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Title: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book Author: Cyril Pearson Release Date: April 20, 2022 [eBook #67886] Language: English Produced by: MFR, Branden Aldridge, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY *** Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in italics have been transcribed _between underscores_, underlined text =between equal signs=, and spaced out text ~between tildes~. Small capitals have been changed to ALL CAPITALS. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY _=BY THE SAME AUTHOR=_ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD PUZZLE BOOK Crown 8vo. Cloth Extra. Gilt. [Illustration: FRONTISPIECE Can you discover by anagram what the ape is saying to the elephant, from this descriptive sentence? A sly tree-ape, he tries a rum telephone. _Exactly the same letters must be used._] PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY A COMPANION TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD PUZZLE BOOK EDITED BY A. CYRIL PEARSON, M.A. AUTHOR OF “100 CHESS PROBLEMS,” “ANAGRAMS, ANCIENT AND MODERN,” ETC. _PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration] LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. CONTENTS. FRONTISPIECE PUZZLE PAGE PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY 1 ENIGMAS, CHARADES, PUZZLES, &C., &C. 130 ODDS AND ENDS 188 SOLUTIONS TO PICTURED PUZZLES 202 „ „ WORD PLAY 283 „ „ ODDS AND ENDS 375 PICTURED PUZZLES No. I.--A GOOD SPECIMEN Here is a nest of magic squares, seven of them within the four corners of one diagram:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║149│ 16│ 33│196│ 47│197│ 44│208│ 42│203│ 57│194│ 38│ 54│217║ ╟───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╢ ║177┃ 62│183│ 52│213│ 59│160│ 15│161│ 85│156│190│105│ 28┃ 49║ ╟───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╢ ║ 56┃147┃201│146│ 75│155│ 2│220│ 3│153│ 53│ 26│209┃ 79┃170║ ╟───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╢ ║162┃ 76┃148┃180│ 83│187│ 41│104│ 22│195│145│ 60┃ 78┃150┃ 64║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║ 74┃176┃ 4┃124┃119│ 37│154│ 48│186│138│109┃102┃222┃ 50┃152║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║221┃ 24┃175┃ 63┃ 86┃116│ 93│135│ 94│127┃140┃163┃ 51┃202┃ 5║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║ 10┃215┃ 69┃159┃134┃ 95┃ 98│126│115┃131┃ 92┃ 67┃157┃ 11┃216║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───┼───┼───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║219┃ 19┃165┃ 1┃136┃ 97┃130│113│ 96┃129┃ 90┃225┃ 61┃207┃ 7║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───┼───┼───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║ 8┃205┃ 84┃191┃ 87┃158┃111│100│128┃ 68┃139┃ 35┃142┃ 21┃218║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║214┃ 34┃144┃ 27┃112┃ 99│133│ 91│132│110┃114┃199┃ 82┃192┃ 12║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║ 14┃123┃ 55┃106┃117│189│ 72│178│ 40│ 88│107┃120┃171┃103┃212║ ╟───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╢ ║206┃ 89┃181┃166│143│ 39│185│122│204│ 31│ 81│ 46┃ 45┃137┃ 20║ ╟───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╢ ║ 58┃101┃ 17│ 80│151│ 71│224│ 6│223│ 73│173│200│ 25┃125┃168║ ╟───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╢ ║118┃198│ 43│174│ 13│167│ 66│211│ 65│141│ 70│ 36│121│164┃108║ ╟───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╢ ║ 9│210│193│ 30│179│ 29│182│ 18│184│ 23│169│ 32│188│172│ 77║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ As each border is removed a fresh magic square remains, in which the numbers in the cells of each row, column, and diagonal add up to the same sum, while each of these sums is a multiple of the central 113. No. II.--A BORDERED DIAMOND By G. Slater ┌ │ ┌───┘ │ 91 ┌───┘ ┌ │ 3 │ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │ 27 │ 25 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌ │156 │154 │ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │161 │ 15 │138 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌ │130 │153 │136 │ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │162 │147 │120 │ 69 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │ 39 │ 22 │ 55 │112 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │ 4 │152 │ 76 │ 57 56 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │168 │146 │139 │100 99 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │ 6 │ 21 │ 29 │ 45 44 43 ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ │157 │ 80 │ 30 │ 88 87 86 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │ 53 │ 41 │134 │123 122 121 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │ 10 │132 │ 89 │ 74 73 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │105 │ 67 │ 35 │109 108 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │ 5 │116 │137 │ 60 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │144 │ 19 │107 │ 95 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │ 11 │106 │ 68 │ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └ │118 │ 77 │ 37 └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ │ 92 │ 38 │ └───┐ └───┐ └ │163 │148 └───┐ └───┐ │ 12 │ └───┐ └ │ 66 └───┐ │ └ ───┐ 1│ └───┐ 117│ ───┐ └───┐ 20│ 160│ └───┐ └───┐ 129│ 65│ ───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 42│ 38│ 165│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 36│ 103│ 26│ ───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 124│ 81│ 54│ 159│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 75│ 135│ 151│ 52│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 111 110│ 33│ 64│ 78│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 62 61│ 63│ 93│ 7│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 98 97 96│ 102│ 142│ 158│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 49 48 47│ 133│ 51│ 104│ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ 85 84 83 82│ 140│ 90│ 13│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 127 126 125│ 52│ 145│ 79│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 72 71 70│ 34│ 16│ 167│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 114 113│ 50│ 155│ 143│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 59 58│ 115│ 17│ 14│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 101│ 94│ 23│ 9│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 46│ 31│ 148│ 40│ ───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 41│ 18│ 8│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 128│ 24│ 131│ ───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 149│ 166│ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ 130│ 2│ ───┘ ┌───┘ 164│ ┌───┘ 169│ ───┘ It is a perfect magic diamond as it stands, and equally perfect are the diamonds that remain when each border of cells is removed, as is indicated by the lines. WORD PLAY 1. A PARADOX Two words in our region of puzzledom pose, And claim, through the passage of years That neither the pages of Johnson disclose, While either in Murray appears. No. III.--A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE Here is a magic square of 81 cells. ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ │ 53│ 8│ 71│ 28│ 73│ 10│ 51│ 6│ 69│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 62│ 44│ 26│ 19│ 37│ 55│ 60│ 42│ 24│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 17│ 80│ 35│ 61│ 1│ 46│ 15│ 78│ 33│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 66│ 21│ 30│ 14│ 59│ 50│ 34│ 79│ 16│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 3│ 39│ 75│ 77│ 41│ 5│ 25│ 43│ 61│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 48│ 57│ 12│ 32│ 23│ 68│ 70│ 7│ 52│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 31│ 76│ 13│ 72│ 27│ 36│ 11│ 56│ 47│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 22│ 40│ 58│ 9│ 45│ 81│ 74│ 38│ 2│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 67│ 4│ 49│ 54│ 63│ 18│ 29│ 20│ 65│ └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ If divided, as is shown, into 9 small squares, each of these is also a magic square, and yet another magic square is formed by the totals of these 9 squares arranged thus:-- ┌───┬───┬───┐ │396│333│378│ ├───┼───┼───┤ │351│369│387│ ├───┼───┼───┤ │360│405│342│ └───┴───┴───┘ No. IV.--A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE This magic square, which has in its cells the first sixteen numbers, is so constructed that these add up to 34 in very many ways. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 4│ 15│ 14│ 1║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 9│ 6│ 7│ 12║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 5│ 10│ 11│ 8║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 16│ 3│ 2│ 13║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ How many of these, in addition to the usual rows, columns, and diagonals, can you discover? They must, of course, be in some sort symmetrical. 2. A PREDOMINANT VOWEL Can you fill in the missing letters which are needed to turn the oft-repeated “u” below into rhyming verse:-- .u.. .u.u. .u..u.., ..u...u. .u.. u..u.., .u... .u.., .u. .u..u.. .u..u... ..u...u. ..u..; ...u.. .u...., .u.. .u..u.. ..u... .u... .u... u..u.., U. .u...., .u.. ..u..-.u.u., .u..u.’. .u...u. .u.. No. V.--TESSELATED DIAMOND By G. Slater ┏ ┃ ┏━━━╃ ┃ 13│ ┏━━━╃───┼ ┃113│ │ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼ ┃ 12│ │110│ ┌───╄━━━╅───┼───┼ │ 42│ ┃ 9│ │ ┌───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼ │ 74│ │ 81│ ┃112│ ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅ │ 67│ │ 53│ │ 87│ ┃ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄ ┃ 27┃ │ 49│ │ 50│ │ 35│ ┏━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆ ┃ 96│ │ 26┃ │ 46│ │ 72│ ┃ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━╃ ┃ 30│ │ 95│ │ 97┃ │ 76│ ┃ 75│ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼ ┃ 91│ │ 31│ │ 28│ │ 94┃ ┃ 40│ │ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╅━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼ ┃ 92│ │ 90│ │ 25┃ │ 64│ ┃ 89│ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅ ┃ 29│ │ 93┃ │ 58│ │ 62│ ┃ ┗━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄ ┃ 32┃ │ 66│ │ 60│ │ 57│ ┗━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆ │ 44│ │ 79│ │ 65│ ┃ └───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━╃ │ 51│ │ 38│ ┃104│ └───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼ │ 88│ ┃ 22│ │ └───╆━━━╃───┼───┼ ┃ 99│ │ 23│ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼ ┃100│ │ ┗━━━╅───┼ ┃ 21│ ┗━━━╅ ┃ ┗ ━━━┓ 106┃ ───╄━━━┓ │109┃ ───┼───╄━━━┓ 16│ │ 14┃ ───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ │107│ │ 15┃ ───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┐ 11│ │100┃ │ 78│ ───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┐ │ 10┃ │ 56│ │ 71│ ───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ 111┃ │ 83│ │43 │ │ 34│ ━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┓ │ 59│ │ 63│ │ 84│ ┃ 6┃ ━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───╄━━━┓ 68┃ │ 39│ │ 37│ ┃115│ │ 7┃ ───╄━━━┓───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ │ 33┃ │ 85│ ┃ 3│ │116│ │114┃ ───┼───╄━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ 61│ │ 82┃ ┃120│ │ 2│ │ 5│ │117┃ ───┼───╆━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ │ 47┃ │ 41│ ┃119│ │121│ │ 8┃ ───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ 54┃ │ 69│ │ 86│ ┃ 4│ │118┃ ━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───╈━━━┛ │ 73│ │ 52│ │ 80│ ┃ 1┃ ━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┛ 19┃ │ 45│ │ 48│ │ 36│ ───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ │ 18┃ │ 55│ │ 70│ ───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┘ 103│ │105┃ │ 77│ ───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┘ │ 20│ │102┃ ───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ 98│ │ 17┃ ───┼───╆━━━┛ │101┃ ───╆━━━┛ 24┃ ━━━┛ In this ingenious diamond all rows and both diagonals add up to 671; in the four corner diamonds all add up to 244; and in the central diamond, and the 16 rows of threes surrounding it, to 183. 3. AN ENIGMA I see my first, I see my next, And both I sigh and see Joined to my third, which much perplexed And sorely puzzled me. ’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more, Reversed ’twas scarce an ell, With first and next it forms a whole Clear as a crystal bell. What is my whole? A splendid tear Upheld in cruel thrall; Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun appear! And bid me gently fall. No. VI.--MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION Here is a magic square, in which the rows, columns, and diagonals yield the same product, 4096, by multiplication:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║128| 1 | 32║ ╟───┼───┼───╢ ║ 4 | 16| 64║ ╟───┼───┼───╢ ║ 8 |256| 2 ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╝ It will be seen that the numbers in this square, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, are in regular progression, and 4096 is also the cube of the central 16. No. VII.--ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC SQUARE Here is quite a good example of a bordered magic square of sixty-four cells:-- ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ ┃ 1│ 56│ 55│ 11│ 53│ 13│ 14│ 57┃ ┠───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───┨ ┃ 63┃ 15│ 47│ 22│ 42│ 24│ 45┃ 2┃ ┠───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───┨ ┃ 62┃ 49┃ 25│ 40│ 34│ 31┃ 16┃ 3┃ ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ ┃ 4┃ 48┃ 28│ 37│ 35│ 30┃ 17┃ 61┃ ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ ┃ 5┃ 44┃ 39│ 26│ 32│ 33┃ 21┃ 60┃ ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ ┃ 59┃ 19┃ 38│ 27│ 29│ 36┃ 46┃ 6┃ ┠───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───┨ ┃ 58┃ 20│ 18│ 43│ 23│ 41│ 50┃ 7┃ ┠───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───┨ ┃ 8│ 9│ 10│ 54│ 12│ 52│ 51│ 64┃ ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ It is a perfect specimen itself, and as each border is removed a fresh perfect magic square is revealed. 4. A CHARADE Take for my first a quadruped, Transpose one for my second; My whole, a biped, quick or dead, Is dainty reckoned. 5. BYRON’S ENIGMA I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age, But in infancy ever am known; I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage, And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page I always am greatest alone. I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon; You may search all the sky--I’m not there; In the morning and evening--though not in the noon-- You may plainly perceive me--for, like a balloon, I am midway suspended in air. Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain, I am never in sorrow nor gloom; Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign, I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain, Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb! No. VIII.--A HARDY ANNUAL A magic square can be formed with the 81 numbers from 172 to 252 inclusive, which in all its rows, columns, and diagonals will total 1908. It may interest our solvers to complete the square. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║216│175│224│ │ │ │240│199│248║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║247│215│174│ │ │ │190│239│207║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║206│246│214│ │ │ │230│198│238║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ │213│172│221│ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ │244│212│180│ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ │203│252│211│ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║186│226│194│ │ │ │210│178│218║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║217│185│234│ │ │ │250│209│177║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║176│225│184│ │ │ │200│249│208║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ We have filled in, as a solid start, 45 of the 81 cells. No. IX.--ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI” This magic square adds up in rows, columns, and diagonals to 1908:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║469│484│472│483║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║481│474│478│475║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║482│471│485│470║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║476│479│473│480║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Can you decide in how many other symmetrical ways the same total is to be made? No. X.--A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE In this magic square the rows, columns, and diagonals add up always to 33. ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ Can you rearrange it so that the first stone (three-ace) shall occupy the centre, now filled by the double six, and it shall still add up in all ways to 33? 6. SHIFTING LETTERS I am bright as a whole Till you cut off my head; Then as black as a coal, Or a mortal instead. Shaken up and recast We with science are found, Read us back from the last And we live underground. No. XI.--CHESS AND NUMBERS The arrangement of numbers in the 36 cells of this square discloses a very close affinity between chess and arithmetic. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 30│ 21│ 6│ 15│ 28│ 19║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 7│ 16│ 29│ 20│ 5│ 14║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 22│ 31│ 8│ 35│ 18│ 27║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 9│ 36│ 17│ 26│ 13│ 4║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 32│ 23│ 2│ 11│ 34│ 25║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 1│ 10│ 33│ 24│ 3│ 12║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Can you follow this out? 7. A GOOD CHARADE _By Horace Smith, one of the authors of_ “_Rejected Addresses._” In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still, All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will; Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry--a cry that doth express A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness. In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard, And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third. Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed, Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find. No. XII.--NUMBERS PATIENCE Those who combine a fancy for “Patience” with some skill in numbers will find amusement in filling the empty cells of this diagram with appropriate numbers, each of which must consist of two figures:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 17│ │ │ │ 24║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ 32│ │ 46│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ 14│ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ 19│ │ 16│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 22│ │ │ │ 20║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ It is required that each of the rows across from side to side shall add up, when all the cells are filled, to 143 exactly. No number must be used more than once. No. XIII.--THE WINDMILL [Illustration] Can you divide a square into 15 parts, which can be built up into this windmill? 8. THRICE BEHEADED Untouched I tell of budding growth and life; Beheaded I lead upward more or less; Again--with varied fragrance I am rife; Again--but little value I express. No. XIV.--A NEST OF RECTANGLES In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to count a great number of distinct and interlacing figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and whose angles are all right angles. ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ Can you decide exactly the number of these rectangles, and say how many of them are square? 9. AN ENIGMA Search Holy Writ and you will see A victory was won by me. Behead me, and I may be found In water or on hilly ground. Behead again, and then transpose, A snare my letters now disclose. If yet again my head you sever, No matter how sharp-set or clever ’Tis all in vain you look about, For no one yet has found me out. No. XV.--ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE Can you, using all the dominoes except double five, five-six, and double six, construct with the twenty-five stones a magic square that adds up in all rows, columns, and diagonals to 27, and in which the stones in the cells marked by the same figures in this diagram also add up to that number? ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 2 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 1 │ 3 │ │ 3 │ 1 ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 2 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ No. XVI.--DOMINO PATIENCE The problem is to construct, with all the twenty-eight stones, a domino pyramid of seven stages, starting with a single stone, and adding one stone on each successive stage. The stones must be so arranged that the number of pips in any row or column are in all cases exactly three times the number of half-dominoes of which that line or column is composed. There are many solutions to exercise the solver’s patience. 10. LEGAL PLEASANTRIES Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court, “Now I’d bet, were we not in this place, That my first is my second a bottle of port,” Then bright with my whole shone his face. 11. RIVALS ON THE ROAD Six horse buses and four motor buses travel each hour from Temple Bar to the Bank. The horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 minutes on the journey. If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as possible, shall I take the first horse bus that turns up, or wait for a motor? It must be assumed that I can only see a bus as it actually passes me. No. XVII.--A FRIENDLY HINT The father of this venturesome lad, who was on the point of breaking out of bounds, came on the scene just in time to warn him in a sentence of nine words, five of which were “Never throw a leg, lad.” [Illustration] Can you supply the other four words, which are spelt with _exactly the same letters?_ No. XVIII.--CATASTROPHE In this picture we see that a cat has sprung upon the table to interview the parrot. [Illustration] The title “Catastrophe” recast by anagram, tells the parrot’s happy thought at this critical moment, and the appropriate sentence, “New parrot-stand in a house,” tells, also by anagram, how he put this into instant operation. 12. A HISTORICAL CHARADE My first, if foolishly or rashly taken, May mar the future prospects of your life. My second, by her fickle lord forsaken (Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife), May toil and moil to feed his many babies, While he goes flirting off with other ladies. The thrifty monarch of a former age My whole a place in Britain’s history fills. Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills! No. XIX.--A PRECOCIOUS BOY This is the picture of the first prize boy at a baby show. The judge, noticing the position of one chubby fist, said to the proud mother, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits.” [Illustration] To his amazement the baby, removing the comforting hand, replied in eight words composed of _exactly the same letters_, “So to-day, sir, . .... .. ...... .....” Can you complete the sentence? No. XX.--AGAINST THE COLLAR The lady who is sitting at the back of this overloaded waggonette cries out, in her sympathy with the struggling horse, “This big load quite hinders his pull.” [Illustration] Her husband, full of holiday spirits and energy, answers her in a sentence of mingled reproof and determination, which forms a perfect anagram of the words of his wife, and describes his feelings and action. Can you recast the letters? No. XXI.--IN A BILLIARD-ROOM At the moment when a burly and keen player was in this strange and striking attitude, [Illustration] a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is striking!” Can you, using exactly the same letters, put into the mouth of the marker a reply appropriate to the position? 13. A SAUCY MAIDEN My _second_, worn with pompous pride, My _first_ had dangling at his side, On chain securely hooked. My _first_ he came from o’er the sea, A bundle of conceit looked he, And he was all he looked. She led him to the village green, Where in desponding mood was seen My _whole_, with drooping head. “Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true, And striking likeness, sir, of you!” And, laughing, gaily fled. No. XXII.--EVOLVING A PAINTER There are two English words which are appropriate to this picture-- [Illustration] One of them has as its anagram the very apposite sentence, “Or not a man first;” the other treated in similar fashion becomes, “O I love nuts!” What are the two words? 14. DOUBLETS Who can turn WHEAT into BREAD with six links, changing one letter each time, and preserving the general order of the letters throughout? No. XXIII.--THE PICK OF THE PACK How can we decide by anagram whether this is a fancy portrait of “William or dear Jack?” [Illustration] Shake up and recast the words in inverted commas. 15. AN OLD ENIGMA Can our readers solve this enigma, which was published in 1811, and to which no answer seems to be known? I’m one among a numerous host, And very useful in my post; There’s not a house in all the land Without me properly can stand. Though men disputed long ago Whether I did exist or no, Once more some thousands have been slain Because they could not me attain. No. XXIV.--A PICTURE PUZZLE Take this picture in connection with the lines below it, and find out what it represents. [Illustration] Begin with the end of my first, then you will find out the rest; For it all will appeal to your thirst, Or point to a ponderous guest. No. XXV.--AN ANXIOUS POSE His wife, who chanced to see Jiggers at the trying moment here depicted, said that he seemed to be in a “sad pet.” [Illustration] How was this literally true? No. XXVI.--TOSS NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL Never was a cow so troublesome at milking-time. [Illustration] Our picture was taken at the moment when Farmer Hayseed was exclaiming, as he held on behind, “See, we hold this cow’s horns and tail!” The same letters, recast by anagram, form this sentence spoken by his foreman-- “She cannot toss, ... .... .... .. ..” Can you fill in the five missing words? 16. ANAGRAM PROVERBS These grave lips chatter no ill. or Elephants, all to richest giver! Can you recast the letters of these sentences so that either of them forms the same homely proverb, to which the first anagram is most akin? No. XXVII.--ACTION AND PASSION This very resolute horse and his anxious driver take quite different views of the situation shown in this picture. [Illustration] We can fancy that the fast trotter, if he could be endowed with speech, would say, “I’m a train’d stepper!” Can you take these same letters, and recast them into a sentence which would seem to express the driver’s point of view? 17. A SHORT CHARADE My first of rudeness has a sound; The rest is in a city found; My whole to win its way is bound. No. XXVIII.--A FEAT WITHOUT ARMS In this picture a clever artist who has no arms is seen calmly painting with his feet. [Illustration] One onlooker says to another, “Why, now I see this fine artist has no hand!” The other replies in a sentence which contains exactly the same letters: “He draws in any fashion .... ... ... ... .” Can you fill in the four missing words? No. XXIX.--NOT TAKING ANY “This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” said a crafty fisher of men to his better half, who was helping him, as he showed her this illustration of their aims. [Illustration: 1834 PORT] She knew, however, that the fish he sought to catch was not to be tempted in this way, and she replied in words spelt with exactly the same letters, “And see, he will not .... .. ... ....!” Can you fill in the four missing words? No. XXX.--MUSIC HATH CHARMS This sturdy musical enthusiast, as he settled himself upon his chair, said, “What shall I play?” and some one replied, “Any strains of Beethoven, he charms all!” [Illustration] This suggestion, however, was not acceptable, and he, as he struck up a piece after his own heart, exclaimed, in a sentence composed of exactly the same letters-- “Nay, for this ’cello ...... .... . ......!” Can you supply the missing words? No. XXXI This picture represents a parsnip lying across a sturdy swede. [Illustration] Can you so readjust them that they seem to suggest a successful dramatist of the day? We give this broad hint by anagram-- “Here is our parsnip on swede.” ANAGRAM _Wise and superior person he!_ No. XXXII.--A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE Can you fill the places of these 21 asterisks with only three different letters, arranging them so that they spell a common English word in twelve different directions? ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 18. A BURIED POTENTATE My first is in cake, but not in bun; My second in light, but not in sun; My third is in night, but not in day; My fourth is in game, but not in play; My fifth is in head, but not in tail, My sixth is in wind, but not in sail; My seventh in wrong, but not in right, My eighth is in battle, but not in fight; My ninth is in sword, but not in knife, My tenth is in lady, but not in wife; My whole is a monarch at war with strife. No. XXXIII.--ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC First form a short sentence with the ten letters that are above the line in this diagram:-- S B R E Y D O T U O ------- O E E ======= Next number the letters of the sentence consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and then work out a sum in addition with these numbers substituted for the letters with which they correspond. No. XXXIV.--A BUNCH OF FLOWERS Find within these borders twelve specimens of flowers and foliage:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 ║ ║ L│ L│ B│ H│ P│ E│ F║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 8 │ 9 │10 │11 │12 │13 │14 ║ ║ L│ Y│ E│ L│ O│ R│ N║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║15 │16 │17 │18 │19 │20 │21 ║ ║ I│ V│ B│ R│ I│ V│ K║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║22 │23 │24 │25 │26 │27 │28 ║ ║ A│ L│ E│ T│ O│ N│ I║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║29 │30 │31 │32 │33 │34 │35 ║ ║ C│ N│ A│ S│ U│ L│ P║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Move in any direction one square at a time, and so spell out their names, using the same square only once in each case. 19. A CHARADE My first except when it is old Is never seen or heard; When it is heard the sound is tolled Out of a Jewish beard. My next was in Imperial Rome, It was her power and might; Then you had but to write _you wish_, And straightway ’twas in sight. My whole was Frank Of royal rank. No. XXXV.--ON A BLACKBOARD To test the powers of his young pupils, Dr Puzzlewitz set the following little problem on his blackboard:-- ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ ┃ ┃ A - B = 4 ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ A ÷ B = 4 ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ What are the values of A and of B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting B from A? 20. RECAST How great in olden days my power! Oft have I saved a castle tower From war’s invading tide. Transpose me, and how great my fall! I am then the smallest of the small, That nothing can divide. 21. WORD-BUILDING This compact Enigma take, All apart its letters shake. Let your 6, 3, 5 be high, Like 5, 1, 2 do or die. Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys More than 5, 6, 2 by boys? While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine, May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine. 4, 1, 5 is rich and rare, 6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer. The figures indicate the position of the letters, which spell new words, in the original six-letter word. No. XXXVI.--SQUARING A DIAMOND Can you fill in the empty cells with letters, so that they form English words which read alike from top to bottom and from left to right? ┌───┐ │ s │ ┌───┼───┼───┐ │ │ │ │ ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ s │ │ │ u │ │ │ s │ └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ │ │ │ │ └───┼───┼───┘ │ s │ └───┘ 22. AN ENIGMA “Charles the First walked and talked, Half an hour after his head was cut off.” _Old Couplet_. Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King, A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow. Halve what remains, my second is a thing Which nothing but my third can e’er make go. My third will vary as you take your line. This less than human, that way all divine! No. XXXVII. Taking the letters as arranged on this diagram for a starting point, can you place in some of the unoccupied cells five more of A, five of E, five of I, and five of O, making eight in all of each letter, so that in no case shall the same vowel be in the same row, column, or diagonal? ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | A | I | E | O | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | O | | | A | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | I | | | E | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | E | O | A | I | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Each vowel is to be regarded without any reference to the other vowels, and, of course, only one may be placed in a cell. No. XXXVIII.--AN ANAGRAM SQUARE Mix together the letters which form the eight words on this draught board-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║###│ V │###│ O │###│ T │###│ E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ W │###│ O │###│ V │###│ E │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ P │###│ R │###│ O │###│ W ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ C │###│ A │###│ L │###│ L │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ S │###│ T │###│ E │###│ W ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ N │###│ E │###│ W │###│ S │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ C │###│ O │###│ R │###│ E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ N │###│ A │###│ P │###│ E │###║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ and recast them so that they form eight fresh words, which when placed in proper order on the white squares, are a word square in which each word reads alike from left to right, or from top to bottom. The first of the fresh words is CROW. No. XXXIX.--ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM Form a short sentence with the letters above the line in this diagram:-- D U E H E D A P S T ───── D E A ═════ Number the letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and then work a sum in addition, substituting these numbers for the letter with which they correspond. 23. A LOGOGRAPH Touch me not, I’m firm and sure; Behead, I’m used by rich and poor; In house and cottage, hut and hall, I stand of service to them all. Behead again, in time of need I tell that strength and skill succeed. No. XL.--ANAGRAMS SQUARED Shake up the sixteen letters of these four words, and recast them into four other words:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║###│ S │###│ E │###│ E │###│ K ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ S │###│ L │###│ A │###│ B │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ L │###│ E │###│ E │###│ K ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ M │###│ O │###│ A │###│ N │###║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ These fresh words, placed on the white squares, must read alike from side to side, and zigzag from top to bottom. The first word is MASK. 24. A SINGLE ACROSTIC What river is that, where it is found, Which Pope says does with eels abound? What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded, Is with bright birch and oak surrounded? What stream is said in Devon to run Into the sea near Otterton? What bay on Cuba’s distant coast Is justly deemed its pride and boast? The initials of these names will show A Scotch reformer, who, we know, Flourished three hundred years ago. No. XLI.--A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM Take the letters which form the words in these sixteen cells-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ A │ F │ A │ R ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ T │ A │ S │ K ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ S │ E │ A │ T ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ L │ E │ A │ L ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ and recast them so that they form a perfect word square. 25. A CHARADE My whole may be a mother, not a dad, So former may, or latter; But twist my tail, and I become as mad As any hatter! Behead me, and behold I am a man, Who never was called mister; Cut off my tail, and instantly I can Become a sister! No. XLII.--QUITE A NOVELTY There are five English words in this square:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ c │ h │ e │ s │ s ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ g │ r │ e │ e │ d ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ c │ a │ n │ e │ s ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ r │ e │ a │ r │ s ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ c │ h │ e │ e │ r ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Can you shake up their letters, and recast them into five other words which form a perfect word square, and read alike from top to bottom and from left to right? The first fresh word is CRESS. No. XLIII.--HIDDEN PROVERBS Five familiar proverbs are hidden in this square of 169 letters, R E N O W N E D T H A N W S Y O U R C A K E A N D A S T E T O B E F E A R H R E A R K S S P O I L E A F L E O O H E R S N T D V O O T M O T L I N O H T E U N O S C A L A G M E H I R S N I Y G O R S O B A T S E N G N E N O T S R N P A I A O A M O O T S O A E W R C D E V I L A H T D A S O U O Y N O I L D A E C A T C I V R E H H T A H E Z The proverbs are arranged in a regular sequence. 