Now, although he is prohibited from cutting across country by road, nothing is said about his going by sea! If, therefore, we carefully look again at the map, we shall find that two towns, and two only, lie on the sea coast. When he reaches one of these towns he takes his departure on board a coasting vessel and sails to the other port. The annexed illustration shows, by a dark line, the complete route. This problem should be compared with No. 250, "The Grand Tour," in _A. in M._ It can be simplified in practically an identical manner, but as there is here no choice on the first stage from A, the solutions are necessarily quite different. See also solution to No. 94. 87.--_The Chifu-Chemulpo Puzzle._ The solution is as follows. You may accept the invitation to "try to do it in twenty moves," but you will never succeed in performing the feat. The fewest possible moves are twenty-six. Play the cars so as to reach the following positions:-- E5678 -------- = 10 moves. 1234 E56 -------- = 2 moves. 123 87 4 56 -------- = 5 moves. E312 87 4 E -------- = 9 moves. 87654321 Twenty-six moves in all. 88.--_The Eccentric Market-woman._ The smallest possible number of eggs that Mrs. Covey could have taken to market is 719. After selling half the number and giving half an egg over she would have 359 left; after the second transaction she would have 239 left; after the third deal, 179; and after the fourth, 143. This last number she could divide equally among her thirteen friends, giving each 11, and she would not have broken an egg. 89.--_The Primrose Puzzle._ The two words that solve this puzzle are BLUEBELL and PEARTREE. Place the letters as follows: B 3-1, L 6-8, U 5-3, E 4-6, B 7-5, E 2-4, L 9-7, L 9-2. This means that you take B, jump from 3 to 1, and write it down on 1; and so on. The second word can be inserted in the same order. The solution depends on finding those words in which the second and eighth letters are the same, and also the fourth and sixth the same, because these letters interchange without destroying the words. MARITIMA (or sea-pink) would also solve the puzzle if it were an English word. Compare with No. 226 in _A. in M._ 90.--_The Round Table._ Here is the way of arranging the seven men:-- A B C D E F G A C D B G E F A D B C F G E A G B F E C D A F C E G D B A E D G F B C A C E B G F D A D G C F E B A B F D E G C A E F D C G B A G E B D F C A F G C B E D A E B F C D G A G C E D B F A F D G B C E Of course, at a circular table, A will be next to the man at the end of the line.