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 A Medley of Puzzles

By Sam Loyd

''Fifteen Dollars in prizes will be awarded for the solutions of the puzzles appearing on these two pages. The first prize of Five Dollars will be awarded to the reader who sends in the best set of answers and writes the best letter of suggestion for the Puzzle Page. The letters of suggestion must not contain more than fifty words. Ten prizes of One Dollar each will be awarded to the ten readers who send the ten next best sets of answers and letters.''

''Answers to the May prizes will appear in the June issue. The names of winners of the prizes in the July issue. Answers and letters must be received before May 8th, addressed to Sam Loyd, care Popular .Science Monthly, New York.''

Play Ball

N this field of 49 baseballs the puzzling proposition is to mark off all but 20 and to leave those 20 balls in such arrangement as to score the greatest possible number of rows, 4 balls to a row.

In the diagram it is shown how the balls, lettered from A to K—12 balls—are made to score 5 rows. Now see what is the highest score you can make with the full complement of 20.

"Talking about Poles" remarked McManus, "here's a study in Poles that would give Peary and Cook a pair of head-aches.

"In building a fence around my square lot I find that if I put the poles two feet apart I will be shy no poles, whereas, if I plant them two yards apart, I will have 90 poles left over.

"Now can you tell me how many square feet there are in my lot?"

Children A-plenty

Farmer Smith and his wife say that the race suicide scare is of no account down their way, as they have 15 children, born at intervals of one year and a half.

Miss Pocahontas, the eldest of the children, who is reluctant about mentioning her age, admits she is seven times older than Captain John, Jr., the youngest of the brood.

Can you assist the census man in figuring out the age of Miss Pocahontas?

The ten copies of the "Cyclopedia of Puzzles," offered for the best answers to the four March puzzles are awarded to the solvers given below, who not only solved all of the puzzles with absolute correctness, but gave analyses of the Kugelspiel problem, which proved to be the stumbling block for most of our contestants.

Ernest A. Hodgson, Dominion Observatory, Ottawa.

Nathaniel Ratner, 1804' Arthur Ave., Bronx, N. Y.

Fred A. Tracey, 59 White Street, Mt. Holly, N. J.

T. B. Ford, Chevy Chase, Md.

George S. Fuller, 506 Sears Bldg., Boston, Mass.

Chrystal McCue, Goodells, Mich.

Audley A. Baker, 808 Bell Ave., E. Carnegie, Pa.

Earl F. Koke, 2121 N. Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo.

Wm. K. Bendrat, 616 W. 48th Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

J. A. Fairchild, Mt. Olive, III.