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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1946
Page
3
The article traces the tangram as a 2500 year old Chinese puzzle with seven pieces used to form figures, mentions Archimedes’ 14-segment version, presents an eight-segment square with 140 possible figures, and notes a chocolate‑iced gingerbread cube problem plus a Chinese word switching puzzle involving 12 blocks and moves.
A puzzle feature describes two matchstick brainteasers. First, arrange 24 matches to form nine squares in a 3 by 3 grid, then remove eight to leave two squares, with a bridge formed by two of the removed matches without moving the squares. The second half explains placing two removed matches as a connecting bridge between the squares.
A fragmented description introduces Dennia A Yates and Harold Kaufman’s Three by Three Super-Tiwo by TiO1Q test. Sixty words with numbers form a grid of clues linking triplets, with examples and partial clue pairs. The text presents several clue labels and garbled lettered references, indicating a complex word association game.
A short tale set in early criminology with a fifth grade detective narrator. The nephew confesses being in the house at the murder time but lacks an alibi while the detective questions his guilt and clues point to an alternative culprit.
A puzzle lists 15 clues for chemical elements. initials form the target compound. Each clue hints at an element such as from pitchblende, rare metal, or gas. The answers identify elements like lead, neon, xenon, argon, etc., and their initial letters spelling the final chemical name.
An art puzzle invites viewers to spot at least 25 deliberate mistakes in a complex drawing. It challenges timeboxed perception, asking readers to test themselves by finding a minimum of 20 errors within 15 minutes, featuring a jumble of letters and symbols.
A fragile horse-scope quiz blends myth and wordplay as readers guess winged horses, immortal literary steeds, and idioms. Fragmented items mention the Four Horsemen, the Kentucky Derby, and lines about leading a horse to water, with garbled OCR text suggesting a playful but faded old puzzle column.
Long OCR quiz page blends biblical trivia with crosswords and cryptic clues. Questions cover animals for feasts, kings and places, verses, and various biblical figures. The page includes scattered oddities and typography errors but preserves puzzle format and period tone.
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