MORE ABOUT DRAUGHTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 15

MORE ABOUT DRAUGHTS

E have had some puzzles before about the game of draughts, but none quite like this one. On this page there are reproduced a lot of odd-shaped drawings. They represent sections of a complete draught board, and the problem is to fit this jig-saw into the shape of a draught board. The problem comes from J.P., Lower Hutt. CORRESPONDENCE Italy has invaded Greece and there is another ballot in progress while The Page is being prepared, Result, letters are scarce. G.W.G.S. (Tauranga), who represents the translated form of initials we mistook for L.W.J.S. on October 25, sends two of his answers in French, which sounds faintly irreverent. He

would go to the bottom of the class were it not that he is this week the only pupil. PROBLEM Pyramid This exercise in building words is suggested by R.G. He says he thinks it will be more interesting to make a condition in the expanding word type of problem that the letters must not be rearranged. He starts in the example following with one letter and builds up to ten, adding one letter each time, anywhere in the word, without rearranging the other letters. His suggestion that we invite puzzlers to compete in building the longest possible word in this manner is gladly endorsed. Below, right, is R.G.’s example:

In Sin ~ Sing Using Rusing Rusting Trusting Thrusting Thrustings

The Oxford Dictionary had better be the judges of which words are eligible. Obscured Palindrome Supply letters in place of the crosses so that the same word may be used twelve times:

x * * % x 2 x R x x % x x 1

-(Problem from Rob,, Ahipara ANSWERS (Refer to Issue of October 25) Tail Tally: No one seems to the faintest idea, Sorry, but puzzle will have to show more enterprise, Mixed Palindrome: In a Regal Ran I. -(Problem and answer from Py G., Wathi). *