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\ Can You Solve the Firecracker Puzzle? A “Skeleton” Problem in Division j
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If ERE la a fascinating puzzle with which American girls and boys
can celebrate the Fourth of July. You will find exactly a dozen
firecrackers all ready for you to shoot off I
Cut out the twelve firecrackers, set them in the lettered spaces
as Indicated in the lower part of the diagram, first discarding the
firecracker marked 1929.
Without moving any firecracker outside of the frame, or lifting
it from the paper frame, move one at a time into the space until
the firecrackers read from left to right: FOURTH OF JULY. Then
place "1929" In the space to complete your Fourth of July design.
You will then have solved the firecracker puzzle 1 It is "safe
and sane," but much harder than it looks!
A Clever Cryptogram
J ABB ACDEBF ABGEHI ABIE ABGE HI
ABJIBGJCK ALBI AB ACIE AHFELK
* ABCMIIIG AB ANDD ACUBF
ANEL ACDEBF.
r! decoding the above crypto
gram the reader is guided by
the fact that each one of the
words begins with the same let
ter, with one exception. Further
more, two small words are the
same as the first word, minus one
* letter which is repeated. The
eecond and the last word of the
cipher message are the same. An
tther clue is found in the fre
quent repetition of one of the
vowels.
These clues should enable the
experienced puzzlist easily to
translate the cryptogram into
plain words.
A “Catch” Number
rpHE next time you cee your
chum ask him if he can tell
you the difference between 1 and
2 and 2 and 1.
He is sure to look very puz
zled, add them both together,
shake his head and tell you that
there Is no difference.
You can prove to him that
there is a big difference. Show
him that there is a difference of
9, for 1 and 2 stand for 12, and
2 and 1 for 21. The difference
between 21 and 12 Is 9.
A Cinderella Silhouette
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pOOH Uttla Cinderellal Compelled to dress In ragi and perform
1 Jl menial tasks by her heartless stepmother and stepsisters, she Is
sad, indeed. But along comes her fairy godmother who arrays her
for the prince's ball. Cut out the eight pieces and Join them together
in such a way as to transform the poor little cinder girl into a
beautiful princess.
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Cross-Word Puzzle!
HORIZONTAL
l—Of what county to the ftntt ot
Georgia la Marietta lbs county
scat?
ft—What town in New York At at# la
the site of Sing Sing Prison?
13— Small tree of liie birch family.
14— During whose Presidency did the
United Stales e caul re the Canal
Zone!
16—Decorated with reeds
I*—Mineral aprlng.
19—What river and canal In Flanders
were the scene of eotne of the
heaviest fighting during the
World Wir?
29— Hebrew measure ot capacity.
21—Gained.
23—Undermins
23—Japanese food fish.
2ft—Profit: to
27_What Russian cstl built tbo dty
of Leningrad?
29— Rules or laws
81—Lowest point.
33—In sans
S3—Rocky hill top.
36—Male of the red deer.
87—Wbat Greek goddess ot agricul
ture corespond# to tho Roman
goddess Ceres?
89— symbol for calclnm.
♦1—Upper limb
42— Praflx: wrongly.
43— By means of
44— Droop
43— Svmbol Tor samarium.
46—Who was the fourth President ot
United Stares?
43—Composition fot on# person.
49—Vehicle.
MV—Male offspring.
fit—Seises with the teeth.
69— What is another name Tor Athens,
the Greek goddess of Wisdom?
6ft—On whet river to Germany are
Minden and Bremen located?
(17—Right lahbr.l
RS—Be to debt.
69—Telephone (abbr.)
61— .7 one-beetle.
62— Vo»htng
63— W ash.
83—From what post doea this lln*
come: "Qnotb fb# raven, never
mors"?
(17—Ridicule.
69—What famine Greek philosopher
was the teacher and friend of
Alexander the Great?
72— Long, pointed teeth.
73— One who writes essay a.
74— Biblical pronoun
VERTICAL.
X—With what farnooe Egyptian
queen did Marc Antony fall In
love?
Balancing a Bottle
CAN you balance a bottle on
the edfce of a piece of card
board ?
Take a piece of cardboard
about four inches square and ask
your friend* to balance a bottle
on it. They frill be «ur# to fail.
Then you anow them how simple
it is bv bending the cardboard
in the rorm of the letter V. Stand
it on the table and set the bottle
on top of it.
4— Lyric pot a a.
ft-Layer.
