1937-07-16 — Page 12

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

Almoshi makes you think you're in Paris." **Shilly ass ! We are in Paris l'

ER-

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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