Teen age party game and syrup box puzzle
A sample from a decades old paper describes a teen party shoe-matching game where girls remove shoes and boys guess owners behind a sheet, plus a math puzzle about syrup cans, box capacities, and a set of quick problems.
Wits Test and Puzzling Clock Challenge
A 1920s newspaper puzzle page features clock oddities and a wordless device origin in Philadelphia apothecary shops. It includes a cross-number puzzle with multiple clues about numbers, time, and a farmer's cow and calf cost problem.
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C. Kaufman
Philadelphia
Egg Head Drawing Lessons and Amy Age Riddle
The text presents drawing steps for egg shaped portraits and an age puzzle where Amy’s age plus her weight equals six times her age, with her age under 30. It also contains a vocabulary game transforming words by adding a single letter and rearranging letters.
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Amy
Puzzle From Eugene Sheffer Bible Crosswords Appears in 1957
A Eugene Sheffer crossword puzzle page presents a dense set of horizontal and vertical clues drawn from biblical and general knowledge. The grid includes references to Genesis, Chronicles, Luke, Nehemiah, Acts, and Corinthians, with multiple cross-referenced entries and dates indicating a 1957 King Features Syndicate publication.
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Bethel
Senine
Jacob
Abram
Pla.e
Solomon
Doctrine
Weathercock
Orient
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Dolly Dragondale’s Dot Line Puzzle Pops Up
A quirky challenge features Dolly Dragondale calling readers to trace a continuous path through 25 dots and return to the start. The activity invites steady hands and quick thinking as a playful witch’s cauldron craft.
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Dolly Dragondale
Right Turns Solve This Unicersal Poser
A puzzle asks contestants to draw a single continuous line around six rings with at most nine right angle turns starting from A. Ten straight segments and nine turns form the limit, and the line may pass the dotted path multiple times to surround each ring without lifting the pencil.
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Neces
Wissemsuy
Word Skeleton Puzzle Instructions
Puzzle text explains restoring missing letters in skeleton key words. Letters shown in diagrams are placed below to fill blanks across and down. After filling, trial letters form short words in the lower diagram rows. each vertical column uses the same letter.
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