"NUTS!"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 28

"NUTS!"

INTELLECT SHARPENERS All rights reserved.

(By C. J. Wherefore.)

Readers with a little Ingenuity will flntf ,1a this column an abundant store »t tntertainmtnt and amusement, and th« solving •( tht prtt bloms should provide excellent mental axhllanr* lion; Whilo som» of rue •nuts" may appaar harder that otliors, it will b» found that nan* VIII require a iledge-hammcr to eratk tit*. Address correspondence v P.O. Bo* 1177, W«l> liitgton. ADVENTURES OP A CHEAP WATCH. A boy bought a watch from another boy at a very reasonable price, be- ' cause it would not go. He cleaned and oiled the works, and sold it to his elder- brothqr without stating-what he had paid; for it, and induced his .vie-. •t'im to pay twice the former price and a small sum as well. The elder brother was dissatisfied with the watch, pawned, it, but all he could get was an amount equal to twice the excess over double purchase price, which he had paid to his younger brother. After these, three transactions, the money which had changed hands amounted to 12s. "The" boy bought the watch again as an iinredeemed pledge for foursevenths of what he had paid for' it on the first occasion, and the pawnbroker made 100 per cent, profit thereon. What price did the boy pay for the watch on the first occasion? A MOB OF CATTLE. ; A man-;was driving a few cattle along a road, and a neighbour asked him how many he had of each description. He replied: "If one steer'in every '•'five'were a heifer, then the number •of heifers would be one-third of the whole,mob. Or if one cow in'every four-were a steer, then the number n of steers would be two-thirds of the "whole mob." How many of each had lie? TWO SECOND-HAND BARGAINS. -;.. Tavo men,. A and.B, bought second■■hand cars. Neither of these 'proved to be great bargains, but, their new owners seemed to be ' satisfied with them, and both men stated that'when •they drove their purchases home, that is, to the town where both of them lived, the velocities realised amounted i.to /one mile per hour for every five 'pounds paid. A's car cost £25 more .'than, the other, and his-,time on the •journey was half ah hour less than ithat of B. One car did five miles per 'hour more than' the 'other,; but a mutual friend remarks tliaifthey: have '. c not had sufficient evidence from which [-to, -form ..opinions,; as, neither has had 'ifmore than i\ hours' experience of his '"car. What prices, did they pay for '"-■. their cars, and how far away are their if! homes from the/place.where they made ![', their purch.a.s.e.s.? ~ , ;■ i \ii ANOTHER PROBLEM IN AGES. ;■- The following problem was shown <l|-to a critical friend, who asked whether Is'all .the information required had been !'"! given.: There has been no omission, uand the solution is not really difficult.j*A\man's age a few years ago was one"1 eighty-third part of the number of I'jlhe year of his birth. 'What was his '•I'lage in the year 1914, when the. war •p started? . . '' '!,■<■ WORD CHANGE AND RHYMING p . PUZZLE., ~ ' ;;, ■■■-,■ ;;• In the' .lines giVen below the spaces '*,! are to be' filled, with a series of words, 'ijcach of which-,differs- from.,the...one ;'•< before it by one letter^ making the !'j]ast/word quite, unlike the first, i'r(.although it has th'e;same meaning. The l^cndings.of the.lines do not, rhyme, because - it, is supposed that they have been written down by a person with a bad memory, and readers are invited to make .the necessary corrections. There are so many things I , I'll have to come to the city, ■ And lest I should forget a few,Td better make a»list: . My memory seems to go to when f most required to, behave, I'm not a flowering plant you, can *rely upon, certainly. . So now I— — this word to you, it's , not the first I've —:— To meet me at the. placev to which not •long ago we ' —-, '.'';'.j ■,; Fori \yhen .we lunch together, I'll temember without fail The multitude' -of. .things-.I ■■ io 'discuss with, you. .-.- ,; ; A GAME WITH COUNTERS. A boy1 and a' girl had 102 counters altogether, of which those held by the boy were fed and.'the others white. Thc'boy: put a certain number into box No.,l,.and,into boxes 2, 3, and 4, in that''order, he put always six more • than he- had put into .the preceding box. Then the girl put a certain number into box N0.,1, and' into'-boxes 2, 3, and;4,"in that order; she. put ' always "seven more than she had put into the box immediately before it, The number she put into No; 1 was not the same as that which the boy had contributed. In this way both players had used up all the counters they held, and another result was that one box contained equal, numbers, of red and white counters. Which'counters were : the more numerous, the red or the white? SOLUTIONS. £ Mean Values.—ll, 13, 14, 16, and 18 years. Tea Shop.—42B customers had been served., Sheep.—sl ewes, 32 wethers, 17 hoggets. . Two Watches.—The presents were £1 and 10s. The interesting point about this rather misnamed problem is that we do not know the prices paid for the, watches, although the statements made, about them are indispensable for finding the other information. ' Combination Lock.—After studying the information given, the words which stand out prominently are: Doctor, Lawyer, Butter, and Ribbon. The third is obviously Theresa's choice, the first two belong to William and Charles respectively. Beatrice is a typist, but when she tried this word she found there was no P, so she set up Ribbon instead. In the second problem the clue to the correct word is found in the repeated statement about the date, which is irrelevant, unless ,it serves some purpose. April 21 was Easter: Thus ■the lawyer and the person who tried butter had three correct letters, and the doctor had two. Therefore, i4O shares of. 20 each were required, and this is confirmed by the statement that Beatrice received £120. Th* others received £240. £240, and £200.