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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1960
Page
6
A quirky brain teaser describes a lake with a hole and a large plug. Three of the fishing lines can be safely withdrawn while the others remain tied to the plug. Trace from top to bottom to identify the three safe lines before time runs out.
A rowing crew puzzle asks total crew weight where the coxswain weighs two thirds the heaviest man and 25 pounds lighter than the lightest oarsman. The sequence gives interrelated weights for each oarsman from second to eighth, with many pairwise differences. The prompt also mentions a word game about naming men for alphabet letters and a five minute race constraint.
A wordplay prompt asks to rearrange letters of VOWS FIRED into five words within 60 seconds. It introduces the Anagram Riddle variant and presents three example prompts about a FIRE ESCAPE, ANARCHISTS antics, and an ELEPHANT trainer's instruction with coded text and garbled lines for puzzle solving.
The instruction explains coloring a diagram by marks: red for check, light blue for X, dark blue for V, brown for U, yellow for dot, pink for O. It notes sharp crayons help and invites guessing what the drawing shows once colored.
A DIY wall covering puzzle unfolds as a reader notes that nine checkmarks can fit in a nine by nine grid with no repeats in rows columns or diagonals. A garbled teletype line then prompts a puzzle about inserting a letter eleven times to reveal a hidden sentence.
A simple project for youngsters to draw a back yard playhouse using dots 1 through 25. Start with a sharp pencil, connect lines with a straight edge, combine adjacent numbers at shared dots, then add color. Ideal for learning basic geometry and planning.
ICTOR found two pennies on a street and combined them with his existing pennies to make five times 25 more pennies than if he had lost two pennies. Let the initial number be x. Then x plus two equals five times 25 minus two. Solve: x + 2 = 125 − 2 equals 123. So x = 121. He had 121 pennies before finding the two.
A fragmented reader puzzle lists clues across and down with biblical references and wordplay. It challenges solvers to fill in terms from coats of skins to celestial bodies, coin names, and miscellaneous items, with hints, verses, and a Canadian city riddle.
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