THIS ODD PUZZLE is built upon the recent claim of a French astronomer to have located a new star of the first magnitude. He says that the popular impression held by scientists of there being no more stars is based entirely upon the discovery by a clever little puzzlist that the letters A-S-T-R-O-N-O-M-E-R-S form the pretty anagram “no more stars.” We may mention tha a still more appropriate anagram can be made with the same eleven letters.
The sketch shows the learned professor describing his new discovery to his brother astronomers. He has drawn the location of fifteen stars of different magnitudes, and is now going to show the position in the firmament of his new discovery.
See if you can draw the form of a five-pointed star which shall be as large as any of the others, and yet not touch one of them!
The accompanying diagram shows how the French astronomers would locate the new celestial find which proves to be of such heroic dimensions as to cast the other little stars quite in the shade.
3. A Clever Coin Trick.
Harry and his sister are trying to solve one of those fascinating coin tricks which are so popular with the young folks. Ten coins are placed on the table as shown, so that we can count three rows of four-in-a-line, and the problem is to discover how to change the positions of only two of the coins so that there will then be five rows of four-in-a-line. It is a very simple puzzle, just think of it! Only move two of the coins somewhere else so as to make it possible to count five rows instead of only three!
THE CLEVER COIN TRICK is answered as follows:
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