Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

PICTURED PUZZLES AND
WORD PLAY

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.

Solution

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

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
Solutions to Word Play	283
Solutions to Odds and Ends	375

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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

Image

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.

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No. II.—A BORDERED DIAMOND
By G. Slater

												1
											91		117
										3		20		160
									27		25		129		65
								156		154		42		38		165
							161		15		138		36		103		26
						130		153		136		124		81		54		159
					162		147		120		69		75		135		151		52
				39		22		55		112		111		110		33		64		78
			4		152		76		57		56		62		61		63		93		7
		168		146		139		100		99		98		97		96		102		142		158
	6		21		29		45		44		43		49		48		47		133		51		104
157		80		30		88		87		86		85		84		83		82		140		90		13
	53		41		134		123		122		121		127		126		125		52		145		79
		10		132		89		74		73		72		71		70		34		16		167
			105		67		35		109		108		114		113		50		155		143
				5		116		137		60		59		58		115		17		14
					144		19		107		95		101		94		23		9
						11		106		68		46		31		148		40
							118		77		37		41		18		8
								92		38		128		24		131
									163		148		149		166
										12		130		2
											66		164
												169

Image

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.

Solution

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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

Images

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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..

Solution

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No. V.—TESSELATED DIAMOND
By G. Slater

										106
									13		109
								113		16		14
							12		110		107		15
						42		9		11		100		78
					74		81		112		10		56		71
				67		53		87		111		83		43		34
			27		49		50		35		59		63		84		6
		96		26		46		72		68		39		37		115		7
	30		95		97		76		75		33		85		3		116		114
91		31		28		94		40		61		82		120		2		5		117
	92		90		25		64		89		47		41		119		121		8
		29		93		58		62		54		69		86		4		118
			32		66		60		57		73		52		80		1
				44		79		65		19		45		48		36
					51		38		104		18		55		70
						88		22		103		105		77
							99		23		20		102
								100		98		17
									21		101
										24

Image

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.

Solution

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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

Image

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.

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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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

Image

We have filled in, as a solid start, 45 of the 81 cells.

Solution

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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

Image

Can you decide in how many other symmetrical ways the same total is to be made?

Solution

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No. X.—A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE

In this magic square the rows, columns, and diagonals add up always to 33.

●

Image

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

Image

Can you follow this out?

Solution

7. A GOOD CHARADE
By Horace Smith, one of the authors of “Rejected Addresses.”

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.

Solution

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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No. XIII.—THE WINDMILL

Can you divide a square into 15 parts, which can be built up into this windmill?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Image

Can you decide exactly the number of these rectangles, and say how many of them are square?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

Image

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.”

Can you supply the other four words, which are spelt with exactly the same letters?

Solution

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No. XVIII.—CATASTROPHE

In this picture we see that a cat has sprung upon the table to interview the parrot.

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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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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.”

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?

Solution

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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.”

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?

Solution

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No. XXI.—IN A BILLIARD-ROOM

At the moment when a burly and keen player was in this strange and striking attitude,

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. XXII.—EVOLVING A PAINTER

There are two English words which are appropriate to this picture—

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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No. XXIII.—THE PICK OF THE PACK

How can we decide by anagram whether this is a fancy portrait of “William or dear Jack?”

Shake up and recast the words in inverted commas.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. XXIV.—A PICTURE PUZZLE

Take this picture in connection with the lines below it, and find out what it represents.

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.

Solution

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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.”

How was this literally true?

Solution

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No. XXVI.—TOSS NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

Never was a cow so troublesome at milking-time.

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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No. XXVII.—ACTION AND PASSION

This very resolute horse and his anxious driver take quite different views of the situation shown in this picture.

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. XXVIII.—A FEAT WITHOUT ARMS

In this picture a clever artist who has no arms is seen calmly painting with his feet.

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?

Solution

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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.

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?

Solution

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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!”

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?

Solution

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No. XXXI

This picture represents a parsnip lying across a sturdy swede.

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!

