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The puzzle king : $b Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc. — John Shaqi

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The puzzle king : $b Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.

Name: The puzzle king : $b Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.
Author: Scott, John

Scott, John

Amusements; Mathematical recreations; Puzzles

32. T bets D he can walk 7 miles to his 6 for any time or distance;
so they agree to walk a certain distance, starting from opposite
points. T starts from point M to walk to N. D starts from N and walks
to M. They both started at the same moment, and met at a spot 10
miles nearer to N than M. T arrives at N in 8 hours, and D arrives at
M in 12½ hours after meeting. Who wins the wager? How far from M
to N? And find the pace at which each walked?


THE ALPHABET.

The total number of different combinations of the 26 letters of the
alphabet is 403291461126605635584000000. All the inhabitants on the
globe could not together, in a thousand million years, write out all
the combinations, supposing that each wrote 40 pages daily, each page
containing 40 different combinations of the letters.


“10 INTO 9 MUST GO.”

[Illustration]

33.
    Ten weary footsore travellers, all in a woeful plight,
    Sought shelter at a wayside inn one dark and stormy night.

    “Nine rooms-no more,” the landlord said, “have I to offer you;
    To each of eight a single bed, but the ninth must serve for two.”

    A din arose; the troubled host could only scratch his head,
    For of those tired men no two would occupy one bed.

    The puzzled host was soon at ease (he was a clever man),
    And so, to please his guests, devised this most ingenious plan.


BOBBY (just from school)--“Mamma, I’ve got through the
promisecue-us examples, an’ I’m into dismal fractures.”


34. Find the expense of flooring a circular skating rink 30 feet
in diameter at 2s. 3d. per square foot, leaving in the centre a space
for a band kiosk in the shape of a regular hexagon, each side of which
measures 24 inches.


35. Gold can be hammered so thin that a grain will make 56
square inches for leaf gilding. How many such leaves will make an
inch thick if the weight of a cubic foot of gold is 12 cwt. 95 lbs.?


School Inspector: “What part of speech is the word “am”?

Smart Cockney Youth: “What? the ‘’am’ what you eat, sir,
or the ’am‘ what you is?”


MIND-READING WITH CARDS.

Hand the pack (a full one) to be shuffled by as many spectators
as wish; then propose that someone takes the pack in his hand and
secretly chooses a card, not removing it, but noticing at what number
it stands counting from the bottom; he then returns the pack to you.

Now you have to tell what number the card is from the top. You ask
any one of the spectators to choose any number between 40 and 50, and
whatever number is chosen the card will appear at that number in the
pack. Let us suppose the number chosen is 48.

The puzzle king : $b Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.

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