Scientific amusements . Fig. 88.—A Mathematical Game—The Packers Secret. can transpose St. Claus (of Siam) Mandarin of the Collegeof Li-Sou-Stian, into Lucas dAmiens, Professor of theCollege of Saint Louis ! Have I also solved my problem,I wonder ? MATHEM-ATICAL. GAMES. I I I Since the conception of the Tower ot Hanof we havefound another analogous game, called the Question ofTonquin, a game of Chinese hats., This puzzle is com-posed of pasteboard pyramids of decreasing sizes (as inFig. 87 on page io8)j which must be manipulated in themanner already related with references to the discs andthe
Scientific amusements . Fig. 88.—A Mathematical Game—The Packers Secret. can transpose St. Claus (of Siam) Mandarin of the Collegeof Li-Sou-Stian, into Lucas dAmiens, Professor of theCollege of Saint Louis ! Have I also solved my problem,I wonder ? MATHEM-ATICAL. GAMES. I I I Since the conception of the Tower ot Hanof we havefound another analogous game, called the Question ofTonquin, a game of Chinese hats., This puzzle is com-posed of pasteboard pyramids of decreasing sizes (as inFig. 87 on page io8)j which must be manipulated in themanner already related with references to the discs andthe foregoing Fig. 8g.—Explanation of Method of PACKERS SECRET. This ingenious game consists of a cardboard box con-taining twelve wooden discs, which lie loosely in theirreceptacle as on the upper portion of the foregoing illus-tration (see Fig. 88, page 110). The problem to be solvedis this. Place the twelve pieces in the box in such amanner that, they will remain immovable, and will notfall out even when the box is turned upside down withoutthe lid. The solution consists in placing th^ discs tangentially,and the puzzle can be performed by arranging them as|shown in the cut above (Fig. 89). All the men , thus[isustain each other by gentle pressure, and the box mayfbe shaken without any one of them falling out. Toperform this puzzle one must understand, in some mea- I 12 MATHEMATICAL GAMES. sure, the packers secret (see Fig. 89). We place one disc(No. i) in the centre, and dispose around it six otherdiscs, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Steady these with the left hand,so that they will not move e
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