The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 219
o long as they aremade, and the number, whether odd oreven, is noted. By writing down a row of fifteen figures,and transposing two numbers each time,and noting whether an odd or even num-ber of transpositions are required to pro-duce the consecutive order, it can be •ascertained whether the cubes,… … This is a good indoor game for boys,which I believe has not yet appeared inany form in England. It is a modificationof one played by the students in Ger-many, but adapted to English words, andwith a special arrangement of the figures,which the original game does not admit of,the words not being so…
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