Solution

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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?

●	●	●	●	●
●	●		●	●
●		●		●
●	●		●	●
●	●	●	●	●

Image

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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No. XXXIV.—A BUNCH OF FLOWERS

Find within these borders twelve specimens of flowers and foliage:—

¹L	²L	³B	⁴H	⁵P	⁶E	⁷F
⁸L	⁹Y	¹⁰E	¹¹L	¹²O	¹³R	¹⁴N
¹⁵I	¹⁶V	¹⁷B	¹⁸R	¹⁹I	²⁰V	²¹K
²²A	²³L	²⁴E	²⁵T	²⁶O	²⁷N	²⁸I
²⁹C	³⁰N	³¹A	³²S	³³U	³⁴L	³⁵P

Image

Move in any direction one square at a time, and so spell out their names, using the same square only once in each case.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

Image

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

Image

Solution

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!

Solution

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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

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Each vowel is to be regarded without any reference to the other vowels, and, of course, only one may be placed in a cell.

Solution

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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

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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.

Solution

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

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and recast them so that they form a perfect word square.

Solution

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!

Solution

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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No. XLIII.—HIDDEN PROVERBS

Five familiar proverbs are hidden in this square of 169 letters,

Image

The proverbs are arranged in a regular sequence.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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

Image

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.

Solution

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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.

Cut the pony into six pieces, as is indicated in the picture, and rearrange these so that they show a trotting horse.

Solution

27. A REBUS

I am
a man
I rate you
a beast
You know me.

Can you put this into shape?

Solution

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No. XLVI.—A CLEVER PUZZLE

Here is another of Sam Loyd’s famous trick pictures:—

Can you rearrange the parts to show jockeys and horses in racing trim?

Solution

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!

Solution

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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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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!”

Solution

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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:

Se Pierot or Lun,
A Figure of One.

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.

Solution

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No. L.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS

Here is the second pair of this queer company:—

Now ’tis plain you may see,
He’s a Figure of Three.

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. LI.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS

Here is the third pair of these quaint characters:—

Now here we contrive
To make him a Five

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. LII.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS

Here is another pair of these quaint figures:—

With some alteration,
A Seven’s his station.

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. LIII.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS

Here is the final pair:—

While drinking his Wine,
He appears like a nine.

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.

Solution

40. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

If you “resist disasters,” how may this affect one of your home circle?

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

While solving this, rotate the paper in your hand, and see the wheels spin.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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—

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.”

Solution

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No. LVII.—USE YOUR PENCIL

Here is a simple little puzzle which may amuse anyone who has paper and pencil at hand:—

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

How could they do this effectually without cutting themselves off from the lake?

Solution

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?

Solution

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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:—

Now arrange these ten pieces so that they form a perfect square.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. LX.

The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into nine parts by four straight cuts

which can be reunited to form a perfect cross.

Solution

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?

Solution

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No. LXI.—AN EASY ONE

Take in paper or cardboard a figure made up of a square and half of a similar square, thus:—

How can you, in the simplest way, divide it into four equal and similar parts by four straight cuts?

Solution

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.”

Solution

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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?

Each line must be at right angles to another.

Solution

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?

Solution

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No. LXIII

Cut up this triangle into 5 parts,

which can be reassembled to form this triangle.

Solution

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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

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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.

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No. LXV.—MULTIPLICATION NO VEXATION

This diagram shows an ancient and curious method of multiplication, which will be novel to most of our readers.

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.

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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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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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
♡

Image

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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

Image

You can then in a moment, and at a glance, pick out the number that is chosen.

Solution

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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?

Solution

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No. LXX.—TRANSFORMATIONS

Here is an ingenious paper and scissors puzzle:—

Divide a square card into three pieces, so that these can be reunited to form No. 2 or No. 3 of this diagram.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. LXXI.—A PUZZLE WITH CHESS PIECES




	♚



♖		♘	♖

Image

Leaving the Black King in his position, place the three white men so that he stands checkmated.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

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.

