Solutions To "Brush Up Your Wits
1.-The Death Trap
NOOZLE'S payment in respect
of any hole or series of con- secutive holes each of which he Failed to win was one or other of the following: £1, £3, £6, £10, £15, 221, £28, £36, £45.
He won the Death-trap and two. others, so that there must have Deen at least five separate series of holes not won. Now, the Death-trap cannot have been the ärst or last, for then the total of Hosses would be greater than £47; so that there were at least six. separate series. The match in which he won only the Death-trap must have resulted in a loss of £20, or £21, or £24, or £29.
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If he won both of the other two holes in the same match the low- est possible loss would have been £8-1-£20+£20. Hence these two holes were won matches.
in different
If either of these two holes was next to the Death-trap or was the first or ninth, the lowest pos- sible loss was £16. Otherwise the lowest possible loss was £12.
Therefore one match resulted in a loss of £20 or £21, and in the others the two holes won were not consecutive, and neither was the first or ninth.
of:
If he lost two sequences four holes in one match to give` a. loss of £20 his total loss must have been £20+£2 (103+1); £48. Hence he must have lost a sequence of-three and a sequence of five holes in one match to give a loss of £21, so that the Death- trap may have been the fourth or the six hole.
We now have to divide two sets of seven holes each into sets of three to give a total loss of £26. Now 7=3+2+2=3+3+1=4+2 +1=5=1=1, giving total losses.. of £12, £13, £14, £17. As the first and ninth holes are lost as well as those just before and after the Death-trap, there cannot be a sequence of four or five losses. Hence the only possible division of 7 is 3--3+1, and hence the Death-trap cannot be the sixth as the two holes won must be differ- ent. Hence the Death-trap must have been the fourth, and the other two won were the sixth and eighth.
2.-The Pink Shirts
"Wister's" number was 94. If A=1, B=2, C-8, etc., we have
HOTSON=91 WATSON=92
(MORRIS=92).
SNOOKS=93 WISTER=94
MY LIFE AS A NEW YORK-BELL HOP
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are the man and woman who pose as husband and wife; conse quently the clerk and bell-boys must exercise the greatest care when receiving couples. It i seldom difficult to tell the genuine article. · The recently married couple will enter bashfully. When they
they order probably The older
POP:
WHAT WERE WEBSTER'S
LAST
WORDS?
THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY: SUPPLEMEN
CAFE D'OISEAU BLEU
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By J. Millar Watt
ZYMOTIC
ZYMURGY-
Zythum!
AND ER:
married pair will enter composed- ly, but they will consult together over the price and location of rooms, and will generally order ice-water. The salesman and his girl stroll in nonchalantly, he will designate
erously and sig room, tip-gen-
with a flourish,
while she hangs on to his arm Their order will be for something rare and unusually expensive; to-day it would be a cocktail. But in distinguishing the true from the false, one must be tactful, for to bring a false accusation would. be catastrophic
THE NOISY PIANIST
cause
'us
Musicians used to concern- and embarrassment at One evening several calls down from guests
fifteenth floor, complaining of an incessant strumming on the piano
(0 1934, by Bell Syndicate
"That Fam: and I see you areuzi too, not so? Can you spare moment to come in and have 2:
say,
in the neighbouring suite, and chat? I'm: feeling rather homer requesting that we have it stop ped. The bell captain looked at me and jerked his thumb over his shoulder. There happened to be at that time a famous English pianist_It would be unfair · to taying in the mention his name-
ho- was: hotel, and it was causing the trouble. to go, but I had to. tapped on the door. ceased and the door opened în as English, an accent as recall after several years', separa- tion from it, I said, "I hope you will pardon me, sir, but I under- stand that you are from England, sir?"
sick and think the gods must havel. sent you up or should I down? Ha ha!" And he took me by the hand and drew me ins to his room. And thus for more- than an hour we sat and chatted like two old cronies; for though the I-disillusioned him
could
country of my origin,
more interested
declared, he conte
of South
exacted, from. he would pay has since
ints
few days.
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