Judge — June 1935 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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Tiresome R. HUDSON purchased a new automobile. Now Mr. Hudson was a very meticulous man and at- tended to every detail that he could think of very carefully. He was prac- tically a fanatic about his tires, al- ways changing them around at reg- ular intervals. On his car, in addi- tion to the four tires on the wheel he had two spare tires. After he had travelled 1200 miles his records showed that each tire had been for exactly the same distance question is how much was each tire used? Clock Watchers OME minutes after the closing ong had sounded on the Stock Exchange, one busy day, Mr. Adams asked Mr. Carlisle for the exact time. It was still before half past Mr. Carlisle said that in less than an hour the, hands of his watch would have exactly exchanged places. Can you discover what the exact time was, and also find out how far apart (in minute spaces) the hands of a watch must be so that they can change places within an hour? Nickname (Submitted by R. B. Ayer) GILMOR, well-known Joes gambler and bookmaker lay dead in the living room of his Long Island home. A bullet had passed through the screen of an open window and into his heart. At eleven-thirty he had unexpectedly ordered his car for midnight, and his chayffeur, report- ing at twelve o'clock, had discovered the body. The police could find no clue until a search of the wastebasket revealed a torn-up message. When pieced together, it read as follows: GLG BLSD DBRCM PGRKF SNRMM PBY ZPM MCRNB FR QJF TRK. HJPXJ FRCB VKLSD. “A simple substitution cryptogram,” said Inspector Webber. “Solve it and it will help you find the murderer.” In and Out MATCHER and Mr. Stoop met again at the club one afternoon and Mr. Stoop was easily persuaded to pit his skill and luck against Mr. Matcher across the backgammon board. After Mr. Matcher's second throw (Mr. Stoop had played first) the game three., e e (it-Vuts By Peter Potter stood as shown. Two of Mr. Stoop’: It was Mr. Stoop’s turn to play and Mr. Matcher offered him odds of four to one that he would not get both the next men were off, men in on throw. Should Mr. Stoop ace wager? If not what odds should he ask?) What had been each throw up to this point? Mr. Stoop’s second throw had been a three and one. Row, Row, Row RRANGE nine dots in such a way that they will be in ten rows of three dots each, Good Business REDERICK SOLOMAN and his son, Frederick Junior, were in partnership. Frederick Senior had supplied twice as much capital as Frederick Junior, and, therefore, had a proportionately larger interest: in the business. They decided to take a certain Vincent Cortez into the busi- ness with them. He was to pay them one third of the worth of the business for a one third interest, and the Fred- ericks, Senior and Junior, were to di- vide the money between them so that each would then be entitled to a third interest. How was the money tioned under these conditions Cut Up and Reform N THE figure at the bottom of this page you will note that a cross has been cut out of the middle of the rectangle. We are now required to angle into two equal and which may be ress- sembled to form a solid rectangle, cut the rec similar parts Digit Crypt HE iollowing depicts a sum in long division. Letters have been substituted for the digits from 0 to 9, inclusive. Each letter always repre- sents the same digit. When you have found the digits represented by each r arrange the letters in numerical and they will spell a word. Twenty minutes is good solving time for this crypt. Time yourself. EPSRU(TRQ LTP ACRR LOTT Jumping Jupiter AC eASGE ten checker men in a row, side by side, as in the illus- tration, O000000000 Try to assemble the ten checkers into five groups of two by jumping one checker over the next two checkers in either direction. The two checkers jumped over may consist of either two checkers that have already been paired, or two single checkers. Clothes Break the Man HILIP TRAYLOR, a sophomore, expressed a re for some cy hab- ashery and has told his ner that the shirts he wants are $3.50 apiece, neck- ties are $1.50 apiece and handkerchiefs are 50 cents apiece. Mr. Traylor, the father, is finally prevailed upon to give his son $100 for these expenditures, but he does so with the proviso that his son buy exactly one hundred items with the $100 and he must buy some of each, In how many dif- ferent ways could Philip do this? Don't stop too soon, (Solutions Next Month) comicbooks.com