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No. LXXIII.—AN ILLUSION OF ARCHES

This excellent illusion appeared in a recent number of the “Strand Magazine”:—

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

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.

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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.

How did he accomplish this?

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. LXXVII.—AN EASY MATCH PUZZLE

This is a simple arrangement of eight matches, by which two squares and four similar triangles are formed.

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

What was his shortest course?

Solution

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 ‖.

Solution

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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?



◎	◎	◎	◎	◎	◎
◎	◎	◎	◎	◎	◎

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There must not be more than these two counters in the same straight line.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

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?

Solution

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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.

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

Can you, still using only four matches in each case, fit different whole numbers or fractions in similar fashion into the other 28 cells?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

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There are four words in the sentence of thirteen letters.

Solution

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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	5	6	7	13	12	4
13	15	17	19	21	23	14	15	20	21	22	23
25	27	29	31	33	35	28	29	30	31	36	37
37	39	41	43	45	47	52	38	39	44	45	46
49	51	53	55	57	59	47	53	54	55	60	13

9	10	11	12	13	8	3	6	7	10	11	2
14	15	24	25	26	27	14	15	18	19	22	23
28	29	30	31	40	41	26	27	30	31	34	35
42	43	44	45	46	47	38	39	42	43	46	47
56	57	58	59	60	13	50	51	54	55	58	59

17	18	19	20	21	16	33	34	35	36	37	32
22	23	24	25	26	27	38	39	40	41	42	43
28	29	30	31	48	49	44	45	46	47	48	49
50	51	52	53	54	55	50	51	52	53	54	55
56	57	58	59	30	60	56	57	58	59	60	41

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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.

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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

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Try it as it stands, without reducing the distance to inches.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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
3	5	7
4	9	2

			5
		3		7
	4				6
8		1		9		2

		5
		4
3	6	9	7	2
		8
		1

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The totals are 15, 20, and 27 respectively.

72. WHAT IS THIS WORD?

HAATTCEUMSSSS

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

Image

The indentations do not affect the simple conditions.

Solution

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?

Solution

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No. XC.—EXACT ALIGNMENT

Can you arrange these nine cards so that they form ten rows with three cards in each row?

			A ♣

	A ♢		10 ♡		A ♠

Q ♠		K ♣		K ♢		J ♢

			K ♡

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This may, of course, be done with any nine cards.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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:—

♘							♞






♞							♘

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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?

Solution

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No. XCII.—PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY IN CELLS

Can you disentangle all this good advice?

tell	you know	tells	knows	tells	he should not
do	you think of	does	thinks of	does	is not good
believe	you hear	believes	hears	believes	is false
spend	you have	spends	has	spends	he needs
judge	you see	judges	sees	judges	is not there
never	all	he who	all he	often	what

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It forms 5 excellent maxims in its 36 cells.

Solution

77. THRICE DOCKED

Protected, open, plain,
Without my tail I’m flat;
I’m round curtailed again;
Again, you have me pat.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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—

“

”

they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns and pennies.

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.

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No. XCV.—A BUSINESS ANAGRAM

This smart advertisement of a polish known as “Old Dutch Cleanser” appeared in an American paper:—

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?

Solution

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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
	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt

Image

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.

Solution

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No. XCVII.—A GOOD KNIGHT’S TOUR

Here is a beautifully symmetrical specimen of the Knight’s tour:—

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No. XCVIII.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR

Here is another beautifully symmetrical Knight’s tour:—

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.

Solution

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No. XCIX.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR

Here is quite a curious pattern described by another Knight’s tour:—

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.

Solution

81. A CHARADE

My first is the French for my second,
My whole a narcotic is reckoned.

Solution

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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:—

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?

Solution

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No. CI.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR

Here is another specimen of the Knight’s tour, which is beautifully symmetrical—

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.

Solution

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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

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Can you disentangle the little poem?

Solution

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?

