Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements

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2. THE VERTICAL LINE PUZZLE.

Draw six vertical lines, as [below], and, by adding five other lines to them, let the whole form nine.

3. THE CARDBOARD PUZZLE.

Take a piece of cardboard or leather, of the shape and measurement indicated by the [diagram], cut it in such a manner that you yourself may pass through it, still keeping it in one piece.

4. THE BUTTON PUZZLE.

In the centre of a piece of leather make two parallel cuts with a penknife, and just below a small hole of the same width; then pass a piece of string under the slit and through the hole, as in the [figure], and tie two buttons much larger than the hole to the ends of the string. The puzzle is, to get the string out again without taking off the buttons.