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Merry's Book of Puzzles

Chapter 24: COMETS, CONSTELLATIONS, AND FIXED STARS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.
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A three-part compilation of riddles, charades, rebuses, pictorial puzzles and conundrums presented for children and young readers. Arranged as short challenges and illustrated teasers, the pieces mix wordplay, logic problems, simple arithmetic puzzles and playful questions that invite group play or solitary amusement. Brief introductions and occasional light commentary frame the items, which range from single-line riddles to multi-step brainteasers, all intended to entertain while sharpening observation, verbal wit and reasoning skills.

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COMETS, CONSTELLATIONS, AND FIXED STARS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.

166. Obstinacy and deceit.

167. A nickname, an epistle, and a laborer.

168. Swifter, a forest, and an affix.

169. A precious stone.

170. Past tense of a regular verb, and a security.

171. A prophetess and a color.

172. Find five letters capable of being transposed into five different words: two nouns, two adjectives, and a verb.

173. Three circles have their centers upon the same right line. The first has twice the area of the second, and is externally tangent to it. The third, of which the diameter is one foot, circumscribes the first and second. Required the radius of the greatest circle which can be inscribed within one of the two equal curvilinear triangles thus formed.

174. When does the weather resemble a lawyer?

175. My first, in sound, is a bird’s nickname; my second and third are pronouns; my fourth is three-quarters of what fashionable ladies like to do; my whole is an adjective that has been sadly perverted.

176. My first is a verb, my second a nickname or verb, and my whole is to circulate.