ONE WITH THE CARDS.
And here is one with the cards which should give the reader some intellectual amusement, for it involves a little arithmetic. Take the nine cards one to nine, and arrange them in the form of, a 1 triangle with four on each side (three 'of them counting twice), so that the:spo*ts will add up the same on the'three sides/. For example, place the sevetf' at the 'apex, the sides, reading downwards, being four, three, nine; and two)^ six, eight;;: respectively, the base from left to right being nine, five, one. eight. Each side adds u,p twenty-three, which is jthe highest number possible all adding the same. Now the interesting puzzle for the reader is to arrange these nine cards in the form of a similar triangle so that all sides, of four cards each,-total the smallest number possible. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 34
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142ONE WITH THE CARDS. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 34
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