ANOTHER (AND HARDER) CIPHER

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 16

ANOTHER (AND HARDER) CIPHER

HE P-.P. hopes it is raining when "you receivé this issue. Not ‘that he wishes you ill; on the contrary, he wishes’ you well, and imagines you sitting cosily before a fire, filling in the brief spaces between Daventry broadcasts (and the Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra) "with" a me er, which is’ more and harder, a tch ‘problem, ‘a matter of Biblical history, a crossword ‘or so, and this, and that. The cipher, by the way, is his own invention. Natural pride may be reduced by next week’s correspondence. Sylvia, for example, can usually manage to be quite cutting in such circumstances. Meanwhile, it seems to us to be quite a pretty little bit of work. ANSWERS: Coco-nuts: Possible numbers in the original pile would be: 3121, 18746, 34371, 49996,. 65621, etc. Taking the smallest possible number, 3121, we find that the first sailor took 624; the second 499; the third 399, the fourth 319, the

fifth 255, leaving 204 each in the final division. — (Puzzle and answer from H. G. Lambert). Fish.-story: Tail, three’ feet; body, four and a-half feet; head, two and a-half feet. Condensed Crossword (answer to last week’s): ECHO AREA SORT EWES What's the. Word?: TOBACCO PRO BLEMS: , Cipher Our first cipher had’ a number as its clue. This one progresses a stage. The first clue: is a word, and on that depends a lot, as you. guess. The word itself. must be found, This sentence indicates what it be: Make siege to this. town, add some of your fees, and you have the clue to the cipher, but don’t forget the old

motto, and all who do one good deed each day. ETNEAROGAHDWYSEHYRMAHE NESNAU YOWTDAN-GAY Condensed Crossword All words are of four letters only. Clues Across: A sort of lisp or whiff. When you have one you'll have it. What keeps skis from sliding down while they’re sliding up? If you don’t get this you’re beyond it. Clues Down: An eye in a wasp. Practical expression of an ideal. Tops off a bargain. Too much ale makes you this. Want to Play With Matches? First to respond to the appeal for match puzzles, printed on behalf of a reader who wanted something that did not take too much thinking, was F. Lovell, of Warkworth. There is a large

sheep station (he says) where it is customary to leave portable hurdles at remote points for the purpose of erecting emergency crush-pens. Thirteen hurdles are used to erect six pens, like this:~

But on one trip recently the shep-' herds found that some sundowner had used one of their hurdles as a dump to boil his billy. They started to improvise a hurdle from flax and stakes when the foreman came on the scene. He cried them down for wasting time, and in a few seconds had shown them how they could make six pens out of 12 hurdles, without in any way altering the hurdles. Out with your matches and see if you can reconstruct his method. Take This to Sunday School Troops in Egypt were being conducted by an unusually well-versed guide over scenes mentioned in the early books of the Bible. After a very impressive address on the peculiarity of Egypt's climate, which retarded the process of decay and so preserved sculptures, mummies, and the like, he led them to the bank of a river where the sand was strewn with the bones of cattle. "Those of you who remember Old Testament history," he said, "will recognise this scene when I tell you that before you lie the bones of Pharaoh’s lean kine, just as they were in the days of Joseph." This speech made a profound impression on his audience; but a student of theology turned away with a smile. Why did he smile? -(Problem from F. Lovell). Six-Five-Nine Another match problem from Warkworth: Place six on the table. Remove five. Leave nine.

This week's " Listener" Crossword, and last week’s solution, will be found on page 33