one takes a _plane_ - To _pare_ a _pair_ of _pears_; - A _rake_ may often take a _rake_ - To _tear_ away the _tares_. - - -105 - -The queer obstacle-- - - I’m in everyone’s way, - Yet no one I stop. - My four horns each day - Horizontally play, - And my head is nailed on at the top. - -is _A turnstile_. - - -106 - -The old enigma-- - - Take five from five, and then - Put fifty in the middle; - Twice ten times five times ten - Will finish off my riddle, - And bring it to your ken - As fit as any fiddle! - -is solved thus-- - - When Jacky Barrett, learned Don, - Composed his famous riddle, - His thoughts, perhaps, were resting on - The strings of his old FIDDLE. - - -107 - -The phonetic gaps are filled thus-- - - No _quail_ will _quail_ before the wind, - A _bough_ will _bow_ before it; - We cannot _rein_ the _rain_, or find - That earthly powers _reign_ o’er it. - - -108 - - We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty; - Reverse us, and we indicate a county-- - -is solved by X S--S X. - - -109 - -The cryptogram-- - - ~FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN - LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!~ - -is solved by inserting the letter “I” throughout, when this rhyming -couplet is formed-- - - If thin milk brings illicit tin, - I’ll skim it, mix it, till it’s thin! - - -110 - -The buried proverb in-- - - Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly - Old memories steal anew; - With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry - They return in ghostly hue! - -is _’Tis a long lane that has no turning_. - - -111 - -Lewis Carroll’s doublet, which changes ELM into OAK by seven links, -introducing the name of another tree as one of them, is solved thus by -him-- - - ELM, ELL, ALL, AIL, AIR, FIR, FAR, OAR, OAK. - -A shorter solution is by these six links--_Ely_, _sly_, _say_, _bay_, -_bat_, _oat_; and one of these (_bay_) is also a tree, as was _fir_, so -that the conditions given are fulfilled. - - -112 - - My dear Mr Bird, - We are giving a ball; - First second we third, - Pray give us your all. - -is solved by _attendance_. - - Second, I did my first and last, - Till I became my whole, - And told the tale of my repast, - A sad and greedy soul. - -is solved by _satiate_. - - -113 - -The charade-- - - My whole, industrious, wends his way - His daily task to meet; - Behead, transpose a, lo! a sound - Of music soft and sweet; - Behead again, I make my way - With swiftness past belief; - Again, and where the fields are gay - My bounty brings relief. - -is solved by _Artisan_, _strain_, _train_, _rain_. - - -114 - -The lines by an old Oxbridge don-- - - “’Tis an absurdity to say - Women should try for a B.A. - To College honours forward looking; - They’d best confine themselves to cooking!” - -can be happily met by this retort in the same words, recast by a Girton -girl-- - - “Women should try for a B.A., - To College honours forward looking; - ’Tis an absurdity to say - They’d best confine themselves to cooking!” - - -115 - -The enigma-- - - Eight letters (start with b) - Three syllables contain; - Take one away, and see - Four syllables remain! - -is solved by _Beautify_, _Beatify_. - - -116 - -The beasts buried in the lines-- - - Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long ago--at times in - battalions--to attack and harass her. Ambitious democrats now - countermine famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. Anarchy enables - cowards to sow hot terror and all amazement, are-- - - eland, sloth, camel, goat, bat, lion, stoat, ass, ram, fat, ermine, - mouse, yak, roe, hyena, cow, sow, otter and llama. - - -117 - -This is the palindrome verse that reads and rhymes from either end-- - - Dies slowly fading day, winds mournful sigh, - Brightly stars are waking; - Flies owlet hooting, holding revel high, - Nightly silence breaking. - - -118 - -The anagram recast from “The Observatory at Greenwich in England” is -completed thus-- - - _On landing here begin to watch every star._ - - -119 - -The enigma-- - - No man at all am I, - And, if you turn me round, - To hear my warning cry - Not any men are found. - -is solved by _Nemo_, _omen_, _o men_. - - -120 - -The question-- - - How can our sailors fare the best - When times are harder? - How do they greet with merry jest - An empty larder? - -is solved thus-- - - FOWL IS FARE. - - Wind that blows foul and chops about, - With lighter puffs, - And finds the thirsty sailor stout, - Brings food enough! - - -121 - -The enigma-- - - I lose my head when I am here, - Transpose me I am three; - Look in a book, you find me there, - And with me her and he-- - -is solved by _There_. - - -122 - - Jack did _declaim_ that he could square - The circle to a _decimal_; - His friends _claimed_ that a brain so rare - Required attention _medical_. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -123 - -A Mr Harwood had two daughters by his first wife, the elder of these was -married to John Coshick. This Coshick had a daughter by his first wife, -whom old Harwood married. Thus Harwood’s daughter could say-- - - My father is my son, - And I’m my mother’s mother; - My daughter and sister are one, - I’m grandam to my brother! - - -124 - -The charade-- - - Catch my first with nimble wit, - Add a simple word; - Then my whole may help a bit - Opportunely heard. - -is solved by _Catchword_. - - -125 - -The paradox-- - - My mate and I from home did start, - Some little space we were apart. - When we had run a mile or more - We kept our distance, as before; - Shade of Colenso! could this be, - When twice as fast as I ran he? - -is solved by the fact that the lines apply to the large and small wheels -of a bicycle. - - -126 - -The enigma from Lewis Carroll’s Papers-- - - A monument all men agree - Am I in all sincerity, - Half cat, half hindrance made. - If head and tail removed should be, - Then most of all you strengthen me. - Replace my head, the stand you see - On which my tail is laid. - -is solved by _Tablet_. - - -127 - -The charade-- - - I’m known to the poorest and worst, - And my worth by a child may be reckoned; - The least thing in nature is double my first, - And my whole is just half of my second. - -is solved by _Halfpenny_. - - -128 - - My first without its head and tail - Is one and undivided; - My second shows its teeth, is frail, - And as a rule one-sided. - The two to hold my first avail, - By busy toil provided. - -is solved by _Honeycomb_. - - -129 - -The towns buried in the sentences-- - - His sister played the piano while we sang. - I saw Nell out here last evening. - The general rode a large black mare. - I have ordered a cab at half-past one. - Meet me in the lane at half-past nine. - -are _Lewes_, _Louth_, _Deal_, _Bath_ and _Neath_. - - -130 - -The anagram on “The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy,” is -completed thus-- - - A funny spot in a sweet city; _I o’erhang it all_. - - -131 - - When they found that catacomb - Near the _Capitol_ at Rome - ’Twas the _topical_ discussion of the season; - But the _optical_ effect - Of the skeletons select - Deprived the poor Professor of his reason! - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -132 - -The charade-- - - My first is pretence, - My second a dandy; - When fogs are most dense - My whole will be handy. - -is solved by _Flambeau_. - - -133 - -If we adopt the old spelling of the final word, we can prove by anagram -that Bacon had no hand at anyrate in Shakespeare’s play “Much Ado About -Nothinge,” for the same letters exactly spell “_Bacon? O, naught due to -him!_” - - -134 - - Use all your wits to guess my all, - Can any guess it right? - Transposed, and never seen at all, - It still is felt in sight. - Behead, transpose, then let it be, - And you at last a clue may see. - -is solved by _Left_, _felt_, _let_. - - -135 - -“Insanitary” and “sanitary reform” are very happily recast by anagram -thus--_In nasty air; Former air nasty_. - - -136 - -The charade-- - - Let my second cut my first - When I come to table; - Though I cannot quench your thirst - Eat me--you are able. - -is solved by _Cutlet_. - - -137 - -These are the completed lines-- - - What mars a land so sadly as a war? - What days as dark as days that wars alarm? - Alas! ask any, ask at hand, afar, - All shall call war a harass and a harm. - Why call, as ballads talk, that ghastly art - All gallant acts--a grand and manly part? - -It will be seen that “a” was the only missing letter. - - -138 - -The charade-- - - To me when whole, for I am sweet, - The moon fresh brightness brings; - Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet - To sharpen other things. - - Behead me twice, and I have led - Soldiers to face the foe; - Headless and tailless, one remains - Though all the rest may go. - -is solved by Honey (honey-moon; hone; Ney; one). - - -139 - -The enigma-- - - We start when the ninth hour is past, - Then there’s an end of you. - A vengeful goddess shows at last - What Antifat will do. - -is solved by _Attenuate_:--at ten, u, Ate, goddess of Revenge. - - -140 - -The charade-- - - When on charades intent I take my pen, - To seek some hidden goal, - Over my first my second comes, and then - Quite overcomes my whole. - -is solved by _Overcomes_. - - -141 - -The cryptogram which was sent as a reliable tip before a race in which -Petronel was to run-- - - Tell me, Ben, who tore it. - Seek a plant for it, see Bob. - -is deciphered thus-- - - Take every third letter, and you arrive at Lenortepnoteb. Read this - backwards, and you have the tip, “Bet on Petronel!” - - -142 - -The enigma-- - - I have no form, I have no friend, - From me all come, in me all end. - And it is strange but very true - That I am here and nowhere too-- - -is solved by _Nothing_. - - -143 - -The broken sentence-- - - A sed end ought eat ease ain. - -is thus filled in to describe a curse and to proclaim its cure-- - - A cursed fiend brought death, disease and pain; - A blessed friend brought breath and ease again. - - -144 - -The charade-- - - My first is a cover, - My second a city; - The whole you discover - With this if you’re witty. - -is solved by _Capacity_. - - -145 - -The four rivers buried in the sentence-- - - The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating with a message, and her - delivery was ever neat, with graceful pose in every attitude. - -are _Ganges_, _Thames_, _Severn_ and _Seine_. - - -146 - -If the “shingle” on the Brighton beach could speak, it might boast by -anagram, “I am _English_!” - - -147 - -The enigma-- - - She is as deaf as any post, - Incurable I fear; - She is my guest, I am her host, - How can I make her hear? - -is solved by adding an a to _her_, which becomes _hear_. - - -148 - -The missing words in the “Plaint of the Rejected” are--_The R.A._, -_hater_, _heart_, _earth_, _Herat_. - - -149 - -The man who could attach a phonetic meaning to the words “Beta in Greek -means letter B,” could in another fashion invite others to beat his wife -by merely calling them and saying, “_Hither!