THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
89.—
The Primrose Puzzle.
Select the name of any flower that you think suitable, and that
contains eight letters. Touch one of the primroses with your pencil
and jump over one of
the adjoining flowers
to another, on which
you mark the first
letter of your word.
Then touch another
vacant flower, and
again jump over one
in another direction,
and write down the
second letter. Con-
tinue this (taking the
letters in their proper
order) until all the
letters have been
written down, and the
original word can be correctly read round the garland. You must
always touch an unoccupied flower, but the flower jumped over
may be occupied or not. The name of a tree may also be selected.
Only English words may be used.
90.—
The Round Table.
Seven friends named Adams, Brooks, Cater, Dobson, Edwards,
Fry and Green, were spending fifteen days together at the seaside,
and they had a round breakfast table at the hotel all to themselves.
It was agreed that no man should ever sit down twice with the
same two neighbours. As they can be seated, under these condi-
tions, in just fifteen ways the plan was quite practicable. But could
the reader have prepared an arrangement for every sitting ? The
hotel proprietor was asked to draw up a scheme, but he miserably
failed.
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