Pictured Puzzles and Word Play A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

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If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as possible, shall I take the first horse bus that turns up, or wait for a motor? It must be assumed that I can only...

My first the rainbow shows When in rich hues it glows. My next has vowels three; My third was once a tree. My fourth begins the year, My whole the past makes clear.

Can you complete the top and bottom rows, the two side columns, and the two diagonals of this square by forming in each of them the same sentence so that it can be read in twent...

Three ...... went sailing out into the west, Out into the west as the sun sank low; Each thought as they ...... of the lad she loved best, For they all had ......, and each had...

In youth exalted high in air, Or bathing in the streamlet fair, Nature to form me took delight And clothed my body all in white; My person tall and slender waist On either side...

“War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, While kings and subjects are but err...

I bought less than 100 plants for my new rosery, and found that if I set them 3 in a row there would be one over; if 4 in a row there would be two over; if 5 in a row, three ove...

The solution of this little problem, set by Dr Puzzlewitz on his blackboard to test the powers of his young pupils--“What are the values of A and B, when 4 is the result of divi...

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My first the rainbow shows When in rich hues it glows. My next has vowels three; My third was once a tree. My fourth begins the year, My whole the past makes clear.

What mars a land so sadly as a war? What days as dark as days that wars alarm? Alas! ask any, ask at hand, afar, All shall call war a harass and a harm. Why call, as ballads tal...

A _siren_, _risen_ on _Erin’s_ strands, Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; He left the _reins_ in Cupid’s hands, And watched her _rinse_ her tresses; Tresses of _resin_ coloured...

First is in coast, second in ghost, Third must be reckoned part of second; Fourth in boat, fifth in float, Sixth you will find within your mind. Seventh in blue, eighth in true,...