26. RINGING SWEET CHANGES We are familiar with the anagram that so charmingly points to the ministrations on the battle-field of Florence Nightingale--_Flit on, cheering angel_--but it is not so well known that her name can also be recast with an appropriate wish for her continuance in our loving memory. Can you frame this? No. XLIV.--A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM A French sentence of 100 letters in twenty-two words is concealed in these 100 cells. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ D │ L │ A │ N │ N │ E │ S │ M │ P │ A ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ L │ I │ R │ D │ L │ E │ E │ M │ L │ H ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I │ L │ U │ E │ E │ A │ I │ N │ T │ J ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ C │ U │ R │ S │ E │ M │ N │ T │ U │ P ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ E │ U │ É │ S │ N │ P │ R │ E │ O │ S ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ O │ L │ I │ É │ D │ X │ S │ M │ A │ N ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ U │ D │ E │ A │ E │ É │ I │ X │ N │ T ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ T │ E │ T │ P │ E │ D │ N │ U │ Q │ E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ B │ U │ U │ U │ F │ L │ I │ J │ I │ N ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ Z │ U │ E │ J │ I │ O │ E │ U │ N │ R ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ It can be deciphered by means of a cardboard mask of similar size, with circular holes cut out in some of its cells. This is placed squarely over the diagram, turned round in four successive positions. And thus the sequence of letters is found, and falls into words. No. XLV.--SAM LOYD’S PONY PUZZLE The instant popularity of this clever puzzle was amazing, and its sale is said to have run into millions years ago in America. [Illustration: The Pony Puzzle] Cut the pony into six pieces, as is indicated in the picture, and rearrange these so that they show a trotting horse. 27. A REBUS I am a man I rate you a beast You know me. Can you put this into shape? No. XLVI.--A CLEVER PUZZLE Here is another of Sam Loyd’s famous trick pictures:-- [Illustration] Can you rearrange the parts to show jockeys and horses in racing trim? 28. A CHARADE (_With Latin parts._) My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome, Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread. Long may it be before that fate shall come, And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread! No. XLVII.--A NICE BALANCE This boy is sure that if he takes his time, and watches his opportunity, he will be able to reach and secure with his mouth the sugar on the chair. Will he? [Illustration] 29. BURIED POETS The names of eight famous British poets are buried in these lines--that is to say, the letters that spell the names form in their proper order parts of different words:-- The sun is darting rays of gold Upon the moor, enchanting spot, Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved, Up open to his shepherd cot. And sundry denizens of air Are flying--aye, each to his nest; And eager make at such an hour All haste to reach the mansions blest. Can you dig them up? No. XLVIII.--LEAF-FROG Here are six little hoptoads, as our cousins across the water call them, three white and three black, going in opposite directions. A frog may jump, one, two, or three steps, but no two may be together at any time. [Illustration] In how few jumps can the black frogs be seated to the left of their white brothers? It is obvious that one of the white frogs must jump first to the stool marked 1. 30. AN ENIGMA This multiplies me, I declare, Though it reduces one; A sty is foul if it is there, By it a deed is done. 31. MISSING WORDS Lennie ...... the words he read, Studying ...... fable; Lennie’s mother ...... the bread, Sophy ...... the table. “Work while you are ......,” they said “...... while you are able!” No. XLIX.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS A very curious old print, of which this might well be the title, was picked up on a bookstall. This picture shows clever designs for two of the digits: [Illustration: 1 _Se Pierot or Lun, A Figure of One._ 2 _Again he’s to view, A Figure of Two._] 32. A CHARADE When I write with my first in my second, My whole is quite sure to be in. Divided afresh, there is reckoned A wit, or a something that’s thin. Prefix a letter, and, as dear as paint, You see the name of an old English Saint. No. L.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS Here is the second pair of this queer company:-- [Illustration: 3 _Now ’tis plain you may see, He’s a Figure of Three._ 4 _Behold him once more, A Figure of Four._] 33. ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER My first, though half a noisy bird, To a slight noise may turn; My second twist, a stately word, And it will bend we learn. 34. AN ENIGMA To half of ten add one, Then half a score. When this is duly done Almost ten more. This can be good for none, But trial sore. No. LI.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS Here is the third pair of these quaint characters:-- [Illustration: 5 _Now here we contrive To make him a Five_ 6 _He’s a Six here complete, With his hands to his feet_.] 35. A BURIED PROVERB A proverb of eight words is buried here:-- I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous attempt to show illegality, is as a cat chasing snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I shun his example. 36. MISSING WORDS Quick ....... in action, now timid, now bold, Like ....... of ropes far too rotten to hold, ....... a ....... ....... and disasters For a State that ....... not incapable masters. The six missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. No. LII.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS Here is another pair of these quaint figures:-- [Illustration: 7 _With some alteration, A Seven’s his station._ 8 _Here not being strait, He forms a good eight._] 37. A CHARADE My first as an heir, My second a snare, My whole is the offspring of fancy, Which I sent on its way Last Valentine’s Day, As a token of love to my Nancy. 38. A LOVER’S VOW My love shall never know my first, Shall never be my second; It shall my all, come best, come worst, Be surely reckoned. No. LIII.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS Here is the final pair:-- [Illustration: 9 _While drinking his Wine, He appears like a nine._ 0 _Nine Forms having past He’s a Cypher at last._] 39. AN ENIGMA I am a letter, and a word, I am a tree, I am a name, Cut me in pieces with a sword, You and your act would be the same. Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt, And use it twice if you would find me out. 40. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM If you “resist disasters,” how may this affect one of your home circle? No. LIV.--A FREAK OF FIGURES 1 × 8 + 1 = 9 12 × 8 + 2 = 98 123 × 8 + 3 = 987 1234 × 8 + 4 = 9876 12345 × 8 + 5 = 98765 123456 × 8 + 6 = 987654 1234567 × 8 + 7 = 9876543 12345678 × 8 + 8 = 98765432 123456789 × 8 + 9 = 987654321 41. A CHARADE My first the rainbow shows When in rich hues it glows. My next has vowels three; My third was once a tree. My fourth begins the year, My whole the past makes clear. 42. ASK A SCHOOLBOY If you tell a schoolboy that the longest side of a triangular field measures 100 rods, and that each of the other sides measures 50 rods, and ask him to estimate the value of its grass at £1 per acre, how should he answer? 43. A WHOLE LESS THAN ITS PART Less than my last, my whole has place Between my first and second: Second has body, arms and face; First is by inches reckoned. No. LV.--SPINNING WHEELS What is the smallest number of straight lines which can be drawn within this square so as to enclose each of the wheels within separate boundaries? [Illustration] While solving this, rotate the paper in your hand, and see the wheels spin. 44. A HISTORICAL CHARADE My first at early morn the camp alarms, And at its sound the soldier springs to arms; My second nowadays fair ladies scorn, Though in less dainty days it oft was worn. My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground, With victory the rebel forces crowned. No. LVI.--FOUR QUARTERS AMONG FIVE A market gardener who has a large square plot of ground wishes to reserve a fourth of it in the shape of a triangle for himself, as is shown in the diagram-- [Illustration] and to divide the remainder among his four sons, so that each shares equally, with plots of similar shape. How did he mark it out for them? This appears in a less perfect form in “The Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book.” No. LVII.--USE YOUR PENCIL Here is a simple little puzzle which may amuse anyone who has paper and pencil at hand:-- [Illustration] Can you combine three figures similar to Fig. A with two similar to Fig. B, so that a perfect Latin cross is formed? It is, of course, an easier matter to cut out five such pieces in paper or cardboard, and arrange them in the form required. 45. MISSING WORDS I love strolling ....... that wander around, Each ....... a ....... in versatile skill; Each ....... so quaint, each idea so profound, My barn’s at their service, whenever they will. A company played there last night, but to-day Ducks ......., and poultry have vanished away! The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. No. LVIII.--SUBTLE SELFISHNESS Four poor men were living in the cottages shown in this diagram, round a central lake well stocked with fish. Four rich men built their houses further afield, and selfishly determined to exclude their neighbours from access to the water. [Illustration] How could they do this effectually without cutting themselves off from the lake? 46. AN ARITHMOREM 150 hat robe or tent Can you form from this the name of a famous British author, treating the 150 as Roman numerals? No. LIX.--FOR THE CHILDREN Cut out in cardboard four pieces of the shape and size of each of the large patterns, and two pieces of the small one:-- [Illustration] Now arrange these ten pieces so that they form a perfect square. 47. SHEDDING LETTERS I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known, Of all that are busy in country and town. Take from me one letter, and yet my good name In spite of this loss will continue the same. Take from me two letters, and still you will see That precisely the same in effect I shall be. Take from me three letters, or even take more, Yet still I continue as sound as before. No. LX. The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into nine parts by four straight cuts [Illustration] which can be reunited to form a perfect cross. 48. A SHARP BOY Tom Larkins, proud of his prize for arithmetic, challenged his sisters to show on a blackboard that if 50 is subtracted from the sum of the nine digits, the result is equal to the number obtained by dividing their sum by 3. How did he prove his point? No. LXI.--AN EASY ONE Take in paper or cardboard a figure made up of a square and half of a similar square, thus:-- [Illustration] How can you, in the simplest way, divide it into four equal and similar parts by four straight cuts? 49. GEESE TO MARKET B drove a goodly flock of geese, And met with Farmer A; Said Farmer A, “How much apiece For this lot did you pay?” Said B, “I paid for all I drive Just six pounds and a crown, And I am selling all but five At the next market town. If fifteen pence a head I charge Beyond the price I paid. I shall secure a sum as large As he who sold all made.” No. LXII Can you draw twenty-two straight lines within this circle so that they divide it into four similar parts, each having three of the dots within its borders? [Illustration] Each line must be at right angles to another. 50. A QUAINT CHARADE When second held first For best or for worst, I thought myself happy to win her. But what could I say When the very next day She gave me the whole for my dinner? No. LXIII [Illustration: _Cut up this triangle into 5 parts_,] [Illustration: _which can be reassembled to form this triangle_.] No. LXIV.--ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE The peculiar series of numbers, as arranged in this triangular form, is said to have been perfected by Pascal. ┌───┐ │ 1│ ├───┼───┐ │ 2│ 1│ ├───┼───┼───┐ │ 3│ 3│ 1│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ 4│ 6│ 4│ 1│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ 5│ 10│ 10│ 5│ 1│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ 6│ 15│ 20│ 15│ 6│ 1│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ 7│ 21│ 35│ 35│ 21│ 7│ 1│ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ 8│ 28│ 56│ 70│ 56│ 28│ 8│ 1│ └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ It has the property of showing, without calculation, how many selections or combinations can be made at a time out of a larger number. Thus to find how many selections of 3 at a time can be made out of 8 we look for the third number on the horizontal row that commences with 8, and find the answer 56. The series is formed thus: Set down the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., as far as you please, in a vertical row. To the right of 2 place 1, add them together, and set 3 under the 1. Then add 3 to 3, and set the result below, and so on, always placing the sum of two numbers that are side by side below the one on the right. No. LXV.--MULTIPLICATION NO VEXATION This diagram shows an ancient and curious method of multiplication, which will be novel to most of our readers. ^ ╱│╲ 2╱ │ ╲5 ╱ │ ╲ ╱ 1 │ 0 ╲ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ 4╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲3 ╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲ ╱ 2 │ 0 ╳ 0 │ 6 ╲ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ 3╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲4 ╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲ │ 1 │ 5 ╳ 1 │ 2 ╳ 0 │ 8 │ ╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ ╲ 0 │ 9 ╳ 1 │ 6 ╱ ╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ ╲ 1 │ 2 ╱ ╲ │ ╱ ╲ │ ╱ ╲│╱ v ───────────────────────── 1 8 2 6 2 8 ───────────────────────── In this instance 534 is multiplied by 342. Draw a square of nine cells with diagonals, fill the three top cells, as is shown, by multiplying the 5 by the 3, the 4 and the 2. Then multiply in similar way the 3 and the 4 by these same figures. Turn the square round so that the diagonals are upright, and add. Of course, placing the numbers thus is the same practically as carrying them by our ordinary rule. No. LXVI In this diagram 27 counters are arranged in 9 rows, with 6 in each row. * ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ * * ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ * ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ *───────*───────*───────*───────*───────* ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ * ╱ ╲ * ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ * * ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ *───────*───────*───────────────*───────*───────* ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ *───────*───────────────*───────*───────────────*───────* ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ * Can you rearrange them so that with similar conditions they all fall within the borders of one equilateral triangle? 51. A BURIED ADAGE The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum, Blending so sweetly with the restful air; The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come, And well I ken the lass who meets me there. Can you discover a very familiar saying that is buried in these lines? No. LXVII.--AN EIGHT-CARD PUZZLE Place eight cards of two different colours alternately in one row, then with four moves bring all of one colour together. ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ A │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ │ 8 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♡ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ Two cards (without altering their relative position) are to be moved at a time, and placed somewhere in the same line, one of them at least touching another card. 52. MUTILATIONS A little beast without its head Becomes a mighty beast instead; But then the subject of my riddle Is cut asunder in the middle; And nothing this division gains, Though unknown quantity remains. 53. MISSING WORDS Mary sat with ..... in hand Writing ..... dramatic. Did she ..... the plots she planned? Negative emphatic! ..... to us the ..... may be But at ..... they’re new to she! The missing words are spelt with the same five letters. No. LXVIII.--THOUGHT READING Cut out this diagram, and paste it on a card. Hand it to anyone, and ask him to fix upon whichever number he pleases, and merely to tell you in which columns this appears. ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐║ ║│ I. ││ II. ││ III. ││ IV. │║ ║│ ││ ││ ││ │║ ║│ 1 33 65 97││ 2 34 66 98││ 4 36 68 100││ 8 40 72 104│║ ║│ 3 35 67 99││ 3 35 67 99││ 5 37 69 101││ 9 41 73 105│║ ║│ 5 37 69 101││ 6 38 70 102││ 6 38 70 102││ 10 42 74 106│║ ║│ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 11 43 75 107│║ ║│ 9 41 73 105││ 10 42 74 106││ 12 44 76 108││ 12 44 76 108│║ ║│ 11 43 75 107││ 11 43 75 107││ 13 45 77 109││ 13 45 77 109│║ ║│ 13 45 77 109││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110│║ ║│ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111│║ ║│ 17 49 81 113││ 18 50 82 114││ 20 52 84 116││ 24 56 88 120│║ ║│ 19 51 83 115││ 19 51 83 115││ 21 53 85 117││ 25 57 89 121│║ ║│ 21 53 85 117││ 22 54 86 118││ 22 54 86 118││ 26 58 90 122│║ ║│ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 27 59 91 123│║ ║│ 25 57 89 121││ 26 58 90 122││ 28 60 92 124││ 28 60 92 124│║ ║│ 27 59 91 123││ 27 59 91 123││ 29 61 93 125││ 29 61 93 125│║ ║│ 29 61 93 125││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126│║ ║│ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127│║ ║└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘║ ║ ┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐ ║ ║ │ V. ││ VI. ││ VII. │ ║ ║ │ ││ ││ │ ║ ║ │ 16 48 80 112││ 32 48 96 112││ 64 80 96 112│ ║ ║ │ 17 49 81 113││ 33 49 97 113││ 65 81 97 113│ ║ ║ │ 18 50 82 114││ 34 50 98 114││ 66 82 98 114│ ║ ║ │ 19 51 83 115││ 35 51 99 115││ 67 83 99 115│ ║ ║ │ 20 52 84 116││ 36 52 100 116││ 68 84 100 116│ ║ ║ │ 21 53 85 117││ 37 53 101 117││ 69 85 101 117│ ║ ║ │ 22 54 86 118││ 38 54 102 118││ 70 86 102 118│ ║ ║ │ 23 55 87 119││ 39 55 103 119││ 71 87 103 119│ ║ ║ │ 24 56 88 120││ 40 56 104 120││ 72 88 104 120│ ║ ║ │ 25 57 89 121││ 41 57 105 121││ 73 89 105 121│ ║ ║ │ 26 58 90 122││ 42 58 106 122││ 74 90 106 122│ ║ ║ │ 27 59 91 123││ 43 59 107 123││ 75 91 107 123│ ║ ║ │ 28 60 92 124││ 44 60 108 124││ 76 92 108 124│ ║ ║ │ 29 61 93 125││ 45 61 109 125││ 77 93 109 125│ ║ ║ │ 30 62 94 126││ 46 62 110 126││ 78 94 110 126│ ║ ║ │ 31 63 95 127││ 47 63 111 127││ 79 95 111 127│ ║ ║ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘ ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ You can then in a moment, and at a glance, pick out the number that is chosen. No. LXIX.--FROM PILLAR TO POST Let us suppose that these black dots represent a succession of pillar boxes. It will be seen that a postman, starting from the circle, and going along the dotted lines, turns round 18 corners. ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ● ○ ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● Can he take a course which involves fewer turnings? No. LXX.--TRANSFORMATIONS Here is an ingenious paper and scissors puzzle:-- [Illustration: 1.] [Illustration: 2.] [Illustration: 3.] Divide a square card into three pieces, so that these can be reunited to form No. 2 or No. 3 of this diagram. 54. COUNTING THE GEESE (_From an old Sanscrit source, quoted by Longfellow in his “Kavanagh.”_) Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, seeing the clouds collect, flew to the Manus lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, and three couples were seen playing in the water. Tell me, my young girl with beautiful locks, what was the whole number of geese? 55. A THIRD IS A HALF Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be That if you divide the whole number by three You find the result will exactly express The half of six hundred and sixty, no less. No. LXXI.--A PUZZLE WITH CHESS PIECES ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │###│ │#♚#│ │###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃#♖#│ │###│ │###│ │#♘#│#♖#┃ ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ Leaving the Black King in his position, place the three white men so that he stands checkmated. 56. PRESS PARODIES An American paper published the following:-- There was a young damsel, oh, bless her! It cost very little to dress her; She was sweet as a rose In her everyday clothes, But had no young man to caress her. Next day this parody appeared in a rival paper:-- There was a young ......, oh, bless her! It cost very little to dress her; Some ........... and ..... About Thanksgiving time, And they ... the last bit from the ....... . Can you fill in the missing words? No. LXXII.--HEXAGONAL ILLUSIONS If we look with one eye only, or with eyes half-closed, at these groups of circular dots, they assume the appearance familiar to us in honeycomb. This is an effect of the contrast and opposition of the black and white in the sensation of the retina. [Illustration] Although the black and the white circles are of the same diameter the irradiation is in their case so intense that the white circles appear to be larger than the black. No. LXXIII.--AN ILLUSION OF ARCHES This excellent illusion appeared in a recent number of the “Strand Magazine”:-- [Illustration] Most persons will at first see the passages under these arches as running upwards from left to right, but presently, as their line of vision shifts, the arches will take a downward course from right to left. This very curious effect will well repay a little patience, if it is not realised at once. 57. WHERE WAS THE WEDDING? She loses her head when she joins the brides, He joins them after tea; But both are swept by ruthless tides Away on the western sea. 58. ON A BANANA BARROW I have 91 bananas on my barrow, of two qualities; some I sell at four a penny, and the better sort at three a penny. If I had sold them in mixed lots at seven for twopence, I should have made a penny more. How many were there of each quality? No. LXXIV.--IN THE TRAIN The Puzzle Problem-- A passenger in a first-class railway carriage notices that the top of a factory window due S.W. of him coincides with a mark on the carriage window, and does not move from it while the train is running five and a half miles. [Illustration] At the end of that distance the compass bearing of the chimney is due N.W. How far was the passenger from the chimney when he first noticed it? is solved by 3¹⁄₂ miles. We give a diagram to make the points clear. As the chimney top does not move from its place on the window, it is clear that the train is running on a segment of a circle having the chimney for its centre. It follows that the observer’s distance throughout is equal to the radius of that circle, and the radius of a circle of which the quadrant measures 5¹⁄₂ miles is 3¹⁄₂ miles within about 11 ft. No. LXXV.--MENDING THE FLAG The cross had been taken out from the centre of this flag, and its owner, who had an ingenious turn of mind, found that by cutting what remained into two pieces, and rejoining them, he could make it into a perfect flag without any waste of material. [Illustration] How did he accomplish this? No. LXXVI.--FOR THE CHILDREN Add two more pieces similar in shape and size to that marked A, and one similar to B, C, and D respectively, and then readjust the eleven parts so that they form a perfect square. [Illustration] 59. MISSING WORDS How does the sluggard’s garden grow? When ..... are high results are low. His borders ..... and bindweed spoil, No careful culture ..... the soil; But weeds that ..... are all alive Where ..... pink or rose should thrive. The missing words are spelt with the same letters. No. LXXVII.--AN EASY MATCH PUZZLE This is a simple arrangement of eight matches, by which two squares and four similar triangles are formed. [Illustration] 60. WHAT AM I? Correctly drawn results I yield. Varied, but welcome everywhere; But met with in the open field I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare. To this peculiar difference the clue Is called with much significance the cue. 61. BURIED TOWNS Wait while I think the matter over, On holiday intent; The best I’ve seen is surely Dover, That pretty port of Kent. Three towns are buried in these lines. No. LXXVIII.--WALKING THE ROUNDS A hospital was built in six detached blocks, and it was the duty of the night watchman to go completely round every block at fixed hours to see that all was safe. [Illustration] What was his shortest course? 62. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS An Arab came to the river side With a donkey bearing an obelisk, But he did not venture to ford the tide, For he had too good an *. So he camped all night by that river side, Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, For he knew that whenever the donkey died No other could be its ‖. No. LXXIX Can you rearrange the twelve counters on this board of 36 squares so that there are two counters on each row, column, and diagonal? ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ There must not be more than these two counters in the same straight line. 63. A CHARADE What ho, my jolly _second!_ never say my _first_ While my final you can find in Amsterdam. Think how a sound _whole_ stays your hunger and your thirst, Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam. No. LXXX.--THE QUEEN’S TOUR This is a course by which the queen on a chessboard, starting from K R sq., passes over every square in fourteen moves. [Illustration] 64. AFTER THE MATCH “Did you score a score?” said Funniman to his schoolboy nephew, after a local cricket match. “No, uncle,” said the youngster, “but if I had made as many more runs, half as many more, and two runs and a half, I should have made my twenty.” How many runs did he get? No. LXXXI.--A NEST OF TRIANGLES In the “Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book” we gave a figure similar to this, in which there were 653 interlacing triangles in four tiers of this character. [Illustration] We now add a fifth tier at the base, and ask our solvers to determine how many triangles of all shapes and sizes can be counted within its enlarged borders. 65. AN ENIGMA Six letters spell the happy state Of two in love made one. The same six letters tell the fate Of marriage ties undone. No. LXXXII.--A SIMPLE MATCH PUZZLE Place eight matches in a row, about an inch apart, as indicated in the diagram. ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ The puzzle is to form these into four pairs in four moves, by moving one match clear over two matches every time. 66. A TOPICAL RIDDLE My First’s a bond, my Seconds weigh; These own the Rest of all my lay; Busy my Third; Fourth like the Pole, Whose opposite my Fifth makes goal. 67. MISSING WORDS For two months at the .... we played, Ere we were .... to Lord’s; Alas! the score our champion made Was what a .... affords! The crowd in .... of thousands came But took scant notice of the game. No. LXXXIII.--A MATCH PUZZLE Place twelve matches, as is shown in the diagram, so that they form four squares. ══════ ══════ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ═══════ ══════ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ══════ ══════ Now remove three of the matches, and readjust the nine that remain so that they represent three squares. 68. MARCONIGRAMS Edwin and Angelina were far apart, when this message, with its touch of jealous resentment, reached her on the wings of a Marconigram-- “No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind!” Quite equal to the occasion, she flashed back the reply-- “In love inconstant I no pleasure find!” How did these messages reveal the places from which they were despatched? No. LXXXIV.--MATHEMATICS WITH MATCHES In the four corner and four central cells of this nest of squares four matches are so placed as to represent ¹⁄₂, 1, 4, ¹⁄₅₀, 11, 12, 41, and 49. │ ╲ ╱ │ │ ╳ │ = 1 │ ╱ ╲ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ = 4 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─── = 11 │ │ │ ╲ ╱ │ │ ╳ │ │ = 12 ╱ ╲ │ │ ╱│ │ ─+─ │ = 41 │ │ │ │ │ ─── │ = 49 │___ │ Can you, still using only four matches in each case, fit different whole numbers or fractions in similar fashion into the other 28 cells? 69. EASY MENTAL ARITHMETIC Set down three figures in a line, Then multiply by four; This, if you use the proper sign, Makes five and nothing more. No. LXXXV.--MANY READINGS Can you complete the top and bottom rows, the two side columns, and the two diagonals of this square by forming in each of them the same sentence so that it can be read in twenty different directions? ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ R | I | | | | | V | | | | | I | R ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ V | | | | | | V | | | | | | V ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I | | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I | | | | | | V | | | | | I | R ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ There are four words in the sentence of thirteen letters. No. LXXXVI.--TOLD AT A GLANCE Ask anyone to fix upon a number between 1 and 60 inclusive, and to point out to you the square or squares in which it appears:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 3│ 5│ 7│ 9│ 11│ 1║ ║ 9│ 10│ 11│ 12│ 13│ 8║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 13│ 15│ 17│ 19│ 21│ 23║ ║ 14│ 15│ 24│ 25│ 26│ 27║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 25│ 27│ 29│ 31│ 33│ 35║ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 40│ 41║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 37│ 39│ 41│ 43│ 45│ 47║ ║ 42│ 43│ 44│ 45│ 46│ 47║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 49│ 51│ 53│ 55│ 57│ 59║ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 60│ 13║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 17│ 18│ 19│ 20│ 21│ 16║ ║ 5│ 6│ 7│ 13│ 12│ 4║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 22│ 23│ 24│ 25│ 26│ 27║ ║ 14│ 15│ 20│ 21│ 22│ 23║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 48│ 49║ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 36│ 37║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 50│ 51│ 52│ 53│ 54│ 55║ ║ 52│ 38│ 39│ 44│ 45│ 46║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 30│ 60║ ║ 47│ 53│ 54│ 55│ 60│ 13║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 3│ 6│ 7│ 10│ 11│ 2║ ║ 33│ 34│ 35│ 36│ 37│ 32║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 14│ 15│ 18│ 19│ 22│ 23║ ║ 38│ 39│ 40│ 41│ 42│ 43║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 26│ 27│ 30│ 31│ 34│ 35║ ║ 44│ 45│ 46│ 47│ 48│ 49║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 38│ 39│ 42│ 43│ 46│ 47║ ║ 50│ 51│ 52│ 53│ 54│ 55║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 50│ 51│ 54│ 55│ 58│ 59║ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 60│ 41║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ You can find the number at a glance, by simply adding together the numbers in _the right-hand top corner cells_ of the square indicated. Thus, if 45 has been chosen, 32 + 8 + 4 + 1 = 45. No. LXXXVII. Here is a little subtraction sum, which is not quite so simple as it appears to be:-- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║miles furlongs rods yards feet inches║ ║ 1 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 ║ ║ 7 „ 39 „ 5 „ 1 „ 5 ║ ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────── ║ ║ ║ ║ ═══════════════════════════════════════════ ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Try it as it stands, without reducing the distance to inches. 70. A DOUBLET BY MISSING WORDS Can you, by supplying the missing words, turn a grilse into a salmon? One letter is changed each time, and, except in one case, the order of the letters varies:-- To silver Tweed, or broader Spey, The _grilse_ of ......, ...... gay, Glides on; the ...... ...... draws When _salmon_ follows Nature’s laws. 71. AN ENIGMA I never move, and yet I run From place to place all day; Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, Sees Dora in my way. No. LXXXVIII.--RANGING THE DIGITS These are the arrangements of the nine digits, by which they add up alike in rows, columns, and diagonals in a square; on all sides in a triangle; and from top to bottom and from side to side in a cross:-- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ┌───┬───┬───┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ║ ║ │ 8 │ 1 │ 6 │ │ 5 │ │ 5 │ ║ ║ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 3 7 │ │ 4 │ ║ ║ │ 3 │ 5 │ 7 │ │ 4 6 │ │ 3 6 9 7 2 │ ║ ║ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 8 1 9 2 │ │ 8 │ ║ ║ │ 4 │ 9 │ 2 │ │ │ │ 1 │ ║ ║ └───┴───┴───┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════╝ The totals are 15, 20, and 27 respectively. 72. WHAT IS THIS WORD? HAATTCEUMSSSS 73. MULTUM IN PARVO Seven words in one of letters five we fix, Five English, and one Latin; No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, If puzzles you are pat in. 74. THE GENTLE CRAFT The question was asked in a puzzle competition--“Why is every angler ipso facto an Ananias?” Although no such method was asked for or expected, we find that the very letters of the question can be recast into a most apposite reply. Our answer by anagram runs thus-- A liar, .. ..... gay fancies to a ..... .... Can you complete the sentence by filling in the missing words? No. LXXXIX.--NO TWO IN A ROW On a board of sixty-seven squares, arranged as is shown in the diagram, place nine counters, so that no two are in the same row, column, or diagonal. ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ |###| |###| |###| |###| ┃ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ ┃ |###| |###| |###| ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ ┃###| |###| |###┃ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ |###| |###| |###| ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |###┃ ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ The indentations do not affect the simple conditions. 75. A QUAINT RIDDLE Peter White Will never go right; Shall I tell you the reason why? Wherever he goes, He follows his nose; And that stands all awry! If this appendage had slanted more Why would it serve a hole to bore? No. XC.--EXACT ALIGNMENT Can you arrange these nine cards so that they form ten rows with three cards in each row? ┌───┐ │ A │ │ │ │ ♣ │ └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ A │ │ 1 │ │ A │ │ │ │ 0 │ │ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♠ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ Q │ │ K │ │ K │ │ J │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ♠ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♢ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ┌───┐ │ K │ │ │ │ ♡ │ └───┘ This may, of course, be done with any nine cards. 76. A MISSING LETTER Thieaonunhinemileuchtormapa Aitutoaeucceorlo; Pringweetnetillpoeemoygra, Aummertreemaofthadeacro. Separate these strings of letters into words that scan and rhyme, adding the same missing letter in 55 places. No. XCI.--AT A FANCY BALL Two ladies and their squires, here represented by the White Knights and the Black, were dressed to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, and took their places on the corners of a pavement chequered to represent a chessboard, as is shown below:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ ♘ │###│ │###│ │###│ │#♞#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║#♞#│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ♘ ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ They undertook to step a figure which should exhibit at each pause a revolving square, and in three paces bring them together in the centre, by a course traced upon the lines of their combined monograms. What were their successive steps? No. XCII.--PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY IN CELLS Can you disentangle all this good advice? ╔════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╗ ║ │ │ │ │ │ he ║ ║ tell │you know│ tells │ knows │ tells │ should ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ not ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ you │ │ thinks │ │ is ║ ║ do │ think │ does │ of │ does │ not ║ ║ │ of │ │ │ │ good ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ believe│you hear│believes│ hears │believes│is false║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ spend │you have│ spends │ has │ spends │he needs║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ is ║ ║ judge │ you see│ judges │ sees │ judges │ not ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ there ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ never │ all │ he who │ all he │ often │ what ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╚════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╝ It forms 5 excellent maxims in its 36 cells. 77. THRICE DOCKED Protected, open, plain, Without my tail I’m flat; I’m round curtailed again; Again, you have me pat. No. XCIII.