LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS,
Two for the Armchair.—(l) Three and fivepence, and six and fourpence. (2) Ten at first, the bill.being 7s 6d. An Auction Sale.—The sets cost nine guineas each, there being thus a balance of &i 17s 6d over, which is 3s more than Cole had "put in." Paying in Cash.—The cash bos originally held eighteen one-pound notes and one hundred and fif ty4hree halfcrowns, making a total sum of £37 2s 6d. Two shillings and sixpence change was not returned to 'the box. A Gramophone Record.—The disc must have been ten inches in diameter. The rule is to double the product of the two distances and take the square root. Subtract this from the sum of the two^ distances, and the result is the radius. A Cryptograph.—The text is: "Message dispatched Thursday fallen into enemy's hands. Conceal yourself, foes searching for you." Method is first writing the passage backwards then replacing each letter by the one alphabetically following.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 15
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