INTERESTING PUZZLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 164, 13 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

INTERESTING PUZZLES.

AN HOUR WITH SCISSORS AND CARDBOARD. The following*" collection of puzzles will be sure to interest Budget readers, who can spend many an hour endeavouring to solve these entertaining teasers.

If readers cut and mount 'the little pieces of paper they will cause endless amusement on a wet day. The solutions (wliicli will be published next week) also should be mounted and kept for reference in case the key is even temporarily lost to the mind. No. I.—The first puzzle is presented in the form of a verse: — Upon a piece of cardboard draw The three designs you see— I should have said of each shape four— Which when cut out will be, If joined correctly, that which you Are striving to unfold — An octagon, familiar to My friends both young and old. No. 2.—This is a tricky problem which quite often "eludes the memory

even after it has once been solved: — Cut out of a piece of card five pieces similar in shape and proportion to the annexed figures.

1 piece similar to 1 3 pieces „ ~ 2 1 piece „ „ 3

These five pieces are then to be so joined as to form a cross like that represented by 4.

No. 3.—This puzzle is also presented in verse form, and like No. 1 a figure is to be built.

First cut out, with a penknife, to pasteboard or curd, The designs numbered 1, 2 and 3, Pour of each ; after which, as the puzzle is hard, You had better be guided by me To a certain extent; for, in fixing, take care That each portion is fitted in tight, Or they will not produce such a neat little square As they otherwise would if done right. (Solutions Will Appear Next Saturday.)