--A DISLOCATED CIRCLE Study this quaint figure carefully, and try to discover how it can be divided into two pieces, so that these can be reunited to form a perfect circle. [Illustration] 78. A LOGOGRIPH When all are gay this holds the sway, But take a letter out, That change of fare is ruling there, You see, without a doubt. Behead me twice; it is not nice To have this in your skin; Lop head and tail, and find a nail Or tack to drive it in. Behind his right, and in your sight A little word you find; But you will never make it out, Though it is in your mind. No. XCIV. When Tommy was offered all the money by his uncle if he could place 15 half-crowns and 15 pennies in such order in a circle that, counting always by nines, and starting at a fixed point, he came always upon a penny, and removed it from the circle, he found the key to success in this Latin line, given to him by a school friend, who shared the spoil--“Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat.” The vowels, from a to u, are numbered from 1 to 5, and when they are thus marked in the sentence-- “Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat,” 4 5 21 3 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns and pennies. [Illustration] Start counting with the half-crown marked _a_, and remove each penny as you come to it on counting up to nine, and the conditions are fulfilled. No. XCV.--A BUSINESS ANAGRAM This smart advertisement of a polish known as “Old Dutch Cleanser” appeared in an American paper:-- [Illustration: Cleans Scrubs Scours Polishes Old Dutch Cleanser] If the eyes of the proprietor should fall upon this column, he will be surprised to find that his catch words _Cleans_, _Scrubs_, _Scours_, _Polishes_, can be recast into a perfect anagram, singularly appropriate to the powder advertised. The opening words of the anagram are “O rub on, sir.”--Can our solvers complete the sentence? No. XCVI.--A NEW CHESS PUZZLE By Henry E. Dudeney. Replace all these 51 pieces on the chessboard, so that no Queen attacks another Queen, no Rook another Rook, no Bishop another Bishop, and no Knight another Knight. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │#B#│ │###│ │###│ B │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ R │#R#│ R │#R#│ R │#R#│ R │#R#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │###│ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ No account is to be taken of the intervening pieces, but each type of piece is to be considered as if it stood alone upon the board. No. XCVII.--A GOOD KNIGHT’S TOUR Here is a beautifully symmetrical specimen of the Knight’s tour:-- [Illustration] No. XCVIII.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR Here is another beautifully symmetrical Knight’s tour:-- [Illustration] It starts from the corner square, and the second half of the course has dotted lines. 79. MISSING WORDS He ...... himself much on his skill, In many a burglary tried; But when he ...... open the till There was only a ...... inside. The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. No. XCIX.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR Here is quite a curious pattern described by another Knight’s tour:-- [Illustration] 80. AN ENIGMA Three-fourths of me an act display, Three-fourths a bed for man; Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, Three-fourths have legs that can. I have a back without a spine; An arm without a bone is mine. 81. A CHARADE My first is the French for my second, My whole a narcotic is reckoned. No. C.--A GOOD PATTERN Here is a very symmetrical Knight’s tour, in which half of the moves are indicated by dotted, and half by unbroken lines:-- [Illustration] 82. PALINDROME WORDS The letters of this sentence “Arrive to vote at it,” can be so recast as to form two palindrome words, or words that read alike from either end. What are they? No. CI.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR Here is another specimen of the Knight’s tour, which is beautifully symmetrical-- [Illustration] Half of the course is marked with dotted lines. 83. AN ENIGMA Sweet till I lose my head, Sweet-hearted then I show; Decapitate again, I spread, And cannot be below. Served so once more, I am not dead, But with fresh beauty glow. No. CII.--A KNIGHT’S POETIC TOUR On the board below a verse of eight lines runs on the course of a Knight’s move from square to square:-- ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ sor │ to │ king │ good │ say │ luck │ loy │ eth ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ and │ moth │ a │ soon │ dis │ our │ to │ bad ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ place│ ry │church│ his │ force│ is │ hat │ al ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ er │ queen│ him │ wight│ he │ to │ may │ truth║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ man │ his │ and │ and │ chess│ es │knight│ op’s ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ a │ sneer│ the │ and │ un │ lawn │ of │ tates║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ cas │ that │ at │ less │ pawn │ no │ bish │ lant ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ eth │ faith│ tles │ hath │ the │ gal │ in │ love ║ ╚══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╝ Can you disentangle the little poem? 84. TOMMY’S MONEY BOX “Dad,” said little Tommy, “give me as much as I have in my purse, and I will put a shilling in my money-box.” This was done, and the process was repeated for three more days. How much had Tommy originally in his purse, which was now quite empty? No. CIII.--THE MANX RABBITS This is the way to draw three rabbits so that they have but three ears among them all:-- [Illustration] 85. AN ENIGMA Two articles of English make, And three from foreign source. All these together you must take Where dramas run their course. No. CIV.--SCORING A CENTURY On this table is shown in ten different ways how exactly 100 can be arrived at by the use of the nine digits, each appearing only once. ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │ 9 ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 1 │ 1 │ 4 │ 95³⁄₇│ 56 │ 98 │ 6 │ 15 │ 15 ║ ║ 3 │ 45 │ 53 │4¹⁶⁄₂₈│ 34 │ 1 │ 2 │ 2 │ 36 ║ ║ 5 │ 7 │ 6 │ │ 7 │ ³⁄₆ │ -- │ 79 │ 47 ║ ║ 8 │ 9 │ 8 │ │ 1 │ ²⁷⁄₅₄│ 8 │ ⁸⁄₄ │ -- ║ ║ 9 │ -- │ -- │ │ -- │ │ 9 │ ⁶⁄₃ │ 98 ║ ║ -- │ 62 │ 71 │ │ 98 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ ║ 26 │ 38 │ 29 │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ ║ ║ 74 │ │ │ │ │ │ 4 │ │ ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ 75 │ │ ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 ║ ╠══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╣ ║9 × 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 100. ║ ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 86. IF WE COULD CHOOSE “If it were possible, I should choose,” said young Hopeful, “a life double as long.” “Yes,” said old Sobersides, “and you might turn it to better account if it was also begun old.” How did their actual words bear this out? No. CV.--SEEING THROUGH A VEIL On a piece of clear tracing paper draw with pen and ink a close network of lines, such as is shown in this diagram, near enough together to conceal type of ordinary size. [Illustration] Place this on the page of a book, and challenge any one to read a sentence, or even a word, through it, saying that you can do so easily. How can you succeed? 87. A CHARADE Lop head and tail, and you will find I have both tail and head. Or if for spirits you’ve a mind Set my tail first instead. Life, as “a vapour full of woes,” With many a darker page, My whole in picture will disclose, For “all the world’s a stage!” No. CVI.--THE PAPER RINGS In the diagram a strip of paper is shown (1), with its ends simply gummed together; (2), with a single twist; and (3), with a double twist. Can you decide, without actual experiment, what will be the result in each case if these are cut completely round, as is indicated by the dotted lines? [Illustration] 88. MISSING WORDS A glowing ........ window, graced With ........ that true art has traced. 89. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM How do the actual letters of these words in their union prove that anæsthetics are “blessed in pain?” No. CVII.--THE MAGIC BUTTONS Make two parallel cuts with a penknife along the centre of a slip of leather or other material, and below them a hole of the same width. Pass a piece of string under the slit, and through the hole, and tie two buttons, each much larger than the hole, to the ends of the string. [Illustration] How can the string be released without removing either of the buttons? No. CVIII.--THE CAPTIVE SCISSORS Fasten a pair of scissors securely with a piece of string to some convenient article, as is shown in this diagram:-- [Illustration] Can you release them without cutting or unfastening the string? 90. A BURIED QUOTATION “What sin was it, sonny?” said an American negress to her lover, when she sat on his best hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was botany, but not hers, for she was then a merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer this mellow pine-apple, Leonidas,” she said; “I guess we Ethiopians just love fruit!” No. CIX.--A PRIMITIVE TRAP This diagram represents in the simplest outline a primitive wolf-trap. [Illustration] The dotted line is a gate opening into a circular enclosure. How was the trap set and the wolf caught? 91. LADIES AT A SALE They .... the dress with grip so keen That half the .... gives way; And home return with purses lean To .... of “bargain-day!” What are the missing words? No. CX.--A SPINNING NEEDLE To balance a needle on the head of a pin, push the pin into the cork of a wine bottle, and the needle into a separate cork. [Illustration] With the aid of three forks, as is shown in the picture, the needle may be balanced and spun round on the head of the pin. 92. MISSING WORDS Air--“_Three fishers went sailing_.” Three ...... went sailing out into the west, Out into the west as the sun sank low; Each thought as they ...... of the lad she loved best, For they all had ......, and each had a beau. But seas will rise, and spirits will sink, And they all were too ill of ...... to think, So these ...... ...... back moaning. Each missing word has the same six letters. No. CXI.--AFTER DINNER This diagram shows how, as an after-dinner trick, four similar wineglasses can be placed on the table [Illustration] so that the centres of the lowest parts of their stems are equidistant from each other. 93. A CHARADE Lurking in riddles oft my first is found; My second should in ample stores abound, Or help to make the sweetest songster heard. Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third. My whole has found with England’s monarch grace, The verdant home of many a goodly race. No. CXII.--SECOND SIGHT Ask any one, with this diagram to work upon, to think of any number between 5 and 15, and, while your back is turned, to count up to it, beginning at the lowest step, and saying one, two, three, four, and so on, as each step of cards or single card is reached in the direction indicated by the arrow. When the number thought of has been thus arrived at, tell him to stop, and beginning afresh on that card, to count one, two, three, etc., _backwards_, this time _skipping over the double six_ and the 3 steps until he again reaches the number thought of, and notices which card he has touched last. [Illustration] How can you, without having seen any of his movements, at once find that card? No. CXIII.--AN AFTER DINNER TRICK Cut a wedge out of an apple, as is indicated in the diagram, and make six gashes as is shown. [Illustration] When this has been done, challenge anyone to divide the apple into six pieces by only two straight cuts, so that there shall be one of the gashes in each piece. 94. ALIKE TO THE EYE Accent my head, An opening I appear In other fashions said I charm all far and near. No. CXIV.--A TOY BOOMERANG Cut out in cardboard a boomerang as nearly as possible of the size and pattern given here:-- [Illustration: BOOMERANG] Place it flat on the back of the first three fingers of the left hand, sloping them upward; then flick it smartly with the second finger of the right hand. It will fly off and return to your lap. Try it. 95. LONDON BY ANAGRAM Here are two simple sentences:-- A lamp shines out for thee. Win me best by tears. Can you recast the letters, so that they form the names of two of the most important buildings in London? 96. HEARD ON THE BRIGHTON BEACH It was low tide; two children were throwing pebbles into the sea, and sending their excited collie in pursuit of them. The Puzzle Editor, who was on holiday, quickened perhaps by the salt air, bethought him of this appropriate riddle:--What is the difference between that dog and a hungry man? No. CXV.--IN THE GRIP OF A RADISH Cut a radish in half, press the lower surface firmly against a plate, as is shown in the diagram:-- [Illustration] and you can lift the plate, to which it clings as closely as a boy’s wet leather disc to the pavement. 97. FIND THE ANIMAL A part of me in rain, A part in hail must be, A part belongs to pain, A part in bones we see, A part in gleaming gold, A part in common copper. A part in peace behold, A part in any topper; Two parts are heard in sound, And in our finals found. No. CXVI.--ELASTIC PAPER The countryman who cut one hole in his door for the cat and another for the kitten would find it difficult to pass a penny through a hole the size of a shilling cut in a stout piece of paper. This diagram shows how easily it can be done:-- [Illustration] Fold the paper across the centre of the hole, place the penny in the fold, and bend the lower corners of the paper upwards. This elongates the opening, and the coin falls through. 98. A SMART ENIGMA Men commonly say I am clever, Book-learning I never could boast; Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover, And when I am found I am lost. 99. MISSING WORDS .... is like a ..... or what is most Comparative, a ..... is like a . ...; For when their substances in liquor sink Both properly are said to be in drink. One of the letters of the two short words is used twice in the longer word. No. CXVII.--THE NIMBLE SIXPENCE Place a sixpence on the tablecloth, and over it set a tumbler, as is shown in the picture below. [Illustration] How can you pocket the sixpence without removing the glass, or having it removed? 100. A PIED PROVERB ~abdeefiinnnoopprrrsssttuw~ 101. SELF-DEFINED A wordy warfare waged with wit, In youth its joys none need descry; But where our elders take to it Its name points loss of dignity. No. CXVIII.--HOW TO DRAW A SPIRAL How can you draw such a spiral as this with very simple appliances? [Illustration] This spiral is drawn rapidly without removing the pencil from the paper. 102. FIND THE HERO My first’s in garb, but not in dress; My next’s in praise, but not in bliss; My third’s in man, but not in miss; My fourth’s in we. My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog; My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog; My next’s in calm, but not in fog; My eighth’s in we. My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine; My tenth’s in light, but not in shine; My next’s in four, but not in nine; My twelfth’s in we. No. CXIX.--FOR HANDY FINGERS Take a piece of stout paper or thin cardboard, about 10 in. by 8 in., and cut it as is shown below, removing the parts that are shaded in the diagram. [Illustration] If you hold this between a plain wall, or other surface, and a strong light, you will, with a little practice, be able to cast a shadow similar to one or other of these Madonna heads, which will vary in intensity and expression with the positions of the paper and the light. No. CXX.--THE FOUR KINGS This excellent and easy little card trick will commend itself for fireside use in the long evenings. Take the four Kings from a pack, and two other cards. Hold the Kings thus, in the form of a fan-- [Illustration] hiding the two other cards behind the King of Diamonds. After showing them, place the six cards at the bottom of the pack. Now move the lowest card to the top, and the two next cards to any part of the pack, apparently leaving but one King at the bottom. Ask some one to cut the pack, and all the Kings will be found together. Some appropriate patter will help the effect. 103. PROVERB BY ANAGRAM Can you recast this sentence-- A defeat whose test is very sure-- so that the same letters form an appropriate proverb? No. CXXI.--DOMINO SQUARE Its cells add up in columns and rows to 22, and those of the corner squares add up to 10 and 12 respectively. ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ │ 6 │ 2 2 │ 0 6 │ 5 1 │ ├ ┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ 1 │ 5 │ 4 │ │ 3 │ 3 │ 6 │ ├───┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┤ │ 3 │ 3 │ 4 │ │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ ├ ┼───┴───┘ └───┴───┼───┤ │ 0 │ │ 0 │ ├───┼───┬───┐ ┌───┬───┼ ┤ │ 2 4 │ 6 │ │ 5 4 │ 1 │ ├───┼───┼ ┤ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 4 │ 2 │ 6 │ │ 2 5 │ 3 │ ├ ┼ ┼───┼───┼───┼───┼ ┤ │ 6 │ 6 │ 0 0 │ 3 1 │ 6 │ └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ 104. PHONETIC MISSING WORDS ’Tis ..... that no one takes a ..... To .... a .... of ....s; A .... may often take a .... To .... away the ....s. No. CXXII.--THE TALKING HEAD This, though quite an old illusion, may be a mystery to some of our readers, so we give it a place among our many curiosities. [Illustration] The table is placed on the middle of a platform, well away from the background, and the head, which is very much alive, is prepared to answer questions, or to whistle, or to sing, at the will of the audience. “How it is done” will be explained. 105. A QUEER OBSTACLE I’m in everyone’s way, Yet no one I stop. My four horns each day Horizontally play, And my head is nailed on at the top. No. CXXIII.--A GENERAL OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE [Illustration] With a little ingenuity, and by slightly warming the wax, and shredding the matches for some effects, all sorts of comical figures can be contrived, similar in character to this dignified general on his high-stepping charger. 106. AN OLD ENIGMA (By a former Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.) Take five from five, and then Put fifty in the middle; Twice ten times five times ten Will finish off my riddle, And bring it to your ken As fit as any fiddle! No. CXXIV.--ANOTHER BOOMERANG Cut out in cardboard a cross similar to that shown in this diagram:-- [Illustration] Place one of its limbs under the thumbnail of the left hand, and give the next projecting limb a sharp flick with the middle finger of the right hand. The little boomerang will fly sharply forward, and invariably return rapidly on its tracks. Try it. 107. PHONETIC GAPS Can you fill these gaps with words of similar sound? No ..... will ..... before the wind A ..... will ... before it; We cannot .... the ...., or find That earthly powers ..... o’er it. The gaps in line 1 take words that sound alike; so do those in line 2; and so do the other three in lines 3 and 4. No. CXXV.--A PICTURE CHARADE Can you fill in the missing words so as to complete this picture charade? [Illustration] My first may .... candle ..., My second then ..... ..; My whole in ..... moves ..... ....... an oar or ... 108. SOUND SENSE We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty; Reverse us, and we indicate a county. 109. A CRYPTOGRAM ~FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN~ ~LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!~ Can you so deal with this as to form a rhyming couplet? No. CXXVI.--WALNUTS AND COBS _A good after dinner trick_ Place four walnuts and four cobnuts in a row, as indicated on the diagram. [Illustration] Now, moving always two that stand together, transfer them to some other positions along the line, and in four such moves leave them so that the large and small nuts range alternately. It may, of course, be done with large and small coins, or with other things that are at hand. 110. A BURIED PROVERB Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly Old memories steal anew; With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry They return in ghostly hue! 111. DOUBLETS Here is another exercise in Doublets, from Lewis Carroll’s book on the subject:-- Turn ELM into OAK by seven links, introducing the name of another tree as one of them. No. CXXVII.--A PICTURE RIDDLE Can you read in this picture the question of our riddle? [Illustration] 112. TWO POSERS 1. My dear Mr Bird, We are giving a ball; First second we third, Pray give us your all. 2. Second, I did my first and last, Till I became my whole; And told the tale of my repast, A sad and greedy soul. No. CXXVIII.--BUY A BROOM Here is an excellent example of how a characteristic figure may be contrived by shredding, warming, and uniting a few wax matches:-- [Illustration] Many similar figures can be made by handy fingers. 113. A CHARADE My whole, industrious, wends his way His daily task to meet; Behead, transpose, and lo! a sound Of music soft and sweet; Behead again, I make my way With swiftness past belief; Again, and where the fields are gay My bounty brings relief. No. CXXIX.--JEU DE PARQUET (_For the children_) An old book, published more than 100 years ago, gives the following samples of patterns which may be formed with very simple materials:-- [Illustration] All that is needed for this pastime is a set of 128 coloured triangles, 64 of each colour, with which an endless variety of patterns can be arranged by the exercise of taste and ingenuity. 114. LINES BY AN OLD OXBRIDGE DON ’Tis an absurdity to say Women should try for a B.A. To College honours forward looking; They’d best confine themselves to cooking! How could a Girton girl retort, using the same words? 115. LESS AND MORE Eight letters (start with b) Three syllables contain; Take one away, and see Four syllables remain! 116. BURIED BEASTS Can you dig out nineteen beasts that are buried in these lines?-- Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long ago--at times in battalions--to attack and harass her. Ambitious democrats now countermine famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. Anarchy enables cowards to sow hot terror and all amazement. 117. PALINDROMIC VERSE Can you recast the following sentences so that their words form a verse of four lines, which makes good sense, with lines that rhyme alternately, when read from either end?:-- Fading slowly day dies, mournful winds sigh, Stars are waking brightly; owlet holding high revel flies hooting, breaking nightly silence. 118. AN ANAGRAM IN THE MAKING “The Observatory at Greenwich, in England,” has been turned into an excellent anagram, which starts--_On landing here begin_--Can you complete it? 119. AN ENIGMA No man at all am I And, if you turn me round, To hear my warning cry Not any men are found. 120. ASK A SAILOR How can our sailors fare the best When times are harder? How do they greet with merry jest An empty larder? 121. AN ENIGMA I lose my head when I am here, Transpose me I am three; Look in a book, you find me there, And with me her and he. 122. MISSING WORDS Jack did ....... that he could square The circle to a .......; His friends ....... that a brain so rare Required attention ........ The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. 123. A HUMAN PRODIGY My father is my son, And I’m my mother’s mother; My daughter and sister are one, I’m grandam to my brother! How was this? 124. A CHARADE Catch my first with nimble wit, Add a simple word; Then my whole may help a bit Opportunely heard. 125. A PARADOX My mate and I from home did start, Some little space we were apart. When we had run a mile or more We kept our distance, as before; Shade of Colenso! could this be, When twice as fast as I ran he? 126. AN ENIGMA (_From Lewis Carroll’s Papers_.) A monument all men agree Am I in all sincerity, Half cat, half hindrance made. If head and tail removed should be, Then most of all you strengthen me. Replace my head, the stand you see On which my tail is laid. 127. A CHARADE I’m known to the poorest and worst, And my worth by a child may be reckoned; The least thing in nature is double my first, And my whole is just half of my second. 128. WHAT IS IT? My first without its head and tail Is one and undivided; My second shows its teeth, is frail, And as a rule one-sided. The two to hold my first avail, My busy toil provided. 129. BURIED TOWNS In each of these sentences a town is buried:-- His sister played the piano while we sang. I saw Nell out here last evening. The general rode a large black mare. I have ordered a cab at half-past one. Meet me in the lane at half-past nine. Can you dig them out? 130. A GOOD ANAGRAM “The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy.” The first seven words of its anagram are “A funny spot in a sweet city.” Can you complete the anagram by adding four more appropriate words? 131. MISSING WORDS When they found that catacomb Near the ....... at Rome ’Twas the ....... discussion of the season; But the ....... effect Of the skeletons select Deprived the poor Professor of his reason! 132. A CHARADE My first is pretence, My second a dandy; When fogs are most dense My whole will be handy. 133. A DECISIVE ANAGRAM Can you prove by anagram that, whatever may be true of other plays accredited to Shakespeare, Bacon had certainly no hand in “Much Ado About Nothinge,” if we adopt the old spelling of the final word? 134. RATHER OBSCURE Use all your wits to guess my all, Can any guess it right? Transposed, and never seen at all, It still is felt in sight. Behead, transpose, then let it be, And you at last a clue may see. 135. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS Can you recast “Insanitary” and “Sanitary Reform” so as to form two very appropriate anagrams? 136. A CHARADE Let my second cut my first When I come to table; Though I cannot quench your thirst Eat me--you are able. 137. MISSING LETTERS whtmrslndsosdlyswr? whtdyssdrksdysthtwrslrm? lssknyskthndfr, llshllcllwrhrssndhrm. whycllsblldstlkthtghstlyrt llgllntctsgrndndmntyprt? Can you supply the missing letters? 138. A CHARADE To me when whole, for I am sweet, The moon fresh brightness brings; Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet To sharpen other things. Behead me twice, and I have led Soldiers to face the foe; Headless and tailless, one remains Though all the rest may go. 139. IS IT BANTING? We start when the ninth hour is past, Then there’s an end of you. A vengeful goddess shows at last What Antifat will do. 140. A CHARADE When on charades intent I take my pen, To seek some hidden goal, Over my first my second comes, and then Quite overcomes my whole. 141. A PRIZE CRYPTOGRAM The following cryptic lines were sent as a reliable tip before a race in which Petronel was to run:-- “Tell me, Ben, who tore it Seek a plant for it, see Bob.” Can you discover their hidden meaning? 142. AN ENIGMA I have no form, I have no friend, From me all come, in me all end. And it is strange but very true That I am here and nowhere too. 143. FACING BOTH WAYS Can you fill in this broken sentence, first to describe a curse, and then to proclaim its cure:-- A sed end ought eat ease ain. using 16, and then 17, extra letters. 144. A CHARADE My first is a cover, My second a city; The whole you discover With this if you’re witty. 145. BURIED RIVERS The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating with a message, and her delivery was ever neat, with graceful pose in every attitude. Four rivers are buried here. 146. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM If the “shingle” on the beach at Brighton could speak, what would be its boast? 147. A SIMPLE RECIPE She is as deaf as any post, Incurable I fear; She is my guest, I am her host, How can I make her hear? 148. THE PLAINT OF THE REJECTED _A May-Day Dirge_ Refused, rejected as before! Yes,[A] ... .. I know of yore. ..... of youth, and deadly foe To genius. Eastward then I go With ..... undaunted, and my name Through ..... shall yet resound with fame; And subjects shall be mine by scores From far ..... to Ganges’ shores. [A] More than one word. 149. “BETA IN GREEK MEANS LETTER B.” The clever play-writer who suggested these words as a phonetic excuse for wife-beating might in another fashion invite a man to beat his wife by merely calling him. What would he say? 150. A REBUS storm? an umbrella with all a th me who alls mud. 151. BONES OF A PALINDROME NRNRMMHDLVLDHMMRNRN. Can you, keeping these consonants in their order, fill in vowels so as to form a sentence which is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike from either end? 152. A NICE POINT “Can you tell me,” said an undergraduate to his tutor, who was great at Ecclesiastical Law, “whether the Pope would be allowed to bury the Archbishop of Canterbury?” As some slight stress was laid on the syllables _Canterbury_, the tutor for a moment suspected some trick, but being assured that it was quite a serious question, promised to consider the point. What should he reply? 153. A BURIED PROVERB While there are very many as kind as this, they know no task unkind. Can you dig a proverb out from this sentence? 154. IN THE OPEN Kate gathers me where children three, Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter; He leads the way, and then we see The other two come at her! 155. A BURIED QUOTATION (_From Shakespeare_) Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast. 156. PALINDROME ON A BEETROOT Fill in the necessary vowels, and form thus with these consonants in their present order a perfect palindrome:-- ~RDRTPTPTRDR~ It must read alike from either end. 157. A CHARADE My _first_ we all do when we fail; My _next_ is heard in rain or hail; My _fourth_ a sheep of gender male; My _third_ is one without its tail; My _whole_ for foreign countries sail. 158. AMBIGUOUS On the outer wall of a Western college this was written: “Young women should set a good example, for young men .... ...... ....!” What three words will give a most ambiguous sense to the inscription? 159. AN ENIGMA I’m but a little letter, still I have my duties to fulfil; If off you take My tail, and make An alteration in my lot, Though I seem shorter I am not. 160. DIABOLUS! Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir, Why is it that the devil, In spite of all his naughty ways, Can never be uncivil?” Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain To any mind that’s bright; Because the ... .’ ........, sir, Cannot be ... .’ .....!” Can you supply the missing words? 161. MISSING WORDS Beneath the ..... which shade the lawn Her bicycle she mounted, And with a ....., ere she had gone An hour, ten ..... she counted. It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her, Till in the ..... she came a cropper! 162. AN INSCRIPTION WITH A POINT On the comparatively new organ at Ober Ammergau, on a brass plate above the keyboard, is the following Latin inscription:-- QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT which may be freely rendered--“May those who sing the praises of Christ be, by virtue of His Sacred Passion, one in the Father and in Him.” These lines contain a hidden point, beyond their obvious interpretation. Can you discover it? 163. BY ANAGRAM A woman’s name Of foreign fame, Hers was a noble mind. Now, sir, transpose, And I suppose No smaller thing you’ll find. 164. A FRENCH CHARADE Pour avoir mon _premier_ Femme qui cache mon _dernier_ Manque souvent mon _entier_. 165. A CHARADE Let go! let go! you naughty first, Or you will make my second; A stream of words will then outburst, Swift as my whole is reckoned. 166. OUT OF DATE My first is first when cruisers charge in line, And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine. Don’t spare my second if you would suggest To an impulsive child the way that’s best. My sporting whole, though now neglected grown, Travelled by tube before the tube was known. 167. AN ENIGMA First of men we lead a measure, Last we end the same. Starting merrily, our pleasure Is to finish lame. 168. TESTED BY DICTATION Tom, home for the holidays, and in teasing mood, declared that he could give his sister quite a simple sentence of seven common words of one syllable, which she could not produce with her new typewriter. What was his sentence? 169. ASCRIBED TO VOLTAIRE This French charade, ascribed by some to Lady Waterford, and by others to Voltaire, has neat points:-- Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur, Mon tout est le diable lui-même. Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien, Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême. 170. AT THE GUILDHALL Sydney Smith, when questioned as to the value and satisfaction of a City feast, said: “I cannot wholly value a dinner by the .... ... ..” Can you supply the finish of his witty reply? 171. In youth exalted high in air, Or bathing in the streamlet fair, Nature to form me took delight And clothed my body all in white; My person tall and slender waist On either side with fringes graced; Till me that tyrant Man espied, And dragg’d me from my mother’s side. No wonder that I look so thin, The monster stripp’d me to the skin; My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d, And head and foot both off he lopp’d; And then, with heart more hard than stone, Pick’d all the marrow from my bone. To vex me more, he took a freak To slit my tongue, and make me speak. But that which wonderful appears, I speak to eyes and not to ears. All languages I now command Yet not a word I understand. 172. A YOUNG SHAVER Happy in the possession of a KEEN KUT, the newest form of safety razor, and meeting a friend whose chin bore painful traces of a less trusty blade, an undergraduate who had a turn for puzzles propounded this riddle: “What is the difference between my razor and yours?” Can you answer it? 173. DECAPITATIONS The ship rode in an ....... bay, Asleep ...... the master lay. A ..... and rugged man was he And, like a .... at home at sea. Like swooping ... he caught his prey Whene’er an .. came his way. But while due . the needle kept He in his cabin lay and slept. The missing word in the first line has seven letters; its first letter is cut off to form the second missing word, and this process is repeated throughout the seven lines. 174. A CHARADE When the tempest roars the loudest Oft my first a shelter proves. Say what fair one, though the proudest, Spurns my next from one she loves? When the storms of life are past Earth provides my whole at last. 175. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS One syllable, I help to turn the scale Of party strife or faction; Recast me, and two syllables avail To stop all further action. 176. FILL IN THE VOWELS Lines to an owl:-- ~HNLDTWRSTHGLMWL~ ~THLVSTTHTTHLVSTTHWL~ ~RNLDKSRHLLWTN~ ~SLSTSSLMNSNDSLN~ ~SMRNFLNNLVSTG~ ~RFRHTNGHWLSTKNW~ As a hint, the last line is:-- Or of your hooting howls to know. 177. ARMY ANAGRAMS Here is an excellent little exercise for patient or quick-witted solvers:-- I’m free to-day, the _old sire_ said, _O no cell_ now have I to dread; For this one happy day to me _Are glen_ and hill and forest free. I, if I will, can ride, or fish, _A pit can_ enter, if I wish, In search of chalk or sand. In peace alone I now can dine, And sing to Anna’s _lute at nine_, Nor fear a reprimand. Each word or group of words in italics forms, when the letters are shuffled and recast as an anagram, a military title. Can you decipher them? 178. A CHARADE My first transposed becomes a name Which may quite mean be reckoned, Two syllables combine the same, With one or two for second. My whole when fields are fresh and green, And softly blows the wind, Where the first signs of spring are seen Within the woods we find. 179. AN ANAGRAM ENIGMA Silent long is the wood-bird’s song, Bare is the woodland bough; For waving trees in wintry breeze Have “no buds now.” Can you recast the three words at the end, so that their letters form a word descriptive of the scene? 180. A QUESTION OF TIME A farmer with children sixteen Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock. To divide it these children between, What must be the time by the clock? 181. A DONKEY DRIVE To the far end of any train Hitch on a pair of neddies; Then you will hear, like steps of Cain, The threat that in their tread is. 182. EATING BY ALPHABET Take all the alphabet and cast Its final letter out; Then set the first where was the last, And this you bring about: Without a cook, without a fire, A dainty dish which men desire. 183. A CHARADE My second with my first we greet; My whole in earlier days Gave understanding to the feet That moved in tragic plays. 184. PROVERB ANAGRAM Here is another proverb in anagram:-- Behest on thy lips, Society! Can you recast it, and so recover the proverb, with which it is quite in keeping? 185. WHAT’S IN A NAME? An epidemic of anagrams broke out in a public school, and eight of the prefects, having turned their Christian names into other words, fashioned from them this sentence, which contains them all in order. “I, thy Tom, am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned.” Can you decipher them? 186. AN ENIGMA In any coward’s company you find That I have place. Cut off my head, and from your mind All wrong erase. 187. A DOUBLE ACROSTIC (From _Punch_, 1875) My first elect among the few, Chooses my second to expose his view. 1. Of various colours, changed at will, I sit or stand for good or ill. 2. I rule alone from noon till night, And when I am not am is right. 188. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM Why should a man in a rage go to a “shooting gallery?” Each word has its complete anagram. 189. QUITE A BEATITUDE Let her be or beat her, Give her little ease; Then in safety seat her All among the bees! 190. CLEARING IT UP “We,” cried my first and second, “Are not quite satisfied.” “The story may be reckoned Imperfect,” fourth replied. Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,” And so at last all ended well. 191. PROVERB IN ANAGRAM “I dare not admit faint women.” Can you recast these words so that their letters form a well-known proverb? 