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THE PUZZLE COLUMN.

♦— TBK STOCK PROBLEM:.

MrR. filtrion, Rink da Paris, Aahbarlon, gives the answer to the problem, forwarded by Misa Sarah Jane Allan, Norlands, relative to the purchasing of Rtock with £100, sb follows :— BO pigs at Is per head, £4 ; 19 cows at £6 per head, £95 ; 1 Bheep at £1. Total, £100. Miaa Annie Mageo gives the same answer. Robert Oroy, Aahton, also answers correctly, J. Stephens, Aabbnrton, also glvea a ocrreot answer. A SCHOOL PDZZt-K Miss Annie Magee propounds the following problem:— "Mies F. has 20 schjlars. She wishes to place them m five classes with odd nnmbers m eaoh class. How is she to dp it 1 ■ [The solution of thia problem has not been forwarded by the propounder. Correct answers sbculd accompany problems forwarded to üb.] SO FIOUBBB LIE ! Let ns see : Two women had thirty chickens eaoh, which they took to market, They agreed to divide equally the proceeds of their sale. One sold her ohlokens tyro for Idol, getting for her 30 chickens 15do1. . The other sold hera three for Idol, getting for her ohiokeos lOdol. This made 25u0l .realised for the sixty chlokene, ; The merchant oalled; on to divide the money, said : • You sold yoar 30 chickens 2 for a dollar, and you Bold yonr 30 chickens 3 for a dollar. That makes 60 chlokona at the rate of 5 for 2 dol. Well, 5 into 60 foes 12 times— twice 12 Is 24. That makes Idol your ohlokene have brought.' But, as shown above, the women aotnally had 25d0l m their pookets. And yet the merchant's figures were right ! Do figures lie ? THE BLIZZARD PUZZLE, On the 21at August last we published the lc American BHzzird PozzY and to see If any of our readers were equal to the task of solving It and we new give the following diagram to show how the pozzle Is to be arranged. Solvers mast tako forty-nine blocks or small squares of cardboard, numbbred oonsecntively from J to 49, and arrange them m the spaces of the square, so that they will add up to Ifs counted m sixteen different straight lines. The following Is the skeleton : —

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1945, 15 September 1888, Page 3

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THE PUZZLE COLUMN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1945, 15 September 1888, Page 3

THE PUZZLE COLUMN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1945, 15 September 1888, Page 3

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