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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 107

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4th on the 2nd, we pass a king (two men) ; here willbe two crowns effected, but the puzzle completed must have jSvecrowns and no men. Remember well, that it is required to passover two, but never more nor less than that number. JExplanation,—Place the 4th on the 1st, the 6th on the 9th, the8th upon…

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