A SUBSTITUTION PROBLEM.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 21

A SUBSTITUTION PROBLEM.

i The following problem "would probably be rather difficult in itself. As an aid to those who undertake to solve it, two pieces of information arc added. First, it represents a sum in reduction of cubic feet into inches. Second, when this problem was devised the author was sitting close to a 'flowering creeper. -; ■EM A T • L M C 'N L

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A N I C N T S A PUZZLE IN WORDS. • Five business men who are frequently fellow passengers on the tram going to and from their offices had been rea<|ing papers or magazines. One said, I have just read a word which ends in pely, can you guess what it is? Another said, I read a word ending in stess. The third claimed a- word ending .in uve, and the fourth a word ending in . cone. Norle of these were guessed'by the persons to whom they werei submitted, but when the fifth spoke of a word, ending in smal, three different solutions were offered at once. Readers are now invited to discover all these seven words. <