_” (hit her). - - -150 - -The rebus-- - - storm? an umbrella with all - a th me who alls mud - -is solved thus--Who follows me under an umbrella, with overalls all over -mud, after a thunderstorm? - - -151 - -This is the completed palindrome:-- - - Nor I nor Emma had level’d a hammer on iron. - -It reads alike from either end. - - -152 - -The tutor came to the conclusion that there is nothing in Ecclesiastical -Law to prevent the Pope from burying the Archbishop of Canterbury, but -the undergraduate who had proposed the question demurred to this reply; -pressed for his reason he said, as his face broke into a smile, “He -cannot do so, because _the Archbishop is not dead_!” - - -153 - -The proverb buried in the sentence, “While there are very many as kind -as this, they know no task unkind,” is, “_Let every man skin his own -skunk_.” - - -154 - - Kate gathers me where children three, - Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter; - He leads the way and then we see - The other two come at her! - -is solved by _Heather_ (he, at her). - - -155 - -The quotation from Shakespeare buried in-- - - Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft - breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, - as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast. - -is “The quality of mercy is not strained.” - - -156 - -The beetroot palindrome, which reads alike from either end is-- - - RED ROOT PUT UP TO ORDER - - -157 - - My _first_ we all do when we fail; - My _next_ is heard in rain or hail; - My _fourth_ a sheep of gender male; - My _third_ is one without its tail; - My _whole_ for foreign countries sail. - -is solved by _Missionaries_. - - -158 - -The words written on the walls of a Western college gained their -ambiguous sense from the three final words, printed in italics--“Young -women should set a good example, for young men _will follow them_!” - - -159 - -The enigma-- - - I’m but a little letter, still - I have my duties to fulfil; - If off you take - My tail, and make - An alteration in my lot, - Though I seem shorter I am not. - -is solved by _Note_. - - -160 - -This is the full text-- - - Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir, - Why is it that the devil, - In spite of all his naughty ways - Can never be uncivil?” - - Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain - To any mind that’s bright; - Because the _imp o’ darkness_, sir, - Cannot be _imp o’ light_!” - - -161 - - Beneath the _limes_ which shade the lawn - Her bicycle she mounted; - And with a _smile_, ere she had gone - An hour, ten _miles_ she counted. - It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her, - Till in the _slime_, she came a cropper! - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -162 - -The date of the new organ given by the English is concealed in the lines -of this inscription above its keyboard at Ober Ammergau-- - - QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT - SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE - IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT. - -If the Roman numerals that occur in the words are added together, they -amount to 1894, the date of its completion. - - -163 - - A woman’s name - Of foreign fame, - Hers was a noble mind. - Now, sir, transpose, - And I suppose - No smaller thing you’ll find. - -is solved by _Stael_, _least_. - - -164 - -The French charade-- - - Pour avoir mon _premier_ - Femme qui cache mon _dernier_ - Manque souvent mon _entier_. - -is solved by _Mari-age_. - - -165 - -The charade-- - - Let go! let go! you naughty first, - Or you will make my second; - A stream of words will then outburst, - Swift as my whole is reckoned. - -is solved by _Current_. - - -166 - - My first is first when cruisers charge in line, - And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine. - - Don’t spare my second if you would suggest - To an impulsive child the way that’s best. - - My sporting whole, though now neglected grown, - Travelled by tube before the tube was known. - -is solved by _Ramrod_. - - -167 - -The enigma-- - - First of men we lead a measure, - Last we end the same. - Starting merrily, our pleasure - Is to finish lame. - -is solved by the letters _me_. - - -168 - -When Tom declared that he could give his sister quite a simple sentence -of seven common English words of one syllable, which she could not -produce on her typewriter, he had in his mind, “We can spell (to, too, -two) in three ways,” which cannot, of course, be expressed in seven -written words. - - -169 - -The French charade-- - - Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur, - Mon tout est le diable lui-même. - Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien, - Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême. - -is solved by _Mariage_. - - -170 - -Sydney Smith’s conclusion as to the value and satisfaction of a City -dinner was completed thus:--“I cannot wholly value a dinner by the _test -you do_!” (Turtle, in Latin, _testudo_). - - -171 - - DEAN SWIFT’S ENIGMA-- - - In youth exalted high in air, - Or bathing in the streamlet fair, - Nature to form me took delight - And clothed my body all in white; - My person tall and slender waist - On either side with fringes graced; - Till me that tyrant Man espied, - And dragg’d me from my mother’s side. - No wonder that I look so thin, - The monster stripp’d me to the skin; - My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d, - And head and foot both off he lopp’d; - Pick’d all the marrow from my bone. - And then, with heart more hard than stone, - To vex me more, he took a freak - To slit my tongue, and make me speak. - But that which wonderful appears, - I speak to eyes and not to ears. - All languages I now command - Yet not a word I understand. - -is solved by _A Goose-quill_. - - -172 - -The answer to the riddle propounded by the possessor of a new KEEN KUT -razor to his friend whose chin was disfigured by scars, “What is the -difference between my razor and yours?” is--“Mine cuts thoroughly; yours -also cuts, tho’ roughly!” - - -173 - -The decapitated words are in italics-- - - The ship rode in an _eastern_ bay, - Asleep _astern_ the master lay, - A _stern_ and rugged man was he, - And, like a _tern_, at home at sea. - Like swooping _ern_ he caught his prey - Whene’er an _R.N_. came his way; - But while due _N_. the needle kept - He in his cabin lay and slept. - -The ern, or erne, is the sea-eagle. - - -174 - - When the tempest roars the loudest - Oft my first a shelter proves. - Say what fair one, though the proudest, - Spurns my next from one she loves? - When the storms of life are past - Earth provides my whole at last. - -is solved by _Covering_. - - -175 - - One syllable, I help to turn the scale - Of party strife or faction; - Recast me, and two syllables avail - To stop all further action. - -is solved by _vote_, _veto_. - - -176 - -The lines to an owl are filled in thus-- - - Oh, on old towers, thou gloomy owl, - Thou lovest to hoot, thou lovest to howl. - Or on old oaks your hollow tone - So lost, so solemn, sounds alone, - So mournful no one loves to go - Or of your hooting howls to know. - -The vowel “o” occurs forty-six times in the six lines. - - -177 - -In the Army anagram-- - - I’m free to-day, the _old sire_ said, - _O no cell_ now have I to dread; - For this one happy day to me - _Are glen_ and hill and forest free, - I, if I will, can ride, or fish, - _A pit can_ enter, if I wish, - In search of chalk or sand. - In peace alone I now can dine, - And sing to Anna’s _lute at nine_, - Nor fear a reprimand. - -the words in italics spell also _soldier_, _colonel_, _general_, -_captain_, and _lieutenant_. - - -178 - - My first transposed becomes a name - Which may quite mean be reckoned, - Two syllables combine the same, - With one or two for second. - - My whole when fields are fresh and green, - And softly blows the wind, - Where the first signs of spring are seen - Within the woods we find. - -is solved by _Anemone_, the _wind_ flower (name, mean, anem, one, o, -ne). - - -179 - -The anagram enigma-- - - Silent long is the wood-bird’s song, - Bare is the woodland bough; - For waving trees in wintry breeze - Have “no buds now.” - -is solved by _snowbound_, which contains exactly the same letters as “no -buds now.” - - -180 - -The question of time-- - - A farmer with children sixteen - Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock. - To