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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

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MERRY Christmas to you all! Have you all got your pencils and paper- ready? Let's start off with a few puzzles.

A mun has to paint numbers on the front doors of a street of 100 houses numbering 1 to 100. How many times did he paint the figure 9?

ANSWER: Twenty; not 10, as I thought. I jumped in my calculation from 89 to 99, for- getting 90, 91, 92, 93, etc.

was rather buffled by this on Three fathers and three wins, go into a bur. Each buys a rourui of clinics, How many drinks altogether do they buy?

ANSWER: Seteen drinks, The ure you, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

MAY

JAYBE after that you will like a change, What's it to be? Anagrams”? All right Try this.

(1) A Famous Filmn (Two Wordia. ).

AIRNETOAMNITTEZ.

(2) A Pantoninve,

(For Words >

DWHTSEBNIADEBO. (3) A Christmas Treat, (One Word a

SBRKACEC

(4) A European Capital,

(On Word.)

He asks each guest hi turn to say what two things he nr she would choose. The quest must reply: "T a potrg 11 a cruise, and I am lak-

the with the and ---

If the player answers covertly, the referee says, "You can 100,"

The game goes on until ench, mem- | her of the party has chosen vorvectly. And lus beer given the O.K. t Unvei

How

Good A

Detective Are

You? - 1.

A boy's name .......

Another boy's name ..

Four officers of the law A plo

Symbol of a king

Tothi

SOLUTION;

A king (Sovereign) ... A leather worker

( tanner) A boy's nune (Bob) Another boy's name

(Joey) B Four officers of the Inw

(1 coppers)

A ply (guincu), Syinbol of a king

Total

8

1

0 3

0

4

1

0

(crown) { 5

2 H

ASK married friend to tel

of

you the year of his birth. Write it down. Beneath that the bie treinge. Then the number of years he has been mIF- Pled, and, lantly, his present age.

year

You will find the answer is 3870. Here is an exàmple:--

It

If I were at the party any childre

TOW for a tle problem in 3876 would be a dialer and

fee." Thin, on the second tine tine!, "

crime delection the surfi fotermal and a macintosh."

videte my old Monday night fetend. Inspector Hornleigh, magist Not Gol the feloni Nathaniel Guldsins were also at the, have to tackle, warty he would baye in asteel " nightcap and gotustres,"

Well, it, suv.

Got # now" The passungt,

name te arthies be- course, in to ginning with your own Initials.

You'll be surorisert line tome it takes some of those who have not auet the enme before te tumbates 1 thr alue, and, for the "in the frine."! what brain-searching is need to invent fesh articles to fit their Initials with easy

HOW

urreeding round,

TOW about bringing no old.

favourite in to states" Fante! of you perhaps note it as "Med. Betils, Flowers, and Fishes - Here tir the guise of a Personality J'arde

Given a letter of the abiabèt and at it of, say, three mizuites, can you A1 In this fiet? To shooy you what menn 1 boys taken the

GBDREUNHI. ANSWERS: (1) Marie Antoinette, (2) Baines in the Wood; (3) Craeferus | Seit: "$" for the rample below: (4) Edinburgh.

to much for puzzles, Meat- time, let's have a Ranve Here's me I played at a party the other week. It may not to ness to some of you, but it won n fresh ame to me and gave us a lot of fun.

Like most partour games, it wants a spokesman or referee, who, in this

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1st explain to the party that they have to imagine they are about to set off on a long trip or cruise en which each person may take only

two articles.

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ...

Simon FILM STAR-

Sultavan (Margaret) CHOONER....-Shirley (Judy). INVENTOR-Sterbenson. DRAMATIST–Shaw.

AUTHOR-SWon (Annie S.. AIRMAN (Sooti,

FOOTRALLER - Sourden, Jockey Smith (EJ). ACTRESS Seinburne (Noral BAND LEADER ... ....

Shadwell (Charles) COMEDIAN- Stainless Stephen. See?

deck.

Born

Married

Been married

Arc

1008

1029

30

3876

the solution does not come to

some one is not

Winan, thy name is vinky!!

telling the

WHAT about this one?

you know it?

Do

A man left a £5 note an ha A mon was employed to paint thei

Later it hải vanished. In¦ hands of Big Ben. He was given the Interval two people only had | 1816s, of paint for the job, He found access to the note his butler and that the large hand required 31. labs housemaid.

The mail told hum: saw the nede, and, for safety, folded it up and placed it under the red book on your desk." The man looked under the bonk, but there wie: no

45 note.

The faller next told him: "Yes, sir. I found the ante under the red! book, and, thinking it might get fost.

and the small brox 14. of pati low much paint and he left over when he had completed painting the hands?

ANSWER: Nome, Big Ben has jour

faces,

AND this may look tricky. Į

but isn't.

What was the Prime Minister's

placed it inside the book bename in 19127 tween pages 23 and 24,"

The an Answer: Neville Chamberlain. ft

opened the book, but the note was has been that since he was born, still missing.

PROBLEM: Whe state this nate? And what erkdruce was there, of pulle?

SOLUTION: The builer stolr the nste. The evidence against him was that the pages of hooks are normally numbered with the even numbers on the left and the odd numbers on the right- hand page.

Pages 23 and 24 were, there- fore, either side of one and the same leaf, So the butler Hed when he said k placed the note between pages 23 and 24. Test it and see.