192. A CHARADE My first and second are as best they should be, My third in Latin mouth is what it would be. My whole would soon be ashes if it could be. 193. MISSING WORDS Since Spooks, a ...... man is he, ...... this haunted house to me, In ...... funk I ...... round, And fear a ghost in every sound! The missing words are spelt with the same letters. 194. WHAT IS IT? What is that which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, and in no other place? 195. GRANDFATHER’S TURN “It’s grandfather’s turn,” cried the children at a Christmas party where jokes and riddles have been rife. With a quiet twinkle in his eye, the old man said, “Do you know why is the fourth of July?” Not one of them could understand or answer his question, which seemed to lack finish and grammar. Can you? 196. A CHARADE My _first_ is never far away, My _next_ in Latin found; My _third_ may rage by night or day; _All_ make melodious sound. 197. MISSING WORDS Through the ...... trees Softly coo the doves; Let a ...... breeze ...... youthful loves! 198. AN ENIGMA At starting, half your income take, Then for my second write; And let your table help to make The total cosy quite. 199. A CHARADE My whole is a circle complete, Beheaded I fall to your feet. Behead me again and I fry, Or am baked in a savoury pie. 200. ANAGRAM WORDS Can you recast these short sentences into six single words? See a pug dog. Red paper. Fat reward. Stay, O morn. Set on a dish. 201. AN ENIGMA If my whole by my second and first you divide, One more than ten thousand it gives. In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died, In museums my memory lives. 202. A PARADOX Though never present, I appear, Of perfect form a token; And all that centres round my ear Is heard, though never spoken. 203. BEST WHEN BEHEADED Behead me twice, and it shall be That I my perfect self regain; Restore both heads and you shall see That most perfect I remain. 204. MISSING WORDS Grant, lady, grant your ..... his whim, And give the coming ..... to him, For this will ..... his jealous heart, Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart. If not he ..... his hands of you, To seek fresh ..... and pastures new. 205. A SEASONABLE PUZZLE (_Quite an ice one_) “Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill, “That thirty-two is freezing-point; And I can tell you, if you will, Exactly what is squeezing-point!” 206. ILLUMINATING FIGURES To fifty add a third of one, A third to five attach; You have the means, when this is done, To kindle any match. 207. MISSING WORDS The untrained .......... in the City Is robbed by .......... without pity. The missing words are spelt with the same ten letters. 208. A CHRISTMAS CRACKER Comes Christmas merry? Hungry birds; no bright berries; rents high, not paid; long bills; empty barns; no peace and prosperity. How can we amend this gloomy forecast? 209. ANAGRAM FLOWERS Six common plants are concealed by anagram in the following sentence. The letters which spell each plant follow each other, but are in disorder. O rise love it lad never let this lamb chase trains. 210. AN ENIGMA My first is quite a sin by name, My third its simple cure; My second puts an end to fame, My whole of ease is sure. 211. A PARADOX Cut off my head, it is unshaken, Cut off my tail, you turn it round; But if both head and tail are taken, Unconquered still I hold my ground. 212. WHAT ARE THEY? Why should we quarrel, First and Third, With nought between us but a word? Let Third leave Second unessayed To heal the breach these letters made. If your solution be but fair You find my whole disjointed there. 213. A CRYPTIC ADDRESS “Next week,” wrote Funniboy from Naples to his friend, “I am going to ‘plant onions, etc.’ Let me hear from you.” How did his friend gather his destination from these words? 214. AMONG THE GHOSTS In haunted house to sleep I tried My dread _first_ was my chum. “With _second_ of my _first_,” I cried, “My _whole_ I should become.” 215. AN ENIGMA My first is possessive and second; My second possessive and first. Such banks most attractive are reckoned By those for rich treasure athirst. 216. BONES OF A PALINDROME ~RPLVLSLVLPR~ Can you insert the missing letters, and complete the palindrome so that it reads alike from either end? 217. A WORD AND A BLOW “Now, dad,” said Tom Pickles to his father in the Christmas holidays, “take this bottle in your left hand, and when I say ‘three!’ try how far you can blow the cork into it.” The cork, smaller than the neck of the bottle, was placed just inside, and as Tom cried, “One, two, three!” his father gave a lusty blow. What was the result? 218. A GOOD RIDDLE When are acorns as strong as oaken posts? 219. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME PTTPBTNTNTBPTTPBTNTNTBPTTP. Can you add the vowels, and make a palindrome that reads alike from either end? 220. MISSING WORDS The ..... of Shakespeare and of song Have fair and dainty features; But she I ..... my hopes upon Excels those lovely creatures. From ..... she ..... her name so dear, She lives on ..... and honey; She cannot ..... but she can steer, And Madeline has money. 221. A NOVEL ANAGRAM A politician used a high-flown phrase, which implied inaccurate wording, though some spoke of it as dust thrown in people’s eyes. Can you recover the _two long words_ which he used, by anagram, from this sentence? Axiomatic intelligence, or dust. 222. A CHARADE My first your bosom friend, or man or maid, Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid. My second, sounded double, tells of fate, Or sounded single puts an end to hate. My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard, That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d. 223. IS THIS TRUE? Woman without her man would be helpless. 224. SOME ANAGRAMS Can you recast these short sentences so that each of them forms a single word? A moment’s cure. The old rocks. Cod is nice. It lures a cat. 225. AN ENIGMA Without my head I circulate With speed and inclination; Without my tail, at any rate, I still have circulation. Transpose three letters, in unbroken state, I then receive the ashes of the great. 226. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM Many will remember how often the great tenor, Sims Reeves, was prevented from singing by his delicate throat. An excellent anagram can be evolved from his name which, with some exaggeration, proclaims this. Can you discover it? 227. MISSING WORDS Consuming lust for ....., now so rife, Like ..... ..... mars both love and life. 228. FROM BEDLAM Here are the bones of a palindrome sentence that might be spoken by some unhappy criminal lunatic. Can you clothe them with their vowels, so that the sentence reads alike from either end? ~MNCLVDDVLCNM.~ 229. FRUITS AND FLOWERS. And as trim bees rise or go, A long aim I’d say, a libel O! Fruit and flowers are hidden here in anagrams, each in its order separately. 230. ANSWERS BY ANAGRAM NOW ONE OLD FORT. What place is this? RABID OWL. Change this bird into a beast. 231. CHARADE By W. M. Praed Alas, for that forgotten day When chivalry was nourish’d, When none but friars learn’d to pray, And beef and beauty flourish’d; And fraud in kings was held accursed, And falsehood sin was reckon’d, And mighty chargers bore my _first_, And fat monks wore my _second_! Ah, then I carried sword and shield And casque with flaunting feather, And earn’d my spurs in battle-field, In winter and rough weather; And polish’d many a sonnet up To ladies’ eyes and tresses; And learn’d to drain my father’s cup, And loose my falcon’s jesses! But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam, The mongrel mob grows prouder; And everything is done by steam, And men are kill’d by powder; And now I feel my swift decay, And give unheeded orders; And rot in paltry state away With sheriffs and recorders. 232 My _first_ you oft savagely pierce through and through; My _next_ harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust; But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue, Should my _whole_, from my _second_, step into my _first_! 233. DECAPITATION My whole describes the action of a gale, Decapitation makes an organ play. Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale; Again, it tells of what we do not pay. Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail. Again behead, and half a string denote; Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail; And last of all on music’s notes I float. 234. A BURIED PROVERB Society--how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases exist here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to get her smile. A well-known proverb is buried in this sentence. Can you dig it out? 235. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a _steel trap_? 236. AN ENIGMA By Praed Across my _first_, with flash and roar, The stately vessel glides alone. And mournful on the crowded shore There stands an aged crone, Watching my _second’s_ parting smile, As he bids farewell to his native isle. My _whole_ comes back to other eyes, With beauteous change of fruit and flowers, But dim to her are those bright skies, And sad those joyous hours; For, alas! my _first_ is dark and deep, And my _second_ cannot hear her weep. 237. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS THE SEQUEL When morning dawned, and the tide was out, The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s .........., And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt, For he had the best donkey in all that §. You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over, Though the donkey was bravest of all his ....; He luxuriates now in perpetual clover, And his master has gone to the prophet’s em⏞. 238. MISSING WORDS A ..... ..... on ....’. strands Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; He left the ..... in Cupid’s hands, And watched her ..... her tresses; Tresses of ..... coloured gold, Veiling, like any frock, A tail which, as it did unfold, Gave to poor Pat a shock. 239. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM Where can you be “in a stone-pine garden”? 240. MISSING WORDS No ..... sympathy was ever shown, Than when ..... news from Kingston ..... was known. The three missing words are spelt with the same five letters. 241. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM What bodily discomfort follows an _ague-fit_? 242. A TANGLED SQUARE Can you readjust the 16 letters in this square so that they form a perfect word square? I E I T I S A S A S I S E D E D 243. RIVERS IN ANAGRAM What European rivers are concealed in these eight anagrams:--Set in red robe Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter. 244. A PIED PALINDROME Rearrange these letters so that they form a palindrome, or sentence that reads alike from either end:-- F PPPP RRRR SSSS TT EEEEII OOOO 245 What political parrot cry can be evolved by anagram from this sentence, which condemns it? O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe! 246. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM What statesman’s name was a “terrible poser?” 247. A PROVERB IN ANAGRAM Can you recast the letters of this sentence into a well-known English proverb? Yea, a glad sun rose red. 248. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM Has there been a poet of unusual _solemnity?_ 249. ANAGRAM ENIGMA No, no, I hardly ever touch The thing which many love so much. It has a place within these lines, But is taboo where Delia dines. 250. HE SQUARED THE CIRCLE “Yes,” said young Biceps of St Boniface, who had failed to satisfy the examiners, “they have ploughed me in Euclid, and yet if I had half a chance I could teach them how to square a circle!” “Bravo, Biceps!” cried his chum, who was helping him to drown dull care in fruity port, “don’t keep the great secret to yourself!” And so he told him--what? 251. TO EXTRACT A CIRCLE FROM A GIVEN SQUARE When his friend had recovered from the shock of the atrocity described in our last, he retaliated by assuring Biceps that he could extract a circle from a given square. What was his method? 252. MISSING WORDS He said, “You ......” when one lied, He said, “Don’t ......” when one sped, His glass held ...... at his side; He can ...... what he denied. As all your wits “entranced” you bend To find the key omit the end. 253. A CHARADE My captive _second_, sulking in my _first_, Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst; Bemoan, or as alternative you find My _whole_ the word that fits his state of mind. For meet enclosure, you can take a score Of captive _seconds_, first deducting four. 254. A CIPHER ADVERTISEMENT ~THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT,~ ~MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.~ Add two vowels alternately to complete the couplet. 255. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM Can you discover by anagram what his brother was when he put “Tim in a pet?” 256. MISSING WORDS Who knows the .... a land may know Famed for its ...., and long ago A .... of sage and seer. The native there, so full of tricks, To .... his hunger .... with sticks, Nor knows his ways are queer! 257. A CHARADE If doubled you would see my first Let third and second be reversed. But if my last you would behold Increase my first a hundredfold. Combine them all, and you can trace The four within an empty space. 258. IN THE HAY-FIELD In the words welcome to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” are hidden by anagram the names of an English poet and of one of his poems. Can you discover them? 259. A CHARADE My _first_ is small, and seldom reverential; My next not large enough to heed or prize; My _whole_ is altogether consequential; My third, though small, is counted very wise. 260. A LETTER PUZZLE To be a a a a a a a a a a t C r I i O f U l S e s standing is the mark of a mean 261. WITH IVORY LETTERS Can you recast the letters that spell RED NUTS AND GIN so that they form one long word? 262. A HIDDEN NOVEL Can you rearrange these letters so that they form the title of a well-known novel by Charles Dickens? ~CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY~ 263. “COME OUT, ’TIS NOW SEPTEMBER!” --_Old Song._ In swift ...... the beaters add Fresh ...... to the heaps of slain; And still, with lust of slaughter mad, The ...... plies his hand amain! The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. 264. A CHARADE My first is nothing but a name, My second still more small, My whole shows such a lack of fame It has no name at all. 265. A BREAKFAST TABLE PUZZLE “If father gives us a new dog, it will wake the lazy ones!” Can you discover from these words which of his children were often late for breakfast? 266. A CIPHER ~NGOTRDSREAOHR ETNSVEENUDOEO~ Can you decipher the common proverb here concealed? 267. AN UNKNOWN NAME Well known by story, not by name, I died a death unknown before, Nor ever to corruption came; My shroud the waves cast on the shore. 268. UNDA WATER How might an oyster, if it could speak, and knew that unda is Latin for wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed by thunder under unda? 269. MISSING WORDS When ....., our puppy, sets out for a run, Over ..... he ....., all frolic and fun; For no whistle ..... he in his desperate hurry, The slow sheep to ....., and the old cow to worry. The five missing words are spelt with the same five letters. 270. FIND THE GIRLS Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily. Ten girls’ names are here in anagrams. 271. A GOOD DESCRIPTION Lord Beaconsfield’s statue, True as old -- -- -- Can you can complete this anagram? 272. SHAKESPEARE ANAGRAMS These three lines are perfect anagrams of three consecutive lines in “Romeo and Juliet,” Act II., Scene V.:-- The tub sold has old rough shelves. And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts. A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow! Can you discover the original lines? 273. MISSING WORDS That mystical gnome never flinches from toil Who ...... the ...... in Orient soil; Yet ...... mortals will ever abound To ...... all the soil till the treasure is found. 274. A PUZZLE ACROSTIC My feathered first has wings and sings, Unfledged my second swings its wings; My third on blackest pinions flies, My fourth can float beneath the skies. The letters to my first that fall Are the initials of them all. ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ● ● ● ◯ ● ● ● ◯ ● ● ● Can you substitute words which fulfil the conditions? 275. DROP LETTER PUZZLE My first was of the ...... breed, Their ..... captain, hot and riled, To .... his men found vain indeed, They only ... and smoked, and smiled! One letter is dropped each time. 276. DOUBLETS Can you convert HARE into SOUP, using not more than six links, changing only one letter with each link, and preserving the order of the letters from link to link? 277. A NEW ENIGMA Putting two small beasts that you take To the beginning of an end, A pointed weapon you will make To wound a foe or praise a friend. 278. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM If a “newspaper” could speak, what might it say of the general work of its staff? 279. BY RULE OF THUMB How can you turn the positive quantity 1011 into a negative? 280. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM What one word can you form from the sentence-- “O, I’m man’s trial!” 281. A REBUS EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee. 282. A RIDDLE Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber? 283. MISSING WORDS He ....... to be ....... as a wonderful shot But he potted the dog, and ....... was his lot! The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. 284. DOUBLETS Can you change ARMY into NAVY with seven links, changing one letter every time, and preserving their sequence? 285. BY ANAGRAM ‘I excel not by a pun’-- Turn these six words into one. 286. CAN SUCH THINGS BE? When is an onion like music? 287. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM What is the bitter cry of “Christianity?” 288. NO TURNCOAT Show by anagram that a Conservative is constant to his cause. 289. WHY NOT? Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall as a rule upon the same day of the week. Can any ingenious reader discover why they will not fall upon the same day of the week in the year 1910. 290 “War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, While kings and subjects are but erring men; So Britain--native empress of the seas-- On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed-- Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free, Rests on her well-tried _last_ and trusty _first_. Her _first_ alone can well maintain her right, Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast; And though, when needed, foremost in the fight, Her _first_ (strange paradox!) is always _last_! But should the tide of war approach the shore And threaten to engulf her island seat, My _whole_, replying with defiant roar, Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet! 291. AN EASY CHARADE My first is flogged to make it move the faster, And turns at once to satisfy its master. My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit, For those whose simple taste its flavours suit. My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly, Stands up aloft and points us to the sky. 292. NOT BY CANNING A noun there is, of plural number, In daily use from here to Humber. Now almost any noun you take By adding “S” you plural make; But if you add an “S” to this, Strange is the metamorphosis! Plural is plural now no more; Useless what useful was before. 293 First, a semi-circle make, Add to this another Figure of two little lines Meeting with each other; Then a perfect circle form, Truly, neat, compactly, Add another form to these, Like the first exactly; Then, to make it all complete, Form a kind of angle, With a straight line, that should meet In a kind of tangle; When you this have rightly done (’Tis the truth I’m telling), You will get an article Useful in a dwelling: Should you this decapitate, You may have another Article, which, in its place, Is useful as the other. 294. A CHARADE Veiling the leas, my first may steep Late autumn’s listless air; And with my tainting second creep On idle spade and share. When happy days link soul to soul, And sunny faces shine, May both combined, a subtle whole, Be far from me and mine! 295. A CHARADE By Mark Lemon Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned, Was brought up at my first for making my second; He was fined, and because he no money would pay Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway. 296 Complete, I grow within a field And pleasant pasture often yield; Behead me once, a suitor then Is quickly brought before your ken; Behead again, I am a word That on the cricket-ground is heard. Restore my heads, cut off my tail, To name a spice you’ll not then fail; Behead me now, and you will find The master passion left behind. Put on my head, my tail restore, Complete me as I was before, My second letter take away, An envelope I am, you’ll say; But now curtail me just once more, I am an inlet on the shore. 297 My _second_ is double my _first_, My _first_ is but half of my _second_; And I’m sure you’ll admit that my _whole_ Is ten times the latter when reckon’d. 298 My _first_ I went the other day, And pretty surely reckon’d A basket of fine fish to catch, With hook and rod and _second_. But I was out in reckoning; A very pretty she Of her fair face show’d just my _whole_-- And pretty soon hook’d _me_. 299 Of mirth the parent, though the child of art, A stranger to myself in every part; Each India has a native in my breast, The West my sweetness, and my fire the East. While milder climes my virtue to complete, Quicken my softness, and correct my heat; My dearest friends upon my vitals prey, And as they see me sinking, grow more gay. 300. A FLIGHT OF FANCY When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find That my next is not left a great distance behind; But join them together, and plain to your view It all is as firm and as tight as a screw. 301 To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete; Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet; Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet; Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete. 302. A CHARADE Leader of Vandals and of vice My head is reckoned; A Turkish captain will suffice To be my second. My third is firm if well selected; My whole a wanderer neglected. 303 One thousand, two hundred, Nothing, and one, Transposed, give a word Expressive of fun. 304. A CHARADE By Praed My _first_ was creeping on his way Through the mists of a dull October day, When a minstrel came to its muddy bed, With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head; “And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried, “To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?” Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown, And he dash’d the harp and the garland down; Then he led the bard, with a stately march, O’er my _second’s_ long and cellar’d arch;-- “And see,” said the sage, “how every ass Over the sacred stream must pass!” The youth was mournful, the youth was mute, He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;-- The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff, And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff; And he sits, ever since, in my _whole’s_ kind lap, In a silken gown and a trencher cap. 305 Upright and honest is my _first_; My _second_ you may see Upon the frozen lake or stream; My _whole_ is equity. 306 Never wearied, see us stand, A glittering and a stately band-- Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form, In summer cold, in winter warm; From hottest duty never swerving, Night and day our place preserving; Each serving to a different use, Not to be changed without abuse. And, pray, mark well another fact-- In unison we never act, Except, as on occasion dread, We watch the ashes of the dead; When we are ranged, as you may see As awful sentries, one, two, three. 307. A CHARADE My first, though naught, with others is a fruit, My next is vital to both man and brute. It should be dear to all who hate the devil, For it is ever the reverse of evil. My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace, Divided it invokes to life that will not cease. 308. A CHARADE _In English Sapphics_ Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover, Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy. Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop, Oft in the chimney! See where my second, scorning to be hidden, Stands at the head of quite a band of others, Like a virago, straddling with feet apart, And arms akimbo. Surely my next is happy in its office, Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead; Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles For the unwary. If by my whole at any time you pass, you Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs, Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you, Peacefully dreaming! 309 Offspring of nature and of art, I stand Chief ’midst the monuments of every land; I may not lengthen life, but I For centuries forbid to die. The greatest truth in me you meet Is but deception most complete. Unchanged I last the changing crowds among, And as I older grow, I grow too young. 310 Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, Two letters there are, and two only in me; I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. 311 My _first_ is false as false can be; My _next_ old ladies wear; My _whole’s_ my _first_, as you will see, As false, I do declare. 312. SHUFFLED LETTERS When whole I am indeed a thing To puzzle you a bit; Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge The others make a hit; Or you may make a car of some, And fix a head to it. 313. FIVE VOWELS A word of nine letters explains How to mitigate bodily pains; The five vowels are there, And four consonants share This function for medical brains. 314. A CHARADE My second guides my first and third For pleasure, trade, and war; My first and second by my third Are oft transported far. But when my first my third doth pull, ’Tis then his lot is worst; And should my second lack my whole, He’s apt to leave my first. 315. MISSING WORDS It is a ...... fact that neither ...... nor ...... grow .. ..... 316. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME ~DRWNDRRDNWRD~. Insert the missing letters, and so form a perfect palindrome, which reads alike from either end. 317 The schoolboy likes me well, For healthful sport I bring, Yet I can harm create, Though such a little thing: Connubial bliss is form’d by me; My nature is equality. 318. A RIDDLE What person’s name is doubly evil? The answer may be given in a line that rhymes. 319 I’m a district near London; If made wrong, I come undone; O’er sweet strings I swift run, Or appear with the bright sun, And though by me fights were won, I can greet you every one. 320. A CHARADE I am my first when seen with you, My next is always bad. A rogue in grain much harm may do And make the farmer mad. 321. A CHARADE When winter comes with frost and cold, My first is welcome, as of old; And though its grip may make you thinner, It helps to cook your Christmas dinner. Let me but hear my next rejoice At early dawn with cheerful voice, I haste to find, with eager pleasure, Some specimen of hidden treasure. A traveller my whole may find Far from his English kith and kind; Though some at home, to England’s shame, Are this in fact, if not in name. 322. It was to-morrow, and It will be yesterday; Now it is near at hand What is it? Who can say? 323. A CHARADE My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes, The second shadows all the mother’s brow; My whole all men, all women, girls and boys, Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now; But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how. 324. ON THE BLOCK Complete, though not of human race, A soul in me may dwell; Behead, I held a higher place, Until, like man, I fell. Again behead, and in the song Of Burns I’m all your own; Behead once more, it would be wrong To find me out when known. 325. AN ENIGMA With head good for naught, And with tail always drunk, You know well what to say Of the worth of my trunk. First cut off my tail, I am Greek, and I’m not; Then cut off my head, And some Latin you’ve got. Lopping both you know best What remains, as I said, For I really am you If I lose tail and head! 326. AN ENIGMA One guiding eye I need In running through the gaps; My tail, as on I speed, Is caught in many traps. 327. A CHESS CHARADE By H. J. C. Andrews In the ’seventies no one was more popular at Simpson’s Chess Room in the Strand than the gentle and brilliant subject of these lines, a clever water-colourist. The charade is by his friend, the well-known problem composer. Both have passed away, but they are not forgotten by those who had the happiness to know them:-- Of all the birds that ever sought a mate, My first is to but one appropriate, So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo. To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo! My whole is a magician of the squares, But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares, So this, indeed, to him may be a law When _winning_’s hopeless, grandly still to _draw_. 328. WHAT AM I? Though poor and humble was my birth I sit enthroned on high; My footsteps far above the earth, My canopy the sky. O’er toiling subjects thus in state I bear despotic sway; Yet on them hand and foot I wait At break and close of day. 329. I am not of flesh and blood, Yet have I many a bone; No limbs, except one leg, And can’t stand on that alone. My friends are many, and dwell In all lands of the human race; But they poke my poor nose into the mud, And shamefully spatter my face. Thrust me into each other’s ribs, Stick me in gutter and rut; I have never a window, and never a door, Yet I often open and shut. 330. AN ENIGMA Before the crown descended on The head of England’s Queen, Four Kings upon that royal throne Of the same name had been. Now if the signs which marked their name Be joined unto a beast, We have a food on which the same (A quadruped) will feast. 331. AN OLD ENIGMA By _Charles James Fox_ I am pretty, and useful in various ways, Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days; Behead me, and then in my place will appear What youngsters admire every day in the year; Behead me once more, and without any doubt, You must be what is left if you don’t find it out. 332. A CHARADE My first, when skilfully performed (Its doer by applauses warmed), Bespeaks both skill and vigour. When with my whole, so soft and light, I saw my second gay bedight, She made a splendid figure. 333. MISSING WORDS The man who ..... the common ..... Above the ..... chaste, ..... as he may, the world declares Is not a man of taste. And though my sympathy he shares, No ..... on him I waste! 334. A CHARADE When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated, Endangered the peace of his soul, To atone for my second my first he repeated Quite ten times a day on my whole. 335. AN ENIGMA An insect small and fell Makes a weird sound, If, as its name you spell, You turn it round. One letter cast, and still Shift what remains, Another insect will Reward your pains. 336. A DECAPITATION Where head and body duly meet I am as slender as a bee; Whether I stand on head or feet My figure shows its symmetry. But when my head is cut away The metamorphosis is strange; Though both of them unaltered stay, Body and head to nothing change. 337. A NUT TO CRACK First is in coast, second in ghost, Third must be reckoned part of second; Fourth in boat, fifth in float, Sixth you will find within your mind. Seventh in blue, eighth in true, These letters tell a fruit that they spell. 338. The hunter and his steed are known My first to see. Though men may call my next a stone, Wood it may be. My whole, an exile from his home, Is doomed from place to place to roam. 339. A CHARADE My first expresses power to do, My next that it is done. To be my whole belongs to few, And perfectly to none. 340. A CHARADE In my first, as in a shell, All the sweetest sounds may dwell; In my second, shells abound That can catch no sort of sound; In my whole securely rest Those who neither jeer nor jest. 341. A CHARADE My first, though of the feathered kind Is never known to fly; My next all who improve their mind Seize as it passes by. My whole may much occasion find To make the truthful lie. 342. AN ENIGMA Divide a piece of beef or pork Without the aid of knife and fork; It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill, Where you may set this if you will. Strike off instead the end, its place Is plain as nose upon your face. Cut this asunder in your mind, And what is first put now behind; Part of our foot you thus discover, And in a measure all is over. 343. A CHARADE Seen as a whole, my form is now Akin to strife and malice; Split, it may grace a princely brow, Or crown the curls of Alice. Recast my letters, and I tell That nourishment is lacking; Stir them afresh until they spell The needle’s help in tacking. 344. AN ENIGMA If I write with my first in my second My whole you can never find out; Add a letter, and all will be reckoned A patron of water devout. 345. WHAT DID THE COLONEL SAY? After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much did you say the ..............” Can you complete this? 346. WHERE WAS IT? Loss of love between us Never can be nice; Yet we live where Venus Changes us to ice. 347. A LOVER TO HIS LASS Tell me, my sweet, Why are your feet Like fairy tales? 348. MISSING WORDS Our parson ....... every man who has leisure To study ....... windows, the glory of fanes; And ....... of devoting his income to pleasure, Our ....... old dean spends his money on panes. 349. AN EASY ONE Though much attached to merriment, Or crime for a variety, To prison I am never sent, But sparkle in society. 350. A CHARADE Without my first and second’s aid No pudding worth its sauce is made. Take on my third, my fourth I am, My fifth includes myself and Sam. My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero, And shows him as an unheroic hero. 351. BURIED PLACES What geographical names are buried in these lines? He has my R. N. as a monogram I am her stupid sister. The calmest man is sometimes made irate. 352. My first’s a fruit of foreign clime, Sweet to the taste, in price not dear; My second does my first produce, And yet my whole my first doth bear. 353. AN ENIGMA A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath, My firm embrace is harbinger of death; Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art, Complete and perfected in every part; Crush me to-day with all-determined care, Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there! 354. AN ENIGMA Six letters in my name are found, Though only three we see and sound; The shepherd by the running river May hear me where the rushes quiver; And should a stroke my whole divide, Leaving but half on either side, These, backward read, will surely tell What many a toper loves too well. 355. A RIDDLE Upon a battle-field of learned men Hundred and fifty were by none divided. “Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.” 356. Though the stations of mortals are many And the _last_ is the head of his race; Yet he, just as often as any, Is won by my _first’s_ fell embrace; Yet we most of us apt are to fall, When our heads cease our hearts to control, Let us hope that not one of us all May be e’er in the state of my _whole_. 357. WHAT IS IT? My whole is no matter, And light as the air, Yet it is good on the platter, And excellent fare. Curtail and transpose, And a lady you see, Who will flatter and pose, And with many do me. 358. WHAT IS IT? My first, for ages out of mind, All men have always worn behind; And yet alike by sea and land They carry it upon their hand. My second, carefully matured, Is never ill but often cured. My whole, within unchanging lines Black men and white alike confines. 359. WHAT IS THIS? “We westand fall.” 360. A CHARADE My second is pressed tightly round To guard from any ill; And when preparing to engage, Men find it useful still. My first against attraction set Will neutralise its power; Aided by it, with bargains, some May spend a happy hour. You find my whole by careful search Which must not be forsaken; It stands before what comes beyond, Which may from it be taken. 361. A GOOD ANAGRAM George Thompson, the zealous anti-slavery advocate, was asked to go into Parliament, the better to press his point and cause. When he hesitated a friend produced, as a conclusive reason, this anagram, spelt with the letters of his name--“O go, the negro’s M.P.!” 362. WHAT AM I? Scorned by the meek and humble mind, And often by the vain possessed, Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind, I give the troubled spirit rest. ODDS AND ENDS 1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES Here is a long-division sum without figures:-- UGI)GEVPPNDO(IDTPO GVNI ---- DNTP UGI ----- NETN NEOT ------ DUDO DUDO ===== These letters form a sentence of three words .... .... .., and represent the figures 1234 5678 90; the puzzle is to discover this key sentence, by working out the sum in the corresponding figures. 2. A DAY’S SPORT At the invitation of a farmer in the country I went out with my gun for a day’s shooting on his farm. “What sport had you?” said a friend afterwards at the Club. “I shot only birds and rabbits,” was my reply, “and the bag showed 36 heads and 100 feet.” How many birds were there, and how many bunnies? 3. THE SQUAREST WORD D E L F E V I L L I V E F L E D How many distinct readings of these four words can you find, taking their letters in any “go as you please” direction, without jumping over any letter? 