4—one who brew*.
B—AI tern at'v*.
4— Uiatriie signal.
7—Soaks In
ft—Who waa the aoo of Abraham and
Sarah)
»—Symbol for noon.
10— Climbing rloe.
11— What aped leader at the Siege ot
Tiov waa noted for bis wisdom?
13—Gather piece by piece laboriously.
13—Of what State te Little Bock the
capital.
13— Fill in the missing part ot the
name of tbs well-known ball
player: .-.. Speaker
17—Minute round mark
22—Who la the Greek goddeaa ot
chastisement and vengeance?
ftt—Who wrote "Marius the Epicur
ean"?
37— Porcine animal.
26—Male aheep.
30—Neither.
83—Restrain.
M—tmdiaA
37—Performed.
SS—Row many commandment* vrere
given to ifotea by God on Mount
Sinai ? _ .
«»—Who wrot# ch* rhyme ot "Ancient
Mariner” 7 .
40—Zealoua adrocatea ot ft cans".
43— Who waa stabbed wbll* taking ft
hath by Charlotte Corday?
44— Whoa* wife waa tnrned to salt be
causa aha disregarded a command
of God?
40—EctL
47—To aeatter, as seed.
46—Term of respect.
40—l).shaped draft-iron.
B1—Deprived of.
63— City in Italy.
43—Re conscious ot.
64— Native East Indian soldier.
66—Tu rt.
00—What French novelist if the au
thor of “Madam* Chryaentbeme."
■ fantastic novel of Japanese
manner*?
■ft—How many player* doe* • bate
ball team eonslst of?
64—S shaped worm.
66—Elevated railroad* (colloq.)
66—College cheer.
71V—Symbol for tantalum.
71—Suffix: meaning email.
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Answer to Last Week's
Croft»*Word Puzzle
OcrirUH 113. fnola mdltm. (Ml
THIS is a mf«ins number di
vision problem, which is not
as difficult 89 it looks. There
have been problems in which only
a single figure in the quotient
was given, and from which the
entire problem was reconstructed.
In this case there are given a
number of addition indications,
namely X and Y, which letters
stand for figures.
In the quotient there is indi
cated only one digit, namely 7.
From this it ought to he easy to
reconstruct the entire problem.
Note that the divisor, when
multiplied by 7 equals only three
figures, therefore, the first digit
in the divisor can only be 1. If
it were 2, seven times S! would
give an additional figure in the
third line. Knowing that the
first figure in the divisor is 1
and that the second line shows
three one3 fn succession, it is
simple to find the first digit in
the quotient. The rest is as easy
as rolling off of a log.
Riddles
DO not brag about how good a
guesser you are until you
have tried to answer these brain
teasing riddles:
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1. Why Is there no such thing
as a whole day?
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2. Why is a chicken always so
greedy?
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3. What part of the United
States is suggested hy a man who
is made sick by loud sounds?
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Game of “Proper Names”
By Edvard Longstrcth and
Leonard T. Holton.
HE exact altitude of the
higher educatioo of those
who play “Proper Names,”
b not so important a factor as
the quality of their educational
background, or the similarity of
their experiences and interests.
With about eight or a dozen
persons present, one is made IT.
He withdraws and the others
select a proper name, the name
of a person, place, etc., which is
kept secret from him.
Let us suppose, just to be irri
tating, that the word is “Da
Vinci.” The man who Is IT
then returns and faces the very
wise boys who are present, and
they tell him merely that the
ward he must guess begins with
the letter “D."
The merry jest of this game Is
that the IT questions the crowd
in a specific manner so that
everyone is more or less IT on
the rebound. He asks one of
the group:
“Is it the name of a modern
Italian poet?”
And that man must answer
specifically. “No, it is not D’An
nunzio.”
The IT then turns to the next
and asks: “Is it a river in the
Balkans?”
And that man must reply, "No,
it is not the Danube,” and bo on.
It is not permissible, this being
a game of knowledge, to try to
put one over on the IT by faking
a reply and perhaps saying to the
Balkan river question. "No, it is
aot the Dau.” The replies must
always be made without hem or
haw. The object is for the per
son who is IT to get the whole
crowd hoist with their own petard
while they are watching hire
swea* to get the secret proper
name. •
What, you may ask, happens
when a booh is present who docs
not know a Balkan river begin
ning with *‘D”? The question
goes around the entire crowd +
once. Each one who misses pays
a penalty to the IT, and if no one
gets it, the first player who '
missed becomes IT, and the game C
begins again. If the IT asks a
question that has no true answer
In fact, he must pay a penalty,
limited in amount by agreement
to each person playing.
