Pictured Puzzles and Word Play / A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

by A. Cyril Pearson

Can you, still using only four matches in each case, fit different whole numbers or fractions in similar fashion into the other 28 cells?

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69. EASY MENTAL ARITHMETIC

Set down three figures in a line,
Then multiply by four;
This, if you use the proper sign,
Makes five and nothing more.

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No. LXXXV.—MANY READINGS

Can you complete the top and bottom rows, the two side columns, and the two diagonals of this square by forming in each of them the same sentence so that it can be read in twenty different directions?

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