Solution

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No. CIII.—THE MANX RABBITS

This is the way to draw three rabbits so that they have but three ears among them all:—

85. AN ENIGMA

Two articles of English make,
And three from foreign source.
All these together you must take
Where dramas run their course.

Solution

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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	95	³⁄₇	56	98		6	15		15
3	45	53	4	¹⁶⁄₂₈	34	1		2	2		36
5	7	6			7		³⁄₆	8	79		47
8	9	8			1		²⁷⁄₅₄	9		⁸⁄₄	98
9	62	71			98			1		⁶⁄₃	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.

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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?

Solution

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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.

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?

Solution

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!”

Solution

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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?

Solution

88. MISSING WORDS

A glowing ........ window, graced
With ........ that true art has traced.

Solution

89. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

How do the actual letters of these words in their union prove that anæsthetics are “blessed in pain?”

Solution

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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.

How can the string be released without removing either of the buttons?

Solution

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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:—

Can you release them without cutting or unfastening the string?

Solution

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!”

Solution

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No. CIX.—A PRIMITIVE TRAP

This diagram represents in the simplest outline a primitive wolf-trap.

The dotted line is a gate opening into a circular enclosure. How was the trap set and the wolf caught?

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

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.

Solution

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No. CXI.—AFTER DINNER

This diagram shows how, as an after-dinner trick, four similar wineglasses can be placed on the table

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.

Solution

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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.

How can you, without having seen any of his movements, at once find that card?

Solution

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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.

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.

Solution

94. ALIKE TO THE EYE

Accent my head,
An opening I appear
In other fashions said
I charm all far and near.

Solution

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No. CXIV.—A TOY BOOMERANG

Cut out in cardboard a boomerang as nearly as possible of the size and pattern given here:—

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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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:—

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.

Solution

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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:—

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. CXVII.—THE NIMBLE SIXPENCE

Place a sixpence on the tablecloth, and over it set a tumbler, as is shown in the picture below.

How can you pocket the sixpence without removing the glass, or having it removed?

Solution

100. A PIED PROVERB

abdeefiinnnoopprrrsssttuw

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. CXVIII.—HOW TO DRAW A SPIRAL

How can you draw such a spiral as this with very simple appliances?

This spiral is drawn rapidly without removing the pencil from the paper.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

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.

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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—

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?

Solution

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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.

●

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104. PHONETIC MISSING WORDS

’Tis ..... that no one takes a .....
To .... a .... of ....s;
A .... may often take a ....
To .... away the ....s.

Solution

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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.

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. CXXIII.—A GENERAL OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

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!

Solution

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No. CXXIV.—ANOTHER BOOMERANG

Cut out in cardboard a cross similar to that shown in this diagram:—

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.

Solution

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No. CXXV.—A PICTURE CHARADE

Can you fill in the missing words so as to complete this picture charade?

My first may .... candle ...,
My second then ..... ..;
My whole in ..... moves .....
....... an oar or ...

Solution

108. SOUND SENSE

We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty;
Reverse us, and we indicate a county.

Solution

109. A CRYPTOGRAM

FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN
LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!

Can you so deal with this as to form a rhyming couplet?

Solution

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No. CXXVI.—WALNUTS AND COBS

A good after dinner trick

Place four walnuts and four cobnuts in a row, as indicated on the diagram.

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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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.

Solution

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No. CXXVII.—A PICTURE RIDDLE

Can you read in this picture the question of our riddle?

Solution

112. TWO POSERS

My dear Mr Bird,
We are giving a ball;
First second we third,
Pray give us your all.

Second, I did my first and last,
Till I became my whole;
And told the tale of my repast,
A sad and greedy soul.

Solutions

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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:—

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.

Solution

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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:—

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.

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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?

Solution

115. LESS AND MORE

Eight letters (start with b)
Three syllables contain;
Take one away, and see
Four syllables remain!

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

Solution

124. A CHARADE

Catch my first with nimble wit,
Add a simple word;
Then my whole may help a bit
Opportunely heard.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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!