4. A CROSS PURPOSE Can our readers rearrange these letters in the form of a similar cross, so that they form two words familiar to us all? A A E D N R E G D N I T V S One of the letters, to be placed where the lower E now stands, is common to both words. 5. “Take this sovereign, my boy,” said a man to his son who had a turn for arithmetic, “and buy for yourself and for your three sisters the best present possible for each, of different values, expending in each case an aliquot part of the pound, that is to say, a fraction of it whose numerator is one. If there is any change you can give it to the Fresh Air Fund.” How was this commission carried out? 6. A WORD SQUARE Can you complete this word-square? . E . A . E . A . E . A . . E A . . E . . E E . . 7. VERBAL ARITHMETIC First find a word that is spelt with the ten letters above the line, and number its letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. A I L C P R U N B E _____ E C C Substitute the corresponding figures for the letters, and then work out the addition sum which they represent. 8. A WORD SQUARE Can you complete this word square? T . . . T . T . . . . . O . . . E . S . T . . . S 9. Take the twelve first prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, which have no factors but themselves and unity, and write down the value of their product, using no figures but 0, 1, 2, and 3, and of these using 2 and 3 only once. 10. AT THE WASH Six collars seven cuffs there be When pence we charge you thirty-three; Seven collars and six cuffs to do The charge is only thirty-two; The work is good and up-to-date, So figure out in pence the rate. 11. GAPS TO FILL Can you complete this word square? W . E . S . . . . . E . U . E . . . . . S . E . R 12. IS IT POSSIBLE? Fill a wineglass with water to the brim, and set it on the corner of a table-napkin, which should be in immediate contact with the polished surface of a table, allowing the rest of the napkin to fall over the edge. Can you remove the napkin without touching the glass or spilling any of the water? 13. A NICE CALCULATION My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is half of them, and my third is half. What am I? 14. FOR THE CHILDREN A London firm, having sent an order by telegram to a manufacturer in Paris for 480 sets of Diabolo, received to their amazement a huge consignment of 6336 sets. How did this mistake arise? 15. A WINTER VALENTINE Thy heart is like some icy lake On whose cold brink I stand; On my sore plight sweet pity take, And lead me by the hand. Then buckle on my spirit’s skate Where all the ice is thin, That it may break beneath my weight, And let a lover in! 16. A QUESTION OF AGES “My husband’s age,” said Mrs Evergreen, “is represented by the figures of my age reversed. He is older than I am, and the difference between our ages is one-eleventh of their sum.” What were their respective ages? 17. MISSING FIGURES Can you complete this multiplication sum? 4 * * 3 * ------- 3 6 * * * * 7 * * --------- * * 3 * * 18. STRANGE ADDITION Add 3 to 10, and then divide Till 8 the sum has satisfied. 19. BEDDING OUT I bought less than 100 plants for my new rosery, and found that if I set them 3 in a row there would be one over; if 4 in a row there would be two over; if 5 in a row, three over; and if 6 in a row, four over. How many rose trees did I buy? 20. Can you arrange three nines so that they represent exactly 20? 21. A house has nine windows on its front. How many signals can be given by merely leaving one or more of them open? 22. ON MY BIRTHDAY (By Sir John Evans) “Reader, whether man or woman, Write my age in figures Roman. My first divided by my second Will make my third, if rightly reckoned; Ten times the whole, and then you see My university degree.” 23. MOSAIC VERSE The heath this night must be my bed, (Scott) Ye vales, ye streams, ye groves, adieu! (Pope) Farewell for aye; e’en love is dead; (Proctor) Would I could add remembrance too! (Byron) 24. SIGNS AND SEASONS The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots Shoot forward one and all; Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves The leaves to fall in fall! 25. THE TEN DIGITS This arrangement of the digits represents 20, one being a whole number, the others a fraction:-- 13258 6----- = 20 947 26. CHRONOGRAM The battle of Montl’héry was fought in 1465. Its date can be committed to memory in the sentence which might have been a battle-cry--“A cheval, à cheval, gendarmes, à cheval!” For it is arrived at by the addition of the Roman numerals which this contains, thus:-- C = 100 V = 5 L = 50 C = 100 V = 5 L = 50 M = 1000 C = 100 V = 5 L = 50 ---- Total = 1465 27. A TOUR DE FORCE In this most remarkable sentence of only twenty-eight letters, every letter of the alphabet is used-- IF JACK QUIZ BALD NYMPHS GROW VEXT. 28. AN OLD TALE OF A TUB Tom Hood, seeing over the door of a public-house BEAR SOLD HERE, said that it was rightly spelt if it was the landlord’s _own bruin_! 29. ALL THE ALPHABET Here is an ingenious rhyming couplet of only 33 letters, in which every letter of the alphabet is used-- Quick! go on, Jim! why Stop lazy fox? Drive by! 30. AN IMPERIAL ANAGRAM A sa Majesté impériale le Tsar Nicolas, souverain et autocrate de toutes les Russies. The same letters exactly spell-- O, ta vanité sera ta perte. O, elle isole la Russie; tes successeurs te maudiront à jamais! This most remarkable anagram was published in the early days of the Crimean war. 31. A FOURFOLD ANAGRAM “Notes and Queries.” _A question sender. Enquires on dates. Reasoned inquest. I send on a request._ 32. A GOOD ANAGRAM The name of John Abernethy, a very brusque doctor of bygone days, lends itself to this most apposite anagram--_Johnny the bear!_ 33. TWO EXCELLENT ANAGRAMS (After the Irish famine.) Duchess of Marlborough. _She labours much for God._ Or, The Duchess of Marlborough. _Lo, she sought much for bread._ 34. “ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE” French guest to his host after a big shoot:-- “How many braces have you to your bags?” 35. A PRIZE ANAGRAM It would be difficult to find a more ingenious and appropriate anagram than this, which took a prize in “Truth” in 1902, and connects the King’s recovery with the Coronation. The sentence set was-- “God save our newly crowned King and Queen! Long life to Edward and Alexandra!” The letters of this were recast thus-- Can we wonder an anxious devoted England followed drear danger quakingly? 36. A PRIZE ANAGRAM “Truth” offered a prize for the best anagram on the sentence--“‘Truth’ Toy and Doll Fund, Christmas, nineteen hundred and seven.” The winning anagram, by the Editor of these pages, was, “A sunny tender mind understands that the children do love fun!” 37. TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE In a moment of economy I told my wife that I would put by a farthing the first week of the New Year, a halfpenny the second week, a penny the third, and so on, doubling the sum each week to the end of the year. She had a turn for figures, and staggered me by showing that I should have to provide £4,691,249,611,844, 5s. 3³⁄₄d. to carry out my plan! 38 Now that Ellen Terry has written “The Story of My Life,” this anagram has a special interest:-- LYCEUM THEATRE, STRAND. _Teach and melt us, Terry!_ 38a. RING OUT, WILD BELLS! More startling than the well-known calculation of payment by continuously doubling the farthing given for the first nail in a horse’s shoe, is the fact that the possible changes on a peal of 24 bells would not be exhausted if every minute of 4000 years were prolonged to a period of 10,000 years! 39. A SCHOLAR AT PLAY Erasmus himself was responsible in one of his lighter moments for the following ingenious play upon his name:-- Quæritur unde mihi sit nomen Erasmus, _eras mus_; Si _sum mus_ ego, te judice, _summus_ ero! 40. QUITE AN EYESORE! “Well!” cried an agitated carpenter to his mate, “of all the saws that I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw as this saw saws!” 41. THE PUNSTER’S LAMENT If I be duly punished For every foolish pun I shed, I shall not find one puny shed In which to hide my punnish head! 42. A GOOD ANAGRAM CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER. The same letters recast spell-- _If so, man, refuse poison at once!_ 43. A TOUR DE FORCE The following curiosity, constructed some years ago for prize purposes by the Editor, shows how, in word or letter juggling, difficulties can be overcome:-- A sentence in which each letter of the alphabet is used exactly twice: “XLV gruff nymphs jerk XLV jaws,” quoth wag B. Dick, Q.C., to Ben Dizzy, M.P. 44. THE MISSING LINK If anagrams count, our “ancestor” was not a monkey but a _Norse cat_! 45. A STRIKING ANAGRAM The name of Randle Holmes, author of a notable book on heraldry, was so recast that it formed the words: “Lo, men’s herald!” 46. A CURIOUS PALINDROME Dog as a devil deified lived as a god. 47. AFTER THE EVENT _An Anagram._ The Oxford and Cambridge annual Boat-race. _Cantab blue had raced in an extra good form._ 48. TO FIND THE GOLD Tell a person who holds a sovereign in one hand and a shilling in the other to reckon 4 for the gold, and 3 for the silver. Then bid him triple what is in the right hand, and double what is in the left, and give you the added product. If this is an _even_ number the gold is in the right hand, if _odd_ it is in the left. 49. A MUSICAL ANAGRAM ADELINA PATTI. _Adept Italian._ 50. A HAPPY THOUGHT Sir Charles Napier’s witty despatch, “Peccavi!” “I have Scinde!” is familiar to us. Not so well known is the happy phrase attributed to Sir Colin Campbell, “Nunc sum fortunatus!” “I am in Lucknow!” 51. A CLEVER TRIPLE ANAGRAM Owen, the Welsh epigrammatist, composed this very clever Latin line:-- In _verbis, ubi res_ postulat, esto _brevis_. (“In words, where the matter requires it, be brief.”) The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters. 52. CAN SUCH THINGS BE? Take a long strip of paper, say 9 in. by 2 in., which will have, of course, an upper and an under surface and two edges along its length. How can you arrange this strip, by quite a simple method so that it will have only _one_ surface and _one_ edge? 53. Can you divide nine into two parts which are together equal to ten? 54. FOLDING A FLOCK A shepherd had a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 100 hurdles. His master made a large purchase at the annual fair, and required him to pen some pigs with 16 of the hurdles, and to arrange the remainder so that they could accommodate nine times as many sheep as the 100 hurdles had contained. How was this possible? 55. A NEAT TRICK Here is a neat final trick, if you have some reputation for sleight of hand. Place three biscuits on the table in a row, and cover each of them with a borrowed hat. Raise each hat in turn, gravely eat the biscuit, and replace the hat. Then undertake that the three biscuits shall be under whichever hat is selected. How can you contrive this? 56. VERY SMALL CHANGE In how many different ways can 7s. 3d. be paid away in current coin of the realm, without ever using exactly the same set of coins a second time? SOLUTIONS FRONTISPIECE The words which describe this picture can be recast, letter for letter, into the perfect anagram-- [Illustration: “Please, Mister Elephant, are you there?”] No. IV. It is said that there are 86 ways in which the numbers in this model magic square can be added up so that they make 34. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 4│ 15│ 14│ 1║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 9│ 6│ 7│ 12║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 5│ 10│ 11│ 8║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 16│ 3│ 2│ 13║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ It is not difficult to discover more than half this number that are symmetrical, including, of course, the 4 rows, 4 columns and 2 diagonals. Here are a dozen samples, from which others can be seen-- 4, 1, 16, 13. 15, 14, 3, 2. 14, 12, 5, 3. 6, 7, 10, 11. 15, 8, 9, 2. 1, 6, 11, 16. 14, 8, 9, 3. 9, 15, 2, 8. 4, 5, 12, 13. 4, 5, 11, 14. 4, 9, 8, 13. 9, 14, 3, 8. No. VIII Here is the completed magic square-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║216│175│224│183│232│191│240│199│248║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║247│215│174│223│182│231│190│239│207║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║206│246│214│173│222│181│230│198│238║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║237│205│245│213│172│221│189│229│197║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║196│236│204│244│212│180│220│188│228║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║227│195│235│203│252│211│179│219│187║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║186│226│194│243│202│251│210│178│218║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║217│185│234│193│242│201│250│209│177║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║176│225│184│233│192│241│200│249│208║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Every row, column and diagonal adds up to exactly 1908. No. IX This up-to-date magic square adds up to 1908 in quite 56 different symmetrical ways. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║469│484│472│483║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║481│474│478│475║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║482│471│485│470║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║476│479│473│480║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Here are 44 of them-- Rows 4 Columns 4 Diagonals 2 The corners 1 Corners of squares of 9 cells 4 Squares of 4 cells 9 Opposite pairs of outside cells 6 Opposite pairs of short diagonals Such combinations as 469, 481, 485, 473 8 Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 -- Total 44 There are a dozen other ways, more or less symmetrical, such as 481, 474, 483, 470; or 474, 485, 470, 479. No. X This is the rearrangement of the domino magic square-- ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ The three-ace, which was a corner stone in the former diagram now occupies the centre, and the rearrangement was effected by first transferring the two bottom rows to the top, and then the fourth and fifth columns to the extreme left. This method of shifting the stones does not affect the magic quality of the square. No. XI The affinity between chess and numbers is well illustrated by the Knight’s tour on this diagram-- [Illustration] The Knight starts from the square marked 1, and returns at last to it. The constant difference between any opposite and corresponding numbers in cells that are equidistant from the centre is 18. No. XII Here are the cells in the diagram of our Numbers Patience, so filled in that each of the rows across from side to side adds up exactly to 143. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 17│ 30│ 41│ 31│ 24║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 18│ 32│ 13│ 46│ 34║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 11│ 12│ 14│ 50│ 56║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 51│ 19│ 42│ 16│ 15║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 22│ 21│ 35│ 45│ 20║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Each cell contains, in accordance with the conditions, a different number. No. XIII This is the division of a square into fifteen parts, which will form the windmill:-- [Illustration] This puzzle may, of course, be reversed, the parts of the square being given, and the solver asked to form with them a symmetrical windmill. No. XIV In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to count 784 distinct interlacing figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and whose angles are all right angles. ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ Of these 784 rectangles 140 are squares. No. XV This is the domino magic square, in which all the stones are used except double-six, double-five and six-five. ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ All rows, columns and diagonals add up to 27, as do the stones in the four corner cells and the four central border cells of the full square, and of the square of nine cells in the middle. No. XVI Those to whom games of Patience appeal will find an interesting and pretty form of it in the construction of a pyramid with a complete set of dominoes. ┌───┬───┐ │ 5 1 │ └───┴───┘ ┌───┬───╥───┬───┐ │ 3 1 ║ 5 3 │ └───┴───╨───┴───┘ ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ │ 2 ║ 3 3 ║ 6 4 │ └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ │ 2 1 ║ 5 6 ║ 1 ║ 5 4 │ └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ │ 3 4 ║ 2 6 ║ 6 ║ 4 ║ 2 3 │ └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ │ ║ 5 5 ║ 2 2 ║ 4 4 ║ 1 1 ║ 6 6 │ └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ │ 3 6 ║ 6 1 ║ 5 2 ║ 4 2 ║ 4 ║ 5 ║ 3 │ └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ Solvers may like to study the position given, which is one of many that are possible, and to discover for themselves the ruling conditions which are its characteristics. No. XVII When the boy’s father came up just in time to stop him from breaking out of bounds, and said, “Never throw a leg, lad,” [Illustration] the rest of the sentence, spelt with _exactly the same letters_, was “over the garden wall!” No. XVIII “Catastrophe,” the title of the tragedy foreshadowed, can be recast into “_A cat! stop her!_” By similar process the words, “New parrot stand in a house,” become “_He turns on a soda-water tap!_” [Illustration] The parrot’s ready resource and triumph is depicted here with striking effect. No. XIX When the judge at a baby show said to the mother of the small boy whose thumb was in his mouth, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits,” the precocious child replied, as he removed his comforting hand, in a sentence spelt with _exactly the same letters_, “So to-day, sir, I suck my little thumb.” [Illustration] No. XX When the lady sitting at the back of this overloaded wagonette said to her husband, “This big load quite hinders his pull,” in her sympathy with the struggling horse, [Illustration] he made this very practical reply, in a sentence spelt with _exactly the same letters_: “Do sit quiet, girl; I shall push behind!” No. XXI When a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is striking!” [Illustration] an appropriate reply, spelt with _exactly the same letters_, would have been: “He plays without taking a rest, sir.” No. XXII The two English words appropriate to this picture-- [Illustration] which have as their anagrams “Or not a man first,” and “O I love nuts!” are _Transformation and Evolutions_. No. XXIII This is a fancy portrait of William-- [Illustration] We decide by anagram whether this is _William or dear Jack_, for these words, when recast, spell “I am Will, a card joker!” No. XXIV The word indicated by this picture in combination with the lines below it-- [Illustration] Begin with the end of my first, And then you will find out the rest; For it all will appeal to your thirst, Or point to a ponderous guest. is _Stout_. No. XXV The words of Jigger’s wife, when she said that he seemed to be in a “sad pet,” were true by anagram. [Illustration] His ball hugs the cushion so closely as to be completely _pasted_. No. XXVI When, as they held on to the fractious cow, the farmer exclaimed, “See, we hold this cow’s horns and tail,” [Illustration] his foreman, using exactly the same letters in his sentence, said-- “She cannot toss, her wild head is low.” No. XXVII While the horse shown in this picture might be saying, if it could speak, “I’m a train’d stepper!”-- [Illustration] the driver, from his point of view, might say, as he held him in check, “Spirit and a temper!” making use in his words of _exactly the same letters_. No. XXVIII When one onlooker, seeing the artist working with his feet, said-- “Why, now I see this fine artist has no hand!” [Illustration] the other replied, using exactly the same letters, “He draws in any fashion with his ten toes!” No. XXIX When her husband, showing this picture [Illustration] said to his wife, “This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” she, knowing that temptation in this form would fail, said, as she glanced at his illustration of their aims, in words spelt with exactly the same letters:-- “And see, he will not rise at our bait!” No. XXX The sturdy musician, who had said, “What shall I play?” to which some one replied, “Any strains of Beethoven, he charms all!” as this was not an acceptable suggestion, struck up a piece after his own heart. [Illustration] He said, as he struck the strings, in a sentence composed of exactly the same letters--“Nay, for this ’cello heaven sent a Brahms!” No. XXXI Here is the picture of a parsnip lying across a swede readjusted and reversed. [Illustration] We gave as a clue the anagram-- “Here is our parsnip on swede.” ANAGRAM _Wise and superior person he!_ but this is now hardly needed to show who is thus represented in friendly caricature: (With apologies to G. B. S.) No. XXXII The letter puzzle is solved thus-- L E V E L E E E E V V V E E E E L E V E L Within this square the word LEVEL runs in twelve different directions, being itself a palindrome. No. XXXIII The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the key to this sum, is _Do your best_. If these letters are numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding figures are substituted for the letters, the sum works out as is shown in the second diagram-- S B 9 7 R E 6 8 Y D 3 1 O T 4 0 U O 5 2 ------ ----- O E E 2 8 8 ===== ===== No. XXXIV The twelve names of flowers and foliage that may be gathered within these borders, by moving in any direction one square at a time, ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 ║ ║ L│ L│ B│ H│ P│ E│ F║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ 8 │ 9 │10 │11 │12 │13 │14 ║ ║ L│ Y│ E│ L│ O│ R│ N║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║15 │16 │17 │18 │19 │20 │21 ║ ║ I│ V│ B│ R│ I│ V│ K║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║22 │23 │24 │25 │26 │27 │28 ║ ║ A│ L│ E│ T│ O│ N│ I║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║29 │30 │31 │32 │33 │34 │35 ║ ║ C│ N│ A│ S│ U│ L│ P║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ are 18, 26, 32, 24, _Rose_; 25, 33, 34, 28, 35, _Tulip_; 35, 28, 27, 21, _Pink_; 31, 32, 25, 24, 18, _Aster_; and, in similar ways, _Verbena_; _Salvia_; _Ivy_; _Lily_; _Lilac_; _Heliotrope_; _Fern_; and _Bell_. No. XXXV The solution of this little problem, set by Dr Puzzlewitz on his blackboard to test the powers of his young pupils--“What are the values of A and B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting B from A?”-- ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ ┃ ┃ A - B = 4 ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ A ÷ B = 4 ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ is that A = 5¹⁄₃ and B = 1¹⁄₃. No. XXXVI This is the diamond squared:-- ┌───┐ │ s │ ┌───┼───┼───┐ │ h │ i │ s │ ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ h │ i │ n │ t │ s │ ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ │ s │ i │ n │ u │ o │ u │ s │ └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ │ s │ t │ o │ r │ m │ └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ │ s │ u │ m │ └───┼───┼───┘ │ s │ └───┘ in which the words read alike from top to bottom, and from left to right. No. XXXVII This is the arrangement of the 32 letters in the 64 cells-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ │ A │ │ E │ I │ │ O │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ E │ O │ │ │ │ │ A │ I ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ A │ I │ E │ O │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I │ │ O │ │ │ A │ │ E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ O │ │ I │ │ │ E │ │ A ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ E │ O │ A │ I │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ A │ I │ │ │ │ │ E │ O ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ E │ │ A │ O │ │ │ I ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ No A is in the same column, row, or diagonal with another A, no E with another E, no I with another I, and no O with another O. No. XXXVIII This is the anagram square, with the letters, which in the former diagram spelt the words _vote_, _wove_, _prow_, _call_, _stew_, _news_, _core_, _nape_, recast into fresh words which now read alike from top to bottom and from left to right of the square. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║###│ C │###│ R │###│ O │###│ W ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ C │###│ L │###│ A │###│ W │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ L │###│ O │###│ V │###│ E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ R │###│ O │###│ P │###│ E │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ A │###│ P │###│ E │###│ S ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ O │###│ V │###│ E │###│ N │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ W │###│ E │###│ N │###│ T ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ W │###│ E │###│ S │###│ T │###║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ The empty squares and diagonal setting are necessary for this particular puzzle, as the words would not form a word square if their letters were placed below one another in the usual way. No. XXXIX The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the key to this sum, is--_Add these up_. If these letters are numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding figures are substituted for the numbers, the sum works out as is shown below. D U 2 9 E H 6 5 E D 8 3 A P 1 0 S T 7 4 ----- ----- D E A 2 6 1 ===== ===== No. XL The four words, seek, slab, leek, moan, which were placed on the white squares when recast form the following combination:-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║###│ M │###│ A │###│ S │###│ K ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ A │###│ B │###│ L │###│ E │###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║###│ S │###│ L │###│ O │###│ E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ K │###│ E │###│ E │###│ N │###║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ These fresh words read alike from side to side, and zigzag from top to bottom. No. XLI These are the four words, recast by anagram from afar, task, seat, leal, and which now form a perfect word square. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ F │ A │ S │ T ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ A │ R │ E │ A ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ S │ E │ A │ L ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ T │ A │ L │ K ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ No. XLII The word square is recast thus-- ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ c │ r │ e │ s │ s ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ r │ e │ a │ c │ h ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ e │ a │ g │ e │ r ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ s │ c │ e │ n │ e ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ s │ h │ r │ e │ d ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Its words are spelt with the same letters as the words _chess_, _greed_, _canes_, _rears_, _cheer_, which formed the original square, but did not read alike from top to bottom, and from left to right, as these do. No. XLIII The five familiar proverbs hidden in this square of 169 letters are: A rolling stone gathers no moss. Too many cooks spoil the broth. A live dog is more to be feared than a dead lion. You cannot eat your cake and have it. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. R E N O W N E D T H A N W S Y O U R C A K E A N D A S T E T O B E F E A R H R E A R K S S P O I L E A F L E O O H E R S N T D V O O T M O T L I N O H T E U N O S C A L A G M E H I R S N I Y G O R S O B A T S E N G N E N O T S R N P A I A O A M O O T S O A E W R C D E V I L A H T D A S O U O Y N O I L D A E C A T C I V R E H H T A H E Z No. XLIV [Illustration] If the shaded circles are cut out and the diagram is placed squarely over the jumbled letters, with the I., II., III., IV. in turn at the top left-hand corner, this sentence is disclosed-- Le premier Supplément du Journal de la Jeunesse a été publié dans le Numéro du Dix-neuf Juin Mil huit cent soixante-quinze. No. XLV This is the way to reconstruct Sam Loyd’s black pony--so that, while its legs and tail are strangely misplaced, they form the spirited outline of a white galloping horse. [Illustration] No. XLVI Here is the key to Sam Loyd’s ingenious puzzle-- [Illustration] which shows the jockeys and horses in full racing trim. No. XLVII This is the inevitable result of the boy’s attempt to annex with his mouth the sugar on the chair-- [Illustration] No. XLVIII The leap-frog puzzle is solved in nine hops thus:-- [Illustration] First jump from stool 2, then from 5, 3, 6, 7, 1, 3, and 6 in turn to the vacant stools. No. LV This diagram shows that the seven wheels, which spin so merrily when the paper is rotated in the hand, can be divided off into separate enclosures by only three straight lines-- [Illustration] No. LVI The diagram below shows how the market-gardener, keeping one-fourth of his square field for himself in the shape of a triangle, was able to divide the remainder so that each of his four sons had an equal portion of similar shape-- [Illustation] No. LVII Here is a drawing of the perfect Latin cross-- [Illustation] The position of the two long pieces does not readily suggest itself to those who try to arrange the five on paper with a pencil. No. LVIII This diagram shows the effectual means taken by four rich men, whose houses were further afield, to exclude four poor men from all access to a central lake, that they might reserve the fishing for themselves. [Illustration] They built a high wall on the lines that are indicated which, while it left a way for each of them to the water, altogether shut it away from their poor neighbours. No. LIX This is the square that can be formed with the ten pattern pieces given-- [Illustration] No. LX The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into nine parts by four straight cuts [Illustration] which can be reunited to form a perfect cross. No. LXI This is a simple way by which the figure given can be divided by four straight cuts into four equal and similar parts-- [Illustration] No. LXII This is the way to draw twenty-two straight lines within the circle at right-angles to each other, so that they divide it into four similar parts-- [Illustration] and each part has three dots within its borders. No. LXIII These diagrams show how the upper triangle is divided into five parts, which can be rearranged to form the equilateral triangle below. [Illustration] The originator of this ingenious novelty says, “The method of construction is not shown, but its application is general, and the result is easily verified by measurement.” No. LXVI This is an arrangement of the twenty-seven counters in nine rows, six in a row, within the borders of an equilateral triangle. * ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ * * ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ * * * ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ * * ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ * ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ *─────*─────*───────*─────*─────* ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ *─────*─────*───────────*─────*─────* ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ *─────*─────*───────────────*─────*─────* No. LXVII All the cards of one colour, when placed alternately, can be brought together in four moves, two at a time, thus-- ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ A │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ │ 8 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♡ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ Place two and three beyond eight; Place five and six between one and four; Place eight and two between four and seven; Place one and five between seven and three. No. LXVIII You can in a moment tell the number chosen on these cards, when you are told on which of them it appears, ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐║ ║│ I. ││ II. ││ III. ││ IV. │║ ║│ ││ ││ ││ │║ ║│ 1 33 65 97││ 2 34 66 98││ 4 36 68 100││ 8 40 72 104│║ ║│ 3 35 67 99││ 3 35 67 99││ 5 37 69 101││ 9 41 73 105│║ ║│ 5 37 69 101││ 6 38 70 102││ 6 38 70 102││ 10 42 74 106│║ ║│ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 11 43 75 107│║ ║│ 9 41 73 105││ 10 42 74 106││ 12 44 76 108││ 12 44 76 108│║ ║│ 11 43 75 107││ 11 43 75 107││ 13 45 77 109││ 13 45 77 109│║ ║│ 13 45 77 109││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110│║ ║│ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111│║ ║│ 17 49 81 113││ 18 50 82 114││ 20 52 84 116││ 24 56 88 120│║ ║│ 19 51 83 115││ 19 51 83 115││ 21 53 85 117││ 25 57 89 121│║ ║│ 21 53 85 117││ 22 54 86 118││ 22 54 86 118││ 26 58 90 122│║ ║│ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 27 59 91 123│║ ║│ 25 57 89 121││ 26 58 90 122││ 28 60 92 124││ 28 60 92 124│║ ║│ 27 59 91 123││ 27 59 91 123││ 29 61 93 125││ 29 61 93 125│║ ║│ 29 61 93 125││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126│║ ║│ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127│║ ║└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘║ ║ ┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐ ║ ║ │ V. ││ VI. ││ VII. │ ║ ║ │ ││ ││ │ ║ ║ │ 16 48 80 112││ 32 48 96 112││ 64 80 96 112│ ║ ║ │ 17 49 81 113││ 33 49 97 113││ 65 81 97 113│ ║ ║ │ 18 50 82 114││ 34 50 98 114││ 66 82 98 114│ ║ ║ │ 19 51 83 115││ 35 51 99 115││ 67 83 99 115│ ║ ║ │ 20 52 84 116││ 36 52 100 116││ 68 84 100 116│ ║ ║ │ 21 53 85 117││ 37 53 101 117││ 69 85 101 117│ ║ ║ │ 22 54 86 118││ 38 54 102 118││ 70 86 102 118│ ║ ║ │ 23 55 87 119││ 39 55 103 119││ 71 87 103 119│ ║ ║ │ 24 56 88 120││ 40 56 104 120││ 72 88 104 120│ ║ ║ │ 25 57 89 121││ 41 57 105 121││ 73 89 105 121│ ║ ║ │ 26 58 90 122││ 42 58 106 122││ 74 90 106 122│ ║ ║ │ 27 59 91 123││ 43 59 107 123││ 75 91 107 123│ ║ ║ │ 28 60 92 124││ 44 60 108 124││ 76 92 108 124│ ║ ║ │ 29 61 93 125││ 45 61 109 125││ 77 93 109 125│ ║ ║ │ 30 62 94 126││ 46 62 110 126││ 78 94 110 126│ ║ ║ │ 31 63 95 127││ 47 63 111 127││ 79 95 111 127│ ║ ║ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘ ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ by adding together the numbers at the top left-hand corner of these. No. LXIX This diagram shows that the postman can take a course which involves fewer turnings than that indicated, when he had to pass round eighteen corners. ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ┇ ┇ ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ●┅┅┅○ ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ● ● ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● It will be seen that he has to turn only fifteen times. No. LXX This shows how a square can be divided into three parts, so that these can be reunited to form No. 2 and No. 3 of the diagram. [Illustration] [Illustration: 1.] [Illustration: 2.] [Illustration: 3.] Try it with scissors and paper or cardboard. No. LXXI ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │#♘#│ ♖ │#♚#│ ♖ │###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │# #│###┃ ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ This position fulfils the conditions of the puzzle. Obviously it could not occur in actual play. No. LXXV The dotted lines in this diagram show where the flag with a cross taken out from its centre must be cut, so that the two pieces can be rejoined to form a perfect flag. [Illustration] The piece on the right is moved upward, and to the left. No. LXXVI This is a way in which the eleven parts can be readjusted to form a square:-- [Illustration] No. LXXVIII This shows the shortest course-- [Illustration] This track takes him completely round every block, passing only once round four of them. No. LXXIX Here is a very simple and symmetrical arrangement, by which on a board of 36 squares twelve counters are so placed that there are two, and two only, on each line, column, and diagonal. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ ◎ │ │ │ │ │ ◎ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ ◎ │ │ │ ◎ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ ◎ │ │ │ ◎ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ │ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ │ ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ ◎ │ │ │ │ │ ◎ ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ There are other arrangements which fulfil the conditions. No. LXXXI In this nest of triangles of five tiers there are 1196 separate triangles, or nearly double the number (653) of a similar nest of four tiers. [Illustration] In such a figure with 10,000 tiers there would be 6,992,965,420,332 different triangles! No. LXXXII The match puzzle, in which eight matches set in a row are to be rearranged in four pairs, by passing one match over two four times-- ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ is solved, if the matches are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, by moving 4 to 7, 6 to 2, 1 to 3, and 5 to 8. No. LXXXIII The lower diagram shows how, when three matches are removed from the four squares, the remaining nine can be readjusted to represent three squares-- ══════ ══════ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ═══════ ══════ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ══════ ══════ /-----\/-----\ /-----\ ═════ ═════ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ═════ ═════ No. LXXXIV This diagram shows how different arrangements of four matches are possible in all the thirty-six cells of the square. │ ╲ ╱ │ │ ╳ │ = 1 │ ╱ ╲ │ │ │ │ │ │ ── │ = 1 │ │ │ ___ ╱ │ ╲ ╱ │ = 1 V │ │ │ │ │ ──+── │ = 2 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─── = 2 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ = 4 │ │ │ │ ╲ ╱ │ ╲ ╱ ── │ = 4 V │ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ V ───── = 5 │ │ │ ___ ╱ │ ╱ ── │ = 6 ╱ │ ___ ╱ ╱ ╱ ─── = 7 │ │ │ ╲ ╱ │ │ ╲ ╱ │ │ = 7 V │ │ ╲ ╱ │ ╳ ── │= 9 ╱ ╲ │ │ │ │ │ │ ── │ = 10 │ │ │ ╲ ╱ ╳ ╱ ╲ ─── = 10 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─── = 11 │ │ │ ╲ ╱ │ │ ╳ │ │ = 12 ╱ ╲ │ │ │ ╱│ │ ─┼─ = 14 │ │ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╳ ╲ ╱ = 15 ╱ ╲ V ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╳ ╳ = 20 ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ │ ╳ │ = 40 ╱ ╲ │___ ╱│ │ ─+─ │ = 41 │ │ │ │ │ ─── │ = 49 │___ │ │ │ │___ ───── = 50 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ = 52 │___ │ │ │ ╲ ╱ │ ╳ = 60 │___ ╱ ╲ ___ │ │ ╱ │ │ ╱ = 117 │ │ ╱ ___ │ ╱ │ │ ╱ │ = 171 │ ╱ │ ___ ╱ │ │ ╱ │ │ = 711 ╱ │ │ │╲ ╱│ │ V │ = 1000 │ │ ──── │ │ │ │ = 0 │ │ ──── │ │ │ 1 ─── = ─── │ │ 2 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 1 ───── = ─── ╲ ╱ 5 ╲ ╱ V │ │ │ 1 ──── = ─── ___ 7 ╱ ╱ ╱ │ │ │ 1 ─── = ─── ╲ ╱ 10 ╳ ╱ ╲ │ │ │ 1 ─── = ─── │ │ 11 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 1 ──── = ─── │ 50 │ │__ In every case a whole number or a fraction is represented, with such signs or lines as are necessary, and only four matches are used. No. LXXXV It will be seen from the diagram below that the sentence, when filled in as required, is “Rise to vote, sir.” ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ R | I | S | E | T | O | V | O | T | E | S | I | R ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ S | | S | | | | | | | | S | | S ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ E | | | E | | | | | | E | | | E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ T | | | | T | | | | T | | | | T ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ O | | | | | O | | O | | | | | O ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ V | | | | | | V | | | | | | V ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ O | | | | | O | | O | | | | | O ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ T | | | | T | | | | T | | | | T ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ E | | | E | | | | | | E | | | E ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ S | | S | | | | | | | | S | | S ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ║ R | I | S | E | T | O | V | O | T | E | S | I | R ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ As this sentence is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike from either end, it can be traced in a great number of different directions. No. LXXXVII This subtraction sum may be very neatly worked, without reducing the distances to inches, thus:-- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║miles furlongs rods yards feet inches║ ║ 1 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 ║ ║ 7 „ 39 „ 5 „ 1 „ 5 ║ ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────── ║ ║ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 1 ║ ║ ═══════════════════════════════════════════ ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Instead of borrowing one foot, we borrow half-a-foot--_i.e._, 6 inches; taking 5 from the 6 we have 1 as a remainder; now carrying the 6 inches to the 1 foot, and borrowing half a yard, and subtracting, we have 0 as remainder; carrying the half-yard to the 5 yards, we borrow the full 5¹⁄₂ yards, which are one rod, and proceed in the usual manner afterwards, with the result that is shown. No. LXXXIX This is an arrangement of nine counters on the irregular board of 67 squares. ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |#●#┃ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ ┃###| |#●#| |###| |###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ ● |###| |###| |###| ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###| |###| |###| ● |###┃ ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ ┃#●#| |###| |###┃ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ ┃###| |###| |#●#| |###┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃ |###| |###| |###| ● ┃ ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ ┃ ● │###| |###| |###| |###│ ┃ ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ ┃###| |###| |#●#| |###| |###┃ ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ No two counters are in the same row, column, or diagonal. No. XC This is the arrangement of nine cards in ten rows, three in each row-- ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ K │ │ Q │ │ K │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ A │ │ A │ │ A │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♠ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ 1 │ │ K │ │ J │ │ 0 │ │ │ │ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ No. XCI The following diagram shows how the two ladies and their squires represented by white Knights and black, and dressed to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, started from the four comer squares, and stepped a figure which exhibited at each pause a revolving square, and in three paces came together in the centre, by a course traced upon the lines of their combined monograms. [Illustration] No. XCII The 5 maxims in these 36 cells-- ╔════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╗ ║ │ │ │ │ │ he ║ ║ tell │you know│ tells │ knows │ tells │ should ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ not ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ you │ │ thinks │ │ is ║ ║ do │ think │ does │ of │ does │ not ║ ║ │ of │ │ │ │ good ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ believe│you hear│believes│ hears │believes│is false║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ spend │you have│ spends │ has │ spends │he needs║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ is ║ ║ judge │ you see│ judges │ sees │ judges │ not ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ there ║ ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ║ never │ all │ he who │ all he │ often │ what ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╚════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╝ are disentangled by reading the lowest line with each of the upper ones in turn. Thus the first maxim runs:--“Never tell all you know, he who tells all he knows often tells what he should not,” and so on throughout. No. XCIII The dislocated circle is solved by making a single cut through the dotted line shown in the diagram below, and join up the pieces. [Illustration] The second diagram shows how this figure is arrived at, by drawing three similar and intersecting circles, which have their centres at the angles of an equilateral triangle. The piece cut off by the dotted line corresponds to the section that completes the circle below. No. XCV The catch-words Cleans, Scrubs, Scours, Polishes, which proclaim the merits of an “Old Dutch Cleanser” on the sails of this windmill, [Illustration] can be recast so that the same letters form the singularly appropriate sentence-- “O rub on, sir, success spells cash!” No. XCVI The following diagram shows the solution of this new chess puzzle, and fulfils its conditions that no Queen should attack a Queen, no Rook a Rook, no Bishop a Bishop, and no Knight a Knight. ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ║ B ║#B#║ B ║#B#║ Q ║#R#║ B ║#B#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║###║ N ║###║ Q ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║ N ║#R#║ N ║#Q#║ N ║###║ N ║#B#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║#Q#║ N ║###║ N#║ R#║ N ║###║ B ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║ B ║###║ N ║###║ N ║###║ Q ║#R#║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║#B#║ Q ║###║ N ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║ N ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║#Q#║ N ║###║ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ ║#R#║ B ║#Q#║ N ║#B#║ B ║#B#║ N ║ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ Mr Dudeney explains that only 8 Queens or 8 Rooks can be thus placed upon the board, while the greatest number of Bishops is fourteen, and of Knights thirty-two. But as all Knights must be placed on squares of the same colour, while the Queens occupy four of each colour, and the bishops seven of each colour, it follows that only twenty-one Knights can be placed, and the arrangement shown above contains the maximum number of these pieces under the conditions. No. CII This diagram shows the order in which the syllables or words of the eight-line verse are to be read on the course of a Knight’s moves at chess-- ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ ║ 14 │ 55 │ 22 │ 37 │ 12 │ 51 │ 18 │ 35 ║ ║ sor │ to │ king │ good │ say │ luck │ loy │ eth ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 23 │ 38 │ 13 │ 54 │ 17 │ 36 │ 11 │ 50 ║ ║ and │ moth │ a │ soon │ dis │ our │ to │ bad ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 56 │ 15 │ 40 │ 21 │ 52 │ 9 │ 34 │ 19 ║ ║ place│ ry │church│ his │ force│ is │ hat │ al ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 39 │ 24 │ 53 │ 16 │ 33 │ 20 │ 49 │ 10 ║ ║ er │ queen│ him │ wight│ he │ to │ may │ truth║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 2 │ 57 │ 28 │ 41 │ 8 │ 61 │ 32 │ 47 ║ ║ man │ his │ and │ and │ chess│ es │knight│ op’s ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 25 │ 42 │ 1 │ 60 │ 29 │ 48 │ 7 │ 62 ║ ║ a │ sneer│ the │ and │ un │ lawn │ of │ tates║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 58 │ 3 │ 44 │ 27 │ 64 │ 5 │ 46 │ 31 ║ ║ cas │ that │ at │ less │ pawn │ no │ bish │ lant ║ ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ ║ 44 │ 26 │ 59 │ 4 │ 45 │ 30 │ 63 │ 6 ║ ║ eth │ faith│ tles │ hath │ the │ gal │ in │ love ║ ╚══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╝ They run thus:-- The man that hath no love of chess, Is, truth to say, a sorry wight; Disloyal to his King and Queen, A faithless and ungallant Knight. He hateth our good mother Church, And sneereth at the bishop’s lawn; May bad luck force him soon to place His castles and estates in pawn! No. CV If such a network as is shown in the diagram below is drawn on clear tracing-paper and placed on the page of a book, it will conceal the words beneath it. [Illustration] But if, while lying close to the page, it is moved quickly round and about, the letters and words will be distinctly seen, just as objects on the other side of close lattice-work become visible as we pass them quickly in a train. No. CVI These are the results of cutting, in the direction of the dotted lines, completely round a simple paper ring, a ring with one twist, and a ring with a double twist. [Illustration] We have (1) two simple rings; (2) one large-twisted ring; (3) two rings linked together. If a third twist is given before cutting, a curious knot is formed. CVII The string when it has been placed in the position shown in the diagram, and two buttons larger than the hole have been fixed upon its ends can be easily removed if the narrow slip of the leather is drawn through the hole. [Illustration] CVIII The scissors, when securely fastened, as is shown in the diagram, [Illustration] can be easily released by passing the loop upward through the handle, and then completely over them. CIX The primitive wolf-trap consisted of two circular fences higher than a wolf could scale, with a gate as was shown on the former diagram. To set the trap a lamb was placed in the safe centre, and the gate was opened as is shown below-- [Illustration] Attracted by the bleating of the lamb, the wolf entered the outer circle, made his way round, and presently pushed aside the gate, which closed with a spring, and shut off all escape. No. CXII When you have told someone to think of a number between 5 and 15, and while you are not looking, to count upwards from the lowest card step, and round in the direction indicated by the arrow, until that number is reached, and then, starting afresh with “one” on that card to count backwards round the semi-circle, this time _not including the central upright or the steps below it_, until the number thought of is again reached, you can tell at once which is the final card arrived at, for it will be as many places _upwards on the left_ as there are _step cards and their upright_. [Illustration] Thus if there are 3 steps, it must always be the fourth card upwards on the left of the semi-circle. To keep up the puzzle, the number of steps should each time be changed, on the pretext that their number does not signify. No. CXIII This diagram shows how the apple may be divided into six pieces by two straight cuts, so that there shall be a gash in each piece. [Illustration] First cut the apple through the dotted line, then place the upper piece shown at the side of the larger piece, and make the second cut straight through, where the line is drawn. No. CXVII The sixpence under the middle of the tumbler can be easily removed thus-- [Illustration] Slip larger coins under opposite edges of the tumbler to raise it slightly, and then scratch firmly on the cloth, from just outside the rim, in the direction you wish the sixpence to take. It will at once respond, and makes its own way gradually outside the circle that had surrounded it. No. CXVIII This is the way to draw the spiral-- [Illustration] Tie a piece of strong thread with a loop at its end round the upper part of the windings of a screw. Drive the screw into a board, through the middle of a card, wind the thread down the screw so that its loop just reaches the card, place a pencil in this loop, and draw the spiral freely, unwinding the thread from the grooves of the screw, and keeping it always taut. A perfect spiral is the result. No. CXXII. The secret of the talking head is simple indeed when you know it. [Illustration] Between the front and two side legs of the table mirrors are fixed, which reflect the similar surroundings, so that the performer, kneeling behind these, and putting his head through a hole in the table top, completely conceals his body and limbs from the audience. No. CXXV The picture charade is completed thus-- [Illustration] My first may blow the candle out, My second then comes in; My whole in water moves about Without an oar or fin-- and is solved by _Puffin_. No. CXXVI When the walnuts and cobnuts have been arranged as is shown on the diagram-- [Illustration] they can be shifted so that they stand alternately, by moving two that are close together at a time, in four moves, as follows:-- (1) Move 2 and 3 beyond 8. (2) Move 5 and 6 between 1 and 4. (3) Move what are now 6th and 7th in the gap. (4) Move what are now 1st and 2nd in the gap, and the alternate arrangement is complete. No. CXXVII The question suggested by this picture riddle is: Why is a waiter like a racehorse? And the solution is: Because he runs for cups and plates. [Illustration] WORD PLAY SOLUTIONS 1 The paradox-- Two words in our region of puzzledom pose, And claim, through the passage of years, That neither the pages of Johnson disclose, While either in Murray appears. is solved by the lines-- This key unlocks our puzzle-box, Johnson and Murray both give “neither,” While, to complete the paradox, Murray and Johnson both give “either!” 2 The verse is completed thus-- Rude Eurus murmurs, trustful buds uncurl, Bulbs push, due culture nurtures fruitful flush; Thrush builds, full sunhued plumes furze tufts unfurl, Up bursts, pure flute-fugue, Bulbul’s tuneful gush. 3 The enigma-- I see my first, I see my next, And both I sigh and see Joined to my third, which much perplexed And sorely puzzled me. ’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more, Reversed ’twas scarce an ell, With first and next it forms a whole Clear as a crystal bell. What is my whole? A splendid tear Upheld in cruel thrall; Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun, appear! And bid it gently fall. is solved by ICICLE. 4 The charade-- Take for my first a quadruped, Transpose one for my second; My whole, a biped, quick or dead Is dainty reckoned. is solved by _Pigeon_ (_one_ becomes _eon_). 5 Byron’s enigma-- I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age, But in infancy ever am known; I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage, And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page I always am greatest alone. I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon; You may search all the sky--I’m not there; In the morning and evening--though not in the noon-- You may plainly perceive me--for, like a balloon, I am midway suspended in air. Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain, I am never in sorrow nor gloom; Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign, I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain, Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb! is solved by the letter I. 6 I am bright as a whole Till you cut off my head; Then as black as a coal, Or a mortal instead. Shaken up and recast We with science are found, Read us back from the last And we live underground. is solved by _Star_, _tar_, _arts_, _rats_. 7 Horace Smith’s charade-- In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still, All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will; Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry--a cry that doth express A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness. In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard, And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third. Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed, Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find. is solved by _Reformatory_. 8 Untouched I tell of budding growth and life; Beheaded I lead upward more or less; Again--with varied fragrance I am rife; Again--but little value I express. is solved by _Nascent_, _ascent_, _scent_, _cent_. 9 The enigma-- Search Holy Writ and you will see A victory was won by me. Behead me, and I may be found In water or on hilly ground. Behead again, and then transpose, A snare my letters now disclose. If yet again my head you sever, No matter how sharp-set or clever, ’Tis all in vain you look about, For no one yet has found me out. is solved by _Sling_, _ling_, _gin_, _in_. 10 The charade-- Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court, “Now I’d bet, were we not in this place, That my first is my second a bottle of port,” Then bright with my whole shone his face. is solved by _Pleasure_. 11 The answer to the problem-- Six horse ’buses and four motor ’buses travel each hour from Temple Bar to the Bank. The horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 minutes on the journey. If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as possible, shall I take the first horse ’bus that turns up, or wait for a motor? It must be assumed that I can only see a ’bus as it actually passes me-- is (1) Take a motor if it comes first. (2) Take a horse ’bus if it comes first, and comes within 2¹⁄₂ minutes of waiting. (3) Wait for a motor if a horse ’bus comes first, but does not come till after 2¹⁄₂ minutes. As I may have to wait 0 minutes or 15 minutes, the average time of waiting will be 7¹⁄₂ minutes. If I wait _x_ min., and a horse ’bus arrives, I should reach the Bank in 15 mins, if I took it. If I waited longer for a motor, which, on the average, will now turn up in 7¹⁄₂ - _x_ mins., I should reach the Bank in 17¹⁄₂ - _x_ mins. If, therefore, _x_ is greater than 2¹⁄₂, the motor is the quicker. 12 The historical charade-- My first, if foolishly or rashly taken, May mar the future prospects of your life. My second, by her fickle lord forsaken (Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife). May toil and moil to feed his many babies, While he goes flirting off with other ladies. The thrifty monarch of a former age My whole a place in Britain’s history fills. Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills! is solved by _Stephen_ (Step-hen). 13 My _second_, worn with pompous pride, My _first_ had dangling at his side, On chain securely hooked. My _first_ he came from o’er the sea, A bundle of conceit looked he, And he was all he looked. She led him to the village green, Where in desponding mood was seen My _whole_, with drooping head. “Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true And striking likeness, sir, of you!” And, laughing, gaily fled. is solved by _Donkey_. 14 Lewis Carroll turns WHEAT into BREAD, changing one letter each time, and preserving their general order throughout, thus-- WHEAT; cheat; cheap; cheep; creep; creed; breed; BREAD. 15 _Unity_ is a probable solution of the old enigma, part of which evidently refers to “a house divided against itself”-- I’m one among a numerous host, And very useful in my post; There’s not a house in all the land Without me properly can stand. Though men disputed long ago Whether I did exist or no, Once more some thousands have been slain Because they could not me attain. 16 The anagram proverbs, “These grave lips chatter no ill,” and “Elephants, all to richest giver,” are both founded on _Little pitchers have long ears_, and spelt with exactly the same letters. 17 The charade-- My first of rudeness has a sound; The rest is in a city found; My whole to win its way is bound. is solved by _Pertinacity_. 18 The buried potentate in the lines-- My first is in cake, but not in bun; My second in light, but not in sun; My third is in night, but not in day; My fourth is in game, but not in play; My fifth is in head, but not in tail; My sixth is in wind, but not in sail; My seventh in wrong, but not in right; My eighth is in battle, but not in fight; My ninth is in sword, but not in knife, My tenth is in lady, but not in wife; My whole is a monarch at war with strife. is _King Edward_. 19 The charade-- My first except when it is old Is never seen or heard; When it is heard the sound is tolled Out of a Jewish beard. My next was in imperial Rome, It was her power and might; Then you had but to write _you wish_, And straightway ’twas in sight. My whole was Frank Of royal rank. is solved by _Clovis_ (_vis_ in Latin is both _power_ and _you wish_). 20 How great in olden days my power, Oft have I saved a castle tower From war’s invading tide. Transpose me, and how great my fall! I am then the smallest of the small, That nothing can divide. is solved by _Moat_--_atom_. 21 The puzzle-- This compact Enigma take, All apart its letters shake. Let your 6, 3, 5 be high, Like 5, 1, 2 do or die. Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys More than 5, 6, 2 by boys? While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine, May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine. 4, 1, 5 is rich and rare, 6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer. is solved by the word Enigma, from which are formed, as is indicated, the words _aim_, _men_, _game_, _man_, _mine_, _gain_, _gem_, and _amen_. 22 The enigma-- “Charles the First walked and talked, Half an hour after his head was cut off.” _Old Couplet_. Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King, A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow. Halve what remains, my second is a thing Which nothing but my third can e’er make go, My third will vary as you take your line, This less than human, that way all divine! is solved by _Dog_ (Og, go, dog, God). 23 The logograph-- Touch me not, I’m firm and sure; Behead, I’m used by rich and poor; In house and cottage, hut and hall, I stand of service to them all. Behead again, in time of need I tell that strength and skill succeed. is solved by _Stable_, _table_, _able_. 24 The names that satisfy the conditions of this Single Acrostic-- What river is that, where it is found, Which Pope says does with eels abound? What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded, Is with bright birch and oak surrounded? What stream is said in Devon to run Into the sea near Otterton? What bay on Cuba’s distant coast Is justly deemed its pride and boast? The initials of these names will show A Scotch reformer, who, we know, Flourished three hundred years ago. are _Kennet_, _Ness_, _Otter_, _Xagua_, which give _Knox_. 25 The charade-- My whole may be a mother, not a dad, So former may, or latter; But twist my tail, and I become as mad As any hatter! Behead me, and behold I am a man, Who never was called mister; Cut off my tail, and instantly I can Become a sister! is solved by _Madam_ (_ma_, _dam_, _mad_, _Adam_, _Ada_). 26 In addition to the singularly appropriate anagram that has been so happily attached to the name of Florence Nightingale, _Flit on, cheering angel_, the same group of letters can be recast as an aspiration for her continuance in our loving memory, so that they form the sentence, _Cling on, feeling heart_. 27 The rebus-- I am a man I rate you a beast You know me reads thus:--I rate you lower than a man, above a beast. Know between you and me I am above the rest. 28 The charade-- My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome, Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread. Long may it be before that fate shall come And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread! is solved by _Scissors_ (Lat. _scis_, thou knowest; _sors_, a lot). 29 The poets’ names buried in the lines-- The sun is darting rays of gold Upon the moor, enchanting spot; Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved, Up open to his shepherd cot. And sundry denizens of air Are flying--aye, each to his nest; And eager make at such an hour All haste to reach the mansions blest. are Gray, Moore, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Gay, Keats and Hemans. 30 The enigma-- This multiplies me, I declare, Though it reduces one; A sty is foul if it is there, By it a deed is done. is solved by the letter _n_ (_me_ becomes _men_; _one_, _none_; _a sty_, _nasty_.) 31 Lennie _parsed_ the words he read, Studying _Praed’s_ fable; Lennie’s mother _rasped_ the bread, Sophy _drapes_ the table. “Work while you are _spared_,” they said, “_Spread_ while you are able!” The words in italics have the same letters. 32 The charade-- When I write with my first, in my second, My whole is quite sure to be in. Divided afresh, there is reckoned A wit, or a something that’s thin. Prefix a letter, and, as clear as paint, You see the name of an old English Saint, is solved by _Within_ (Swithin). 33 The puzzle lines-- My first, though half a noisy bird, To a slight noise may turn; My second-twist, a stately word, And it will bend we learn. are solved by _Pardon_ (rap-nod). 34 The enigma-- To half of ten add one Then half a score. When this is duly done Almost ten more. This can be good for none, But trial sore. is solved by _Vixen_. 35 The buried proverb-- I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous attempt to show illegality, is as a cat chasing snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I shun his example--is-- _If you swear you will catch no fish_. 36 Quick _veerers_ in action, now timid, now bold, Like _reevers_ of ropes far too rotten to hold, _Reserve_ a _severer reverse_ and disasters For a State that _reveres_ not incapable masters. The six words in italics are spelt with the same letters. 37 My first is an heir, My second a snare, My whole is the offspring of fancy, Which I sent on its way Last Valentine’s Day, As a token of love to my Nancy. is solved by _Sonnet_. 38 The lover’s vow-- My love shall never know my first, Shall never be my second; It shall my all, come best, come worst, Be surely reckoned. is solved by _Endless_. 39 The enigma-- I am a letter, and a word, I am a tree, I am a name, Cut me in pieces with a sword, You and your act would be the same. Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt, And use it twice if you would find me out. is solved by U, You, Hugh, Yew, How. 40 If you “resist disasters,” this may, by anagram, _distress a sister_. 41 The charade-- My first the rainbow shows When in rich hues it glows. My next has vowels three; My third was once a tree. My fourth begins the year, My whole the past makes clear. is solved by _Archæology_. 42 If you ask a schoolboy to estimate the value of the grass in a triangular field, of which the longest side measures 100 rods, and each of the other sides 50 rods, at £1 per acre, it may take him some little time to see that he is being sold, since the condition is not fulfilled that any two sides of a triangle _must be greater than the third side_. 43 Less than my last, my whole has place Between my first and second: Second has body, arms and face; First is by inches reckoned. is solved by _waistcoat_. 44 The historical charade-- My first at early morn the camp alarms, And at its sound the soldier springs to arms; My second nowadays fair ladies scorn, Though in less dainty days it oft was worn. My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground, With victory the rebel forces crowned. is solved by the battle of _Drumclog_. 45 I love strolling _troupes_ that go wandering round, Each _spouter_ a _Proteus_ in versatile skill; Each _posture_ so quaint, each idea so profound, My barn’s at their service, whenever they will. A company played there last night, but to-day Ducks, _pouters_, and poultry have vanished away! The five words in italics are spelt with the same seven letters. 46 The Arithmorem “150 hat robe or tent” forms the name Charlotte Bronte. 47 The Shedding Letters enigma-- I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known, Of all that are busy in country and town. Take from me one letter, and yet my good name In spite of this loss will continue the same. Take from me two letters, and still you will see That precisely the same in effect I shall be. Take from me three letters, or even take more, Yet still I continue as sound as before. is solved by _The Postman_! 48 When Tom Larkins challenged his sisters to prove on a blackboard that if 50 is subtracted from the sum of the nine digits the result equals the number obtained by dividing their sum by 3, he showed them that the sum of the digits may be written thus: XLV, and that if the L, which represents 50, is removed, XV, or 15, the third of 45, remains. 49 In the “Geese to Market” problem-- B drove a goodly flock of geese, And met with Farmer A; Said Farmer A, “How much apiece For this lot did you pay?” Said B, “I paid for all I drive Just six pounds and a crown, And I am selling all but five At the next market town. If fifteen pence a head I charge Beyond the price I paid, I shall secure a sum as large As he who sold all made.” B bought 25 geese at 5s. each, and proposed to sell 20 of them at 6s. 3d. 50 The charade-- When second held first For best or for worst, I thought myself happy to win her. But what could I say When the very next day She gave me the whole for my dinner? is solved by _Herring_. 51 In the lines-- The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum, Blending so sweetly with the restful air; The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come, And well I ken the lass who meets me there-- the familiar adage, “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home” is buried. 52 The mutilations in-- A little beast without its head Becomes a mighty beast instead: But then the subject of my riddle Is cut asunder in the middle; And nothing this division gains, Though unknown quantity remains. are _Fox_, _ox_, _o_, _x_. 53 Mary sat with _slate_ in hand, Writing _tales_ dramatic. Did she _steal_ the plots she planned? Negative emphatic! _Stale_ to us the _tales_ may be, But at _least_ they’re new to she! 54 The old Sanscrit problem, quoted by Longfellow in his “Kavanagh,” Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, seeing the clouds collect, flew to the Manus lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, and three couple were seen playing in the water. Tell me, my young girl with beautiful locks, what was the whole number of geese? is solved by 144. 55 The enigma-- Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be That if you divide the whole number by three You find the result will exactly express The half of six hundred and sixty, no less-- is solved by turning the sixes of 660 upside down, when it becomes 990, and satisfies the conditions. 56 The press parody ran thus-- There was a young turkey, oh, bless her! It cost very little to dress her; Some breadcrumbs and thyme About Thanksgiving time, And they ate every bit from the dresser! 57 She loses her head when she joins the brides, He joins them after tea; But both are swept by ruthless tides Away on the western sea. is solved by _Hebrides_. 58 If I have 91 bananas on my barrow, and find, when I have sold one quality at four a penny, and the other at three a penny, that in mixed lots at seven for twopence I should have made a penny more, I had 64 of inferior and 27 of better sort. 59 The words in italics have the same letters-- How does the sluggard’s garden grow? When _rates_ are high, results are low. His borders _tares_ and bindweed spoil, No careful culture _tears_ the soil; What weeds that _stare_ are all alive Where _aster_, pink, or rose should thrive. 60 Correctly drawn results I yield, Varied, but welcome everywhere; But met with in the open field I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare. To this peculiar difference the clue Is called with much significance the cue. is solved by _Cheque_, _check_ (the letter Q). 61 The three towns buried in the lines-- Wait while I think the matter over, On holiday intent; The best I’ve seen is surely Dover, That pretty port of Kent. are _Leith_, _Thebes_, _St Ives_. 62 An Arab came to the river side, With a donkey bearing an obelisk; But he did not venture to ford the tide, For he had to good an ass to risk (_asterisk_). So he camped all night by that river side, Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, For he knew that whenever the donkey died, No other could be its _parallel_ (‖). 63 The charade-- What ho, my jolly _second!_ never say my _first_ While my final you can find in Amsterdam. Think how a sound _whole_ stays your hunger and your thirst, Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam. is solved by _Dietary_ (Amsterdam is on the River Y). 64 The schoolboy who calculated that if he had made as many more runs at a cricket match, and half as many more, and two runs and a half, he would have made a score, scored seven runs. 65 The enigma-- Six letters spell the happy state Of two in love made one. The same six letters tell the fate Of marriage ties undone. is solved by _United_, _untied_. 66 The riddle-- My first’s a bond, my second’s weigh; These own the rest of all my lay; Busy my third; fourth like the pole, Whose opposite my fifth makes goal. is solved by _Shackle_, _Tons_, _Ant_, _Arctic Expedition_. [Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton, R.N., leader of his South Polar Expedition.] 67 For two months at the _nets_ we played, Ere we were _sent_ to Lord’s; Alas! the score our champion made Was what a _nest_ affords. The crowd in _tens_ of thousands came, But took scant notice of the game. The words in italics have the same letters. 68 When Edwin and Angelina received these mutual Marconigrams-- “No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind.” “In love inconstant I no pleasure find,” he was at Lisbon and she was at Constantinople, as is indicated by the fact that the names of these places are “buried” in the messages. 69 The Mental Arithmetic-- Set down three figures in a line, Then multiply by four; This, if you use the proper sign, Makes five, and nothing more. is solved by 1.25. In 1¹⁄₄ the figures are not _in a line_. 70 The doublet by missing words, in which a grilse is turned into a salmon, is solved thus-- To silver Tweed, or broader Spey, The _grilse_ of _silver_, _sailer_ gay, Guides on; the _sailor morals_ draws When _salmon_ follows Nature’s laws. One letter is changed in each link. 71 The enigma-- I never move, and yet I run From place to place all day; Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, Sees Dora in my way-- is solved by _Road_, which spells also _Dora_. 72 The Letters-- ~HAATTCEUMSSSS~ form the name of the State _Massachusetts_. 73 The enigma-- Seven words in one of letters five we fix, Six English, and one Latin; No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, If puzzles you are pat in. is solved by _There_: the words are--_there_, _here_, _her_, _the_, _ere_, _he_, _re_. 74 The full solution of the answer by anagram to the question, “Why is every angler ipso facto an Ananias?” is-- A liar, he spins gay fancies to a woven yarn. Question and answer are spelt with _the same letters_. 75 The quaint riddle-- Peter White Will never go right; Shall I tell you the reason why? Wherever he goes, He follows his nose, And that stands all awry! If this appendage had slanted more. Why would it serve a hole to bore? is solved thus--It would be _Askewer_ (a skewer!) 76 “S” is the missing letter which occurs 55 times, and these are the four lines:-- This season’s sunshine smiles, such storms as pass Assist us to assess success or loss. Spring’s sweetness still possesses mossy grass, As summer’s tresses mass soft shades across. 77 The enigma-- Protected, open, plain, Without my tail I’m flat; I’m round, curtailed again; Again, you have me pat! is solved by _Patent_, _paten_, _pate_, _pat_. 78 The logogriph-- When all are gay this holds the sway, But take a letter out, That change of fare is ruling there, You see, without a doubt. Behead me twice; it is not nice To have this in your skin; Lop head and tail, and find a nail Or tack to drive it in. Behead this right, and in your sight A little word you find; But you will never make it out, Though it is in your mind. is solved by _feasting_, _fasting_, _sting_, _tin_, _in_. 79 He _prides_ himself much on his skill, In many a burglary tried; But when he _prised_ open the till There was only a _spider_ inside. The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. 