+---+---+---+---*---+---+---+---+ | A | B | C | G " G | C | B | A | *===*---+---+---*---+---+---+---+ | B " D | E | H " H | E | D | B | +---*===*---+---*---+---+---+---+ | C | E " F | I " I | F | E | C | +---+---*===*---*---+---+---+---+ | G | H | I " J " J | I | H | G | +---+---+---*===*---+---+---+---+ | G | H | I | J | J | I | H | G | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | C | E | F | I | I | F | E | C | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | B | D | E | H | H | E | D | B | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | A | B | C | G | G | C | B | A | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ ] Start from the J in the enclosed part of the lettered diagram and visit every square of the board in fourteen moves, ending wherever you like. 329.--THE STAR PUZZLE. [Illustration: +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | ¤ | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | ¤ | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ ] Put the point of your pencil on one of the white stars and (without ever lifting your pencil from the paper) strike out all the stars in fourteen continuous straight strokes, ending at the second white star. Your straight strokes may be in any direction you like, only every turning must be made on a star. There is no objection to striking out any star more than once. In this case, where both your starting and ending squares are fixed inconveniently, you cannot obtain a solution by breaking a Queen's Tour, or in any other way by queen moves alone. But you are allowed to use oblique straight lines--such as from the upper white star direct to a corner star. 330.--THE YACHT RACE. Now then, ye land-lubbers, hoist your baby-jib-topsails, break out your spinnakers, ease off your balloon sheets, and get your head-sails set! Our race consists in starting from the point at which the yacht is lying in the illustration and touching every one of the sixty-four buoys in fourteen straight courses, returning in the final tack to the buoy from which we start. The seventh course must finish at the buoy from which a flag is flying. This puzzle will call for a lot of skilful seamanship on account of the sharp angles at which it will occasionally be necessary to tack. The point of a lead pencil and a good nautical eye are all the outfit that we require. [Illustration]