divide it these children between, - What must be the time by the clock? - -is solved by _a quarter to four_. - - -181 - -The Donkey drive-- - - To the far end of any train - Hitch on a pair of neddies; - Then you will hear, like steps of Cain, - The threat that in their tread is. - -is solved by _Ass-ass-in_. - - -182 - -The “Eating by Alphabet” enigma-- - - Take all the alphabet, and cast - Its final letter out; - Then set the first where was the last, - And this you bring about: - Without a cook, without a fire, - A dainty dish which men desire. - -is solved by A past Y (a pasty). - - -183 - -The charade-- - - My second with my first we greet; - My whole in earlier days - Gave understanding to the feet - That moved in tragic plays. - -is solved by _Buskin_. - - -184 - -The sentence-- - - Behest on thy lips, Society; - -forms an Anagram of the proverb - - “Honesty is the best policy.” - - -185 - -This sentence, fashioned by eight schoolboys as anagrams on their -Christian names, arranged in order-- - - “I thy Tom am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned”-- - -reveals, when deciphered, the names Timothy, Ambrose, Daniel, Oliver, -Edwin, Hubert, Brian and Dennis. - - -186 - -The enigma-- - - In any coward’s company you find - That I have place. - Cut off my head, and from your mind - All wrong erase. - -is solved by _Fright_. - - -187 - -The double acrostic-- - - From “Punch,” 1875. - - My first, elect among the few, - Chooses my second to expose his view. - - 1. Of various colours, changed at will, - I sit or stand for good or ill. - - 2. I rule alone from noon till night, - And when I am not am is right. - -is solved - - M. P. - P. M. - - -188 - -A man in a rage should go to a “shooting gallery,” because by its -Anagram it is _largely soothing_. - - -189 - -The beatitude-- - - Let her be or beat her, - Give her little ease; - Then in safety seat her - All among the bees, - -is solved by _A Queen Bee_. The _Bee_ is made up of the _letter b_ (let -her be), in Greek called Beta (beat her), and two little _e_’s (ease). - - -190 - -The puzzle-lines-- - - “We,” cried my first and second, - “Are not quite satisfied.” - “The story may be reckoned - Imperfect,” fourth replied. - Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,” - And so at last all ended well. - -are cleared up by _Satisfactory_. - - -191 - -The English proverb which is concealed under its anagram-- - - “I dare not admit faint women,” - -is _Time and tide wait for no man_. - - -192 - -The charade-- - - My first and second are as best they should be, - My third in Latin mouth is what it would be, - My whole would soon be ashes if it could be. - -is solved by _Asbestos_ (_os_ is Latin for _mouth_). - - -193 - - Since Spooks, a _subtle_ man is he, - _Sublet_ this haunted house to me, - In _bluest_ funk I _bustle_ round, - And fear a ghost in every sound. - -The four words in italics have the same letters. - - -194 - -That which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, and in no -other place, is the letter “r” (no othe_r_ place). - - -195 - -Grandfather’s riddle, “Do you know why is the fourth of July?” is solved -by the fact that the fourth letter of that word is y! - - -196 - - My _first_ is never far away, - My _next_ in Latin found; - My _third_ may rage by night or day; - _All_ make melodious sound. - -is solved by _Nightingale_. - - -197 - - Through the _forest_ trees - Softly coo the doves; - Let a _softer_ breeze - _Foster_ youthful loves! - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -198 - -The enigma-- - - At starting half your income take, - Then for my second write; - And let your table help to make - The total cosy quite. - -is solved by _Comfortable_. - - -199 - -The charade-- - - My whole is a circle complete, - Beheaded I fall to your feet. - Behead me again and I fry, - Or am baked in a savoury pie. - -is solved by _Wheel_, _heel_, _eel_. - - -200 - -The anagram sentences are recast thus into single words-- - - See a pug dog. - _Pedagogues._ - - Stay, O morn. - _Astronomy._ - - Fat reward. - _Afterward._ - - Red paper. - _Prepared._ - - Set on a dish. - _Astonished._ - - -201 - -The enigma-- - - If my whole by my second and first you divide, - One more than ten thousand it gives. - In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died, - In museums my memory lives. - -is solved by _Do-do_. - - -202 - -The paradox-- - - Though never present, I appear, - Of perfect form a token; - And all that centres round my ear - Is heard, though never spoken. - -is solved by the word _heard_. - - -203 - -The enigma-- - - Behead me twice, and it shall be - That I my perfect self regain; - Restore both heads, and you shall see - That most imperfect I remain. - -is solved by _Incomplete_. - - -204 - - Grant lady, grant your _slave_ his whim, - And give the coming _valse_ to him, - For this will _salve_ his jealous heart, - Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart. - If not, he _laves_ his hands of you, - To seek fresh _vales_ and pastures new. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -205 - - “Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill, - “That thirty-two is freezing point: - And I can tell you, if you will, - Exactly what is squeezing-point!” - -is solved by _Two in the shade!_ - - -206 - -The puzzle-- - - To fifty add a third of one, - A third to five attach; - You have the means, when this is done, - To kindle any match. - -is solved by _Love_. - - -207 - -The missing words are in italics-- - - The untrained _speculator_ in the City - Is robbed by _peculators_ without pity. - - -208 - -Read backwards it becomes-- - - Prosperity and peace; no barns empty; bills long paid; not high rents; - berries bright; no birds hungry; merry Christmas comes. - - -209 - -The anagram plants concealed in the sentence--O rise love it lad never -let this lamb chase trains, are: Osier, violet, lavender, thistle, balm, -china asters. - - -210 - -The enigma-- - - My first is quite a sin by name, - My third its simple cure; - My second puts an end to fame, - My whole of ease is sure. - -is solved by _Sinecure_. - - -211 - -The paradox-- - - Cut off my head, it is unshaken, - Cut off my tail, you turn it round, - But if both head and tail are taken, - Unconquered still I hold my ground. - -is solved by TIT. - - -212 - -The charade-- - - Why should we quarrel, first and third, - With nought between us but a word? - Let third leave second unessayed - To heal the breach these letters made. - If your solution be writ fair - You find my whole disjointed there. - -is solved by I.O.U. - - -213 - -When Funniboy wrote from Naples to his friend, “Next week I am going ‘to -plant onions, etc.,’” it was an intimation by anagram that he was bound -for Constantinople. - - -214 - - In haunted house to sleep I tried, - My dread _first_ was my chum. - “With _second_ of my _first_,” I cried, - “My _whole_ I should become.” - -is solved by _Fearless_. - - -215 - -The enigma-- - - My first is possessive and second: - My second possessive and first. - Such banks most attractive are reckoned - By those for rich treasure athirst. - -is solved by _Thymy_ (_thy_, _my_). - - -216 - -This is the completed palindrome-- - - REPEL EVIL AS A LIVE LEPER, - -which reads alike from either end. - - -217 - -When Tom Pickles’s father tried with a lusty puff to blow the small cork -into the bottle, the sudden compression of the air inside, followed by -its expansion, drove the cork in an unexpected direction, so that it -flew out and struck him sharply on the mouth. - - -218 - -Acorns are as strong as oaken posts when they _propagate_ (prop-a-gate). - - -219 - -The completed palindrome runs thus-- - - “Put it up but not on tub, put it up but not on tub, put it up,” which - reads alike from either end. - - -220 - - The _Kates_ of Shakespeare and of song - Have fair and dainty features; - But she I _stake_ my hopes upon - Excels those lovely creatures. - From _Keats_ she _takes_ her name so dear, - She lives on _steaks_ and honey: - She cannot _skate_, but she can steer, - And Madeline has money. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -221 - -The two long words used recently by a politician which can be recast by -anagram to form the sentence, “Axiomatic intelligence, or dust” are-- - - TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTITUDES. - - -222 - - My first your bosom friend, or man or maid, - Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid. - My second, sounded double, tells of fate, - Or sounded single puts an end to hate. - My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard, - That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d. - -is solved by _Palate_ (Até, goddess of fate). - - -223 - -The sentence “Woman without her man would be helpless” takes on a -distinct meaning if the words “without her” are read together, and a -comma is placed after “woman.” Thus--“Woman, _without her_ man would be -helpless.” - - -224 - -The short sentences are recast into single words thus-- - - A moment’s cure. - _Commensurate._ - Cod is nice. - _Coincides._ - The old rocks. - _Stockholder._ - It lures a cat. - _Articulates._ - - -225 - -The enigma-- - - Without my head I circulate - With speed and inclination. - Without my bait, at anyrate, - I still have inclination. - Transpose three letters, in unbroken state - I then receive the ashes of the great. - -is solved by _Hearth_, _earth_, _heart_ (transpose _eat_ to _ate_). - - -226 - -Here is a metrical account of the anagram which, with some exaggeration, -proclaims that Sims Reeves was often prevented from singing by his -delicate throat-- - - The audience in wrapt impatience sits; - Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses, - Strange that _Sims Reeves_, whose singing ever _hits_, - By a mere shift of letters _ever misses_! - - -227 - - Consuming lust for _lucre_, now so rife, - Like _cruel_ _ulcer_ mars both love and life. