THE PUZZLER.

Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1877, Page 15

THE PUZZLER.

[We shall be glad to receive contributions tor this column, either original or selected from any of our readers.] [All solutions should be sent in not later than the Tuesday in the third week after the problems have appeared. In order to give our northern readers an opportunity of sending solutions, we do not publish the answers till the third week after the problems have appeared; hence we cannot acknowledge replies till the same time.]

ANSWERS TO COERESPONDENTS. W. Tiplee (Kanieri, Westland), sends correct replies to 679 and 683, which, were not received in time for acknowledgment in our last issue. G-. 0.8. (Dunedin).—No. 685 should have borne your signature. We regret the error.

SOLUTIONS. No. 685. —Transposed Double Acrostic, by Gf.C.B. (Dunedin). Ans. Advertiser. Abb o T Del h I V AEI o U s Elaborate It o y e R Replies from Jumper, J.E.C., Funny Bog. No- 686. —Problem. Ans. 19 JOT. No .correct replies received. No. 687—Conundrum. Ans. Because no man can serve two-masters well. Correct replies from A.R.8., Joe. No. 688— County Cross Puzzle. Ans. O W E s H E s A d NOMINATOR WHAN Gr A R E I nectArean A R E 3? E N B I N Correct replies from J.E.C., Funny Dog, Yankee Doodle, A.R.B. No. 689.—Square Word. Ans. Co c K 0 cr E . CorE EeeN

Funny Dog says there is a mistake somewhere, and he is right, for our correspondent’s answer does not make a square.

PROBLEMS. No. 700,— Tbiple Aceostic (Original). Defenders of our adopted country, See how valiantly they stand ; Now advancing, now retreating, On the hills of sand. 1. Poison; 2. A clay used as a pigment transposed; 3. Liberty granted transposed; 4. Name of a metal transposed ; 5. The chief man in a workshop, backwards; 6. To sparkle transposed; 7. Bound transposed ; 8. Christian name of a man, transposed ; 9. What all boys should learn, transposed. G-.C.8. (Dunedin). No. 701. —Chakade. My first is what none of us care to do; my second, is to make brown ; my whole is a mining district in Otago. M.F. (Lawrence). No. 702.—X Puzzle. ■ A mountain lake, practice, a preposition, a consonant, a latin preposition, related, a., plant. The initials read downwards name a county in the Middle Island and the whole forms the letter X. ’ " M.F. (Lawrence). . No. 703.— Peoblem. j, j A gentleman a garden had, - ! j Five score feet long and four score broad ; A walk of equal width all round :■ He made, that took up half the ground; Ye skilful in geometry, • Tell us how wide the walk must be. W. Tiplee (Xanieri, Westland). "