OUR PUZZLE RULES.
1. The sum of one guinea will be given every week for the best Epigram, Conundrum, Recipe, Charade, or whatever the announced subject or competition for the week may be. 2. The competitor must cut out the coupon at the foot of these rules and attach it to the paper on which his or her answer is written. All answers unaccompanied with coupons will be looked upon as invalid, and their authors disqualified. 3. A norn de plume, such as " Lex," " Virgo " " Innocent," &c, of not more than tAelve, or at most fourteen, letters must be attached to each comnetitor's ans wer. When the Puzzle Editor has mad his selection he will publish the winner s noin de muine and the lucky lady or gentleman will then have to forward her, or his, real naniu and address. Bonaflde names and addresses should not on any account accompany auswers.
i. The decision and award of the Puzzle Editor must be considered final and irrevocable, and. for obvious reasons, no appeal from his critioal iudnv ments can be entertained. 8 5. In every instance the prize -will be given in money, subject to no condition whatever, except the above, and the publication of the wiunerB 1 real name and address in this journal. 6. Competitors will bo allowed fourteen days for the composition and dispatcn of their efforts • but all
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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 8, 6 November 1880, Page 61
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