THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 19, 1940.
YULETIDE PERPLEXITIES
IF you're going to be the file and
soul of the party this Christ- mas you'll want to be able to pose a problem with the best; it not. here's a good chance to brighten up the old grey matter with મ teaser or three. Puzzles you'll enjoy solving, puzzles you'll en- joy setting in your tum., here's all the fun of the Christmas fare.
Siesta
After three helpings of turkey and four of Christmas pudding, followed by nuts, fruit, sweets and fizzy ginger beer, Berty was in 30 mood for violent exercise, so he settled down with a book to wait for the inevitable convulsions.
He soon dozed off, and after his meal he had some vivid dreams. Illustrated in the picture are some of the many things he dreamed about. Curiously enough. the letters in the names of these ob- jects can be rearranged to form the name of the book Berty was reading and the name of its au- thor. The figures indicate the number of letters in the names of the objects
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MORLEY ADAMS
Sce if you can discover Berty was reading.
Puzzling Letter
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positions of three pairs of cards to make, a simple addition sum, The third row will prove to be the total of the first two rows if cal- culated like a simple addition”. sium carrying forward the tens to the next column,”
"Will you go away!" cried Great-aunt Maria, which is a way great-aunts have, but all the same she sat down and did solve the puzzle.
Can you make the three ex- changes?
Crackerjack
"Well, that's good I've got
what but he was 34 30826 34 any. The exactly 50 crackers," said Jack. "1 party finished with the 4890890 of did have five boxes of them, but "Auld Lang Syne," and we thank- some out of each box have been ed our host for a very
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Now let's see, in the Red and '095675389890 evening."
box and the Blue box together there are 27 crackers, in the Blue box and the Green box there are 10 crackers, in the Green box and the Yellow Box there are 13 crack kers, while the total number of "Patience, Hey?" cried Smart crackers in the Yellow and Orange Alec. intruding on A hitherto boxes is 19 again. Now, I wonder peaceful game. "Nothing like a if you can tell me how many game of patience, ch, what?” crackers there are in each box?"
"The whisky's in the dining-
the
"I'm writing a letter to Auntle about the Christmas party went to yesterday," said Jack.
and just for fun
I've written figures instead of
at some words. Each figure represents a letter and if the letters are ranged in the order 1234567890 they make a word something do with building a house. Do you think she'll be able to solve it? She likes puzzles."
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"It's not 50 very hard,” said Jill Here's a portion of the letter. See if you can discover the words in the letter, and the keyword.
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Long time,
Card Trickery
room," snapped Great-aunt Maria, who doesn't like to have a boul of patience disturbed.
A Quick One
This ought not to keep you long. It's a test of your smartness. Ar- range eight pennies on four sides of a square as shown. Now, what is the largest number of coins you
can remove so that those remain-
"S'funny thing," persisted ing total the same amount on Smart Alec; **I see you've put each of the four sides? There's cards valued 1 to 9 on the table, only one other condition: you You've only got to exchange the must not remove all the coins.
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Yule-Tide Crossword
CLUES
ACROSS
2. Christmas song. 6. Crown.
8. Foretells weather.
10. Mohammedan leader. 11. Negative.
13. Divisions of army.
16. Part of foot.
18. Precious stones.
20. Make a mistake.
21. Boxes,
22. Very pale.
24. Short "thanks." 25 Human being. 27. Wise men came from. 29. Peer.
30. Outer rim.
32. Evening party.
34. Lair.
35. Come out.
1. Away.
DOWN
2. Sea substance,
3. Fragrance.
4. Heavy.
5. Allow
6. Open air "fans."
7. Popular game.
8. Curtain "bit."
9. Flower.
12. Consumed.
14. Horizontal beam,
15. Do what one is told.
17. Juicy fruit.
19. Remain.
21. Stop.
23. Pronoun.
24. Usually fr at Christmas.
25. Myself.
26. Total.
28. Often man's Christmas gift. 29. Wooden pin
31. Curtail "end."
33. Red Rufus (initials).
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