Solution

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132. A CHARADE

My first is pretence,
My second a dandy;
When fogs are most dense
My whole will be handy.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

135. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS

Can you recast “Insanitary” and “Sanitary Reform” so as to form two very appropriate anagrams?

Solution

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.

Solution

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137. MISSING LETTERS

whtmrslndsosdlyswr?
whtdyssdrksdysthtwrslrm?
lssknyskthndfr,
llshllcllwrhrssndhrm.
whycllsblldstlkthtghstlyrt
llgllntctsgrndndmntyprt?

Can you supply the missing letters?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

144. A CHARADE

My first is a cover,
My second a city;
The whole you discover
With this if you’re witty.

Solution

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.

Solution

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146. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

If the “shingle” on the beach at Brighton could speak, what would be its boast?

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

150. A REBUS

storm?
a th

an umbrella
me who

with
alls

all
mud.

Solution

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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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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!

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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?”

[140] 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?

Solution

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!

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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164. A FRENCH CHARADE

Pour avoir mon premier
Femme qui cache mon dernier
Manque souvent mon entier.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

167. AN ENIGMA

First of men we lead a measure,
Last we end the same.
Starting merrily, our pleasure
Is to finish lame.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.
[143] But that which wonderful appears,
I speak to eyes and not to ears.
All languages I now command
Yet not a word I understand.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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,
1. I sit or stand for good or ill.

2. I rule alone from noon till night,
2. And when I am not am is right.

Solution

188. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

Why should a man in a rage go to a “shooting gallery?” Each word has its complete anagram.

Solution

189. QUITE A BEATITUDE

Let her be or beat her,
Give her little ease;
Then in safety seat her
All among the bees!

Solution

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.

Solution

191. PROVERB IN ANAGRAM

“I dare not admit faint women.”

Can you recast these words so that their letters form a well-known proverb?

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

194. WHAT IS IT?

What is that which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, and in no other place?

Solution

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?

Solution

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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.

Solution

197. MISSING WORDS

Through the ...... trees
Softly coo the doves;
Let a ...... breeze
...... youthful loves!

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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!”

Solution

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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.

Solution

207. MISSING WORDS

The untrained .......... in the City
Is robbed by .......... without pity.

The missing words are spelt with the same ten letters.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.”

Solution

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.

Solution

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216. BONES OF A PALINDROME

RPLVLSLVLPR

Can you insert the missing letters, and complete the palindrome so that it reads alike from either end?

Solution

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?

Solution

218. A GOOD RIDDLE

When are acorns as strong as oaken posts?

Solution

219. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME

PTTPBTNTNTBPTTPBTNTNTBPTTP.

Can you add the vowels, and make a palindrome that reads alike from either end?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

223. IS THIS TRUE?

Woman without her man would be helpless.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

Solution

227. MISSING WORDS

Consuming lust for ....., now so rife,
Like ..... ..... mars both love and life.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

230. ANSWERS BY ANAGRAM

NOW ONE OLD FORT.

What place is this?

RABID OWL.

Change this bird into a beast.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

235. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a steel trap?

Solution

236. AN ENIGMA
By Praed

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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.

Solution

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⏞.

Solution

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.

Solution

239. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

Where can you be “in a stone-pine garden”?

Solution

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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.

Solution

241. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

What bodily discomfort follows an ague-fit?

Solution

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

Image

Solution

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.

Solution

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

Solution

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245

What political parrot cry can be evolved by anagram from this sentence, which condemns it?

O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!

Solution

246. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

What statesman’s name was a “terrible poser?”

Solution

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.

Solution

248. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

Has there been a poet of unusual solemnity?

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

254. A CIPHER ADVERTISEMENT

THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT,
MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.

Add two vowels alternately to complete the couplet.

Solution

255. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

Can you discover by anagram what his brother was when he put “Tim in a pet?”

Solution

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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!

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

260. A LETTER PUZZLE

To be
aaaaaaaaaa
tCrIiOfUlSes
standing
is the mark of a mean

Solution

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261. WITH IVORY LETTERS

Can you recast the letters that spell RED NUTS AND GIN so that they form one long word?

