Puzzle Column.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 11

Puzzle Column.

(Edited By ‘Phancy.’) THE PUZZLE TOURNAMENT, To afford amusement, recreation, pleasure ana profit, we have oommenced a competition tournament. We offer three prizes to tho competitors who guess the greatest number of puzzles, commencing from Nov. 21; the competition ending with the puzzles which will appear in the issue of Friday, February 6th, 1891. First prize, £1; the second, 10a; and the third, ss, or a quarter’s free supply of the New Zealand Maid.

We shall publish week by week the initials, nom-de-plumes, or names of the successfulguessers, allowing a fortnight to elapse from the date of the publication of the -puzzles. Thus the answers received for the puzzle column of thiß week will appear in the issue of Friday, December sth, and so on. All answers or communications of any kind for this column must be addressed Puzzle Editoe, New Zealand Mail, Wellington. Unless answers are properly addressed to the puzzle editor they will be liable" to go astray, and the senders lose their chances in the competition. Correspondents must state plainly in their answers the number of the puzzles they are competing for, together with the date of the Mail in which they appear, in this way—- ‘ Answer to No. 3 in Mail of November 14th.’

The prizes will be awarded on condition that the winning competitor has solved at least one half of the puzzles during the tournament. Only one answer to each puzzle will b£ admitted from each competitor. Contributions to this column, original or otherwise, will be thankfully received.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE N. Z MAIL OF NOY. 14. 1. Enigma—Gas meter. 2. Charade—Lifeboat. 3. Prose Charade—Waistcoat. 4. Square Word—l : Weeks ; 2 : Ellen ; 3 : Elude ; 4 : Hedge ; 5 : Spurn. 5. Riddles—l : A horse can only be the colour of the sea when its a bay ; 2 : Tho sound an estuary makes when the tide goes out js a low creek ; 3 : Kent is famous for its cricket because a cricket’s given to * hopping ’; 4 : A hundredweight of candles cannot be heavy because it is light. 6. Things Planted—l : Flag ; 2 : Phlox ; 3 ; Dandelion ; 4 : Prickly Pear. 7. Burled Jewels—Ruby, Topaz, Opal, Diamond, Amethyst, Pearl. 8. Verbal Puzzles—l : Noon ;2 : Bark. 9. Logograph—Glass, Lass, Ass. No. 11.—DECAPITATION. lam an animal; but if yon change my head successively I become a Shakesperian character, drass, an English river, anrioular, a fruit, a period of time, to elevate, terror, dry, valuable, and close. No. 12.—QUOTATIONS. _ This is an amusing and instructive exercise. Find the authorities and give chapter and verse for each quotation. 1— ‘ Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the land.’ 2 ‘Golden opinions from all sorts of people.’ 3 ‘ The price of wiedom is above rubies.’ 4 ‘ The noblest mind the best contentment has.’ 5 ‘ Condemn the fault but not the actor of it.’ 6 ‘God made the country man made the town.’ No. 13.—VERBAL PUZZLES. The following puzzle is very old, and is both good Saxon and good English. Read it. I. DOUN TOOTH ERS A SYOtIVV OULD BED ONE BY. No. 14. And 2—Standing towering man judges man. An Mind No. 15.—BIRDS ENIGMATICALLY EXPLAINED. Example : A luminous globe and a fish— Starling. 1— A droll fellow and a peacock's beauty, 2 A baby’s feeder and an axe. 3 The substance of trees and part of a gun. No. 16.—CHARADE. My First I hope you are, My Second I see you are, My Whole I know you are. No. 17.—CHARADE. My First is either goad or bad May pleasure or offend you ; My Second in a thirsty mood May very much befriend you ; My Whole though called a cruel word May often prove a kind one. Sometimes it may with joy be hoard, Sometimes with, tears may blind one. No. 18.—DOUBLE ACROSTIC. ORIGINAL. The session of eighteen ninety will long remembered be When First cat down the estimates on plea of economy-. But when First feared that Second would share the Belf same fate, First raved and swore, First tore their hair, their anger was so great. No. 19.—FOUR RIDDLES. 1. Why is consoience like the check string in a carriage ? 2. Why would a Sixth sense be a bore ? 3. Why would you rather be beheaded than burnt? 4. Why Is the letter D like a squalling child? ’ B