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -228 - -This is the completed palindrome-- - - I maniac lived, a devil Cain am I. - - -229 - -The lines-- - - And as trim bees rise or go, - A long aim I’d say, a libel O! - -contain in anagram and in proper order the fruits _tamarinds_, -_gooseberries_, and the flowers _magnolia_, _daisy_, _lobelia_. - - -230 - -These are the anagrams-- - - Now one old fort - _Tower of London_. - Rabid owl - _Wild Boar_. - - -231 - - Alas, for that forgotten day - When chivalry was nourish’d, - When none but friars learn’d to pray, - And beef and beauty flourish’d; - And fraud in kings was held accursed, - And falsehood sin was reckon’d, - And mighty chargers bore my _first_, - And fat monks wore my _second_! - - Ah, then I carried sword and shield - And casque with flaunting feather, - And earn’d my spurs in battle-field, - In winter and rough weather; - And polish’d many a sonnet up - To ladies’ eyes and tresses; - And learn’d to drain my father’s cup, - And loose my falcon’s jesses! - - But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam, - The mongrel mob grows prouder; - And everything is done by steam, - And men are kill’d by powder; - And now I feel my swift decay, - And give unheeded orders; - And rot in paltry state away - With sheriffs and recorders. - -is solved by _Knighthood_. - - -232 - - My _first_ you oft savagely pierce through and through; - My _next_ harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust; - But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue, - Should my _whole_, from my _second_, step into my _first_! - -is solved by _Earwig_. - - -233 - - My whole describes the action of a gale, - Decapitation makes an organ play. - Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale; - Again, it tells of what we do not pay. - Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail. - Again behead, and half a string denote; - Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail; - And last of all on music’s notes I float. - -is solved by _A’blowing_ (n-a-g). - - -234 - -The proverb buried in the sentence-- - - Society--how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases - exist here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, - place-hunting beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to - get her smile. - -is “Where the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together.” - - -235 - -The answer by anagram to--What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch -it without a _steel-trap_? is _Saltpetre_. - - -236 - -The charade-- - - Across my _first_, with flash and roar, - The stately vessel glides alone. - And mournful on the crowded shore - There stands an aged crone, - Watching my _second’s_ parting smile, - As he bids farewell to his native isle. - My _whole_ comes back to other eyes, - With beauteous change of fruit and flowers, - But dim to her are those bright skies, - And sad those joyous hours; - For, alas! my _first_ is dark and deep, - And my _second_ cannot hear her weep. - -is solved by _Season_. - - -237 - -The sequel to the Arab and his ass runs thus-- - - When morning dawned, and the tide was out, - The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s _protection_, - And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt, - For he had the best donkey in all that _section_. - - You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over, - Though the donkey was bravest of all his _race_; - He luxuriates now in perpetual clover, - And his master has gone to the prophet’s _embrace_. - - -238 - - A _siren_, _risen_ on _Erin’s_ strands, - Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; - He left the _reins_ in Cupid’s hands, - And watched her _rinse_ her tresses; - Tresses of _resin_ coloured gold, - Veiling, like any frock, - A tail which, as it did unfold, - Gave to poor Pat a shock. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -239 - -The answer by anagram to “Where can you be ‘in a stone-pine garden’?” is -_Pontresina, Engadine_. - - -240 - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters-- - - No _wider_ sympathy was ever shown - Than when _weird_ news, from Kingston _wired_, was known. - - -241 - -According to its anagram, the bodily discomfort which follows an -_ague-fit_ is _fatigue_. - - -242 - -This is the adjustment of the tangled square-- - - I S I S - S I D E - I D E A - S E A T - - -243 - -The European rivers concealed in the eight anagrams: Set in red robe -Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter, are Dniester, Ebro, Rhine, -Loire, Moselle, Dnieper, Severn, Tiber. - - -244 - -The palindrome runs thus-- - - STOP ROSE, I PREFER PIES OR POTS. - - -245 - - “Your food will cost you more!” - -is the political parrot cry which can be evolved by anagram from-- - - _O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!_ - - -246 - -Sir Robert Peel was the statesman from whose name a “terrible poser” is -formed by anagram. - - -247 - -The letters of the sentence, “Yea, a glad sun rose red” can be recast -into the well-known proverb _Delays are dangerous_. - - -248 - -The question, “Has there been a poet of unusual solemnity?” is answered -by “_Yes, Milton_.” - - -249 - -The anagram enigma-- - - No, no, I hardly ever touch - The thing which many love so much, - It has a place within these lines, - But is taboo where Delia dines. - -is solved by _Onion_ (no, no, I). - - -250 - -When young Biceps, who had been plucked in Euclid declared that he could -teach the examiners how to square a circle, this was his tricky -method:--A circle may be aptly described as a “copper” or “Brown.” -Having at hand your “copper” (P. C. Brown), when he has caught you on -his rounds, proceed to square him in the customary way. - - -251 - -As Biceps could not tell how to extract a circle from a square, his -friend gave him the following solution: “Let the given square be Sloane -Square; find the Inner Circle, and take its lines to any point, at any -distance from that square, paying the proper fare. That’s the ticket!” - - -252 - - Every _Cretan_ is said to lie, - And steeds that _canter_ pant. - The gods drank _nectar_, old and dry, - And all men may _recant_. - Finally this key extend - Take from _en(trance)d_ the _end_. - - -253 - -The charade-- - - My captive _second_, sulking in my _first_, - Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst; - Bemoan, or as alternative you find - My _whole_ the word that fits his state of mind. - For meet enclosure, you can take a score - Of captive _seconds_, first deducting four. - -is solved by _Denounce_ (16 ozs. = 1 _Pound_). - - -254 - -The cipher-- - - ~THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT; - MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.~ - -becomes by the addition of E and O alternately-- - - The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot; - Men often order one, or get one on the spot. - - -255 - -When his brother put “Tim in a pet,” the explanation by anagram is that -he was _impatient_. - - -256 - - Who knows the _East_ a land may know - Famed for its _teas_, and long age - A _seat_ of sage and seer. - The native there, so full of tricks, - To _sate_ his hunger _eats_ with sticks, - Nor knows his ways are queer. - -The missing words are in italics. - - -257 - -The charade-- - - If doubled you would see my first - Let third and second be reversed. - But if my last you would behold - Increase my first a hundredfold. - Combine them all, and you can trace - The four within an empty space. - -is solved by _Void_. - - -258 - -In the words spoken in the hay-field to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will -tap the cask!” are concealed by anagram the poet and his poem--_William -Cowper, The task._ - - -259 - -The charade-- - - My _first_ is small, and seldom reverential; - My next not large enough to heed or prize; - My _whole_ is altogether consequential; - My third though small is counted very wise-- - -is solved by _Important_. - - -260 - - To be - a a a a a a a a a a - t C r I i O f U l S e s - standing - is the mark of a mean - -is solved by _To be tenacious in the midst of trifles is the mark of a -mean understanding_. - - -261 - -The letters which spell RED NUTS AND GIN can be recast to form the one -word UNDERSTANDING. - - -262 - -The novel by Charles Dickens hidden in the pied letters-- - - ~CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY~ - -is _The Old Curiosity Shop_. - - -263 - - In swift _relays_ the beaters add - Fresh _layers_ to the heaps of slain; - And still, with lust of slaughter mad, - The _slayer_ plies his hand amain! - -The words in italics have the same six letters. - - -264 - -The charade-- - - My first is nothing but a name, - My second still more small, - My whole shows such a lack of fame - It has no name at all. - -is solved by _Nameless_. - - -265 - -When one of the children said, “If father gives us a new dog it will -wake the lazy ones”--the words pointed to Susan and Ethel, whose names -are buried in the sentence. - - -266 - -The cipher-- - - ~NGOTRDSREAOHR - ETNSVEENUDOEO~ - -is solved by starting with last letter of the second line, followed by -the first letter of the first line, and so on throughout, taking always -the last and first unused letters alternately, and forming thus the -proverb “_One good turn deserves another!