Solution

262. A HIDDEN NOVEL

Can you rearrange these letters so that they form the title of a well-known novel by Charles Dickens?

CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

266. A CIPHER

NGOTRDSREAOHR
ETNSVEENUDOEO

Can you decipher the common proverb here concealed?

Solution

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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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

271. A GOOD DESCRIPTION

Lord Beaconsfield’s statue,
True as old ———

Can you can complete this anagram?

Solution

272. SHAKESPEARE ANAGRAMS

These three lines are perfect anagrams of three consecutive lines in “Romeo and Juliet,” Act II., Scene V.:—

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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?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

◯	◯	◯	◯
◯	●	●	●
◯	●	●	●
◯	●	●	●

Image

Can you substitute words which fulfil the conditions?

Solution

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.

Solution

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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?

Solution

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.

Solution

278. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

If a “newspaper” could speak, what might it say of the general work of its staff?

Solution

279. BY RULE OF THUMB

How can you turn the positive quantity 1011 into a negative?

Solution

280. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

What one word can you form from the sentence—

“O, I’m man’s trial!”

Solution

281. A REBUS

EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee.

Solution

282. A RIDDLE

Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber?

Solution

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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.

Solution

284. DOUBLETS

Can you change ARMY into NAVY with seven links, changing one letter every time, and preserving their sequence?

Solution

285. BY ANAGRAM

‘I excel not by a pun’—
Turn these six words into one.

Solution

286. CAN SUCH THINGS BE?

When is an onion like music?

Solution

287. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

What is the bitter cry of “Christianity?”

Solution

288. NO TURNCOAT

Show by anagram that a Conservative is constant to his cause.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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!

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

303

One thousand, two hundred,
Nothing, and one,
Transposed, give a word
Expressive of fun.

Solution

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.

Solution

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305

Upright and honest is my first;
My second you may see
Upon the frozen lake or stream;
My whole is equity.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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!
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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!

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

315. MISSING WORDS

It is a ...... fact that neither ...... nor ...... grow .. .....

Solution

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316. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME

DRWNDRRDNWRD.

Insert the missing letters, and so form a perfect palindrome, which reads alike from either end.

Solution

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.

Solution

318. A RIDDLE

What person’s name is doubly evil?
The answer may be given in a line that rhymes.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

322.

It was to-morrow, and
It will be yesterday;
Now it is near at hand
What is it? Who can say?

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

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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.

Solution

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!

Solution

326. AN ENIGMA

One guiding eye I need
In running through the gaps;
My tail, as on I speed,
Is caught in many traps.

Solution

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:—

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.
[183] 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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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346. WHERE WAS IT?

Loss of love between us
Never can be nice;
Yet we live where Venus
Changes us to ice.

Solution

347. A LOVER TO HIS LASS

Tell me, my sweet,
Why are your feet
Like fairy tales?

Solution

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.

Solution

349. AN EASY ONE

Though much attached to merriment,
Or crime for a variety,
To prison I am never sent,
But sparkle in society.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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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.

Solution

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!

Solution

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.

Solution

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.”

Solution

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;
[186] 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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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.

Solution

359. WHAT IS THIS?

“We westand fall.”

Solution

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;
[187] 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.

Solution

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.

Solution

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ODDS AND ENDS

1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES

Here is a long-division sum without figures:—

)

(

Image

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.

Solution

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?

Solution

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3. THE SQUAREST WORD

D	E	L	F
E	V	I	L
L	I	V	E
F	L	E	D

Image

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?

Solution

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

Image

One of the letters, to be placed where the lower E now stands, is common to both words.

Solution

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?

Solution

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6. A WORD SQUARE

Can you complete this word-square?

.	E	.	A	.
E	.	A	.	E
.	A	.	.	E
A	.	.	E	.
.	E	E	.	.

Image

Solution

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

Image

Substitute the corresponding figures for the letters, and then work out the addition sum which they represent.

