Riddles and puzzles

Press, 7 March 1978, Page 24

Riddles and puzzles

RHYMING Follow the instructions in this rhyme and you will spell out the solution: Make three-fourths o' a cross. And a circle complete, And let two semi-circles On a perpendicular meet; Next add a triangle That stands on two feet; Next two semi-circles. And >a circle complete. RIDDLES 1. What is green and hairy and goes up and down? 2. How can you tell if

there’s an elephant in the refrigerator? 3. What goes 99 bump, 99 bump? 4. What is the difference between a buffalo and a bison? 5. What is worse than raining cats and dogs? 6. What is worse than a worm in your apple? CANNIBALS Three missionaries were one day lost in the jungle. Three cannibals, however, offered to act as their guides and led them to a river. A canoe was drawn up on the bank but there

e was only room for two people on it at a time. The cannibals smiled to themselves, for it was , nearly dinner-time and ' they were beginning to feel hungry. Tney thought that when there were two 1 of them and only one missionary on'either side of i the river, they could overpower him and eat him up. The chief missionary, s however, saw their hungry . looks, and by a clever plan he organised the r crossing of the river in t the canoe so that all th i missionaries were safe, e How did he do this? **