_” - - -267 - -The enigma-- - - Well known by story, not by name, - I died a death unknown before, - Nor ever to corruption came; - My shroud the waves cast on the shore. - -is solved by _Lot’s wife_. - - -268 - -The question-- - - How might an oyster, if it could speak and knew that unda is Latin for - wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed - by thunder under unda? - -is answered thus-- - - He could exclaim, “a noise annoys an oyster!” - - -269 - -The words in italics have the same five letters-- - - When _Cesar_, our puppy, sets out for a run, - Over _acres_ he _races_, all frolic and fun. - For no whistle _cares_ he, in his desperate hurry, - The slow sheep to _scare_, and the old cow to worry. - - -270 - -The girls’ names shown by anagram in the sentence--“Bad hero set by thy -door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily,” are Deborah, Betsy, Dorothy, -Ruth, Emma, Mary, Amy, Gertrude, Lydia. - - -271 - -The anagram is completed thus-- - - “Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.” - _True as old Ben’s stolid face!_ - - -272 - -The Shakespeare anagrams-- - - The tub sold has old rough shelves. - And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts. - A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow! - -are formed, letter for letter and line for line, from this passage in -“Romeo and Juliet”-- - - “Love’s heralds should be thoughts, - Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams, - Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.” - - -273 - - The mystical gnome never flinches from toil - Who _buries_ the _rubies_ in Orient soil; - Yet _busier_ mortals will ever abound, - Who _bruise_ all the soil till the treasure is found. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters. - - -274 - -The Puzzle acrostic-- - - My feathered first has wings and sings, - Unfledged my second swings its wings; - My third on blackest pinions flies, - My fourth can float beneath the skies. - The letters to my first that fall - Are the initials of them all. - -is solved thus-- - - O O O O L A R K - O ● ● ● A R M Y - O ● ● ● R O O K - O ● ● ● K I T E - - -275 - - My first was of the _pirate_ breed, - Their _irate_ captain, hot and riled, - To _rate_ his men found vain indeed, - They only _ate_ and smoked, and smiled! - -One letter is dropped each time. - - -276 - -In the doublets puzzle HARE is made into SOUP by the following six -links, changing one letter each time, and preserving their order-- - - HARE, hark, hack, sack, sock, soak, soap, SOUP. - - -277 - -The enigma-- - - Putting two small beasts that you take - To the beginning of an end, - A pointed weapon you will make - To wound a foe or praise a friend. - -is solved by _Epigram_. - - -278 - -If a “newspaper” could speak, it might say by anagram of the general -work of its staff, _We pen pars_. - - -279 - -The positive quantity 1011 is turned into a negative thus:-- - - NO. - - -280 - -The one word formed by anagram from “O, I’m man’s trial” is -_Matrimonials_. - - -281 - -The rebus-- - - EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee. - -is solved by “Great ease and small crosses before you are twenty-one, -great crosses and little ease after that.” - - -282 - -The answer to the riddle “Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell -his timber?” is--Because no one is allowed to _cut_ when it is his own -_deal_. - - -283 - - He _aspired_ to be _praised_ as a wonderful shot, - But he potted the dog, and _despair_ was his lot! - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -284 - -In the doublet, as solved by Lewis Carroll, ARMY is changed into NAVY -with seven links, and preserving the sequence while changing a letter -every time--thus: ARMY, arms, aims, dims, dams, dame, name, nave, NAVY. - - -285 - -The anagram puzzle-- - - ‘I excel not by a pun’ - Turn these six words into one! - -is solved by _Unexceptionably_, which contains exactly the same letters. - - -286 - -The answer to the strange riddle, “When is an onion like music?” is -“_When you find it smell odious!_” (it’s melodious). - - -287 - -The bitter cry of Christianity is, by its anagram: _I cry that I sin_. - - -288 - -That a Conservative is constant to his cause is shown by the anagram: -_Not vice versâ_. - - -289 - -As a rule Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall upon the same day of the -week, but they will not fall upon the same day of the week in 1910 (or -indeed in any year), because the New Year’s Day must be _after_ the -Christmas Day to fulfil the conditions! - - -290 - - “War is a game which, were their subjects wise, - Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; - But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, - While kings and subjects are but erring men; - So Britain--native empress of the seas-- - On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed-- - Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free, - Rests on her well-tried _last_ and trusty _first_. - Her _first_ alone can well maintain her right, - Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast; - And though, when needed, foremost in the fight, - Her _first_ (strange paradox!) is always _last_! - But should the tide of war approach the shore - And threaten to engulf her island seat, - My _whole_, replying with defiant roar, - Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet! - -is solved by _Armstrong_. - - -291 - - My first is flogged to make it move the faster, - And turns at once to satisfy its master. - My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit, - For those whose simple taste its flavours suit. - My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly, - Stands up aloft and points us to the sky. - -is solved by _Top-mast_. - - -292 - - A noun there is, of plural number, - In daily use from here to Humber. - Now almost any noun you take - By adding “S” you plural make; - But if you add an “S” to this, - Strange is the metamorphosis! - Plural is plural now no more; - Useless what useful was before. - -is solved by _Needles_, _needless_. - - -293 - - First, a semi-circle make, - Add to this another - Figure of two little lines - Meeting with each other; - Then a perfect circle form, - Truly, neat, compactly, - Add another form to these, - Like the first exactly; - Then, to make it all complete, - Form a kind of angle, - With a straight line, that should meet - In a kind of tangle; - When you this have rightly done - (’Tis the truth I’m telling), - You will get an article - Useful in a dwelling: - Should you this decapitate, - You may have another - Article, which, in its place, - Is useful as the other. - -is solved by _Clock_, _lock_. - - -294 - - Veiling the leas, my first may steep - Late autumn’s listless air; - And with my tainting second creep - On idle spade and share. - - When happy days link soul to soul, - And sunny faces shine, - May both combined, a subtle whole, - Be far from me and mine! - -is solved by _Mistrust_. - - -295 - -Mark Lemon’s charade-- - - Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned, - Was brought up at my first for making my second; - He was fined, and because he no money would pay - Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway. - -is solved by _Barrow_. - - -296 - - Complete, I grow within a field - And pleasant pasture often yield; - Behead me once, a suitor then - Is quickly brought before your ken; - Behead again, I am a word - That on the cricket-ground is heard. - Restore my heads, cut off my tail, - To name a spice you’ll not then fail; - Behead me now, and you will find - The master passion left behind. - Put on my head, my tail restore, - Complete me as I was before, - My second letter take away, - An envelope I am, you’ll say; - But now curtail me just once more, - I am an inlet on the shore. - -is solved by _Clover_, _lover_, _over_, _clove_, _love_, _cover_, -_cove_. - - -297 - - My _second_ is double my _first_, - My _first_ is but half of my _second_; - And I’m sure you’ll admit that my _whole_ - Is ten times the latter when reckon’d. - -is solved by _Ten score_. - - -298 - - My _first_ I went the other day, - And pretty surely reckon’d - A basket of fine fish to catch, - With hook and rod and _second_. - - But I was out in reckoning; - A very pretty she - Of her fair face show’d just my _whole_-- - And pretty soon hook’d _me_. - -is solved by _Outline_. - - -299 - - Of mirth the parent, though the child of art, - A stranger to myself in every part; - Each India has a native in my breast, - The West my sweetness, and my fire the East. - While milder climes my virtue to complete, - Quicken my softness, and correct my heat; - My dearest friends upon my vitals prey, - And as they see me sinking, grow more gay. - -is solved by _Punch_. - - -300 - - When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find - That my next is not left a great distance behind; - But join them together, and plain to your view - It all is as firm and as tight as a screw. - -is solved by _Dovetail_. - - -301 - - To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete; - Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet; - Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet; - Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete. - -is solved by _Tobacco_. - - -302 - - Leader of Vandals and of vice - My head is reckoned; - A Turkish captain will suffice - To be my second. - My third is firm if well selected; - My whole a wanderer neglected. - -is solved by _Vagabond_. - - -303 - - One thousand, two hundred, - Nothing, and one, - Transposed, give a word - Expressive of fun. - -is solved by COMIC. - - -304 - -Praed’s charade-- - - My _first_ was creeping on his way - Through the mists of a dull October day, - When a minstrel came to