Solution

8. A WORD SQUARE

Can you complete this word square?

T	.	.	.	T
.	T	.	.	.
.	.	O	.	.
.	E	.	S	.
T	.	.	.	S

Image

Solution

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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.

Solution

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.

Solution

11. GAPS TO FILL

Can you complete this word square?

W	.	E	.	S
.	.	.	.	.
E	.	U	.	E
.	.	.	.	.
S	.	E	.	R

Image

Solution

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?

Solution

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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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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17. MISSING FIGURES

Can you complete this multiplication sum?

		4	*	*
			3	*
	3	6	*	*
*	*	7	*
*	*	3	*	*

Image

Solution

18. STRANGE ADDITION

Add 3 to 10, and then divide
Till 8 the sum has satisfied.

Solution

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?

Solution

20.

Can you arrange three nines so that they represent exactly 20?

Solution

21.

A house has nine windows on its front. How many signals can be given by merely leaving one or more of them open?

Solution

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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.”

Solution

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)

Solution

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:—

613258 947 = 20

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:—

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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!

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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?”

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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?

Solution

53.

Can you divide nine into two parts which are together equal to ten?

Solution

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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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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?

Solution

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SOLUTIONS

FRONTISPIECE

The words which describe this picture can be recast, letter for letter, into the perfect anagram—

“Please, Mister Elephant, are you there?”

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

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

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

●	●	●	●	●
●	●		●	●
●		●		●
●	●		●	●
●	●	●	●	●

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

3	5	7	9	11	1	5	6	7	13	12	4
13	15	17	19	21	23	14	15	20	21	22	23
25	27	29	31	33	35	28	29	30	31	36	37
37	39	41	43	45	47	52	38	39	44	45	46
49	51	53	55	57	59	47	53	54	55	60	13

9	10	11	12	13	8	3	6	7	10	11	2
14	15	24	25	26	27	14	15	18	19	22	23
28	29	30	31	40	41	26	27	30	31	34	35
42	43	44	45	46	47	38	39	42	43	46	47
56	57	58	59	60	13	50	51	54	55	58	59

17	18	19	20	21	16	33	34	35	36	37	32
22	23	24	25	26	27	38	39	40	41	42	43
28	29	30	31	48	49	44	45	46	47	48	49
50	51	52	53	54	55	50	51	52	53	54	55
56	57	58	59	30	60	56	57	58	59	60	41

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
	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt

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.

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

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

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

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●	●		●	●
●		●		●
●	●		●	●
●	●	●	●	●

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

3	5	7	9	11	1	5	6	7	13	12	4
13	15	17	19	21	23	14	15	20	21	22	23
25	27	29	31	33	35	28	29	30	31	36	37
37	39	41	43	45	47	52	38	39	44	45	46
49	51	53	55	57	59	47	53	54	55	60	13

9	10	11	12	13	8	3	6	7	10	11	2
14	15	24	25	26	27	14	15	18	19	22	23
28	29	30	31	40	41	26	27	30	31	34	35
42	43	44	45	46	47	38	39	42	43	46	47
56	57	58	59	60	13	50	51	54	55	58	59

17	18	19	20	21	16	33	34	35	36	37	32
22	23	24	25	26	27	38	39	40	41	42	43
28	29	30	31	48	49	44	45	46	47	48	49
50	51	52	53	54	55	50	51	52	53	54	55
56	57	58	59	30	60	56	57	58	59	60	41

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
	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt

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.

PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY

CONTENTS.