80 The enigma-- Three-fourths of me an act display, Three-fourths a bed for man; Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, Three-fourths have legs that can. I have a back without a spine, An arm without a bone is mine. is solved by _Coat_. 81 The charade-- My first is the French for my second, My whole a narcotic is reckoned is solved by _Lethe_. 82 The two palindrome words which can be formed from the letters of the sentence “Arrive to vote at it,” are _Rotator_ and _Evitative_. 83 The enigma-- Sweet till I lose my head, Sweet-hearted then I show; Decapitate again, I spread, And cannot be below. Served so once more, I am not dead, But with fresh beauty glow. is solved by _Clover_, _lover_, _over_, _ver_ (Latin for Spring). 84 When Tommy undertook to put a shilling in his money-box if his father would give him as much as he had in his purse, and after repeating the process for three more days found himself penniless, he had elevenpence farthing in his purse at first. 85 Two articles of English make, And three from foreign source. All these together you must take Where dramas run their course. is solved by _Theatres_ (_tres_, Latin for _three_). 86 When young Hopeful said, “If it were possible I should choose a life double as long,” and old Sobersides answered, “Yes, and you might turn it to better account if it was also begun old,” and the fact that their actual words “double as long,” and “also begun old,” were spelt with _exactly the same letters_, gave emphasis to the reply. 87 The charade-- Lop head and tail, and you will find I have both tail and head. Or if for spirits you’ve a mind Set my tail first instead. Life, as “a vapour full of woes,” With many a darker page, My whole in picture will disclose, For “all the world’s a stage!” is solved by _Drama_, _ram_, _a dram_. 88 A glowing _transept_ window, graced With _patterns_ that true art has traced. The words in italics have the same letters. 89 The proof by anagram that the words of commendation “blessed in pain,” are properly applied to anæsthetics, is that exactly the same letters spell _indispensable_. 90 The quotation buried in the sentence-- “What sin was it, sonny?” said an American negress to her lover, when she sat on his best hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was botany, but not hers, for she was then a merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer this mellow pineapple, Leonidas,” she said; “I guess we Ethiopians just love fruit!” is “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” 91 They _grab_ the dress with grip so keen That half the _garb_ gives way: And home return with purses lean To _brag_ of “bargain-day”! The words in italics are spelt with the same four letters. 92 Three _ladies_ went sailing out into the West, Out into the West as the sun sank low; Each thought as she _sailed_ of the lad she loved best For they all had _ideals_, and each had a beau. · · · · · · · But seas will rise, and spirits will sink, And they all were too ill of _ideals_ to think, So these _ladies sailed_ back moaning! The words in italics have the same six letters. 93 The charade-- Lurking in riddles oft my first is found; My second should in ample stores abound, Or help to make the sweetest songster heard. Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third. My whole has found with England’s monarch grace, The verdant home of many a goodly race, is solved by _Punchestown_. 94 The enigma-- Accent my head, An opening I appear; In other fashion said I charm all far and near-- is solved by _Entrance_. 95 The two sentences-- A lamp shines out for thee, Win me best by tears, are anagrams of _The Houses of Parliament_ and _Westminster Abbey_. 96 When on the Brighton beach an excited collie in pursuit of stones thrown into the sea, suggested the riddle, “What is the difference between that dog and a hungry man?” The appropriate answer was, “The one stops and shakes himself; the other chops and steaks himself!” 97 The hidden animal in-- A part of me in rain, A part in hail must be, A part belongs to pain, A part in bones we see, A part in gleaming gold, A part in common copper. A part in peace behold, A part in any topper, Two parts are heard in sound, And in our finals found. is _Rhinoceros_. 98 The smart enigma-- Men commonly say I am clever, Book-learning I never could boast; Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover, And when I am found I am lost. is solved by _A Fox_. 99 _A sot_ is like a _toast_, or what is most Comparative, a _toast_ is like _a sot_; For when their substances in liquor sink Both properly are said to be in drink. The words in italics are spelt with the same letters, the _t_ being repeated in _toast_. 100 The pied proverb is “Fine words butter no parsnips.” 101 The puzzle verse-- A wordy warfare waged with wit, In youth its joys none need descry; But where our elders take to it Its name points loss of dignity, is solved by _Badinage_ (bad in age). 102 The hero’s name, hidden in-- My first’s in garb, but not in dress; My next’s in praise, but not in bliss; My third’s in man, but not in miss; My fourth’s in we. My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog; My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog; My next’s in calm, but not in fog; My eighth’s in we. My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine; My tenth’s in light, but not in shine; My next’s in four, but not in nine; My twelfth’s in we. is _General Wolfe_. 103 Here is the sentence given with its appropriate and perfect anagram-- A defeat whose test is very sure. _Sweet are the uses of adversity._ 104 The phonetic missing words are given in italics:-- ’Tis _plain_ that no one takes a _plane_ To _pare_ a _pair_ of _pears_; A _rake_ may often take a _rake_ To _tear_ away the _tares_. 105 The queer obstacle-- I’m in everyone’s way, Yet no one I stop. My four horns each day Horizontally play, And my head is nailed on at the top. is _A turnstile_. 106 The old enigma-- Take five from five, and then Put fifty in the middle; Twice ten times five times ten Will finish off my riddle, And bring it to your ken As fit as any fiddle! is solved thus-- When Jacky Barrett, learned Don, Composed his famous riddle, His thoughts, perhaps, were resting on The strings of his old FIDDLE. 107 The phonetic gaps are filled thus-- No _quail_ will _quail_ before the wind, A _bough_ will _bow_ before it; We cannot _rein_ the _rain_, or find That earthly powers _reign_ o’er it. 108 We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty; Reverse us, and we indicate a county-- is solved by X S--S X. 109 The cryptogram-- ~FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!~ is solved by inserting the letter “I” throughout, when this rhyming couplet is formed-- If thin milk brings illicit tin, I’ll skim it, mix it, till it’s thin! 110 The buried proverb in-- Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly Old memories steal anew; With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry They return in ghostly hue! is _’Tis a long lane that has no turning_. 111 Lewis Carroll’s doublet, which changes ELM into OAK by seven links, introducing the name of another tree as one of them, is solved thus by him-- ELM, ELL, ALL, AIL, AIR, FIR, FAR, OAR, OAK. A shorter solution is by these six links--_Ely_, _sly_, _say_, _bay_, _bat_, _oat_; and one of these (_bay_) is also a tree, as was _fir_, so that the conditions given are fulfilled. 112 My dear Mr Bird, We are giving a ball; First second we third, Pray give us your all. is solved by _attendance_. Second, I did my first and last, Till I became my whole, And told the tale of my repast, A sad and greedy soul. is solved by _satiate_. 113 The charade-- My whole, industrious, wends his way His daily task to meet; Behead, transpose a, lo! a sound Of music soft and sweet; Behead again, I make my way With swiftness past belief; Again, and where the fields are gay My bounty brings relief. is solved by _Artisan_, _strain_, _train_, _rain_. 114 The lines by an old Oxbridge don-- “’Tis an absurdity to say Women should try for a B.A. To College honours forward looking; They’d best confine themselves to cooking!” can be happily met by this retort in the same words, recast by a Girton girl-- “Women should try for a B.A., To College honours forward looking; ’Tis an absurdity to say They’d best confine themselves to cooking!” 115 The enigma-- Eight letters (start with b) Three syllables contain; Take one away, and see Four syllables remain! is solved by _Beautify_, _Beatify_. 116 The beasts buried in the lines-- Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long ago--at times in battalions--to attack and harass her. Ambitious democrats now countermine famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. Anarchy enables cowards to sow hot terror and all amazement, are-- eland, sloth, camel, goat, bat, lion, stoat, ass, ram, fat, ermine, mouse, yak, roe, hyena, cow, sow, otter and llama. 117 This is the palindrome verse that reads and rhymes from either end-- Dies slowly fading day, winds mournful sigh, Brightly stars are waking; Flies owlet hooting, holding revel high, Nightly silence breaking. 118 The anagram recast from “The Observatory at Greenwich in England” is completed thus-- _On landing here begin to watch every star._ 119 The enigma-- No man at all am I, And, if you turn me round, To hear my warning cry Not any men are found. is solved by _Nemo_, _omen_, _o men_. 120 The question-- How can our sailors fare the best When times are harder? How do they greet with merry jest An empty larder? is solved thus-- FOWL IS FARE. Wind that blows foul and chops about, With lighter puffs, And finds the thirsty sailor stout, Brings food enough! 121 The enigma-- I lose my head when I am here, Transpose me I am three; Look in a book, you find me there, And with me her and he-- is solved by _There_. 122 Jack did _declaim_ that he could square The circle to a _decimal_; His friends _claimed_ that a brain so rare Required attention _medical_. The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. 123 A Mr Harwood had two daughters by his first wife, the elder of these was married to John Coshick. This Coshick had a daughter by his first wife, whom old Harwood married. Thus Harwood’s daughter could say-- My father is my son, And I’m my mother’s mother; My daughter and sister are one, I’m grandam to my brother! 124 The charade-- Catch my first with nimble wit, Add a simple word; Then my whole may help a bit Opportunely heard. is solved by _Catchword_. 125 The paradox-- My mate and I from home did start, Some little space we were apart. When we had run a mile or more We kept our distance, as before; Shade of Colenso! could this be, When twice as fast as I ran he? is solved by the fact that the lines apply to the large and small wheels of a bicycle. 126 The enigma from Lewis Carroll’s Papers-- A monument all men agree Am I in all sincerity, Half cat, half hindrance made. If head and tail removed should be, Then most of all you strengthen me. Replace my head, the stand you see On which my tail is laid. is solved by _Tablet_. 127 The charade-- I’m known to the poorest and worst, And my worth by a child may be reckoned; The least thing in nature is double my first, And my whole is just half of my second. is solved by _Halfpenny_. 128 My first without its head and tail Is one and undivided; My second shows its teeth, is frail, And as a rule one-sided. The two to hold my first avail, By busy toil provided. is solved by _Honeycomb_. 129 The towns buried in the sentences-- His sister played the piano while we sang. I saw Nell out here last evening. The general rode a large black mare. I have ordered a cab at half-past one. Meet me in the lane at half-past nine. are _Lewes_, _Louth_, _Deal_, _Bath_ and _Neath_. 130 The anagram on “The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy,” is completed thus-- A funny spot in a sweet city; _I o’erhang it all_. 131 When they found that catacomb Near the _Capitol_ at Rome ’Twas the _topical_ discussion of the season; But the _optical_ effect Of the skeletons select Deprived the poor Professor of his reason! The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. 132 The charade-- My first is pretence, My second a dandy; When fogs are most dense My whole will be handy. is solved by _Flambeau_. 133 If we adopt the old spelling of the final word, we can prove by anagram that Bacon had no hand at anyrate in Shakespeare’s play “Much Ado About Nothinge,” for the same letters exactly spell “_Bacon? O, naught due to him!_” 134 Use all your wits to guess my all, Can any guess it right? Transposed, and never seen at all, It still is felt in sight. Behead, transpose, then let it be, And you at last a clue may see. is solved by _Left_, _felt_, _let_. 135 “Insanitary” and “sanitary reform” are very happily recast by anagram thus--_In nasty air; Former air nasty_. 136 The charade-- Let my second cut my first When I come to table; Though I cannot quench your thirst Eat me--you are able. is solved by _Cutlet_. 137 These are the completed lines-- What mars a land so sadly as a war? What days as dark as days that wars alarm? Alas! ask any, ask at hand, afar, All shall call war a harass and a harm. Why call, as ballads talk, that ghastly art All gallant acts--a grand and manly part? It will be seen that “a” was the only missing letter. 138 The charade-- To me when whole, for I am sweet, The moon fresh brightness brings; Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet To sharpen other things. Behead me twice, and I have led Soldiers to face the foe; Headless and tailless, one remains Though all the rest may go. is solved by Honey (honey-moon; hone; Ney; one). 139 The enigma-- We start when the ninth hour is past, Then there’s an end of you. A vengeful goddess shows at last What Antifat will do. is solved by _Attenuate_:--at ten, u, Ate, goddess of Revenge. 140 The charade-- When on charades intent I take my pen, To seek some hidden goal, Over my first my second comes, and then Quite overcomes my whole. is solved by _Overcomes_. 141 The cryptogram which was sent as a reliable tip before a race in which Petronel was to run-- Tell me, Ben, who tore it. Seek a plant for it, see Bob. is deciphered thus-- Take every third letter, and you arrive at Lenortepnoteb. Read this backwards, and you have the tip, “Bet on Petronel!” 142 The enigma-- I have no form, I have no friend, From me all come, in me all end. And it is strange but very true That I am here and nowhere too-- is solved by _Nothing_. 143 The broken sentence-- A sed end ought eat ease ain. is thus filled in to describe a curse and to proclaim its cure-- A cursed fiend brought death, disease and pain; A blessed friend brought breath and ease again. 144 The charade-- My first is a cover, My second a city; The whole you discover With this if you’re witty. is solved by _Capacity_. 145 The four rivers buried in the sentence-- The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating with a message, and her delivery was ever neat, with graceful pose in every attitude. are _Ganges_, _Thames_, _Severn_ and _Seine_. 146 If the “shingle” on the Brighton beach could speak, it might boast by anagram, “I am _English_!” 147 The enigma-- She is as deaf as any post, Incurable I fear; She is my guest, I am her host, How can I make her hear? is solved by adding an a to _her_, which becomes _hear_. 148 The missing words in the “Plaint of the Rejected” are--_The R.A._, _hater_, _heart_, _earth_, _Herat_. 149 The man who could attach a phonetic meaning to the words “Beta in Greek means letter B,” could in another fashion invite others to beat his wife by merely calling them and saying, “_Hither!_” (hit her). 150 The rebus-- storm? an umbrella with all a th me who alls mud is solved thus--Who follows me under an umbrella, with overalls all over mud, after a thunderstorm? 151 This is the completed palindrome:-- Nor I nor Emma had level’d a hammer on iron. It reads alike from either end. 152 The tutor came to the conclusion that there is nothing in Ecclesiastical Law to prevent the Pope from burying the Archbishop of Canterbury, but the undergraduate who had proposed the question demurred to this reply; pressed for his reason he said, as his face broke into a smile, “He cannot do so, because _the Archbishop is not dead_!” 153 The proverb buried in the sentence, “While there are very many as kind as this, they know no task unkind,” is, “_Let every man skin his own skunk_.” 154 Kate gathers me where children three, Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter; He leads the way and then we see The other two come at her! is solved by _Heather_ (he, at her). 155 The quotation from Shakespeare buried in-- Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast. is “The quality of mercy is not strained.” 156 The beetroot palindrome, which reads alike from either end is-- RED ROOT PUT UP TO ORDER 157 My _first_ we all do when we fail; My _next_ is heard in rain or hail; My _fourth_ a sheep of gender male; My _third_ is one without its tail; My _whole_ for foreign countries sail. is solved by _Missionaries_. 158 The words written on the walls of a Western college gained their ambiguous sense from the three final words, printed in italics--“Young women should set a good example, for young men _will follow them_!” 159 The enigma-- I’m but a little letter, still I have my duties to fulfil; If off you take My tail, and make An alteration in my lot, Though I seem shorter I am not. is solved by _Note_. 160 This is the full text-- Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir, Why is it that the devil, In spite of all his naughty ways Can never be uncivil?” Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain To any mind that’s bright; Because the _imp o’ darkness_, sir, Cannot be _imp o’ light_!” 161 Beneath the _limes_ which shade the lawn Her bicycle she mounted; And with a _smile_, ere she had gone An hour, ten _miles_ she counted. It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her, Till in the _slime_, she came a cropper! The words in italics have the same letters. 162 The date of the new organ given by the English is concealed in the lines of this inscription above its keyboard at Ober Ammergau-- QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT. If the Roman numerals that occur in the words are added together, they amount to 1894, the date of its completion. 163 A woman’s name Of foreign fame, Hers was a noble mind. Now, sir, transpose, And I suppose No smaller thing you’ll find. is solved by _Stael_, _least_. 164 The French charade-- Pour avoir mon _premier_ Femme qui cache mon _dernier_ Manque souvent mon _entier_. is solved by _Mari-age_. 165 The charade-- Let go! let go! you naughty first, Or you will make my second; A stream of words will then outburst, Swift as my whole is reckoned. is solved by _Current_. 166 My first is first when cruisers charge in line, And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine. Don’t spare my second if you would suggest To an impulsive child the way that’s best. My sporting whole, though now neglected grown, Travelled by tube before the tube was known. is solved by _Ramrod_. 167 The enigma-- First of men we lead a measure, Last we end the same. Starting merrily, our pleasure Is to finish lame. is solved by the letters _me_. 168 When Tom declared that he could give his sister quite a simple sentence of seven common English words of one syllable, which she could not produce on her typewriter, he had in his mind, “We can spell (to, too, two) in three ways,” which cannot, of course, be expressed in seven written words. 169 The French charade-- Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur, Mon tout est le diable lui-même. Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien, Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême. is solved by _Mariage_. 170 Sydney Smith’s conclusion as to the value and satisfaction of a City dinner was completed thus:--“I cannot wholly value a dinner by the _test you do_!” (Turtle, in Latin, _testudo_). 171 DEAN SWIFT’S ENIGMA-- In youth exalted high in air, Or bathing in the streamlet fair, Nature to form me took delight And clothed my body all in white; My person tall and slender waist On either side with fringes graced; Till me that tyrant Man espied, And dragg’d me from my mother’s side. No wonder that I look so thin, The monster stripp’d me to the skin; My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d, And head and foot both off he lopp’d; Pick’d all the marrow from my bone. And then, with heart more hard than stone, To vex me more, he took a freak To slit my tongue, and make me speak. But that which wonderful appears, I speak to eyes and not to ears. All languages I now command Yet not a word I understand. is solved by _A Goose-quill_. 172 The answer to the riddle propounded by the possessor of a new KEEN KUT razor to his friend whose chin was disfigured by scars, “What is the difference between my razor and yours?” is--“Mine cuts thoroughly; yours also cuts, tho’ roughly!” 173 The decapitated words are in italics-- The ship rode in an _eastern_ bay, Asleep _astern_ the master lay, A _stern_ and rugged man was he, And, like a _tern_, at home at sea. Like swooping _ern_ he caught his prey Whene’er an _R.N_. came his way; But while due _N_. the needle kept He in his cabin lay and slept. The ern, or erne, is the sea-eagle. 174 When the tempest roars the loudest Oft my first a shelter proves. Say what fair one, though the proudest, Spurns my next from one she loves? When the storms of life are past Earth provides my whole at last. is solved by _Covering_. 175 One syllable, I help to turn the scale Of party strife or faction; Recast me, and two syllables avail To stop all further action. is solved by _vote_, _veto_. 176 The lines to an owl are filled in thus-- Oh, on old towers, thou gloomy owl, Thou lovest to hoot, thou lovest to howl. Or on old oaks your hollow tone So lost, so solemn, sounds alone, So mournful no one loves to go Or of your hooting howls to know. The vowel “o” occurs forty-six times in the six lines. 177 In the Army anagram-- I’m free to-day, the _old sire_ said, _O no cell_ now have I to dread; For this one happy day to me _Are glen_ and hill and forest free, I, if I will, can ride, or fish, _A pit can_ enter, if I wish, In search of chalk or sand. In peace alone I now can dine, And sing to Anna’s _lute at nine_, Nor fear a reprimand. the words in italics spell also _soldier_, _colonel_, _general_, _captain_, and _lieutenant_. 178 My first transposed becomes a name Which may quite mean be reckoned, Two syllables combine the same, With one or two for second. My whole when fields are fresh and green, And softly blows the wind, Where the first signs of spring are seen Within the woods we find. is solved by _Anemone_, the _wind_ flower (name, mean, anem, one, o, ne). 179 The anagram enigma-- Silent long is the wood-bird’s song, Bare is the woodland bough; For waving trees in wintry breeze Have “no buds now.” is solved by _snowbound_, which contains exactly the same letters as “no buds now.” 180 The question of time-- A farmer with children sixteen Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock. To divide it these children between, What must be the time by the clock? is solved by _a quarter to four_. 181 The Donkey drive-- To the far end of any train Hitch on a pair of neddies; Then you will hear, like steps of Cain, The threat that in their tread is. is solved by _Ass-ass-in_. 182 The “Eating by Alphabet” enigma-- Take all the alphabet, and cast Its final letter out; Then set the first where was the last, And this you bring about: Without a cook, without a fire, A dainty dish which men desire. is solved by A past Y (a pasty). 183 The charade-- My second with my first we greet; My whole in earlier days Gave understanding to the feet That moved in tragic plays. is solved by _Buskin_. 184 The sentence-- Behest on thy lips, Society; forms an Anagram of the proverb “Honesty is the best policy.” 185 This sentence, fashioned by eight schoolboys as anagrams on their Christian names, arranged in order-- “I thy Tom am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned”-- reveals, when deciphered, the names Timothy, Ambrose, Daniel, Oliver, Edwin, Hubert, Brian and Dennis. 186 The enigma-- In any coward’s company you find That I have place. Cut off my head, and from your mind All wrong erase. is solved by _Fright_. 187 The double acrostic-- From “Punch,” 1875. My first, elect among the few, Chooses my second to expose his view. 1. Of various colours, changed at will, I sit or stand for good or ill. 2. I rule alone from noon till night, And when I am not am is right. is solved M. P. P. M. 188 A man in a rage should go to a “shooting gallery,” because by its Anagram it is _largely soothing_. 189 The beatitude-- Let her be or beat her, Give her little ease; Then in safety seat her All among the bees, is solved by _A Queen Bee_. The _Bee_ is made up of the _letter b_ (let her be), in Greek called Beta (beat her), and two little _e_’s (ease). 190 The puzzle-lines-- “We,” cried my first and second, “Are not quite satisfied.” “The story may be reckoned Imperfect,” fourth replied. Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,” And so at last all ended well. are cleared up by _Satisfactory_. 191 The English proverb which is concealed under its anagram-- “I dare not admit faint women,” is _Time and tide wait for no man_. 192 The charade-- My first and second are as best they should be, My third in Latin mouth is what it would be, My whole would soon be ashes if it could be. is solved by _Asbestos_ (_os_ is Latin for _mouth_). 193 Since Spooks, a _subtle_ man is he, _Sublet_ this haunted house to me, In _bluest_ funk I _bustle_ round, And fear a ghost in every sound. The four words in italics have the same letters. 194 That which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, and in no other place, is the letter “r” (no othe_r_ place). 195 Grandfather’s riddle, “Do you know why is the fourth of July?” is solved by the fact that the fourth letter of that word is y! 196 My _first_ is never far away, My _next_ in Latin found; My _third_ may rage by night or day; _All_ make melodious sound. is solved by _Nightingale_. 197 Through the _forest_ trees Softly coo the doves; Let a _softer_ breeze _Foster_ youthful loves! The words in italics have the same letters. 198 The enigma-- At starting half your income take, Then for my second write; And let your table help to make The total cosy quite. is solved by _Comfortable_. 199 The charade-- My whole is a circle complete, Beheaded I fall to your feet. Behead me again and I fry, Or am baked in a savoury pie. is solved by _Wheel_, _heel_, _eel_. 200 The anagram sentences are recast thus into single words-- See a pug dog. _Pedagogues._ Stay, O morn. _Astronomy._ Fat reward. _Afterward._ Red paper. _Prepared._ Set on a dish. _Astonished._ 201 The enigma-- If my whole by my second and first you divide, One more than ten thousand it gives. In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died, In museums my memory lives. is solved by _Do-do_. 202 The paradox-- Though never present, I appear, Of perfect form a token; And all that centres round my ear Is heard, though never spoken. is solved by the word _heard_. 203 The enigma-- Behead me twice, and it shall be That I my perfect self regain; Restore both heads, and you shall see That most imperfect I remain. is solved by _Incomplete_. 204 Grant lady, grant your _slave_ his whim, And give the coming _valse_ to him, For this will _salve_ his jealous heart, Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart. If not, he _laves_ his hands of you, To seek fresh _vales_ and pastures new. The words in italics have the same letters. 205 “Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill, “That thirty-two is freezing point: And I can tell you, if you will, Exactly what is squeezing-point!” is solved by _Two in the shade!_ 206 The puzzle-- To fifty add a third of one, A third to five attach; You have the means, when this is done, To kindle any match. is solved by _Love_. 207 The missing words are in italics-- The untrained _speculator_ in the City Is robbed by _peculators_ without pity. 208 Read backwards it becomes-- Prosperity and peace; no barns empty; bills long paid; not high rents; berries bright; no birds hungry; merry Christmas comes. 209 The anagram plants concealed in the sentence--O rise love it lad never let this lamb chase trains, are: Osier, violet, lavender, thistle, balm, china asters. 210 The enigma-- My first is quite a sin by name, My third its simple cure; My second puts an end to fame, My whole of ease is sure. is solved by _Sinecure_. 211 The paradox-- Cut off my head, it is unshaken, Cut off my tail, you turn it round, But if both head and tail are taken, Unconquered still I hold my ground. is solved by TIT. 212 The charade-- Why should we quarrel, first and third, With nought between us but a word? Let third leave second unessayed To heal the breach these letters made. If your solution be writ fair You find my whole disjointed there. is solved by I.O.U. 213 When Funniboy wrote from Naples to his friend, “Next week I am going ‘to plant onions, etc.,’” it was an intimation by anagram that he was bound for Constantinople. 214 In haunted house to sleep I tried, My dread _first_ was my chum. “With _second_ of my _first_,” I cried, “My _whole_ I should become.” is solved by _Fearless_. 215 The enigma-- My first is possessive and second: My second possessive and first. Such banks most attractive are reckoned By those for rich treasure athirst. is solved by _Thymy_ (_thy_, _my_). 216 This is the completed palindrome-- REPEL EVIL AS A LIVE LEPER, which reads alike from either end. 217 When Tom Pickles’s father tried with a lusty puff to blow the small cork into the bottle, the sudden compression of the air inside, followed by its expansion, drove the cork in an unexpected direction, so that it flew out and struck him sharply on the mouth. 218 Acorns are as strong as oaken posts when they _propagate_ (prop-a-gate). 219 The completed palindrome runs thus-- “Put it up but not on tub, put it up but not on tub, put it up,” which reads alike from either end. 220 The _Kates_ of Shakespeare and of song Have fair and dainty features; But she I _stake_ my hopes upon Excels those lovely creatures. From _Keats_ she _takes_ her name so dear, She lives on _steaks_ and honey: She cannot _skate_, but she can steer, And Madeline has money. The words in italics have the same letters. 221 The two long words used recently by a politician which can be recast by anagram to form the sentence, “Axiomatic intelligence, or dust” are-- TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTITUDES. 222 My first your bosom friend, or man or maid, Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid. My second, sounded double, tells of fate, Or sounded single puts an end to hate. My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard, That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d. is solved by _Palate_ (Até, goddess of fate). 223 The sentence “Woman without her man would be helpless” takes on a distinct meaning if the words “without her” are read together, and a comma is placed after “woman.” Thus--“Woman, _without her_ man would be helpless.” 224 The short sentences are recast into single words thus-- A moment’s cure. _Commensurate._ Cod is nice. _Coincides._ The old rocks. _Stockholder._ It lures a cat. _Articulates._ 225 The enigma-- Without my head I circulate With speed and inclination. Without my bait, at anyrate, I still have inclination. Transpose three letters, in unbroken state I then receive the ashes of the great. is solved by _Hearth_, _earth_, _heart_ (transpose _eat_ to _ate_). 226 Here is a metrical account of the anagram which, with some exaggeration, proclaims that Sims Reeves was often prevented from singing by his delicate throat-- The audience in wrapt impatience sits; Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses, Strange that _Sims Reeves_, whose singing ever _hits_, By a mere shift of letters _ever misses_! 227 Consuming lust for _lucre_, now so rife, Like _cruel_ _ulcer_ mars both love and life. The words in italics have the same letters. 228 This is the completed palindrome-- I maniac lived, a devil Cain am I. 229 The lines-- And as trim bees rise or go, A long aim I’d say, a libel O! contain in anagram and in proper order the fruits _tamarinds_, _gooseberries_, and the flowers _magnolia_, _daisy_, _lobelia_. 230 These are the anagrams-- Now one old fort _Tower of London_. Rabid owl _Wild Boar_. 231 Alas, for that forgotten day When chivalry was nourish’d, When none but friars learn’d to pray, And beef and beauty flourish’d; And fraud in kings was held accursed, And falsehood sin was reckon’d, And mighty chargers bore my _first_, And fat monks wore my _second_! Ah, then I carried sword and shield And casque with flaunting feather, And earn’d my spurs in battle-field, In winter and rough weather; And polish’d many a sonnet up To ladies’ eyes and tresses; And learn’d to drain my father’s cup, And loose my falcon’s jesses! But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam, The mongrel mob grows prouder; And everything is done by steam, And men are kill’d by powder; And now I feel my swift decay, And give unheeded orders; And rot in paltry state away With sheriffs and recorders. is solved by _Knighthood_. 232 My _first_ you oft savagely pierce through and through; My _next_ harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust; But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue, Should my _whole_, from my _second_, step into my _first_! is solved by _Earwig_. 233 My whole describes the action of a gale, Decapitation makes an organ play. Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale; Again, it tells of what we do not pay. Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail. Again behead, and half a string denote; Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail; And last of all on music’s notes I float. is solved by _A’blowing_ (n-a-g). 234 The proverb buried in the sentence-- Society--how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases exist here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to get her smile. is “Where the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together.” 235 The answer by anagram to--What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a _steel-trap_? is _Saltpetre_. 236 The charade-- Across my _first_, with flash and roar, The stately vessel glides alone. And mournful on the crowded shore There stands an aged crone, Watching my _second’s_ parting smile, As he bids farewell to his native isle. My _whole_ comes back to other eyes, With beauteous change of fruit and flowers, But dim to her are those bright skies, And sad those joyous hours; For, alas! my _first_ is dark and deep, And my _second_ cannot hear her weep. is solved by _Season_. 237 The sequel to the Arab and his ass runs thus-- When morning dawned, and the tide was out, The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s _protection_, And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt, For he had the best donkey in all that _section_. You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over, Though the donkey was bravest of all his _race_; He luxuriates now in perpetual clover, And his master has gone to the prophet’s _embrace_. 238 A _siren_, _risen_ on _Erin’s_ strands, Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; He left the _reins_ in Cupid’s hands, And watched her _rinse_ her tresses; Tresses of _resin_ coloured gold, Veiling, like any frock, A tail which, as it did unfold, Gave to poor Pat a shock. The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. 239 The answer by anagram to “Where can you be ‘in a stone-pine garden’?” is _Pontresina, Engadine_. 240 The words in italics are spelt with the same letters-- No _wider_ sympathy was ever shown Than when _weird_ news, from Kingston _wired_, was known. 241 According to its anagram, the bodily discomfort which follows an _ague-fit_ is _fatigue_. 242 This is the adjustment of the tangled square-- I S I S S I D E I D E A S E A T 243 The European rivers concealed in the eight anagrams: Set in red robe Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter, are Dniester, Ebro, Rhine, Loire, Moselle, Dnieper, Severn, Tiber. 244 The palindrome runs thus-- STOP ROSE, I PREFER PIES OR POTS. 245 “Your food will cost you more!” is the political parrot cry which can be evolved by anagram from-- _O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!_ 246 Sir Robert Peel was the statesman from whose name a “terrible poser” is formed by anagram. 247 The letters of the sentence, “Yea, a glad sun rose red” can be recast into the well-known proverb _Delays are dangerous_. 248 The question, “Has there been a poet of unusual solemnity?” is answered by “_Yes, Milton_.” 249 The anagram enigma-- No, no, I hardly ever touch The thing which many love so much, It has a place within these lines, But is taboo where Delia dines. is solved by _Onion_ (no, no, I). 250 When young Biceps, who had been plucked in Euclid declared that he could teach the examiners how to square a circle, this was his tricky method:--A circle may be aptly described as a “copper” or “Brown.” Having at hand your “copper” (P. C. Brown), when he has caught you on his rounds, proceed to square him in the customary way. 251 As Biceps could not tell how to extract a circle from a square, his friend gave him the following solution: “Let the given square be Sloane Square; find the Inner Circle, and take its lines to any point, at any distance from that square, paying the proper fare. That’s the ticket!” 