its muddy bed, - With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head; - “And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried, - “To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?” - - Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown, - And he dash’d the harp and the garland down; - Then he led the bard, with a stately march, - O’er my _second’s_ long and cellar’d arch;-- - “And see,” said the sage, “how every ass - Over the sacred stream must pass!” - - The youth was mournful, the youth was mute, - He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;-- - The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff, - And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff; - And he sits, ever since, in my _whole’s_ kind lap, - In a silken gown and a trencher cap. - -is solved by _Cambridge_. - - -305 - - Upright and honest is my _first_; - My _second_ you may see - Upon the frozen lake or stream; - My _whole_ is equity. - -is solved by _Justice_. - - -306 - - Never wearied, see us stand, - A glittering and a stately band-- - Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form, - In summer cold, in winter warm; - From hottest duty never swerving, - Night and day our place preserving; - Each serving to a different use, - Not to be changed without abuse. - And, pray, mark well another fact-- - In unison we never act, - Except, as on occasion dread, - We watch the ashes of the dead; - When we are ranged, as you may see - As awful sentries, one, two, three. - -is solved by _Fire-irons_. - - -307 - - My first, though naught, with others is a fruit, - My next is vital to both man and brute. - It should be dear to all who hate the devil, - For it is ever the reverse of evil. - My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace, - Divided it invokes to life that will not cease. - -is solved by _Olive_. - - -308 - - Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover, - Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy. - Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop, - Oft in the chimney! - - See where my second, scorning to be hidden, - Stands at the head of quite a band of others, - Like a virago, straddling with feet apart, - And arms akimbo. - - Surely my next is happy in its office, - Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead; - Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles - For the unwary. - - If by my whole at any time you pass, you - Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs, - Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you, - Peacefully dreaming! - -is solved by _Catacomb_. - - -309 - - Offspring of nature and of art, I stand - Chief ’midst the monuments of every land; - I may not lengthen life, but I - For centuries forbid to die. - The greatest truth in me you meet - Is but deception most complete. - Unchanged I last the changing crowds among, - And as I older grow, I grow too young. - -is solved by _A portrait_. - - -310 - - Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, - Two letters there are, and two only in me; - I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, - I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. - -is solved by _Eye_. - - -311 - - My _first_ is false as false can be; - My _next_ old ladies wear; - My _whole’s_ my _first_, as you will see, - As false, I do declare. - -is solved by _Falsehood_. - - -312 - - When whole I am indeed a thing - To puzzle you a bit; - Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge - The others make a hit; - Or you may make a car of some, - And fix a head to it. - -is solved by _Charade_. - - -313 - - A word of nine letters explains - How to mitigate bodily pains; - The five vowels are there, - And four consonants share - This function for medical brains. - -is solved by _Inoculate_. - - -314 - - My second guides my first and third - For pleasure, trade, and war; - My first and second by my third - Are oft transported far. - But when my first my third doth pull, - ’Tis then his lot is worst; - And should my second lack my whole, - He’s apt to leave my first. - -is solved by _Horsemanship_. - - -315 - -It is a fact that neither _melons_ nor _lemons_ grew _on elms_. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -316 - -The completed palindrome, which reads alike from either end, is-- - - DRAW NO DRAY A YARD ONWARD. - - -317 - - The schoolboy likes me well, - For healthful sport I bring, - Yet I can harm create, - Though such a little thing: - Connubial bliss is form’d by me; - My nature is equality. - -is solved by _Match_. - - -318 - - What person’s name is doubly evil? - _Sinbad_ reminds us of the devil. - - -319 - - I’m a district near London; - If made wrong, I come undone; - O’er sweet strings I swift run, - Or appear with the bright sun, - And though by me fights were won, - I can greet you every one. - -is solved by _Bow_. - - -320 - - I am my first when seen with you, - My next is always bad. - A rogue in grain much harm may do - And make the farmer mad. - -is solved by _Weevil_. - - -321 - - When winter comes with frost and cold, - My first is welcome, as of old; - And though its grip may make you thinner, - It helps to cook your Christmas dinner. - - Let me but hear my next rejoice - At early dawn with cheerful voice, - I haste to find, with eager pleasure, - Some specimen of hidden treasure. - - A traveller my whole may find - Far from his English kith and kind; - Though some at home, to England’s shame, - Are this in fact, if not in name. - -is solved by _Heathen_. - - -322 - - It was to-morrow, and - It will be yesterday; - Now it is near at hand - What is it? Who can say? - -is solved by _To-day_. - - -323 - - My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes, - The second shadows all the mother’s brow; - My whole all men, all women, girls and boys, - Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now; - But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how. - -is solved by _Childhood_. - - -324 - - Complete, though not of human race, - A soul in me may dwell; - Behead, I held a higher place, - Until, like man, I fell. - Again behead, and in the song - Of Burns I’m all your own; - Behead once more, it would be wrong - To find me out when known. - -is solved by _Train_, _rain_, _ain_, _in_. - - -325 - - With head good for naught, - And with tail always drunk, - You know well what to say - Of the worth of my trunk. - First cut off my tail, - I am Greek, and I’m not; - Then cut off my head, - And some Latin you’ve got. - Lopping both you know best - What remains, as I said, - For I really am you - If I lose tail and head! - -is solved by _Out_. - - -326 - - One guiding eye I need - In running through the gaps; - My tail, as on I speed, - Is caught in many traps. - -is solved by _A Needle_. - - -327 - -The Chess charade-- - - Of all the birds that ever sought a mate, - My first is to but one appropriate, - So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo. - To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo! - My whole is a magician of the squares, - But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares, - So this, indeed, to him may be a law - When _winning’s_ hopeless, grandly still to _draw_. - -is solved by _Boden_. - - -328 - - Though poor and humble was my birth - I sit enthroned on high; - My footsteps far above the earth, - My canopy the sky. - - O’er toiling subjects thus in state - I bear despotic sway; - Yet on them hand and foot I wait - At break and close of day. - -is solved by _A coachman_. - - -329 - - I am not of flesh and blood, - Yet have I many a bone; - No limbs, except one leg, - And can’t stand on that alone. - - My friends are many, and dwell - In all lands of the human race; - But they poke my poor nose into the mud, - And shamefully spatter my face. - - Thrust me into each other’s ribs, - Stick me in gutter and rut; - I have never a window, and never a door, - Yet I often open and shut. - -is solved by _An umbrella_. - - -330 - - Before the crown descended on - The head of England’s Queen, - Four Kings upon that royal throne - Of the same name had been. - Now if the signs which marked their name - Be joined unto a beast, - We have a food on which the same - (A quadruped) will feast. - -is solved by _Grass_. - - -331 - -Fox’s enigma-- - - I am pretty, and useful in various ways, - Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days; - Behead me, and then in my place will appear - What youngsters admire every day in the year; - Behead me once more, and without any doubt, - You must be what is left if you don’t find it out. - -is solved by _Glass_, _lass_, _ass_. - - -332 - - My first, when skilfully performed - (Its doer by applauses warmed), - Bespeaks both skill and vigour. - When with my whole, so soft and light, - I saw my second gay bedight, - She made a splendid figure. - -is solved by _Feather_. - - -333 - - The man who _rates_ the common _tares_ - Above the _aster_ chaste. - _Stare_ as he may, the world declares - Is not a man of taste. - And, though my sympathy he shares, - No _tears_ on him I’ll waste. