Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba 5zle in the 31 game by Sam Loyd from Start to finish i 2 2 3 3 5 6 almost immediately following the "14-15 Puzzle craze of fifty Odd years ago came the "31 Puzzle everybody took to playing "31" and a fellow got Good menial rating by exhibiting proficiency in. The add up game. Like its cyclonic predecessor "81" nestled in a Box of blocks. As shown in our sketch from 1 to 6, there were four blocks of each number and these were stacked to the left. Hand Side on six shelves. The game was played by two persons who in turn were privileged to move any one of the numbered blocks along its shelf to the opposite Side and the numbers As they were moved to the right were added together in a common the object being to be the player who carried the total to exactly 31. If forced beyond 31 a player lost. There is considerably More scope for calculation and study in the apparently simple game than appears first inspection. To present "31" in Puzzle form let us see who can figure out whether the game presented in the sketch which has reached the total of 15, should be won by the first or second player. What do you think about it magic with Dice try this Little trick on a Friend. Tell him to throw three Dice without letting you see them or throw one die. Three times and that you will Tell him what the throw other words what were the values of the uppermost faces of the three Dice. After he has thrown the Dice proceed As follows Tell him to think of the first one. Then Tell him to multiply its value by 2. Then add 5. Then multiply by 5. Now add the value of the second die. Multiply the result by 10. Add the value of the third die. Now ask him for the grand total of his calculations. Whatever number he tells you remember it and mentally. Subtract 250 from it. The result will be the values of the Dice in the order in which he selected them. For instance if he first threw a 2, then a 3, then a 4, his total would be 484, and taking away 250 leaves 3 and 4. Try this some time and see How nicely it works. See Page 12 for answers the two words begin and end Are very close together in this Maze but the path that connects Andi tortuous. See if you can go through from begin to end front Start to finish without crossing a line. There Are not so. Many Blind alleys in 4his Maze so that filling them in it will help will not provide a sure clue. The constructor has furnished plenty of islands with intent to mislead and annoy the solver. Cats and dogs cats and dogs Are natural enemies and with so Many of them in one compartment there will be trouble unless something is done about it. It is possible by drawing Only three straight Ines to Divide the picture into seven Compart ments three with Only two cats in each and four with Only two dogs in each. Can you perform this peace making stunt to last saturday s puzzles. Outing the Brutti Fatom of throwing Rice prob As from the East where Rice table food and where plenty Means Comfort and Prosperity. To throw Rice Means May a Junt Lack a Good or in fjords May married life used to scatter Corn path and in Poland the throw . U a of a Lieut. Earlcy Oats or even Beans at the Bride s door. In Italy nuts take the place of cereals and one can imagine that the italian children have a Happy time picking them up. Just As German children in country places pick up Tho cakes and tiny buns Hung from cot Tage windows at a passing Bride. English printing historians do not agree regard ing the first inventor of printing from movable types in Europe but it is Safe to claim that such print ing was invented either in Holland or Germany about 1440. To William Caxton belongs the credit for introducing printing into England. He translated the French work a cull Des histories de and made three copies in Manu script but so Many demands were made that he had to adopt the new Art of printing. This was the first work printed in English. After the Duke of Burgundy s death in 1476, Caxton come to England and set up his press at the sign of the red Pale in the Almory of West Minster where he worked some fifteen years. Proper customer to Delicatessen store Here i Tou Iid a Button in that salad you sold me. Course Madam i that was part of the grocer. Some Odd facts Stoky Section free press Winnipeg saturday october 6. 19 starting Oft in a race from Worces Ter Over two years ago a no Ming Pigeon has just returned to its Cote in Little Drayton Shropshire. While the number of deaths Troia Ina Enza in the first 20 weeks of thai year shows a great decrease on last year the mortality due to measles is much higher. P a g eleven ;