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Puzzle This Out ALICE’S PARTY

Alice invited nine guests to her Christmas party, places for the 10 being set round a circular table. ".My place was numbered O,” said Alice. "The other nine places bore the numbers 1 to 9, but nut in that order. My guests were so seated that e-arh gill’s age was represented by the sum of the numbers to her immediate right and left. This was also true of mine. My age, and that of the girl sitting opposite to me, totalled 25. The ages of the girl to my immediate left, and the gin sitting opposite her, totalled 13. Of the girl two places to my left, and the girl opposite her, 19. Ami of the girl three places to my left, and the girl opposite her. 23. The girl who sat three places to my left was four years older than 1. Pamela, one of the twins, sat Ou my immediate right, and the othertwin. Patsy, sat opposite io tier. In order of age. my other gu.-sts were Betty (eldest), Evelyn. Joan. Rosemary. Mabel, Isohel and Huth.” Starting with Alice, and working in a clockwise direction, how wore the 10 girl s seated round the-table? Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle Pupp-Exeter: Davies-Wadham; White-Merton : Hooper-B.N C.: CollinsLincoln: Lewis-Jesus; Cook Balliol.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19350129.2.47

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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 7

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Puzzle This Out ALICE’S PARTY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 7

Puzzle This Out ALICE’S PARTY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 7

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