ARCHING THE ARYAN NOSE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 18

ARCHING THE ARYAN NOSE

HERE are some particularly choice problems on hand at present. Puzzlers have rallied very well from the latest shocks a war and this week’s puzzle the Census will show the "enemy that our morale is getting better and better. Now that Mr. is going to tell the BBC all about it-see page 17--we can expect any minute a request for a special feature from us directed to Germany and Italy for confusion purposes. The problem we have called Census, for example, would no doubt arch the most Aryan nose. Here it is: PROBLEMS | | Census Three sisters each have one son and one daughter. Each has a saving bank account in which an uncle has made deposits in this manner: when each child was one year old he placed in his or her bank £1, and annually thereafter he deposited in each child’s bank two pounds more than on the last preceding birthday. The money has been allowed to remain in the bank, and each boy’s bank now contains £45 more than his sister's. The names of the boys are William, John, and Frank. The names of the girls are Mary, Agnes, and Jane. If William is 17 years older than Mary, and John is seven years older than Agnes, find the sister of each brother. (Problem from Ajas, Dunedin.) X Marks the Spot Some of the figures in this sum are missing, and must be supplied, or mother won’t have enough soap for the washing next Monday. The decimal point is the key to the method, which must be fully logical, and not a matter of trial and error: XXXX.XXXX XXX ) XXXXXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX xXxxx xXxXxXxX 0000 ( Problem from R.G.) Bacchus in Bolonia In the kingdom of Bolonia the king and his ministers held high revel together each week. Each minister drank from a conical wineglass while the king had his in a mug. The top of each glass had the same diameter and each

glass had the same internal depth as the king’s cylindrical mug, so the king had as much wine as three ministers. In times of crisis, the glasses were regraded. The Prime Minister’s glass remained the same, but the next minister below him had a glass the diameter of the top of which was smaller by a certain percentage than the Prime Minister’s. The next bore a similar relation to this, and so on. The depths remained unaltered. The king’s mug now contained as much as the first four ministers. What was the percentage decrease in the successive diameters. (Problem from R.G., Waihi. It is one for

which he asks an answer, not yet having managed that himself.) For Golfers In the .following rhyme, the letters represented by X’s form three words, each containing the same letters and each with the same number of letters, What are they?: " Off to the links!" is now the cry, "For golf is man’s XXXXXXXX "Nor XXXXXXXX be not slow . iar aan strike, the ball will ey (Problem from L.W.J.S., Tauranga.)