The division is prettily illustrated thus:—
This shows how the first three took their shares, indicated by black dots, the remainder being carried down each time, and by similar process three more claimants would exhaust all the diamonds.
No. LVIII.—A CARD CHAIN
To solve the Card Chain puzzle take a card about 5 in. by 3 in., as shown below, draw a light pencil line from A to B and from C to D, lay the card in water till you can split its edges down to the pencil lines, and put it aside to dry.
With a sharp knife cut quite through the straight lines, but only half through the dotted lines on the split edges. The corresponding figures show the bar of each link, marking its two parts, which are connected by the upper and under halves of the split portion. A little patient ingenuity will now release link after link, and thus complete the chain.
