THE, FIFTEEN GEM PUZZLE.
The ’Frisco correspondent to the Auckland Herald writes :—“ Some fiend has invented what is styled c the fifteen gem puzzle/ which has turned the heads of the people, not a few of whom Lave already been driven insane. It is a simple looking thing, costing two bits, but just sit clown and try to work it out, and you will rise a sadder though not a wiser man. It consists of sixteen little, square blocks of wood in a tight-fitting box. The pieces are enumerated from 1 to 15; the sixteenth is blank, and is removed to give room to shift the blocks. The pieces are to *6e'displaced, and then put in promiscuously, and the player is required to move each piece with his finger without lifting it, unci in this way endeavour to arrange them in consecutive older. I never met a single soul who did not declare be did it quite easily the first time; but the second -—Welt, my own opinion is, the second was like unto the first, and I am -satisfied (htfifteeu gefti puzzlehas made ••(he American peoplep a nation of .preyai ion tors, tfc certainly has interfered with all buai-
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Kumara Times, Issue 1156, 12 June 1880, Page 3
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