252 Every _Cretan_ is said to lie, And steeds that _canter_ pant. The gods drank _nectar_, old and dry, And all men may _recant_. Finally this key extend Take from _en(trance)d_ the _end_. 253 The charade-- My captive _second_, sulking in my _first_, Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst; Bemoan, or as alternative you find My _whole_ the word that fits his state of mind. For meet enclosure, you can take a score Of captive _seconds_, first deducting four. is solved by _Denounce_ (16 ozs. = 1 _Pound_). 254 The cipher-- ~THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT; MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.~ becomes by the addition of E and O alternately-- The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot; Men often order one, or get one on the spot. 255 When his brother put “Tim in a pet,” the explanation by anagram is that he was _impatient_. 256 Who knows the _East_ a land may know Famed for its _teas_, and long age A _seat_ of sage and seer. The native there, so full of tricks, To _sate_ his hunger _eats_ with sticks, Nor knows his ways are queer. The missing words are in italics. 257 The charade-- If doubled you would see my first Let third and second be reversed. But if my last you would behold Increase my first a hundredfold. Combine them all, and you can trace The four within an empty space. is solved by _Void_. 258 In the words spoken in the hay-field to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” are concealed by anagram the poet and his poem--_William Cowper, The task._ 259 The charade-- My _first_ is small, and seldom reverential; My next not large enough to heed or prize; My _whole_ is altogether consequential; My third though small is counted very wise-- is solved by _Important_. 260 To be a a a a a a a a a a t C r I i O f U l S e s standing is the mark of a mean is solved by _To be tenacious in the midst of trifles is the mark of a mean understanding_. 261 The letters which spell RED NUTS AND GIN can be recast to form the one word UNDERSTANDING. 262 The novel by Charles Dickens hidden in the pied letters-- ~CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY~ is _The Old Curiosity Shop_. 263 In swift _relays_ the beaters add Fresh _layers_ to the heaps of slain; And still, with lust of slaughter mad, The _slayer_ plies his hand amain! The words in italics have the same six letters. 264 The charade-- My first is nothing but a name, My second still more small, My whole shows such a lack of fame It has no name at all. is solved by _Nameless_. 265 When one of the children said, “If father gives us a new dog it will wake the lazy ones”--the words pointed to Susan and Ethel, whose names are buried in the sentence. 266 The cipher-- ~NGOTRDSREAOHR ETNSVEENUDOEO~ is solved by starting with last letter of the second line, followed by the first letter of the first line, and so on throughout, taking always the last and first unused letters alternately, and forming thus the proverb “_One good turn deserves another!_” 267 The enigma-- Well known by story, not by name, I died a death unknown before, Nor ever to corruption came; My shroud the waves cast on the shore. is solved by _Lot’s wife_. 268 The question-- How might an oyster, if it could speak and knew that unda is Latin for wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed by thunder under unda? is answered thus-- He could exclaim, “a noise annoys an oyster!” 269 The words in italics have the same five letters-- When _Cesar_, our puppy, sets out for a run, Over _acres_ he _races_, all frolic and fun. For no whistle _cares_ he, in his desperate hurry, The slow sheep to _scare_, and the old cow to worry. 270 The girls’ names shown by anagram in the sentence--“Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily,” are Deborah, Betsy, Dorothy, Ruth, Emma, Mary, Amy, Gertrude, Lydia. 271 The anagram is completed thus-- “Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.” _True as old Ben’s stolid face!_ 272 The Shakespeare anagrams-- The tub sold has old rough shelves. And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts. A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow! are formed, letter for letter and line for line, from this passage in “Romeo and Juliet”-- “Love’s heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams, Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.” 273 The mystical gnome never flinches from toil Who _buries_ the _rubies_ in Orient soil; Yet _busier_ mortals will ever abound, Who _bruise_ all the soil till the treasure is found. The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters. 274 The Puzzle acrostic-- My feathered first has wings and sings, Unfledged my second swings its wings; My third on blackest pinions flies, My fourth can float beneath the skies. The letters to my first that fall Are the initials of them all. is solved thus-- O O O O L A R K O ● ● ● A R M Y O ● ● ● R O O K O ● ● ● K I T E 275 My first was of the _pirate_ breed, Their _irate_ captain, hot and riled, To _rate_ his men found vain indeed, They only _ate_ and smoked, and smiled! One letter is dropped each time. 276 In the doublets puzzle HARE is made into SOUP by the following six links, changing one letter each time, and preserving their order-- HARE, hark, hack, sack, sock, soak, soap, SOUP. 277 The enigma-- Putting two small beasts that you take To the beginning of an end, A pointed weapon you will make To wound a foe or praise a friend. is solved by _Epigram_. 278 If a “newspaper” could speak, it might say by anagram of the general work of its staff, _We pen pars_. 279 The positive quantity 1011 is turned into a negative thus:-- NO. 280 The one word formed by anagram from “O, I’m man’s trial” is _Matrimonials_. 281 The rebus-- EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee. is solved by “Great ease and small crosses before you are twenty-one, great crosses and little ease after that.” 282 The answer to the riddle “Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber?” is--Because no one is allowed to _cut_ when it is his own _deal_. 283 He _aspired_ to be _praised_ as a wonderful shot, But he potted the dog, and _despair_ was his lot! The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. 284 In the doublet, as solved by Lewis Carroll, ARMY is changed into NAVY with seven links, and preserving the sequence while changing a letter every time--thus: ARMY, arms, aims, dims, dams, dame, name, nave, NAVY. 285 The anagram puzzle-- ‘I excel not by a pun’ Turn these six words into one! is solved by _Unexceptionably_, which contains exactly the same letters. 286 The answer to the strange riddle, “When is an onion like music?” is “_When you find it smell odious!_” (it’s melodious). 287 The bitter cry of Christianity is, by its anagram: _I cry that I sin_. 288 That a Conservative is constant to his cause is shown by the anagram: _Not vice versâ_. 289 As a rule Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall upon the same day of the week, but they will not fall upon the same day of the week in 1910 (or indeed in any year), because the New Year’s Day must be _after_ the Christmas Day to fulfil the conditions! 290 “War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, While kings and subjects are but erring men; So Britain--native empress of the seas-- On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed-- Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free, Rests on her well-tried _last_ and trusty _first_. Her _first_ alone can well maintain her right, Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast; And though, when needed, foremost in the fight, Her _first_ (strange paradox!) is always _last_! But should the tide of war approach the shore And threaten to engulf her island seat, My _whole_, replying with defiant roar, Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet! is solved by _Armstrong_. 291 My first is flogged to make it move the faster, And turns at once to satisfy its master. My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit, For those whose simple taste its flavours suit. My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly, Stands up aloft and points us to the sky. is solved by _Top-mast_. 292 A noun there is, of plural number, In daily use from here to Humber. Now almost any noun you take By adding “S” you plural make; But if you add an “S” to this, Strange is the metamorphosis! Plural is plural now no more; Useless what useful was before. is solved by _Needles_, _needless_. 293 First, a semi-circle make, Add to this another Figure of two little lines Meeting with each other; Then a perfect circle form, Truly, neat, compactly, Add another form to these, Like the first exactly; Then, to make it all complete, Form a kind of angle, With a straight line, that should meet In a kind of tangle; When you this have rightly done (’Tis the truth I’m telling), You will get an article Useful in a dwelling: Should you this decapitate, You may have another Article, which, in its place, Is useful as the other. is solved by _Clock_, _lock_. 294 Veiling the leas, my first may steep Late autumn’s listless air; And with my tainting second creep On idle spade and share. When happy days link soul to soul, And sunny faces shine, May both combined, a subtle whole, Be far from me and mine! is solved by _Mistrust_. 295 Mark Lemon’s charade-- Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned, Was brought up at my first for making my second; He was fined, and because he no money would pay Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway. is solved by _Barrow_. 296 Complete, I grow within a field And pleasant pasture often yield; Behead me once, a suitor then Is quickly brought before your ken; Behead again, I am a word That on the cricket-ground is heard. Restore my heads, cut off my tail, To name a spice you’ll not then fail; Behead me now, and you will find The master passion left behind. Put on my head, my tail restore, Complete me as I was before, My second letter take away, An envelope I am, you’ll say; But now curtail me just once more, I am an inlet on the shore. is solved by _Clover_, _lover_, _over_, _clove_, _love_, _cover_, _cove_. 297 My _second_ is double my _first_, My _first_ is but half of my _second_; And I’m sure you’ll admit that my _whole_ Is ten times the latter when reckon’d. is solved by _Ten score_. 298 My _first_ I went the other day, And pretty surely reckon’d A basket of fine fish to catch, With hook and rod and _second_. But I was out in reckoning; A very pretty she Of her fair face show’d just my _whole_-- And pretty soon hook’d _me_. is solved by _Outline_. 299 Of mirth the parent, though the child of art, A stranger to myself in every part; Each India has a native in my breast, The West my sweetness, and my fire the East. While milder climes my virtue to complete, Quicken my softness, and correct my heat; My dearest friends upon my vitals prey, And as they see me sinking, grow more gay. is solved by _Punch_. 300 When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find That my next is not left a great distance behind; But join them together, and plain to your view It all is as firm and as tight as a screw. is solved by _Dovetail_. 301 To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete; Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet; Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet; Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete. is solved by _Tobacco_. 302 Leader of Vandals and of vice My head is reckoned; A Turkish captain will suffice To be my second. My third is firm if well selected; My whole a wanderer neglected. is solved by _Vagabond_. 303 One thousand, two hundred, Nothing, and one, Transposed, give a word Expressive of fun. is solved by COMIC. 304 Praed’s charade-- My _first_ was creeping on his way Through the mists of a dull October day, When a minstrel came to its muddy bed, With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head; “And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried, “To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?” Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown, And he dash’d the harp and the garland down; Then he led the bard, with a stately march, O’er my _second’s_ long and cellar’d arch;-- “And see,” said the sage, “how every ass Over the sacred stream must pass!” The youth was mournful, the youth was mute, He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;-- The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff, And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff; And he sits, ever since, in my _whole’s_ kind lap, In a silken gown and a trencher cap. is solved by _Cambridge_. 305 Upright and honest is my _first_; My _second_ you may see Upon the frozen lake or stream; My _whole_ is equity. is solved by _Justice_. 306 Never wearied, see us stand, A glittering and a stately band-- Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form, In summer cold, in winter warm; From hottest duty never swerving, Night and day our place preserving; Each serving to a different use, Not to be changed without abuse. And, pray, mark well another fact-- In unison we never act, Except, as on occasion dread, We watch the ashes of the dead; When we are ranged, as you may see As awful sentries, one, two, three. is solved by _Fire-irons_. 307 My first, though naught, with others is a fruit, My next is vital to both man and brute. It should be dear to all who hate the devil, For it is ever the reverse of evil. My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace, Divided it invokes to life that will not cease. is solved by _Olive_. 308 Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover, Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy. Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop, Oft in the chimney! See where my second, scorning to be hidden, Stands at the head of quite a band of others, Like a virago, straddling with feet apart, And arms akimbo. Surely my next is happy in its office, Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead; Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles For the unwary. If by my whole at any time you pass, you Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs, Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you, Peacefully dreaming! is solved by _Catacomb_. 309 Offspring of nature and of art, I stand Chief ’midst the monuments of every land; I may not lengthen life, but I For centuries forbid to die. The greatest truth in me you meet Is but deception most complete. Unchanged I last the changing crowds among, And as I older grow, I grow too young. is solved by _A portrait_. 310 Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, Two letters there are, and two only in me; I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. is solved by _Eye_. 311 My _first_ is false as false can be; My _next_ old ladies wear; My _whole’s_ my _first_, as you will see, As false, I do declare. is solved by _Falsehood_. 312 When whole I am indeed a thing To puzzle you a bit; Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge The others make a hit; Or you may make a car of some, And fix a head to it. is solved by _Charade_. 313 A word of nine letters explains How to mitigate bodily pains; The five vowels are there, And four consonants share This function for medical brains. is solved by _Inoculate_. 314 My second guides my first and third For pleasure, trade, and war; My first and second by my third Are oft transported far. But when my first my third doth pull, ’Tis then his lot is worst; And should my second lack my whole, He’s apt to leave my first. is solved by _Horsemanship_. 315 It is a fact that neither _melons_ nor _lemons_ grew _on elms_. The words in italics have the same letters. 316 The completed palindrome, which reads alike from either end, is-- DRAW NO DRAY A YARD ONWARD. 317 The schoolboy likes me well, For healthful sport I bring, Yet I can harm create, Though such a little thing: Connubial bliss is form’d by me; My nature is equality. is solved by _Match_. 318 What person’s name is doubly evil? _Sinbad_ reminds us of the devil. 319 I’m a district near London; If made wrong, I come undone; O’er sweet strings I swift run, Or appear with the bright sun, And though by me fights were won, I can greet you every one. is solved by _Bow_. 320 I am my first when seen with you, My next is always bad. A rogue in grain much harm may do And make the farmer mad. is solved by _Weevil_. 321 When winter comes with frost and cold, My first is welcome, as of old; And though its grip may make you thinner, It helps to cook your Christmas dinner. Let me but hear my next rejoice At early dawn with cheerful voice, I haste to find, with eager pleasure, Some specimen of hidden treasure. A traveller my whole may find Far from his English kith and kind; Though some at home, to England’s shame, Are this in fact, if not in name. is solved by _Heathen_. 322 It was to-morrow, and It will be yesterday; Now it is near at hand What is it? Who can say? is solved by _To-day_. 323 My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes, The second shadows all the mother’s brow; My whole all men, all women, girls and boys, Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now; But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how. is solved by _Childhood_. 324 Complete, though not of human race, A soul in me may dwell; Behead, I held a higher place, Until, like man, I fell. Again behead, and in the song Of Burns I’m all your own; Behead once more, it would be wrong To find me out when known. is solved by _Train_, _rain_, _ain_, _in_. 325 With head good for naught, And with tail always drunk, You know well what to say Of the worth of my trunk. First cut off my tail, I am Greek, and I’m not; Then cut off my head, And some Latin you’ve got. Lopping both you know best What remains, as I said, For I really am you If I lose tail and head! is solved by _Out_. 326 One guiding eye I need In running through the gaps; My tail, as on I speed, Is caught in many traps. is solved by _A Needle_. 327 The Chess charade-- Of all the birds that ever sought a mate, My first is to but one appropriate, So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo. To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo! My whole is a magician of the squares, But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares, So this, indeed, to him may be a law When _winning’s_ hopeless, grandly still to _draw_. is solved by _Boden_. 328 Though poor and humble was my birth I sit enthroned on high; My footsteps far above the earth, My canopy the sky. O’er toiling subjects thus in state I bear despotic sway; Yet on them hand and foot I wait At break and close of day. is solved by _A coachman_. 329 I am not of flesh and blood, Yet have I many a bone; No limbs, except one leg, And can’t stand on that alone. My friends are many, and dwell In all lands of the human race; But they poke my poor nose into the mud, And shamefully spatter my face. Thrust me into each other’s ribs, Stick me in gutter and rut; I have never a window, and never a door, Yet I often open and shut. is solved by _An umbrella_. 330 Before the crown descended on The head of England’s Queen, Four Kings upon that royal throne Of the same name had been. Now if the signs which marked their name Be joined unto a beast, We have a food on which the same (A quadruped) will feast. is solved by _Grass_. 331 Fox’s enigma-- I am pretty, and useful in various ways, Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days; Behead me, and then in my place will appear What youngsters admire every day in the year; Behead me once more, and without any doubt, You must be what is left if you don’t find it out. is solved by _Glass_, _lass_, _ass_. 332 My first, when skilfully performed (Its doer by applauses warmed), Bespeaks both skill and vigour. When with my whole, so soft and light, I saw my second gay bedight, She made a splendid figure. is solved by _Feather_. 333 The man who _rates_ the common _tares_ Above the _aster_ chaste. _Stare_ as he may, the world declares Is not a man of taste. And, though my sympathy he shares, No _tears_ on him I’ll waste. The words in italics have the same letters. 334 When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated, Endangered the peace of his soul, To atone for my second my first he repeated Quite ten times a day on my whole. is solved by _Average_. 335 An insect small and fell Makes a weird sound, If, as its name you spell, You turn it round. One letter cast, and still Shift what remains, Another insect will Reward your pains. is solved by _Gnat_, _tang_, _ant_. 336 Where head and body duly meet I am as slender as a bee; Whether I stand on head or feet My figure shows its symmetry. But when my head is cut away The metamorphosis is strange; Though both of them unaltered stay, Body and head to nothing change. is solved by _The figure_ 8. 337 First is in coast, second in ghost, Third must be reckoned part of second; Fourth in boat, fifth in float, Sixth you will find within your mind. Seventh in blue, eighth in true, These letters tell a fruit that they spell. is solved by _Cocoanut_. 338 The hunter and his steed are known My first to see. Though men may call my next a stone, Wood it may be. My whole, an exile from his home, Is doomed from place to place to roam. is solved by _Runagate_. 339 My first expresses power to do, My next that it is done. To be my whole belongs to few, And perfectly to none. is solved by _Candid_. 340 In my first, as in a shell, All the sweetest sounds may dwell; In my second, shells abound That can catch no sort of sound; In my whole securely rest Those who neither jeer nor jest. is solved by _Earnest_. 341 My first, though of the feathered kind, Is never known to fly; My next all who improve their mind Seize as it passes by. My whole may much occasion find To make the truthful lie. is solved by _Bed-time_. 342 Divide a piece of beef or pork Without the aid of knife and fork; It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill, Where you may set this if you will. Strike off instead the end, its place Is plain as nose upon your face. Cut this asunder in your mind, And what is first put now behind; Part of our foot you thus discover, And in a measure all is over. is solved by _Chine_, _niche_, _chin_, _inch_. 343 Seen as a whole, my form is now Akin to strife and malice; Split, it may grace a princely brow, Or crown the curls of Alice. Recast my letters, and I tell That nourishment is lacking; Stir them afresh until they spell The needle’s help in tacking. is solved by _Hatred_, _hat red_, _dearth_, _thread_. 344 If I write with my first in my second My whole you can never find out; Add a letter, and all will be reckoned A patron of water devout. is solved by _Within_, _Swithin_. 345 After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much did you say the ‘horse ate of corn’?” 346 Loss of love between us Never can be nice; Yet we live where Venus Changes us to ice. is solved by _Venice_ (Ven_us_ changes to Ven_ice_). 347 The very prosaic reply to the dainty lines-- “Tell me, my sweet, Why are your feet Like fairy-tales?” is: Because they are leg ends (legends)! 348 Our parson _detains_ every man who has leisure To study _stained_ windows, the glory of fanes; And _instead_ of devoting his income to pleasure, Our _sainted_ dean spends his money on panes. The words in italics have the same letters. 349 Though much attached to merriment, Or crime for a variety, To prison I am never sent, But sparkle in society. is solved by _The letter E_. 350 Without my first and second’s aid No pudding worth its sauce is made. Take on my third, my fourth I am, My fifth includes myself and Sam. My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero, And shows him as an unheroic hero. is solved by _Suetonius_. 351 The geographical names buried in the sentences-- He has my R.N. as a monogram on all his paper. I am her stupid sister. The calmest man is sometimes made irate-- are Smyrna; Amherst; and Madeira. 352 My first’s a fruit of foreign clime, Sweet to the taste, in price not dear; My second does my first produce, And yet my whole my first doth bear. is solved by _Date-palm_. 353 A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath, My firm embrace is harbinger of death; Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art, Complete and perfected in every part; Crush me to-day with all-determined care, Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there! is solved by _A spider’s web_. 354 Six letters in my name are found. Though only three we see and sound; The shepherd by the running river May hear me where the rushes quiver; And should a stroke my whole divide, Leaving but half on either side, These, backward read, will surely tell What many a toper loves too well. is solved by _Murmur_. 355 Upon a battle-field of learned men Hundred and fifty were by none divided. “Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.” is solved by _Colenso_. 356 Though the stations of mortals are many And the _last_ is the head of his race; Yet he, just as often as any, Is won by my _first’s_ fell embrace; Yet we most of us apt are to fall, When our heads cease our hearts to control, Let us hope that not one of us all May be e’er in the state of my _whole_. is solved by _Sinking_. 357 My whole is no matter, And light as the air, Yet it is good on the platter, And excellent fare. Curtail and transpose, And a lady you see, Who will flatter and pose, And with many do me. is solved by _trifle_, _flirt_. 358 My first, for ages out of mind All men have always worn behind, And yet alike by sea and land They carry it upon their hand. My second, carefully matur’d, Is never ill but often cured. My whole, within unchanging lines, Black men and white alike confines. is solved by _Backgammon_. 359 The Rebus--“We westand fall,”--is solved by _United we stand, divided we fall_. 360 My second is pressed tightly round To guard from any ill; And when preparing to engage Men find it useful still. My first against attraction set Will neutralise its power; Aided by it, with bargains, some May spend a happy hour. You find my whole by careful search, Which must not be forsaken; It stands before what comes beyond, Which may from it be taken. is solved by _Counterfoil_. 362 Scorned by the meek and humble mind, And often by the vain possessed, Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind, I give the troubled spirit rest. is solved by _Nothing_. ODDS AND ENDS SOLUTIONS 1 Here is both the sum without figures, and its counterpart in numbers:-- UGI)GEVPPNDO(IDTPO GVNI ---- DNTP UGI ---- NETN NEOT ---- DUDO DUDO ==== 956)58700312(61402 5736 ---- 1340 956 ---- 3843 3824 ---- 1912 1912 ==== The key sentence is: DON’T GIVE UP, the letters of which correspond to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. 2 When I shot only birds and rabbits, and my bag at the end of the day showed 36 heads and 100 feet, I had killed 22 birds and 14 rabbits. 3 There are no fewer than 40 distinct readings of the four words which form the square-- D E L F E V I L L I V E F L E D DELF and FLED have each four straight readings, while EVIL and LIVE can each be traced in 16 different ways, and the four words run straight from every side of the square. 4 A S A T E A D N R E G D N E V E N IN G I D T A V R S D 5 When a man gave a sovereign to his son to be spent on presents of different values for him and his three sisters, each to cost an aliquot part of the pound, and each to be as good as possible; and told him to give the change to the Fresh Air Fund, the presents cost ¹⁄₃, ¹⁄₄, ¹⁄₅, ¹⁄₆ of a pound respectively, or 6s. 8d., 5s., 4s., and 3s. 4d., and there was a shilling over for the Fresh Air Fund. 6 This is the complete word-square-- M E T A L E R A S E T A S T E A S T E R L E E R S 7 The key word to the addition sum is REPUBLICAN. It works out thus-- REPUBLICAN 1234567890 A I 9 7 L C 6 8 P R 3 1 U N 4 0 B E 5 2 ----- ----- E C C 2 8 8 8 The word square is completed thus-- T O A S T O T T E R A T O N E S E N S E T R E E S 9 The product of the first twelve prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, can be written down by using no figures but 0, 1, 2, and 3, and of these 2 and 3 once only, thus-- 10 × 1001 × 2001 × 10013:-- or 10 = 1 × 2 × 5 1001 = 7 × 11 × 13 2001 = 3 × 23 × 29 10013 = 17 × 19 × 31 10 The question-- Six collars seven cuffs there be When pence we charge you thirty-three; Seven collars and six cuffs to do, The charge is only thirty-two; The work is good and up-to-date, So figure out in pence the rate. is answered by--Collars, 2d. Cuffs, 3d. 11 The word square is completed thus-- W E E K S E L L E N E L U D E K E D G E S N E E R 12 To remove the table-napkin on a corner of which a wine-glass full of water stands near the edge of a polished table, take hold with the left hand of the part that hangs over the edge and raise it to a horizontal position. Then strike hard downward with the right hand, at about six inches from the table, and the cloth will come away, leaving the wineglass altogether undisturbed--an illustration of what is known as the _vis inertiæ_. 13 My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is half of them, and my third is half. What am I? is solved by _Twopence-half-penny_. 14 The London firm who had sent a telegram to Paris for 480 sets of Diabolo, and received to their surprise a huge consignment of 6336 sets, had worded their order thus: “Send us twenty two-dozen cases of Diabolo,” knowing that they were put up two dozen in a case. The wholesale firm read the order as twenty-two dozen cases--_i.e._, 264 cases of 24 in a case! 16 When Mrs Evergreen said: “My husband’s age is represented by the figures of mine reversed; he is older than I am, and the difference between our ages is one-eleventh of their sum,” he was 54, and she was 45. 17 This is the completed multiplication sum-- 4 * * 4 5 7 3 * 3 8 ------ ------ 3 6 * * 3 6 5 6 * * 7 * 1 3 7 1 --------- --------- * * 3 * * 1 7 3 6 6 18 Add 3 to 10, and then divide Till 8 the sum has satisfied-- is solved by writing 13 in Roman numerals, XIII.; and then drawing a line across their middle, so that the upper half forms VIII. 19 I bought fifty-eight plants for my new rosery, when I found that if I set them three in a row there would be one over; if four in a row two over; if five in a row three over; and if six in a row four over. 20 Three nines arranged thus represent 20-- 9 + 9 ----- ·9 21 If a house has nine windows on its front, as many as 511 signals can be given by merely leaving one or more of them open, including the case in which all are left open. 22 The birthday puzzle by Sir John Evans is solved thus-- “Reader, whether man or woman, Write my age in figures Roman (LXV.). My first, divided by my second, Will make my third, if rightly reckoned, Ten times the whole, and then you’ll see My university degree (D.C.L.).” 52 This is the way to arrange a strip of paper 9 in. by 2 in. so that it has only _one surface_ and _one edge_. Gum the ends together with _a half twist_ in the slip. If a continuous line is now drawn along the middle of the band it will traverse the whole length of the paper and finish at its starting point. Again, if a mark is made on the edge, and the finger or a pencil starting from this runs along the edge, it also will return to its starting point. 53 To divide nine into two parts which shall be together equal to ten, write IX in bold Roman numerals on a sheet of paper, and fold this across the middle of the figures, thus-- IV IX -- ---- IɅ This gives a six on one side of the fold and a four upon the other side. 54 The shepherd who had folded his flock with 100 hurdles, and whose master bade him the next day use 16 of these to pen some pigs, and to enclose nine times as many sheep with the remaining 84 as the 100 had contained, had originally placed the hurdles in two rows of 49 each, with one hurdle at each end. He made room for nine times as many sheep within 84 hurdles by arranging them in a square, with 21 on every side, thus increasing the area ninefold. 55 When you have lifted three hats that cover three biscuits in a row, eaten the biscuits and replaced the hats, you can carry out your undertaking that the three biscuits shall be under whichever hat is selected by solemnly placing that hat upon your head! 56 The number of different ways in which 7s. 3d. can be paid away in current coin of the realm, without ever using exactly the same set of coins a second time, is 1,062,102! PRINTED AT THE MERCAT PRESS, EDINBURGH. Transcriber᾿s Notes Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, etcetera have been retained, unless listed under Changes below. Unless listed below, the riddles, puzzles and tricks and their solutions are given here as printed in the source document, even though some of them arguably contain ambiguities, errors and/or misprints. Inconsistencies in lay-out between the puzzles and their solutions have not been standardised. The source document has several pages that contain a Pictured Puzzle at the top (Roman numerals) and one or more Word Play puzzles or jokes (Latin numerals). This has been retained in this text; any auto-generated Tables of Contents may therefore look jumbled up with intermixed Roman and Latin numerals. Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text and on their settings, not all elements may display as intended. The larger diagrams may be illegible on small screens or in small windows. Where possible and relevant, illustrations have been “transcribed”, occasionally discarding some of the ornamentation. In this e-text for chess boards and the like, # indicates a dark square; dominoes are represented either by the pattern of the pips or by the number of pips. The transcribed illustrations usually give but a very simple impression of the actual illustration. For reference and for the sake of completeness, images of the transcribed illustrations have been provided at the end of this e-book, with hyperlinks (“Image”) pointing to them. Hyperlinks from these images point back to the riddle, puzzle, etc. (“Return to description”) or to its solution (“Return to solution”). In addition, hyperlinks are provided from the puzzles etc. to their solutions (“Solution”) and from the solutions back to the puzzle etc. (“Return to description”). Table of Contents, page 130: The Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, &c., &c. do not actually start on this page (they start on page 2), but there are no more Pictured Puzzles and Word Play from this page on. Page 49, Se Pierot or Lun: possibly an error for See Pierot or L’un or Le Pierot or L’un. Page 60, No. LX: the description is confusing, as the puzzle consists of drawing the four dotted lines, and they are therefore not given. Page 89 and 263, Pictured puzzle LXXXIX and solution: either the puzzle or the solution has been printed upside-down in the source document. Page 114, ... as nearly as possible of the size and pattern ...: based on the size of the physical book (around 7″ or 18 cm tall), the boomerang’s width would be some 3″ or 7.5 cm. Page 149, ... six single words: the solution provided gives five single words. Page 205, Solution IX: the table as printed lacks values for Opposite pairs of short diagonals (of which there are four) and Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 (of which there ought to be two in order to reach the given total). Changes made In the source document, jokes, riddles and puzzles may be split over multiple pages (for example, Word Play 5 may be found on page 7 (first part) and page 9 (second part)). In this e-text, the second part has been re-combined with the first, and references to the separate first and second parts have been deleted. Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently. Similarly, minor discrepancies (such as the number of blanks or x periods) have been rectified silently. Fractions (the forms x/y, --- y and x-y all occur in the source document) have (bar a single exception) been standardised to x/y. Unless they fitted better within the text paragraphs, illustrations, verses, diagrams, etc. have been moved out of the text paragraphs. The footnote has been moved to directly underneath the Word Play in which it is referenced. In some chessboard based riddles the symbol for knight has been changed from Kt to N. In some of the diagrams bold, italics or small capital mark-up of individual words and letters has been removed due to the limited width available. Large diagrams have been split to fit the available width. Page 10: ... cut of my head; changed to ... cut off my head; Page 62: ... thought myself happy to win her ... changed to ... I thought myself happy to win her ... (cf. solution). Page 84 and 260, Pictured Puzzle LXXXIV and solution: the examples mentioned and the solution given have been transcribed as separate elements, the 6 × 6 grid being too wide to be included. Page 89: ... indentations do not effect ... changed to ... indentations do not affect .... Page 93: the logogriph has been laid out as in the solution on page 305. Page 110-111: Word Play 92 in this text (Missing Words) was erroneously numbered 93 (first part) and 39 (second part) in the source document. Page 130: “Tis an absurdity to say ... changed to ’Tis an absurdity to say .... Page 139: !” inserted after the dots cf. solution. Page 144, Nr. 176, last line: space inserted between F and R in R FR H; H T G changed to H T N G. Page 152: ... his destination from these words.” changed to ... his destination from these words? Page 196: ... sa Majéste impériale ... changed to ...sa Majesté impériale ...; ... a jamais! changed to ... à jamais! 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