OUR PUZZLE

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 4, 9 October 1880, Page 31

OUR PUZZLE

RULES. 1. The sum of one guinea will be given every week for the best Epigram. Conundrum, Recipe, Charade, or whatever the announced subject of competition for the week may be. 2. The competitor must cut out the coupon at the foot of these rules and attach it to the paper on which his or her answer is written. All answers unaccompanied with coupons -will be looked upon as invalid, and their authors disqualified. 3. Anom de plume, such as Lex," " Virgo," " Innocent," &c, of not more than twelve, or at most fourteen, letters must be attached to each, competitor's answer. When the Puzzle Editor has mad- his selection he will publish the winner's norn de plume, and the lucky lady or gentleman will then have to forward her, or his, real name and address. Bonafide names and addresses should not on any account accompany auswers. 4. The decision and award of the Puzzle Editor must be considered final and irrevocable, and, for obvious reasons, no appeal from his critical judgments can be entertained. 5. In every instance the prize will be given in money, subject to no condition whatever, except the above, and the publication of the winners' real name and address in this journal. 6. Competitors will be allowed fourteen days for the composition and dispatch of their efforts ; but all such communications must, at the latest, be received at the Observer Office by the first post on Friday morning in the_ second week succeeding the publication of the subject for competition. 7. No communications can be received on postcards, by telegraph or by hand. They must all be sent in the time named above, as post letters, addressed— PUZZLE EDITOR OF THE "OBSERVER," Box 167, Post Office, Auckland.