Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (1863)
Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 106
um is the remainder.In the example given five is the half of ten, the number requestedto be added. Any amount may be added, but the operation issimplified by giving only even numbers, as they will divide withoutfractions. Example,Think of 7 Double it .Add 3?^ to it Halve it Which will leave… … Fig. 46. placed three black balls, or any other article the reader may 100 MISCELLANEOUS CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS. suggest, bearing in mind that the whole number shall not exceedtwenty-one. Required to know how this may be accomplished ?They were arranged as represented in Fig. 46. The Crowning…
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