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- From: strgh@csv.warwick.ac.uk (J E H Shaw)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Kit Williams' old new book
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 12:38:48 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- References: <1992Nov17.224810.22047@Princeton.EDU> <BxwnxD.E9E@cen.ex.ac.uk>
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- In article <BxwnxD.E9E@cen.ex.ac.uk> DKSmith@msor.exeter.ac.uk (David Smith) writes:
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- >The book was called "The Bee on the Comb"
- >but it never got as much publicity as the
- >book "Masquerade" ... after all, the media
- >were more interested in the valuable prize
- >in Masquerade.
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- As I remember, the book was called `Bees Only Sting'.
- If only I'd worked out the solution to `Masquerade' as quickly as that!
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- The solution to masquerade involved not only ordering the limbs
- (as someone already said) but also ordering animals: Adults, Children,
- Hares, ... (Slugs & Snails don't count), then drawing lines from the
- eyes of the animals (in order) through the ends of their visible limbs
- (in order) to hit the letters round the outside of the pictures.
- (No I didn't discover this by myself).
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- P.S. on the `States in Song' thread, don't forget `Moonlight ON Vermont'
- by the estimable Captain Beefheart.
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- -- Ewart Shaw
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- Sarah (20 months) on first seeing juggling: `Balls skipping in the sky'.
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