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  2. PUZZLES and PASTIMES A CARD TRICK.

    Final "Blind Biography." I destroy both animate, and inanimate. Everything welcomes me at one age and abhors me at another. In unseen form I rule the world. I am ...

    Article : 286 words
  3. A Riddle Box.

    1. What is shorter when it is longer and longer when it is shorter; also bigger when it is smaller and smaller when it is bigger? ...

    Article : 196 words
  4. Spelling by the Clock.

    YOU work by the clock and now you can spell by the same means in solving this geographical puzzle. The 12 letters placed in an unintelligible arrangement around the dial spell the name of a great nation which can be found by following these simple directions:—Select some lettered hour as your starting point, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 110 words
  5. A GOLF CALCULATION.

    A friend of mine took a compass out while playing golf the other day. At the ninth hole three shots took her (a lady friend) considerably to the left of the ...

    Article : 126 words
  6. CRICKET AND MATCHES.

    Each letter of CRICKET and MATCHES represents a figure (where the same letter occurs more than once it represents the same figure each time). The sum of the ...

    Article : 65 words
  7. The Road to Prosperity.

    None of the many so-called economists and panacea-suggesters has yet hit upon the very simple method of converting DEPRESSION into PROSPERITY, which is offered here for what it is worth. It can literally be accomplished in four acts as follows:— ...

    Article : 179 words
  8. TILES.

    X has had the walls of his bathroom tiled to a height of 4ft., the room being 12ft. long and 7ft. wide, with a door 3½ft. wide. The number of rectangular tiles used ...

    Article : 72 words
  9. EXCHANGES.

    In the two lines of letters Below exchange four from each line and make two words which are connected with one another. To help you, the first line makes a time of ...

    Article : 53 words
  10. A WORD SQUARE.

    "Too much of second with its great excess Of Jazz and Vaudeville," the poet cried, "Will third in time my brains I fear, ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. SKELETON WORDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 words
  12. JUMPING ON THE BOAT.

    If a man is on a boat that is in rapid motion, and he proposes to jump, can he jump farther on the deck by leaping in the direction in which the boat is moving ...

    Article : 44 words
  13. A CRYPTIC ANSWER.

    "How shall I play this melody?" asked one musician of another. In answer his friend scribbled repetitions of the letter H thus:— ...

    Article : 27 words
  14. A Cryptogram.

    ONE of the most fascinating of all pastimes in the realm of puzzledom is finding the solution of cryptograms. For ages the writing and decoding of cyphers and other forms of secret messages, of which there is an infinite variety, has been a popular amusement. In the early days a person who possessed the ability to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 207 words
  15. A Word Puzzle in Letter Chess.

    CUT out the drawing and mount it on cardboard. Next cut out 20 pieces of cardboard to form squares of the same size as the white squares in the drawing. ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. TOOTHPICK MAGIC.

    Here is a fascinating trick which anyone can perform with four toothpicks: Break four toothpicks exactly in the centre to form the letter V. Each ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. SKELETON QUOTATIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 words
  18. TWO NUMBERS.

    If you add squares of two numbers together the result is 6,805. The difference between the two numbers is 29. What are the numbers? ...

    Article : 28 words
  19. AN ENIGMA.

    This single letter S, a word will show. When once a little thing you have done, You'll find the key in Rome, in Tokio, In London, Paris or in Washington. ...

    Article : 33 words
  20. SPEED.

    If a motorist's speed over five miles was 211 and thirteen-seventeenths m.p.h., what would have been his speed if he had taken 10 seconds less to over the measured five ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
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