Judge — March 1935 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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What's the Odds? T SEEMS to us that too much emphasis has been placed on the opening moves in the worthy game of backgammon and not. sufficient stress has been placed on doubling and the middle and end game. We. therefore, propose to publish what we will call problem situations which are to be solve by culating your mathematical chances of winning. In the diagram shown you are the proud WWW NWO possessor of the four black men. You have already thrown off eleven men. Your opponent has only two men left, but it is your turn to throw. Your opponent was the last to double. Should you double? What is your expectation of winning? Here’s How! R. ADAMS, Mr. Brown and Mr. Carlisle joined for a New Year's Eve celebration at Mr. Adam's apartment and agreed that it was only proper that each should make a fair contribution to the party. Mr. Adams produced bottles of champagne, Mr. Brown had brought three bottles with him which he contributed and Mr. Carlisle put $12.00 on the table as his donation, Each con- sumed the same amount wine. The question now came up as to how Mr. Adams and Mr. Brown should divide the $12.00. If the mat- ter had been left to you what would you have considered an equitable adjustment? You will notice that, as the ques- tion reads, Mr. Carlisle does not get any of his money back, and that, although the value of a bottle of cham- pagne is not neces- sary for the solution, it might interest you to determine it. five e e Wit -VYutsa By Peter Potter Digit Crypt HE following depicts a sum in long division. Letters have been substituted for the digits from 0 to 9, inclusive. ach letter always repre- sents the same digit. When you have found the digits represented by each letter arrange the letters in numer- ical order and they will spell a word. TGI)PPUIR(LIH AM P UA I Ul T UR TUPR TUPR Double Crossed MILLER had been matched Tom Browning for a long distance swimming race across the Hudson River. The length of the race was to be four times across the river; in other words, two round trips. So that there should be no interference Miller was to start from the New Jersey shore and Browning from the New York side. On their first crossing they passed each other at a point 1700 yards from the New Jersey side. On the next crossing they pas each other at a point 1380 yards from the New York side. Each man maintained a constant rate of speed throughout. How wide is the Hudson at this place? ACK with Cut Up and Reform HE small squares in the middle of the rectangle illustrated below, have been cut out. It cight is re- quired to cut the figure into two parts which may be reassembled to form a square. The original idea was to accomplish this by one cut but we do not think it fair to call a passage along the edge of the empty space a cut. How- ever, when you have cut correctly there must be only two pieces. Matches to Burn R TOVE three matches only and replace them so that they will enclose only four squares of the same size as the original squares. No matches left over or loose. Road Work SYMINGTON owned a square tract of land in the irondacks which contained e 100,000 acres. His property was com- pletely surrounded by a beautiful con- crete road. When he asked me if I could tell him how many miles he would have to motor to go com- pletely around his property he was surprised at my reply when I told him the distance. First guess roughly what you think the distance would be and then figure it out. Sour Grapes RS. CADWAL- LADER pur- chased fifteen pounds in all of potatoes, tur- key, cheese and grapes. The turkey and pota- toes together weighed twice as much as the potatoes and grapes. The cheese weighed least of all. How much did the grapes weigh? (No fractions.) Answers Next Month comicbooks.com