PICTURED PUZZLES

No. I.—A GOOD SPECIMEN

No. II.—A BORDERED DIAMOND By G. Slater

WORD PLAY

1. A PARADOX

No. III.—A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE

No. IV.—A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE

2. A PREDOMINANT VOWEL

No. V.—TESSELATED DIAMOND By G. Slater

3. AN ENIGMA

No. VI.—MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION

No. VII.—ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC SQUARE

4. A CHARADE

5. BYRON’S ENIGMA

No. VIII.—A HARDY ANNUAL

No. IX.—ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI”

No. X.—A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE

6. SHIFTING LETTERS

No. XI.—CHESS AND NUMBERS

7. A GOOD CHARADE By Horace Smith, one of the authors of “Rejected Addresses.”

No. XII.—NUMBERS PATIENCE

No. XIII.—THE WINDMILL

8. THRICE BEHEADED

No. XIV.—A NEST OF RECTANGLES

9. AN ENIGMA

No. XV.—ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE

No. XVI.—DOMINO PATIENCE

10. LEGAL PLEASANTRIES

11. RIVALS ON THE ROAD

No. XVII.—A FRIENDLY HINT

No. XVIII.—CATASTROPHE

12. A HISTORICAL CHARADE

No. XIX.—A PRECOCIOUS BOY

No. XX.—AGAINST THE COLLAR

No. XXI.—IN A BILLIARD-ROOM

13. A SAUCY MAIDEN

No. XXII.—EVOLVING A PAINTER

14. DOUBLETS

No. XXIII.—THE PICK OF THE PACK

15. AN OLD ENIGMA

No. XXIV.—A PICTURE PUZZLE

No. XXV.—AN ANXIOUS POSE

No. XXVI.—TOSS NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL

16. ANAGRAM PROVERBS

No. XXVII.—ACTION AND PASSION

17. A SHORT CHARADE

No. XXVIII.—A FEAT WITHOUT ARMS

No. XXIX.—NOT TAKING ANY

No. XXX.—MUSIC HATH CHARMS

No. XXXI

No. XXXII.—A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE

18. A BURIED POTENTATE

No. XXXIII.—ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC

No. XXXIV.—A BUNCH OF FLOWERS

19. A CHARADE

No. XXXV.—ON A BLACKBOARD

20. RECAST

21. WORD-BUILDING

No. XXXVI.—SQUARING A DIAMOND

22. AN ENIGMA

No. XXXVII.

No. XXXVIII.—AN ANAGRAM SQUARE

No. XXXIX.—ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM

23. A LOGOGRAPH

No. XL.—ANAGRAMS SQUARED

24. A SINGLE ACROSTIC

No. XLI.—A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM

25. A CHARADE

No. XLII.—QUITE A NOVELTY

No. XLIII.—HIDDEN PROVERBS

26. RINGING SWEET CHANGES

No. XLIV.—A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM

No. XLV.—SAM LOYD’S PONY PUZZLE

27. A REBUS

No. XLVI.—A CLEVER PUZZLE

28. A CHARADE (With Latin parts.)

No. XLVII.—A NICE BALANCE

29. BURIED POETS

PICTURED PUZZLES AND
WORD PLAY

No. II.—A BORDERED DIAMOND
By G. Slater

No. V.—TESSELATED DIAMOND
By G. Slater

7. A GOOD CHARADE
By Horace Smith, one of the authors of “Rejected Addresses.”

28. A CHARADE
(With Latin parts.)

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

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

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

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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

3	5	7	9	11	1	5	6	7	13	12	4
13	15	17	19	21	23	14	15	20	21	22	23
25	27	29	31	33	35	28	29	30	31	36	37
37	39	41	43	45	47	52	38	39	44	45	46
49	51	53	55	57	59	47	53	54	55	60	13

9	10	11	12	13	8	3	6	7	10	11	2
14	15	24	25	26	27	14	15	18	19	22	23
28	29	30	31	40	41	26	27	30	31	34	35
42	43	44	45	46	47	38	39	42	43	46	47
56	57	58	59	60	13	50	51	54	55	58	59

17	18	19	20	21	16	33	34	35	36	37	32
22	23	24	25	26	27	38	39	40	41	42	43
28	29	30	31	48	49	44	45	46	47	48	49
50	51	52	53	54	55	50	51	52	53	54	55
56	57	58	59	30	60	56	57	58	59	60	41

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
	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt
Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt	Kt

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.