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Pictured Puzzles and Word Play / A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

Chapter 1085: 17. MISSING FIGURES
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A lively compendium of illustrated puzzles and verbal amusements, organized into pictured puzzles, word-play (including anagrams, charades, enigmas, and riddles), and a miscellany of odds and ends, each followed by complete solutions. It pairs visual problems—magic squares, tessellated and domino designs, and geometric dissections—with linguistic challenges that test anagramming, cryptic clues, and witty charades, and includes numerical recreations linking chess and arithmetic. Diagrams and step-by-step answers support independent solving and practical learning.

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No. I.—A GOOD SPECIMEN

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No. II—A BORDERED DIAMOND

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No. III.—A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE

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No. IV.—A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE

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No. V.—TESSELATED DIAMOND

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No. VI.—MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION

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No. VII.—ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC SQUARE

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No. VIII.—A HARDY ANNUAL

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No. IX.—ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI”

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No. X.—A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE

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No. XI.—CHESS AND NUMBERS

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No. XII.—NUMBERS PATIENCE

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No. XIV.—A NEST OF RECTANGLES

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No. XV.—ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE

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No. XXXII.—A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE

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No. XXXIII.—ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC

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No. XXXIV.—A BUNCH OF FLOWERS

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No. XXXV.—ON A BLACKBOARD

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No. XXXVI.—SQUARING A DIAMOND

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No. XXXVII.

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No. XXXVIII.—AN ANAGRAM SQUARE

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No. XXXIX.—ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM

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No. XL.—ANAGRAMS SQUARED

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No. XLI.—A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM

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No. XLII.—QUITE A NOVELTY

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No. XLIII.—HIDDEN PROVERBS

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No. XLIV.—A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM

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No. LXIV.—ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE

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No. LXVII.—AN EIGHT-CARD PUZZLE

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No. LXVIII.—THOUGHT READING

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No. LXXI.—A PUZZLE WITH CHESS PIECES

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No. LXXIX

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No. LXXXV.—MANY READINGS

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No. LXXXVI.—TOLD AT A GLANCE

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No. LXXXVII.

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No. LXXXVIII.—RANGING THE DIGITS

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No. LXXXIX.—NO TWO IN A ROW

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No. XC.—EXACT ALIGNMENT

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No. XCI.—AT A FANCY BALL

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No. XCII.—PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY IN CELLS

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No. XCVI.—A NEW CHESS PUZZLE

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No. CII.—A KNIGHT’S POETIC TOUR

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No. CIV.—SCORING A CENTURY

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No. CXXI.—DOMINO SQUARE

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242. A TANGLED SQUARE

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274. A PUZZLE ACROSTIC

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1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES

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3. THE SQUAREST WORD

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4. A CROSS PURPOSE

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6. A WORD SQUARE

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7. VERBAL ARITHMETIC

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8. A WORD SQUARE

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11. GAPS TO FILL

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17. MISSING FIGURES

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No. IV

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No. X

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No. XII

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No. XIV

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