"NUTS!" Intellect Sharpeners All rights reserved (By C. J. Wherefore)

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 29

"NUTS!" Intellect Sharpeners All rights reserved (By C. J. Wherefore)

Readers with * little Inienuity will find In , this eelumn an abundant stare of entertainment and amusement, and the solving of the ireblenu should provide excellent mental' exhilaration. While some of the "nuts" may appear harder than others, it will be levnd that none will require a sledgehammer to crack them. Address corresVritm to r.O. Box 1177. Wellinitn. CHARADE. To Silver, at the block house door, The Captain spoke with care: "I'll take you to your SECOND shore, To stand your trial there. There's one WHOLE, it is true, That when we meet again, I'll put a bullet into you, And whatsoever I may do, I'll FIRST neither plan nor view, Bo that's my warning plain. MAKING A FItOFIT. A second-hand dealer had been absent from his place of business,', and when he returned, he found that his second in command had sold a bicycle. He was inclined to find fault with his assistant for having accepted less than the price which had been placed upon' it, which was a number of pounds without additional shillings and pence. The reply was: "I had to make a small allowance, but we still make quite a tolerable profit. The money, received is just six times as much as we paid for it, and the allowance I gave .was one shilling and five pence less than the excess over one pound in the original price we paid." How much had they, paid for the bicycle, and at. what price did they sell it? . ; ARMCHAIR PROBLEM. •. An entry on an invoice'showed a r&; suit similar to the following, butletters" are now written in place ,of the' figures:— , ' ■ ■■-■.'. . ■■ : ' ■ MN yards at A shillings B pence per yard, £CCC, . ; •>. • • ■;: The numbers of shillings and pehc|,A and B, when added together, make 11, and the two numerals M, arid N, which form the number of yards, also make 11 when added together. What are the numerical values of M- and

A BILL FOX REPAIRS. "We stopped for lunch' at rather an expensive place," said' Mr. Motorist After settling for this at the hotel, we were very short of cash, and when we found it necessary; to pay for a repair, fortunately a very small one, all five of us had to turn out our pockets. Even then there was a small deficiency, which I shall have to. send by post. I paid two-fifths of the amount and my wife paid one-fifth. My daughter paid three-tenths, and my two small sons one-twentieth and onethirtieth. The numbers of pence which the two boys paid, when multiplied together, make just half the-number of pence which their sister contributed. So now, of course, you ■ can easily discover how much we all paid. PIGS IN CLOVER. The following is a reduction to pre-sent-day standards of intellect of a problem which used to delight the minds of our grandfathers and other primitive folk. A farmer put some pigs into four different paddocks. Into paddock No. 2, he put twice as many as into No. 1, into No. 3 he put twice as many as into No. 2, and into No. 4, he put twice as many as into No! 3. A thief came along, with a motorlorry probably, intending > for reasons o£ his own to steal the same number out of each of the paddocks, but he could not do so, until he had driven a. few pigs from No. 4 into No. 1. Then he carried out his original plan of. taking equal numbers from each paddock, and that left exactly a hundred pigs behind. How many pigs were there, how many did he find it necessary to transfer from one paddock to another, and how many did he steal, from each paddock after making this adjustment? THE TRAMPING CLUB AGAIN. "Can you help me with another, problem, Miss Remington?" "Do you think you deserve one?" she replied "You.were not. a mode] of politeness about one,l gave you before; you said it was capable of several solutions. t Very well, if. you promise you won't.. do i.t again, I'll teil yo,u about another exploit of our.Tramping Club. We had an invitation from Mr. Banksia to Visit his -gardens, .and his' flowers were worth seeing and rememberingin any case, you may have the idea ,that you know nothing about such unpVqblematical things. But then he took us to a tea shop just alongside, and we had a tea that was worth seeing and remembering, also. He told me he was paying a fixed price per head, and although he did not mention what it was, he hinted that he

hoped,we should take care to «et our value. And then a queer thing hap^ pened. He handed the girl a five-pound note, and she had no change, so he gave her several one-pound notes instead, and it was one penny too,little. He bad no pennies, so I suppose they had to book this deficit against him. Now, how many of us were there, and what was the price charged?" I remembered just in time what I was Pledged not to-say, so I restrained myself and asked how they had arranged themselves in the matter of seating. "We sat at tables tor four persons, except Mr. Banksia, who had. a table all by himself. Now eta you find cne solitary satisfying solution?" It was clear that she had not failed to notice how near I had been to rePeatl." g.my trsnsgression. I assured her that I knew the answer. What in SOLUTIONS. | hee P-—1512, 864, and 648 acres. Hooks.—The ages were 28, 7, and 5 ye^ 2i d the books «*t 14s, 3s 6d, ana zs od. Drivtag and Walking.-The cars W h7?£ at *36 and 12 »iles per tl^'- b fUt the lnteresting point is that the distance cannot be known, because w£h r?n Ulte H-deSCribed would'bTteui with any distance we may choose. Error In Addition—The error must have been three pence, because the amounts mentioned would add up to £1 Os 3d. With reference to the individual sums> tne systematic m^. ment would probably be: Is Od, 2s 3d, 4s 7d, 5s Bd, 6s 9d. But there^are more than 100 ways of making the EE?5^ u,a sure answer *«> this part of the problem. Armchair Problems.—d) The oniv CUlty, ?• that there seem to be so P"™"?. solutl°?s- But it is clear that B had the smallest number, and this was an odd number exceeding 10. so that it was evidently U Therefore A had fhk S 40 be£ore he lost 23 of £^', as described. (2) Th« cannot be solved without taking the stamps into account, but it is obvious that v "I? two which cos* «>ne penny art hiZ hl b°°kS COSt half a «"wn ana eighteen pence. SOAP RUINS HAIR. AVOID Tl. The powerful hair washing, refreshening* and beautifying proDerties of Sheena Soapless Shro^ES^ tamed with the exclusion of soap extracts, so common to ordinary shampoos. No alkaline solution fonnsT the hair oils are protected. Sheena-Blonde v the special Soapless Shampoo for falf Both 9d Packet everywhere. —Advt