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  3. SIX OF ONE.

    What's the difference between six dozen dozen and half a dozen dozen? ...

    Article : 18 words
  4. BRAIN BRIGHTENERS THE WINNING ENTRY.

    First have a good look at the diagram. Now, the 300 white sheep must be made to change places with the 300 undipped black sheep, the blacks to go through the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 65 words
  5. MAN'S MAINSTAY.

    What is this? Three parts of a cross and a circle complete, Two semi-circles perpendicular to ...

    Article : 35 words
  6. HOW LONG?

    A circular fishpond takes up just one acre of ground. What length of halter, fastened to the edge of the pond will allow a horse to graze over exactly one ...

    Article : 40 words
  7. MEDAL MUDDLE.

    A swimmer lost a gold medal that he had won under unusual conditions. The medal is advertised as found, but the swimmer has forgotten the date that is ...

    Article : 147 words
  8. A MISSING LETTER.

    The string of letters below is actually a correct sentence, except that a certain letter has been omitted seven times. What does it mean? ...

    Article : 34 words
  9. DOMINOES.

    How is it possible to arrange a set of dominoes in a hollow square of two ranks and two supernumeraries so that the numbers add up to 21 in each direction?. ...

    Article : 35 words
  10. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S POSERS.

    The correct combination for the four dials on the lock to the diamond merchant's safe is "lynx." A Stock Problem. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 526 words
  11. WHAT FRACTION?

    The same fraction of £1, 1/, and ld., when added together, make a total of £1. What is the fraction? ...

    Article : 27 words
  12. MARKING PADDOCKS.

    The diagram shows a fenced in piece of country. The puzzle is to divide it into seven paddocks by drawing only three lines. How is it done? ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  13. JUMBLED NAMES.

    When they are arranged in their correct order, the letters in the following words form the names of West Australian towns and plants:—Leastvirgen, ...

    Article : 43 words
  14. WATER-CARRIER'S PROBLEM.

    A man was sent to a well to bring back exactly seven pints of water. He took with him a three-pint and a five-pint pail. How did he solve his problem? ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. BUSHED!

    On March 20 last year a man was bushed on a big sandplain. The next morning, at sunrise, he started off at an average pace of three miles per hour, ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. A WORD TO THE WISE.

    IF 50 years' hence someone decides that it's time another history of Western Australia was written, I can quite imagine him recording with all due emphasis ...

    Article : 795 words
  17. A GOOD MATCH.

    An arrangement of a number of matches is shown below. The puzzle is to move two matches to show what is a good match. How is it done? ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  18. ARRANGING ROYALTY.

    Arrange the honours in a pack of cards so that no two Aces, Kings, Queens, or Jacks, Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, or Hearts are in the same line, or diagonal. ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. THE MISSING LINK.

    Below are nine dots. The problem is to join them by four straight lines without lifting the pencil from the paper, and without going over the same dot twice. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  20. BRAIN BRIGHTENERS.

    Most people have stored away In their memory a pet purzle that they "put over" their friends on appropriate occasion. Send ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. WHAT IS IT?

    See if you can work this one out:— Although I've neither legs nor feet, I'm useful only when I go; I have no tongue, but yet I tell ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. HIGH FINANCE.

    What would be the total cost of this order? Two iron buckets for 5/. One wooden do. for 2/6. ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

    Work this one out: If the B empty put: If the B. putting: ...

    Article : 24 words
  24. HIDDEN SOVEREIGNS.

    In the following sentences the names of seven kings of England are hidden. To help you in your search for them, the name of the first has been printed in ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. A DANCING MOKE.

    The diagram below shows a dancing moke. The puzzle is to cut out the three sections into which the moke is divided, place them on white paper, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 54 words
  26. CONVERSION.

    Given the following set of figures, whose diagonals add up to 34, what is the easiest way of converting them into a magic square, adding up to 34 all ways. ...

    Article : 58 words
  27. GARDENER SHOT.

    WILUNA, May ll.—Irvine Robinson (45), a market gardener, of Clarypans, about seven miles east of Wiluna mines, was shot in the right shoulder early this ...

    Article : 164 words
  28. WOMAN AGAIN.

    We've all heard that definition of romance which describes it as that process in life by which a young man pursues a young woman until she catches him. ...

    Article : 74 words
  29. CAT-CHY!

    In a room of eight corners there is a cat in each corner. Seven of the cats have a cat before them, and there is a cat on every cat's tail. How many cats were ...

    Article : 44 words
  30. THE BANKER.

    A banker has 1,000 sovereigns sealed in ten bags. He can give any number of sovereigns from one to 1,000 without opening any of the sealed bags. How is it done, ...

    Article : 47 words
  31. ELUSIVE.

    What is it that never arrives, although it is always just ahead. We are ever waiting for it, but it is gone just as we are about to reach it. ...

    Article : 34 words
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