COMPETITION CORNER.
THE PIGGERY PUZZLE
The diagram showi Ik-w th? 5 !.:■*. ingr of one porker from the oner pen and depositing it in the centre will present an arrangement whl'h \v a nixie play of "he imagination can l«e made i" solve the problem >et you >e-ter>la\. which demanded that each pen mu-t rontain an even number of pairs and an odd pig. The central pen containing five pisfill* the bill. Now i-omes the plavfui feature of the puzzle. The second inner pen must be regarded a-= containing ai 1 the pigs within it? iioniers; in other words, it onntain* a total of nine pisfi an even number of pairs and an odd pig. Viewed -in the same way. the nest ]fn will contain thirteen pig-, and the pen which embraces alj the other-? must oe credited with holding the entire twentyone pig--
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 49, 27 February 1929, Page 11
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143COMPETITION CORNER. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 49, 27 February 1929, Page 11
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