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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1968
Page
8
A playful recipe asks readers to rearrange six panels to tell a story then glue and color them. It suggests a two to three minute timed race to heighten the challenge and invites friends to try solving the assembled scene. A separate word puzzle uses seven letters to form a complete sentence.
White moves first on the board and must force a win in five turns. The puzzle asks for winning plays in exactly five moves. Long-time champion Millard Hopper provides a solution below, illustrating a sequence to achieve the five turn victory.
A party game called Spaceman starts with Spaceman 1 leaving to hide. Guests search then join the hiding spot unseen, filling it with spacemen. The last finder becomes Spaceman 2 and the game repeats, rolling merrily to kick off the event.
A simple arithmetic ruse asks a person to double their weight, add five, multiply by fifty, then add 1718 and subtract birth year to reveal weight and age. The method is a curiosity in mental math rather than a reliable measure.
A professor asks for a number, then performs arithmetic steps totaling twice the original. Let x be the number. Sequence yields 2x, so solving the expression x through the operations confirms the original number is 4. The prompt then shifts into garbled OCR text about USA UGAIE FEM and unrelated fragments.
A historical clipping describes a golf bet between Brown and Jones wagering on each hole. Bets escalate by hole, with penalties for being up by one, two, or three holes. The piece also notes several unrelated items including bird calls, ship superstition, and a thumb flexibility exercise.
Mouse seeks a new home by dragging a specific object to a hidden site off the beaten path. Solve by drawing a line through numbered dots from 1 onward, using a dot twice whenever two numbers share it, to reveal the required object.
A puzzle asks to remove four marbles from a four sided box so that each side still sums to nine, then remove four more with the same total. The solution requires re arranging the remaining marbles on the sides to maintain the nine per side total. An empty work box is included for guidance.
A vintage puzzle exposes a strike out format where readers cross out correct numbers for five statements. It features references to water freezing, a number transform, Alan Shepard’s space vehicle, consecutive numbers, and a housecat toe count, all presented in a playful logic challenge.
A dense fill in crossword style referencing Gilbert Keith Chesterton and related authors with clues for The Everlasting Man Father Brown and other works, naming figures such as Dickens Shaw and others. The puzzle centers on 20th century literary criticism and religious writings with numerous biblical and classical allusions.
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