New Craft Books Highlight Fly Casting Films and Windmills
RIEF REPORTS on select new books for home craftsmen and collectors. Clark Kinnaird selects Trout Fishing and Trout Files by Jim Quick, Screen World 1957 by Daniel Blum, and Windmills and Millwrighting by Stanley Freese. Each offers practical guidance, pictorials, and historical insight into niche trades and cinema.
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Find The Faces Hidden In The Picture Puzzle
A playful riddle asks readers to locate seven hidden faces in a picture Nancy reads to her. After finding and coloring them neatly, try spotting the seven faces again. The piece ends with a playful line hinting at a South American country.
Timeline puzzle asks to rearrange four pictures for correct sequence
A magazine style brain teaser presents A to D panels with clues, asking to order three remaining images after A to show a plausible event progression. Time limit two minutes. Puzzle hides missing three letters at ends for many words, count how many can be completed.
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Bouncy Bear Seeks Ice Cream Gift to a Friend
A playful Dotograph puzzle asks which friend gets an extra ice cream. Readers trace a path from dot 1 to dot 2 to dot 3 and beyond and may be challenged to mentally rearrange the first five digits to satisfy a rule where the product of the first two digits times the middle digit equals the last two digits.
Strike Out Puzzle from a Vintage Page
A mixed brain teaser page asks to strike out numbers in a diagram by solving definitions. It includes numeric riddles about feet in a measured mile, a quadruplet’s playmates, clock hand angles, earth as a planet, and state legislatures. The text also features a literary-quotes style interlude and a list of girl friends, real and fictional, to identify.
Hold That Line Puzzle Reaches Two Minute Route
RER HARE fears his new home hidden in the field is hard to find among furrows. Begin at lower left with X as the reach point and trace a continuous line without crossing or retracing to reach the marked spot. One method illustrates a solution. others exist.
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Rer Hare
Brainteasers Challenge for Quick Solvers
Brain Squeezers biggy may have heard some of these brainteasers before. If 80, let's see if you can remember the answers. Have someone time you each is supposed to be solved in less than a minute. Ready, go. 1 A farmer ate two eggs every morning for his breakfast. He had two chickens, nobody ever gave him any eggs, and he never bought borrowed begged or stole any eggs. Where did he get the way. 2 Brown carried a bag of groceries. Jones carried three bags the size of Brown's. But Brown's load was heavier. Why. 3 A farmer had 3 3/7 hay stacks in one field and 5 4/9 hay stacks in another field. He put them all together. How many did he have then. 4 Each of the Rockem brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers, but each of the Rockem sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters in the Rockem family. S& Nugget Nate's mountain shack is almost buried in snow, and the temperature is 20 below were when he enters. His eyes move from the single match he has to a candle, off lamp and fire ready to be lit Which does he light first. You CEL S Breezy Easy Pee Fre IOIg Nog MOWPEASY OUD F Ayduse sem 630Q exyonp AQ PIV Siem O48 OUT Ti taomsuy
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Which Square Is Bigger The Black Or The White Square
A playful prompt asks readers to judge by sight which square is larger the black or the white, or if they are the same size, without using instruments. The task invites quick visual comparison as a mini puzzle.
Fourth book of the New Testament and other Bible clues
Puzzle fill in with biblical terms and references across horizontal and vertical clues. Includes names like Genesis exodus and judges with numbers and ancient places, mixed with word definitions and letter hints. The page presents a 1951 King Features Syndicate syndicated crossword style exercise.
Posing versatile cones in dotted line drawings
The piece presents an ice cream cone as a design art concept. It invites readers to trace dotted lines with a pencil to create figures and showcases an artist’s variants. The note challenges readers to devise additional arousing cone shapes inspired by the outline.
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