OUR PUZZLE RULES.

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 9, 13 November 1880, Page 72

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 *°ot pf these rules and attach it to the paper on wnicn his or her answer is written. All answers unaccompanied w ith 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 ans wer. 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. Bonaflde names and addresses should not on any account accompany answers. i. 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 m 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 Obsebvkr 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. OBSERVER COMPETITION, No. 9. COMPETITION, No. 5. The winner of this competition (the author of conundrum No 6) has not forwarded his name and address. Will he or she kindly do so. COMPETITION, No. 6. This competition has proved a great success. A large number of sketches have been sent in, and some of them are very good. I intend publishing several, and shall communicate with the artists re regular contributions. The prize is awarded to the author of the portrait of Mr. Phillips, which appears on the front page of this issue. "Domino," "Sherwood," and "Darwin" also deserve mention, and will see their efforts in print shortly. COMPETITIONS, Nos. 7 and 8. Competition 7 (wedding present) closes to-day; and Competition 8 (selection of puzzles) next Friday. COMPETITION, No. 9. The success of Competition 6 induces the editor to offer another prize of two guineas for the two best caricatures of local worthies — young men preferred.