Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · London : Frederick Warne · leaf 27
—The Spider and the Flies. This is a puzzle on the same principle, but with a differ-ence which renders it one of the prettiest of its kind. It isa little wooden tray with glass top. (See Fig. 4.) Puzzles Old and New. On the piece of cardboard which covers the bottom isdelineated a spiders web,… … represented by four circular wads of felt, a quarter of aninch in diameter, these also being two of each colour. The puzzle is, by means of the globule of mercury, to coaxthe four flies to their proper positions, red on red, and blueblue; and finally to leav.e the spider in the centre on of the…
Puzzles
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