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 96
s of the star in sucha manner, that the sum of any two numbers that lie side by side,when added together, shall be equal to the sum of the two num-bers which are at the two opposite points of the star. This singular arrangement of the numbers is effected in thefollowing ii^anner: Place number 2… … Fig. 36. You may now take any two numbers that lie side by side, andadd them together, and their sum will always be equal to the sumof the two numbers found at the opposite points of the star. For example, the sum of the two numbers 14 and 4 whichcover the letters G and F, is 18, and so also is the…
Riddles · Amusements
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