LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

CONTENTS.

[Frontispiece Puzzle]
PAGE
Pictured Puzzles and Word Play[1]
Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, &c., &c.[130]
Odds and Ends[188]
Solutions to Pictured Puzzles[202]
Solutions to Word Play[283]
Solutions to Odds and Ends[375]

PICTURED PUZZLES

No. I.—A GOOD SPECIMEN

Here is a nest of magic squares, seven of them within the four corners of one diagram:—

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[Image]

As each border is removed a fresh magic square remains, in which the numbers in the cells of each row, column, and diagonal add up to the same sum, while each of these sums is a multiple of the central 113.

No. II.—A BORDERED DIAMOND
By G. Slater