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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 August 1928, Page 15

COMPETITIONS CORNER, j -J3 TESTS FOR OUR READERS. In- this corner we will give daily a problem for solution by our readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present the reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which etch may smooth out to his satisfaction. ■FT [TP AjCTS T J 0 4 G Jfkmj a-ifateNMl 5 ~p 6 ' M 7 3_Roßue rVi G)o(D©©®© t BURIED TREASURE. Here is a map with directions for finding a chest of Pirate Gold, 'which is buried somewhere on the map. Start with the numbered circles at the bottom of the picture. Place threepences on 2, 3, and 4, and pennies on 5, 6, and 7, leaving 1 vacant. Now make the coins change places with the unoccupied circle at 7 instead of 1, by jumping them one at a time either to the next circle (if it is vacant) or over one or two other coins. Moves can be made in either direction. This can • be done in ten jumps. Keep track of the jumps as follows: If you put the threepence on 2 over to 1, write 2-1; if then you jumped the penny on 5 to 2, write 5-2. When you have done the trick in ten jumps you will have ten such pairs of figures. | Add each of the pairs together. Starting with the first pair, this will give you a number-succession. Now take the letters on the narrow scroll corresponding to the numbers you have. These will tell you what columns to take in the next puzzle, which is an acrostic, shown in the upper right-hand } corner. Each of the definitions gives a word of five letters. Write lhem on* * : tinder the other in the order given, then take the vertical columns Indicated ' by the last puzzle. The letters of these two columns in their order reading ; downwards, go into the vacant spaces of the square in the upper left-hand \ corner. When they are all in place try to find the right letter at which to ' start and move from it one square in any direction, like the king in chess, till you have spelled out the final instructions, which will tell you how to find the treasure—the puzzle treasure, of course.