MATCH-STICK PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

MATCH-STICK PUZZLE.

(By Lola Hole, 3, Springfield Street, Morniiigsltle; age 16.)

Here is a puzzle for Budget readers. Can you make two equal triangles, and three diamond-shaped rooms with twelve matches. The diagram below shows how this can be done.

number of cards which he endeavours to throw into the hat. Six marks each are given for cards which fall into the hat, four marks for those which rest on the brim, and two marks for those on the newspaper. FARMYARDS. This is an exceedingly funny game, if the players will enter into the spirit of it properly. Before the guests arrive, .peas are hidden all over the sitting room and the hall (more rooms can be used if desired). The peas should all be visible to the naked eye. The guests are divided into groups of five or six, with a captain for each side, and each group is given the name of an animal whose characteristic noise tliey have to imitate. The object, of the game is for oach group to find as many peas as possible, but only the captain is allowed to pick them Up. (it is wise to choose a very quick person to be the captain.) As soon as a. cow or a dog finds a pea it stands in front of it «(nd solemnly moos or barks until its captain hears, when he rushes to pick it up. FEEDING THE BLIND. An amusing game for young people is to blindfold two persons, who are seated on hassocks, and. to give one of them a dessert spoon and the other a bowl of sugar or biscuit crumbs. The one with the spoon has to feed his or her companion, who is only allowed to move his head. It is advisable to have a, large newspaper or sheet on the floor and an or towel round the "starving" partner's neck. BLIND MAN'S GUESS. (Sent in by Jessie Meikle, Astley Avenue, New Lynn; aged 16.)

It is always useful to know of a game that can be played out of doors as well as indoors, and here is one that will please anyone. All the players stand in a circle, except one, who stands in the centre with his eyes blindfolded and a stick in his hand. He turns round three times and then points with the stick. The player to whom the stick points steps forward and takes hold of it.

"Now," says the '-'Blind Man" in the centre, "make a noise like a donkey" (or any other animal). The player obeys, and the "Blind Man" has to guess whose voice it is, and if he is right, the two change places.