But these failures rarely occur
in an eligible crowd. Should any
false alarm be present, masquer
ading among his betters and con
tinually wrecking the game with
delays and abysmal ignorance, he
is thrown into the waste paper
basket, put to bed. or otherwise
disposed of.
Coprrtfht 1311. to Slano * BctiusUr. laa.
The Strange Recipe of the Cook
READERS of the puzzle page
were so pleased with the
curious recipe given a few weeks
ago that the cook who enjoys
nothing more than devising new
Solutions of Last
Week’s Puzzles
6i|7BJlZt Kir Evolution — The
IV eleven pieces form a silhouette
*■ of the wagtail, a small Euro
pean bird, The numbered pieces are
joined as follows; 1 and 2 2 and 3,
8 and 4. 4 and 5. 9 and 6, fl and 7,
7 and 8. 8 and 9. 9 and 10. 10 and IL
Object Named—St ore a.
Squaring the Crose—If VOO fall to
solve this putale. a diagram will be
sent yoo opoo receipt of a stamped
and addressed envelop*.
-CJltrh" Problem—EL 1* One-third
Of TWELVE and EVEN la four
fifth! of SEVEN Tima EL plus EVEN
Is equal to El.EVEN.
Hidden Names—L Lea. 2 Persh
ing 3 Sherman
Anagram Rebus—The two tree
trunk* form on* L. the anagram of
LONE The word RATS la the ana
gram of STAR. Thua you hav#
t.ONR STAR which as you know. Is
Te*a*
Cryptogram*— 2 Ely. 2 JuaL 8
Tag. 4. Volume h Foil, ft Aground
7. Suave ft I roe 9. Save 10. Es
aay. 11. Awaken. 12 Cap IS Mac*.
14. Lie. 15 Strain. 1ft Tart. 17
Miss th Plow 19. Temper. 20
Cravat 21 Scale 22 Mean
Riddle*—1 Because be cornea out ©o
top. 2 Both are full of figure*
8. Firewood, because it la cord Ichord)
wood. 4. A fig because U le an
F-I-O lefflryl ft "He” would and
"she” would, ft Nolae I. Both are
going to a-Bght 8 Atone 9 To
bacco 10 Because a full moon la at
Ught again
Rase hall Powi*—Tweertledee runt
around third base, turns to hie right
and then runs straight acrosa the dia
mond on first has* Tweedledum runa
directly acrosa the diamond to third
base. Humpty-Dumpty runs outside
the diamond and around third base to
second. ^
and appetizing dishes out of odds
and ends, as she says, was per
suaded to give the directions for
making another one of her fa
mous dishes in which the follow
ing ingredients of the quantity
indicated are used:
One-eighth of tomatoes.
One-sixth of a potato.
One-sixth of a turnip.
One-seventh of parsley.
Now that you know the in
gredients and the amount of each
you should be able easily to find
out what course of a dinner this
recipe makes.
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HERB is an Interesting rebus
that is sure to put your wits
to work to guess what it repre
sents.
. The solution is suggested by
the position of the two letters.
A Tremen-DOUS
Word Puzzle
SAMUEL SILVESTER SEBAS
TIAN, JR., came home from
school the other day In a very
perturbed condition. His teacher
had given him the problem of
writing four words used in popu
lar conversation, ending in DOUS.
He had found only one, “Tre- w
mendous,” but could not think of £
the other three. His father «
helped him, and in a few mu- a
ments, Samuel had written the s
four words to show to his teacher t
the next day. \
“But," said Sebastian, Senior,
"don’t imagine there are only \
four words that end in DOUS. I <
am sure that I can find at least r
twenty more. Some of them are \
unusual. buU they are all real /
words. Three are obsolete, two L
are of French origin whose plu
rals are thus spelled, and some
are of Greek extraction and tech
nical in their character.” £
What are the four words end
ing in DOUS? How many more \
words can you think of that end
with these four letters?
Vi lio Are They ?
FIVE useful little creatures.
All of different form and
features. ^
One of them In glass u set; f
Another you will find in jet.
While a third you’re sure to find
in tin, P
And the fourth a box within. 1
Then the fifth you should pursue, \
For it never can flee from you.