European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Are you superstitious 8 it s your move Jellybean jollies Abrl Abra Fabrace Braca Abrazad a Brac a Dan  Abracadabra its halloween and strange things Are happening. White makes a few perfunctory motions and then suddenly Black disappears from View. White Side moving up the Board to move and win in five turns is the Challenge. Can you meet it ic-8t-6-5 9qm 9-St rc-9 i 61-St let s suppose a youngster with a bag of jellybeans meets four friends one at a time. At each meeting he eats one Jellybean gives half his total to his Friend and then eats another. On departing from his last Friend he has one Jellybean left. How Many had he originally 9uo Sator repo Tenet opera Rotas they re at Loose ends \ Are you superstitious As Luck has it there Are any number of Luck charms to Ward off evil spirits. Let s have som fun with a few. 1. Some of the oldest Amu lets Lucky charms in exist ence display the simple magic number Square shown at left. Three of its figures Are miss ing. You Are to determine what they Are and produce the sum of 15 in All directions. 9. It s said that Abracadabra was the supreme deity of the ancient assyrians. The word was written on parch ment and suspended from the neck. An ancient Puzzle based on this arrangement of letters takes some Luck to solve. The Puzzle is to determine How Many different ways the word Abracadabra can be spelled out in order in the diagram always starting with an a of course and spelling it through via adjacent letters. Uan you guess within 100? 8. Another Lucky Charm found among the formulas of age old witchcraft is the mag to word deployment Poser. This to what magicians of the Middle Ages used to Call can trap. See if you can figure out anything unusual about the word Square at left. 4. An ancient Tomb in India is said to have born the group of figures arranged at right above. It is a legend that the figures represented the age of the Man who was buried there. Certainly there is a method to the arrangement that attains a mystical result. Per haps by studying it you can determine what that result is and consequently the ruler s age at death. Ans. Elsewhere risk sanity Titlair warning a contributor a contends the following Poser is enough to drive one mad. When the Abc firm was formed a had invested 1 and 1/5 As much Asb and b had invested 1 and 1/5 As much As o. When the profits were divided each took his proportion ate share. After a number of successful years it was decided to admit a s Uncle a into the firm. It was decided to give him a one fourth interest for $45,500, this being the current value of the Stock. It was also determined that the Money received from d was to be divided among the other three partners so that All four would have an equal share and interest in the capital investment of the firm. If you were asked to decide How much each member of the Abo firm should receive when the $45,500 was divided among the three in order that each member of the reorganized firm should Start with an equal share in the organization How much of the ?45,000 would you give a b and o individually oos 9s$ v pub 009 flt aloof of Teji o Hajj Emu same us 1j.moj-�uo Jami com Quotia ears 01os i Fri i Uiol Berea us Jas Pinori ill la Louitt Eli Bema -