THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 19, 1940.
YULETIDE PERPLEXITIES
IF you're going to be the life and
soul of the party this Christ- mas you'll want to be able to pose a problem with the best; if not, here's a good chance to brighten
with up: the old grey matter teaser or three. Puzzles you'll enjoy solving, puzzles you'll en- joy setting in your turn, here's all the fun of the Christmas are.
Siesta
After three helpings of furkey hid four of Christmas pudding, followed by nuts, fruit, sweets and fizzy ginger beer. Berty was in no mood for violent exercise, so he settled down with a book to wait Ior the inevitable convulsions,
He soon dozed off, and after his meal he had some vivid dreams. Illustrated in the picture are some
MORLEY ADAMS
See if you can discover Berty was reading.
Puzzling Letter
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 sum carrying forward the tens to the next column."
go
"Will you
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 changes?
Crackerjack
Well. that's good I've Kot
what but he was 34 30826 34 any. The exactly 50 crackers," said Jack. “I party finished with the 4890890 of did have five boxes of them, but some out of each box have been "Auld Lang Syne," and we thank-
Now let's see, in the Red ed our host for a very 12634395 used.
box and the Blue box together and 695675389890 evening."
there are 27 crackers, in the Blue box and the Green box there are 19 crackers, in the Green box an the Yellow Box there are 13 crac- kers, while the total number of "Patience, Hey?" cried Smart crackers in the Yellow and Orange Alee. intruding on B hitherto boxes is 19 again. Now, I wonder me how many "Nothing like a if you can tell peaceful game.
crackers there are in each box?" game of patience, eh, what?" to
"The whisky's in the dining-
"I'm writing a letter to Auntie about the Christmas party We Jack. went to yesterday." said
I've written "and just for fun figures instead of some of the words. Each figure represents a letter and if the letters are ar- 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."
sug-
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"It's not so very hard," said Jill Here's a portion of the letter. See if you can discover the words in the letter, and the keyword.
"Alter tea Uncle 6790645
we made the many thing he dreamedt gested games and about Curiously enough, the 45375 with "Postman's Knock. ktters in the names of these ob- which made 322 the 08724 080026. jects can be rearranged to form especially my 484567 30964 Char-
aces followed the name of the book Berty wax
and kept Our 89567645 au-
for ค long 111725. reading and the n.ze of its thor. The Ogures ndicate
the 311632890 34 85 does to those who number of letters in the names of like acting. The other games the objects.
were obviously a 457308 on Uncle,
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Card Trickery
room," snapped Great-aunt Maria,
who doesn't like to have a bout of patience disturbed.
"Sunny
A Quick One
Ar-
This ought not to keep you long It's a test of your smartness. range eight pennies on four sides Now, what of a square as shown.
is the largest number of coins you
amount በሀ
There's condition: you
can remove so that those rimam- thing." persisted ing total the same Smart Alee: "I sce you've put each of the four sides? and valued 1 to 9 on the table. Guly one other 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 "hanks." 25. Human being.
27. Wise men came
29. Pecr.
30. Outer rim.
32. Evening party. 34. Lair
35. Come out.
1. Away.
DOWN
2. Sea substance.
3. Fragranec.
4. Heavy.
5. Allow
6. Open air "fans."
7. Popular game.
8. Curtain "bit."
9. Flower,
12. Consumed.
14. Horizontal beam.
from.
15. Do what one is told.
17. Juicy fruit.
19. Remain.
21. Stop.
23. Pronoun.
24. Usually fr at Christīnas,
25. Myself.
26. Total.
28. Often man's Christmas gift. 29. Wooden pin.
31. Curtail "end."
33. Red Rufus (initials).
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