A Medley of Puzzles 



Fifteen Dollars in prizes will be 

 aivarded for the solutions of the ' 

 puzzles appearing on these two pages. The 

 first prize of Fiie Dollars will be awarded to the 

 reader who sends ifi the best set of answers and 

 writes the best letter of suggestion for the Puzzle 

 Page. The letters of suggestion must not con- 

 tain more than fifty words. Ten prizes 



By Sam Loyd 



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 



IN this field of 49 

 baseballs the 

 puzzling proposi- 

 tion is to mark off 

 all but 20 and to 

 leave those 20 balls 

 in such arrange- 

 ment as to score 

 the greatest possi-- 

 ble 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 comple- 

 ment of 20. 



How Large Is This 

 Man's Lot? 



"Talking about 

 Poles" remarked Mc- 

 Manus, "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 



MARCH PRIZE WINNERS 



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 Obser- 

 vatory, Ottawa. 

 Nathaniel Ratner, 1804' Arthur Ave., 



Bronx, N. Y. 

 Fred A. Tracey, 59 White Street, 



Mt. HoUy, 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, 111. 



748 



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 sui- 

 cide scare io of no 

 account down their 

 way, as they have 

 15 children, born at 

 inter\'als of one year 

 and a half. 



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Miss Pocahontas, 

 the eldest of the chil- 

 dren, 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 figur- 

 ing out the age of 

 Miss Pocahontas? 



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