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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 up the old grey matter with મૈં 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 fare.

Siesta

After three helpings of turkey and four of Christmas pudding, followed by nuts, fruit, sweets and azzy ginger beer, Berty was in no 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 Agures ndiente the number of letters in the names of the objects.

14

8

Ov

MORLEY ADAMS

See if you can discover Berty was reading.

Puzzling Letter

what but he was 34 30826 34 any. The party finished with the 4890890 of "Auld Lang Syne," and we thank- ed our host for a very 12034395 and 095875389890 evening."

said Jack.

"I'm writing a letter to Auntie about the Christmas party We went to yesterday," "and just for fun I've written 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 to do with building a house. Do you think she'll be able to solve it? She likes puzzles."

"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.

"After tea Uncle 679845 sug- gested games and we made 21 45375 with "Postman's Knock," which made 322 the 08724 080026. especially my 484567 30964, Char- ades followed and kept 89567645 for a long time. 311632890 34 85 does to those who like acting. The other games were obviously a 457389 on Uncle,

our

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. sùm 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 puzzle.

Can you make the three changes?

Crackerjack

the

(5

ex -

"Well, that's good I've got exactly 50 crackers," said Jack. "1 did have five boxes of them, but some out of each box have been used. Now let's see, in the Red box and the Blue box together there are 27 crackers, in the Blue box and the Green box there are 19 crackers, in the Green box' and the Yellow Box there are 13 crac- kers, while the total number of "Patience, Hey?** cried Smart crackers in the Yellow and Orange Alcc. intruding on a hitherto boxes is 19 again. Now, I wonder

me "Nothing like a if you can tell peaceful game,

how many game of patience, eh, what?" crackers there are in each box?"

"The whisky's in the dining-

Card Trickery

room,” snupped Great-aunt Maria, who doesn't like to have a bout. of patience disturbed,

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A Quick One

Ar-

This ought not to keep you long. It's a test of your smartness. 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,

amount on persisted ing total the same Smart Alec: "I

There's see you've put each of the four sides? 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.

.17.

Yule-Tide Crossword

CLUES

'ACROSS

2. Christmas song. 6. Crown..

6. 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 Ar 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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