THE COMPETITIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21624, 20 January 1934, Page 5

THE COMPETITIONS

This week’s competition for the under ten years is a simple little code puzzle, hero is a certain way in which the letters can be read to make a proper message ; the puzzle is to find the way. The puzzle for the .over ten years is a subtraction sum in words. It is like a cross-word puzzle done in a different fashion. Send your replies to Big Brother Bill, care of ‘ Evening Star ’ newspaper, Stuart street, Dunedin. Mark the envelope with the name “ competition,” and the number. ‘ A PUZZLE WITH LETTEpS. (Under ten years. Prize, Is.) Thebe letters are a message sent by one man to another. If you try carefully you wijl discover there is a cer-

tain way of reading them that makes the puzzle quite simple.

A SUBTRACTION SUM IN LETTERS. (Over ten years. Prize, Is 6d.) Start with a word meaning FULL OF LIFE, take away one letter and make a word meaning MARKED WITH LINES. Continue this making a new word each time until only one letter is left, making on the way words with the following meanings:—Fairy, attempts, a row, fasten, pronoun. You can alter the order of the letters each time, but must use only the letters remaining. The first word is SPIRITED.

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