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -334 - - When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated, - Endangered the peace of his soul, - To atone for my second my first he repeated - Quite ten times a day on my whole. - -is solved by _Average_. - - -335 - - An insect small and fell - Makes a weird sound, - If, as its name you spell, - You turn it round. - - One letter cast, and still - Shift what remains, - Another insect will - Reward your pains. - -is solved by _Gnat_, _tang_, _ant_. - - -336 - - Where head and body duly meet - I am as slender as a bee; - Whether I stand on head or feet - My figure shows its symmetry. - - But when my head is cut away - The metamorphosis is strange; - Though both of them unaltered stay, - Body and head to nothing change. - -is solved by _The figure_ 8. - - -337 - - First is in coast, second in ghost, - Third must be reckoned part of second; - Fourth in boat, fifth in float, - Sixth you will find within your mind. - Seventh in blue, eighth in true, - These letters tell a fruit that they spell. - -is solved by _Cocoanut_. - - -338 - - The hunter and his steed are known - My first to see. - Though men may call my next a stone, - Wood it may be. - My whole, an exile from his home, - Is doomed from place to place to roam. - -is solved by _Runagate_. - - -339 - - My first expresses power to do, - My next that it is done. - To be my whole belongs to few, - And perfectly to none. - -is solved by _Candid_. - - -340 - - In my first, as in a shell, - All the sweetest sounds may dwell; - In my second, shells abound - That can catch no sort of sound; - In my whole securely rest - Those who neither jeer nor jest. - -is solved by _Earnest_. - - -341 - - My first, though of the feathered kind, - Is never known to fly; - My next all who improve their mind - Seize as it passes by. - My whole may much occasion find - To make the truthful lie. - -is solved by _Bed-time_. - - -342 - - Divide a piece of beef or pork - Without the aid of knife and fork; - It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill, - Where you may set this if you will. - Strike off instead the end, its place - Is plain as nose upon your face. - Cut this asunder in your mind, - And what is first put now behind; - Part of our foot you thus discover, - And in a measure all is over. - -is solved by _Chine_, _niche_, _chin_, _inch_. - - -343 - - Seen as a whole, my form is now - Akin to strife and malice; - Split, it may grace a princely brow, - Or crown the curls of Alice. - - Recast my letters, and I tell - That nourishment is lacking; - Stir them afresh until they spell - The needle’s help in tacking. - -is solved by _Hatred_, _hat red_, _dearth_, _thread_. - - -344 - - If I write with my first in my second - My whole you can never find out; - Add a letter, and all will be reckoned - A patron of water devout. - -is solved by _Within_, _Swithin_. - - -345 - -After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum -was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was -ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by -this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; -and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much -did you say the ‘horse ate of corn’?” - - -346 - - Loss of love between us - Never can be nice; - Yet we live where Venus - Changes us to ice. - -is solved by _Venice_ (Ven_us_ changes to Ven_ice_). - - -347 - -The very prosaic reply to the dainty lines-- - - “Tell me, my sweet, - Why are your feet - Like fairy-tales?” - -is: Because they are leg ends (legends)! - - -348 - - Our parson _detains_ every man who has leisure - To study _stained_ windows, the glory of fanes; - And _instead_ of devoting his income to pleasure, - Our _sainted_ dean spends his money on panes. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -349 - - Though much attached to merriment, - Or crime for a variety, - To prison I am never sent, - But sparkle in society. - -is solved by _The letter E_. - - -350 - - Without my first and second’s aid - No pudding worth its sauce is made. - Take on my third, my fourth I am, - My fifth includes myself and Sam. - My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero, - And shows him as an unheroic hero. - -is solved by _Suetonius_. - - -351 - -The geographical names buried in the sentences-- - - He has my R.N. as a monogram on all his paper. - - I am her stupid sister. - - The calmest man is sometimes made irate-- - -are Smyrna; Amherst; and Madeira. - - -352 - - My first’s a fruit of foreign clime, - Sweet to the taste, in price not dear; - My second does my first produce, - And yet my whole my first doth bear. - -is solved by _Date-palm_. - - -353 - - A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath, - My firm embrace is harbinger of death; - Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art, - Complete and perfected in every part; - Crush me to-day with all-determined care, - Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there! - -is solved by _A spider’s web_. - - -354 - - Six letters in my name are found. - Though only three we see and sound; - The shepherd by the running river - May hear me where the rushes quiver; - And should a stroke my whole divide, - Leaving but half on either side, - These, backward read, will surely tell - What many a toper loves too well. - -is solved by _Murmur_. - - -355 - - Upon a battle-field of learned men - Hundred and fifty were by none divided. - “Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten - And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.” - -is solved by _Colenso_. - - -356 - - Though the stations of mortals are many - And the _last_ is the head of his race; - Yet he, just as often as any, - Is won by my _first’s_ fell embrace; - Yet we most of us apt are to fall, - When our heads cease our hearts to control, - Let us hope that not one of us all - May be e’er in the state of my _whole_. - -is solved by _Sinking_. - - -357 - - My whole is no matter, - And light as the air, - Yet it is good on the platter, - And excellent fare. - - Curtail and transpose, - And a lady you see, - Who will flatter and pose, - And with many do me. - -is solved by _trifle_, _flirt_. - - -358 - - My first, for ages out of mind - All men have always worn behind, - And yet alike by sea and land - They carry it upon their hand. - My second, carefully matur’d, - Is never ill but often cured. - My whole, within unchanging lines, - Black men and white alike confines. - -is solved by _Backgammon_. - - -359 - -The Rebus--“We westand fall,”--is solved by _United we stand, divided we -fall_. - - -360 - - My second is pressed tightly round - To guard from any ill; - And when preparing to engage - Men find it useful still. - My first against attraction set - Will neutralise its power; - Aided by it, with bargains, some - May spend a happy hour. - You find my whole by careful search, - Which must not be forsaken; - It stands before what comes beyond, - Which may from it be taken. - -is solved by _Counterfoil_. - - -362 - - Scorned by the meek and humble mind, - And often by the vain possessed, - Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind, - I give the troubled spirit rest. - -is solved by _Nothing_. - - - - -ODDS AND ENDS - - -SOLUTIONS - - -1 - -Here is both the sum without figures, and its counterpart in numbers:-- - - UGI)GEVPPNDO(IDTPO - GVNI - ---- - DNTP - UGI - ---- - NETN - NEOT - ---- - DUDO - DUDO - ==== - - 956)58700312(61402 - 5736 - ---- - 1340 - 956 - ---- - 3843 - 3824 - ---- - 1912 - 1912 - ==== - -The key sentence is: DON’T GIVE UP, the letters of which correspond to -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. - - -2 - -When I shot only birds and rabbits, and my bag at the end of the day -showed 36 heads and 100 feet, I had killed 22 birds and 14 rabbits. - - -3 - -There are no fewer than 40 distinct readings of the four words which -form the square-- - - D E L F - E V I L - L I V E - F L E D - -DELF and FLED have each four straight readings, while EVIL and LIVE can -each be traced in 16 different ways, and the four words run straight -from every side of the square. - -4 - - A S - A T - E A - D N R E G D N E V E N IN G - I D - T A - V R - S D - - -5 - -When a man gave a sovereign to his son to be spent on presents of -different values for him and his three sisters, each to cost an aliquot -part of the pound, and each to be as good as possible; and told him to -give the change to the Fresh Air Fund, the presents cost ¹⁄₃, ¹⁄₄, ¹⁄₅, -¹⁄₆ of a pound respectively, or 6s. 8d., 5s., 4s., and 3s. 4d., and -there was a shilling over for the Fresh Air Fund. - - -6 - -This is the complete word-square-- - - M E T A L - E R A S E - T A S T E - A S T E R - L E E R S - - -7 - -The key word to the addition sum is REPUBLICAN. It works out thus-- - - REPUBLICAN - - 1234567890 - - A I 9 7 - L C 6 8 - P R 3 1 - U N 4 0 - B E 5 2 - ----- ----- - E C C 2 8 8 - - -8 - -The word square is completed thus-- - - T O A S T - O T T E R - A T O N E - S E N S E - T R E E S - - -9 - -The product of the first twelve prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, -17, 19, 23, 29, 31, can be written down by using no figures but 0, 1, 2, -and 3, and of these 2 and 3 once only, thus-- - - 10 × 1001 × 2001 × 10013:-- - - or 10 = 1 × 2 × 5 - 1001 = 7 × 11 × 13 - 2001 = 3 × 23 × 29 - 10013 = 17 × 19 × 31 - - -10 - -The question-- - - Six collars seven cuffs there be - When pence we charge you thirty-three; - Seven collars and six cuffs to do, - The charge is only thirty-two; - The work is good and up-to-date, - So figure out in pence the rate. - -is answered by--Collars, 2d. Cuffs, 3d. - - -11 - -The word square is completed thus-- - - W E E K S - E L L E N - E L U D E - K E D G E - S N E E R - - -12 - -To remove the table-napkin on a corner of which a wine-glass full of -water stands near the edge of a polished table, take hold with the left -hand of the part that hangs over the edge and raise it to a horizontal -position. Then strike hard downward with the right hand, at about six -inches from the table, and the cloth will come away, leaving the -wineglass altogether undisturbed--an illustration of what is known as -the _vis inertiæ_. - - -13 - - My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is - half of