CAN YOU

"AN you write a sentence in hirt the word "AND"

appears five times in succession?

EXAMPLE; - "The Inn-keener of the Star and Garter had a new sign painted. As he

Was not satisfied with it. he sent for the sign-writer and complained: There's too much space between Star and AND am AND and Garter.

game.

of.

LET'S, have another

What about Towns England? This is a nice sor of comfortable round-the-fire game.

It starts with some one saying the mame of an English town: the right- i and neighbour must name another

VELI.. after that let's go back to some more prob- lens. See if you can get this simple, the first letter of which is the

little sun correct.

A king

A leather worker

Line

Your First of Defence STRONG NERVES

same as the last letter of the name of the preceding town mentioned. And so

on round the encle.

of

Any player wuble to think of a sewn after the count of ten lases a life.

Three lives lost ptils you out the game. That sounds much easier than it really Is. For instance, A sivys "Norwich," and I says "Halifax"what does poor C do? ... Loses a life, fear.

And remember a town once men- toned may not be used again.

I WAS in the country not

long ago and saw a munt ber....of swans.swimming en alake, There were two swans in front of a

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1939:

WHICH BIT OF BELONGS TO

FACE

TO WHICH STAR?

The faces of two famous 20th Century Fox film stars have been cut into pieces and jumbled to- gether into two "pic- tures.". The job is to put them together again, and an ingenious competition can be arranged. Get an- other copy of this issue and then split your guests into two teams factually teams should not be of more than four people). Of course, the more copies of the paper you can obtain, the

more

of comfortable proportions you can have

teams

The

that

winning team

is

which takes the

shortest time to complete

the face.

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RIPLEY'S BEST

Ripley's most famous Believe- it-or-not puzzle!----

A youth, ready to start his business career, has received Iwo offers of a situation.

(A) £100 a year and a yearly rise of £20.

(B) £100 a year and a half-yearly rise of £5.

Which should he sccept? Answer: "D's" offer. always worth £5 a year more than "A's" offer.

This problem was argued over in office, workshop, res- taurant, club, bus, and train. Rendlers telephoned and tele- graphed, wagers were laid-and lost. More than 1,400 letters were received from all parts of the world.

Work it out, but please don't send any more solutions.

swan, two swans behind a swan, and one swan in the mirkle.

How many swans do you think I saw altogether?

THREE ANSWER:

WANS, SWIMMING IN SINGLE FILE,

Here is a little one you L'an alt i prove at home. All you need are two volumes on a book shelf. Say they are both 2% inches thick, what is the distance between the title page of volume one and the lust page of volume two-not counting the thick- nesses of the covers?

Answers There is 110 distance. Ignoring the covers as requested the pages touch one another. Test it,

How Good A Détective Are You? - 2.

A

ROUGHI-LOOKING. man rong the front-door bell

of the home of a famous collector

of antiques.

"Can I see the guy'nor?" he asked the servant who answered the door.

"What's your business?" replied the maid.

I found It yesterday when I was on a job... pulling down one of them old houses, you know."

A few minutes later the man was howing the collector a enin.

"Yes, sir." he said, "I found it in the foundations of one of them old houses in Westminster genuine George the First, ain't it? Look! All these Latin words, and there, see, clear as the nose in me face-George I. What'll you gite me for il sir?"

"Nothing at alf" said the anti- quary, this is n forgery, my man. and not a very elever one at that."

What was the forger's mistake?

ANSWER: Before a monarch can be designated the First, a second of the same name must relan. For example, Queen Vic- toria is not known as Victoria the First. A genuine coin of the time of George the First wouhl, therefore, be Inscribed simply George, etc.

WITH

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three matches make a triangle. So...

With only three more matcheB con you form four Eriantus, the

three new опея being exactly the same size as the original? You are not allowed to move the mafcites that form the original triangle.

ANSWER:

Most petoje will ty to make them on a Dat plane, not think- in of standing the three extra matches from the angles of the orial triangle

four triangles exactly the sume size.

A

FARMER. instructed his shepherd to pet his flock in a per made from ordinary hurdles. To make pen large enough to hold his flock the shepherd had to use almost all the hurdles on the farm.

Later in the same day the farmer announced the arrival of another Block of sheep of the same number of animals as his original flock. He tok the shepherd to pen them with the others. The shepherd did so. How many extra hurdies did he have to use?

ANSWER: Two. Original pen 6 hurles long, 1 hurdle wide. Add 1 kurdle to widith end thereby double size of pen.

See illustration.

Original 'fluck.

New Bock.

DON'T be frightened at this

game; it's quile ensy. Hand out shes of paper, Each player writes at the top of the all n

NOUN,

folds the puper andl passes it on.

Next he wrlies down in

ADJECTIVE

fokls and passes on. Then he writes a

VERB,

folls and throws the stlp into a houpa, Each player picks at random one alip from the heap. Be must then wrlle a verse-merlek, sonnet .or

"Well," said the man, "I've got www something here that will interest him. to meet on the centre, and so making - what you will bringing in the three

words. Now, you budding Tenny-

sons! Get busy!.

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WELL, I hope these puzzles and gaines have helped to

entertain you a little,

I hope there were enough simple ones for people like myself who find the easiest problem a bit difkult, until, of course, I've seen the answer.

I also hope there were some that really interested the brainy, people. who can visualise half a hen."

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