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 A Medley of Puzzles

By Sam Loyd

We asked the puzzle man to prepare for our readers a variety of his popular problems — niechanical. mathematical and otherzvise.

Here zve have his first offering. ' Let us put on our thinking caps and see zvho can unraz'cl his interesting posers. — Editor.

���� ���The problem of the presidential dark horse

The Presidential Puzzle

A political prophet says that only six of the presidential possibilities are to be considered in *'the running," and that, eventually a "dark horse" will come in the winner.

In the illustration we see his idea pre- sented in checker-board puzzle form, with the six likely candidates deployed for the contest and the " dark horse" standing on square No. 15. The puzzle is to show how the candidate F may, in a series of jumps, make his way to the White House on Square 5, his oppo- nents being eliminated in the process. Here are the conditions :

��Prizes for the Clever Ones

If you can solve one or more of the problems write out your answers and send by post not later than March tenth to SAM LOYD, care of the Popular Science Monthly, 239 Fourth Ave., New York City.

To each of the ten persons who send the best answers to the puzzles will be awarded a copy of Sam Loyd's Cyclo- pedia of 5000 Puzzles, Games, Tricks and Conundrums," published at Five dollars.

A7tswers and prize awards will appear in Mav issue

��F*uzzling Kugelspiel (see page 431)

Jump the men in any order you wish, a jump meaning that a candidate hops over another on an adjoining square to the square beyond.

A candidate hopped over is at once removed from the field.

The jumps may be diagonal or other- wise. That part does not matter.

Start with anyone you like and continue the jumps until the survivor F in the final jump lands on Square 5, the presi- dent's future home. The candidates and squares are numbered and lettered to facili- tate a description of the jumps.

Now see if you can clear up the political situation.

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