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Puzzle 213
The Miller next took the company aside and showed them nine sacks of flour that were standing as depicted in the sketch.
"Now, hearken, all and some," said he, "while that I do set ye the riddle of the nine sacks of flour.
And mark ye, my lords, that there be single sacks on the outside, pairs next unto them, and three together in the middle thereof.
By Saint Benedict, it doth so happen that if we do but multiply the pair, 28, by the single one, 7, the answer is 196, which is of a truth the number shown by the sacks in the middle.
Yet it be not true that the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also make 196.
Wherefore I do beg you, gentle sirs, so to place anew the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the middle."
As the Miller has stipulated in effect that as few bags as possible shall be moved, there is only one answer to this puzzle, which everybody should be able to solve.
The Miller's Puzzle, The Canterbury Puzzles, Henry Ernest Dudeney.
Puzzle 214
There are three houses, and three utilities: water, gas, and electricity.
Your task is to connect each house to all three utilities.
Therefore, each house will have three lines, and each utility will also have three lines.
However, you cannot cross lines! You cannot pass lines through houses or utilities. You cannot share lines.
Can you draw the 9 lines required?
Puzzle 215
In the local wood there are a number of trees. On these trees there are a number of birds.
A local bird spotter knows that there are as many birds on each tree as there are trees in the wood, and that there are between 2,000 and 2,100 birds in total.
How many trees are there in the wood?
Puzzle 216
Shriekville's Ghostsall logic puzzles
Five people were all taking a vacation in Shriekville, unfortunately, all of their vacations were cut short by a terrifying encounter with a resident ghost.
Can you determine the type of accommodation, its name, and the name of the resident ghost?
Archibald stayed at St George's, he was not frightened off by Macabre Malcolm.
The public house was the home of Chilling Charlie, who frequently turned down the thermostat and then let out gruesome shrieks, chilling everyone to the bone.
Lucas or Archibald's vacation was at the castle. Was Terrifying Tony the resident ghost there?
Charlie went to stay with friends, this was in a bungalow, but it did not have the name Briar Hill. He was not terrified by Bloodcurdling Brian, the ghost that left bloodstained footprints behind.
Billy vacationed at a place named Rosedale, which was not a hotel.
Creepy Craig really did scare Gary, as he was settling down to sleep, by scraping his fingernails on the bedroom window, this was not at a hotel, and it wasn't a place named Avalon.
The bed and breakfast accommodation was not High Lodge, which was also not the castle where Macabre Malcolm was resident.
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