them, and my third is half. What am I? - -is solved by _Twopence-half-penny_. - - -14 - -The London firm who had sent a telegram to Paris for 480 sets of -Diabolo, and received to their surprise a huge consignment of 6336 sets, -had worded their order thus: “Send us twenty two-dozen cases of -Diabolo,” knowing that they were put up two dozen in a case. The -wholesale firm read the order as twenty-two dozen cases--_i.e._, 264 -cases of 24 in a case! - - -16 - -When Mrs Evergreen said: “My husband’s age is represented by the figures -of mine reversed; he is older than I am, and the difference between our -ages is one-eleventh of their sum,” he was 54, and she was 45. - - -17 - -This is the completed multiplication sum-- - - 4 * * 4 5 7 - 3 * 3 8 - ------ ------ - 3 6 * * 3 6 5 6 - * * 7 * 1 3 7 1 - --------- --------- - * * 3 * * 1 7 3 6 6 - - -18 - - Add 3 to 10, and then divide - Till 8 the sum has satisfied-- - -is solved by writing 13 in Roman numerals, XIII.; and then drawing a -line across their middle, so that the upper half forms VIII. - - -19 - -I bought fifty-eight plants for my new rosery, when I found that if I -set them three in a row there would be one over; if four in a row two -over; if five in a row three over; and if six in a row four over. - - -20 - - Three nines arranged thus represent 20-- - - 9 + 9 - ----- - ·9 - - -21 - -If a house has nine windows on its front, as many as 511 signals can be -given by merely leaving one or more of them open, including the case in -which all are left open. - - -22 - -The birthday puzzle by Sir John Evans is solved thus-- - - “Reader, whether man or woman, - Write my age in figures Roman (LXV.). - My first, divided by my second, - Will make my third, if rightly reckoned, - Ten times the whole, and then you’ll see - My university degree (D.C.L.).” - - -52 - -This is the way to arrange a strip of paper 9 in. by 2 in. so that it -has only _one surface_ and _one edge_. - -Gum the ends together with _a half twist_ in the slip. If a continuous -line is now drawn along the middle of the band it will traverse the -whole length of the paper and finish at its starting point. Again, if a -mark is made on the edge, and the finger or a pencil starting from this -runs along the edge, it also will return to its starting point. - - -53 - -To divide nine into two parts which shall be together equal to ten, -write IX in bold Roman numerals on a sheet of paper, and fold this -across the middle of the figures, thus-- - - IV - IX -- ---- - IɅ - -This gives a six on one side of the fold and a four upon the other side. - - -54 - -The shepherd who had folded his flock with 100 hurdles, and whose master -bade him the next day use 16 of these to pen some pigs, and to enclose -nine times as many sheep with the remaining 84 as the 100 had contained, -had originally placed the hurdles in two rows of 49 each, with one -hurdle at each end. He made room for nine times as many sheep within 84 -hurdles by arranging them in a square, with 21 on every side, thus -increasing the area ninefold. - - -55 - -When you have lifted three hats that cover three biscuits in a row, -eaten the biscuits and replaced the hats, you can carry out your -undertaking that the three biscuits shall be under whichever hat is -selected by solemnly placing that hat upon your head! - - -56 - -The number of different ways in which 7s. 3d. can be paid away in -current coin of the realm, without ever using exactly the same set of -coins a second time, is 1,062,102! - - - PRINTED AT THE MERCAT PRESS, EDINBURGH. - - - - - Transcriber᾿s Notes - - - Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, etcetera have been - retained, unless listed under Changes below. - - Unless listed below, the riddles, puzzles and tricks and their - solutions are given here as printed in the source document, even - though some of them arguably contain ambiguities, errors and/or - misprints. Inconsistencies in lay-out between the puzzles and their - solutions have not been standardised. - - The source document has several pages that contain a Pictured Puzzle - at the top (Roman numerals) and one or more Word Play puzzles or jokes - (Latin numerals). This has been retained in this text; any - auto-generated Tables of Contents may therefore look jumbled up with - intermixed Roman and Latin numerals. - - Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text and on - their settings, not all elements may display as intended. The larger - diagrams may be illegible on small screens or in small windows. - - Where possible and relevant, illustrations have been “transcribed”, - occasionally discarding some of the ornamentation. In this e-text for - chess boards and the like, # indicates a dark square; dominoes are - represented either by the pattern of the pips or by the number of - pips. The transcribed illustrations usually give but a very simple - impression of the actual illustration. For reference and for the sake - of completeness, images of the transcribed illustrations have been - provided at the end of this e-book, with hyperlinks (“Image”) pointing - to them. Hyperlinks from these images point back to the riddle, - puzzle, etc. (“Return to description”) or to its solution (“Return to - solution”). In addition, hyperlinks are provided from the puzzles etc. - to their solutions (“Solution”) and from the solutions back to the - puzzle etc. (“Return to description”). - - Table of Contents, page 130: The Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, &c., &c. - do not actually start on this page (they start on page 2), but there - are no more Pictured Puzzles and Word Play from this page on. - - Page 49, Se Pierot or Lun: possibly an error for See Pierot or L’un or - Le Pierot or L’un. - - Page 60, No. LX: the description is confusing, as the puzzle consists - of drawing the four dotted lines, and they are therefore not given. - - Page 89 and 263, Pictured puzzle LXXXIX and solution: either the - puzzle or the solution has been printed upside-down in the source - document. - - Page 114, ... as nearly as possible of the size and pattern ...: based - on the size of the physical book (around 7″ or 18 cm tall), the - boomerang’s width would be some 3″ or 7.5 cm. - - Page 149, ... six single words: the solution provided gives five - single words. - - Page 205, Solution IX: the table as printed lacks values for Opposite - pairs of short diagonals (of which there are four) and Such - combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 (of which there ought to be two in - order to reach the given total). - - - Changes made - - In the source document, jokes, riddles and puzzles may be split over - multiple pages (for example, Word Play 5 may be found on page 7 (first - part) and page 9 (second part)). In this e-text, the second part has - been re-combined with the first, and references to the separate first - and second parts have been deleted. - - Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently. - Similarly, minor discrepancies (such as the number of blanks or - x - periods) have been rectified silently. Fractions (the forms x/y, --- - y - and x-y all occur in the source document) have (bar a single - exception) been standardised to x/y. - - Unless they fitted better within the text paragraphs, illustrations, - verses, diagrams, etc. have been moved out of the text paragraphs. The - footnote has been moved to directly underneath the Word Play in which - it is referenced. - - In some chessboard based riddles the symbol for knight has been - changed from Kt to N. - - In some of the diagrams bold, italics or small capital mark-up of - individual words and letters has been removed due to the limited width - available. Large diagrams have been split to fit the available width. - - Page 10: ... cut of my head; changed to ... cut off my head; - - Page 62: ... thought myself happy to win her ... changed to ... I - thought myself happy to win her ... (cf. solution). - - Page 84 and 260, Pictured Puzzle LXXXIV and solution: the examples - mentioned and the solution given have been transcribed as separate - elements, the 6 × 6 grid being too wide to be included. - - Page 89: ... indentations do not effect ... changed to ... - indentations do not affect .... - - Page 93: the logogriph has been laid out as in the solution on page - 305. - - Page 110-111: Word Play 92 in this text (Missing Words) was - erroneously numbered 93 (first part) and 39 (second part) in the - source document. - - Page 130: “Tis an absurdity to say ... changed to ’Tis an absurdity to - say .... - - Page 139: !” inserted after the dots cf. solution. - - Page 144, Nr. 176, last line: space inserted between F and R in R FR - H; H T G changed to H T N G. - - Page 152: ... his destination from these words.” changed to ... his - destination from these words? - - Page 196: ... sa Majéste impériale ... changed to ...sa Majesté - impériale ...; ... a jamais! changed to ... à jamais! - - Page 197-198: Odds and Ends 38 appears twice; the second one has been - renamed 38a. - - Page 201: ... a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 10 hurdles ... - changed to ... a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 100 hurdles .... - - Page 294: Number 34 inserted before first solution. - - Page 309: _The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey_ changed to - _The Houses of Parliament_ and _Westminster Abbey_. - - Page 310: The words italics are spelt ... changed to The words in - italics are spelt .... - - Page 379: vis inertiœ changed to vis inertiæ. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD -PLAY *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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