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Read the sentence directlY below:<br />
GRE.\T IUN FOR PEOPLE OF ALL ACES-TRY<br />
PIJZZLLTT S POCKET PIJZZLEST\|-HAND MADE<br />
OF BRASS AND FINE WOOD.<br />
Ncxv, count the F's in the sentcnce above.<br />
Only once, thoughl Don't go back and<br />
count them again.<br />
'srrll a>lrT ssaurlsrlool uo aurtl :no,(<br />
3uuse,u. cc1 or poo8 ool rlJnlu t9 snrua!<br />
e a,r,no i 'a.\rl II1? lo8 no,i 11 auo d]rqs<br />
r ar no-( rnol pa::tlds t"'tl \ II :LlLrIl111aS<br />
Figure 1<br />
The puzzle lrom Mtke Ct'een tKe nt. 11-il-sfun.gtonr.<br />
Figure 2<br />
Tint Rowett, an English toy and puzzle designer,<br />
preselTted each party guest with a candy bar.1 inch in<br />
-clittnteter and 8 inchas long,. The edible stuffing of the<br />
candy is penneatad with nine figured (literally<br />
"iigured';lbttnds-.also edible-such that as you bite<br />
ofia piece yott always see these mysteilous figwes on<br />
the eid So the ptocess of soTving the puzzle is cotnbhecl<br />
tvith its ionsttmption. To win this "biathalon"<br />
\-c)u not onlv has,e to find the relationship, between the<br />
'nuntlters artd figttre ottt the mi.ssrng nutnbet, you have<br />
to eat the puzzle as fc.st as ,You can.<br />
Figure 3<br />
Tlte puzzle front HosrcLnJ R. Srrft (Toledo, Ohio). The<br />
obit'cl is Lo remove Ll,t ritt:.<br />
ffi E== -1ffiffiffi<br />
Eiar ra (<br />
r rvurv u<br />
The ptesent from Peter Haiak (UK): fit the four T's<br />
inside the red sqttare. And a special aclditional question<br />
lor Qnantum readers: at'ter you solve this puzzle, tty to<br />
figwe out the smallest size of the red sqLlare, given-the<br />
slze oi tlte big sqllare, such that the soltttictn ls stil-1<br />
possible. (We cttn vaty the ditnensiotts of the letters.)<br />
Figure 4<br />
The present from Herman Wittaveen (the Netherlands):<br />
ur"iong" the two red blocks with the two blue blocks<br />
by sliding only.<br />
ANSWERS, HINTS & SOLUTIOIVS O/V PAGE 55