A NEW PUZZLE.
Having already reduced myself to a condition of almbst helpless idiotcy by attempting to solve the 15 puzzle, my mind has finally collapsed under the following one, which has been furnished to a New Hampshire newspaper by " a gentleman of onr city," who " claims that it is a complete mind-wrecker ":— A a" 1 'a . : '■ B B i »■ . i ii ■ i B The object of the puzzle, says the gentleman, " is to place three articles of a kind on the lines marked A, and three of a kind on the B lines, with a blank line between. Take, for instance, silver and gold coins. Place the silver coins on the A lines, and , vice versa, by advancing directly forward, either moving to the next unoccupied lines or jumping a coin over one another (and only one other at a time) of the opposite kind. Continue until the silver and gold have changed places, and are in regular order one above the other. There can be no retreating ; the moves must all be made forward."— Truth* -;- '■ ■ }''■•:,■■'-- ■ :■' •■■■•■•"■■■■■
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3693, 26 October 1880, Page 3
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177A NEW PUZZLE. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3693, 26 October 1880, Page 3
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