BIRDIE
G. F. Chippindale has been responsible for a goodly portion of our worst and best puzzles. This is another one from Lower Hutt: In a field were equal numbers of seven different kinds of birds. Ten birds flew away leaving six kinds. Nine birds then flew away leaving five kinds. Then eight birds flew away leaving four kinds, and so on, until finally five birds tlew away leaving only one kind. How many birds then remained?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 16
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77BIRDIE New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 16
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