Judge, 1912-03-30 · page 16 of 24
Judge — March 30, 1912 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents a **puzzle competition** rather than satirical content. Judge magazine is running a contest where readers must identify six pieces of boy scout camping apparel shown in photographs/illustrations. The first answer ("A Soft Hat") is provided as an example. The contest spans four issues with six puzzles each (24 total). Contestants compete for cash prizes: $20 for complete correct solutions, plus secondary prizes totaling $10, $5 each, and magazine subscriptions. The "Next Series will be Famous Poets" indicates Judge plans similar visual puzzles featuring literary figures afterward. This reflects **early 20th-century** popular engagement with Boy Scouts as an American institution, and demonstrates how magazines monetized reader participation through competitions. The emphasis on "penmanship, neatness" in judging reveals period values about presentation and decorum.
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JUDGE’S PICTURE PUZZLE CONTEST. No. 1—The Boy Scout Series. Next Series will be Famous Poets. TH six pictures above represent ar- ticles of apparel worn by the boy scouts when incamp. That you may know how to solve these puzzles the answer for No. Lis given you. Itis ‘‘A Soft Hat."" A similar set of puzzles will appear in each of the three following issues of Jupce. A Check for Twenty Dollars will be sent to the person sending the cor- rect solutions to the twenty-four puzzles appearing in this and the three next issues (six in each issue), which in the matter of penmanship, neatness, etc., are considered by the editor to be the most worthy. In addition there will be a second prize of $10, four prizes of $5 each, 5 subscriptions to Jupce, and 10 subscriptions to JupGe’s QUARTERLY, twenty-one prizes in all. All, whether regular readers of JubGE or not, may compete. Send in your answers to the four sets of puzzles as soon as possible after the last set has appeared, in the issue of April 20th. Answers received later then May 11th will not be considered. The winners will be announced in the issue of May 25, but prizes will be awarded shortly after the completion of the contest. The following form of answer is sug- gested, though not required. but the ex- aminations of the answers will be ex- pedited if the blank herewith is used. This is not a guess- ing contest. There is but one solution to each picture, this solution chosen by the editor and on file in our office. Address your answers to Puzzle Editor, Judge, 225 JUDGE'S PUZZLE PICTURE CONTEST, MARCH 30 Street No... Fifth Avenue, New York. comicbooks.com