THE DOGSMEAD PUZZLE
This is an interesting little
puzzle -- a numeric crossword puzzle. The rules are
simple:
All entries are positive
integers, and no number begins with a zero (0).
It is said that only a genius
can complete this puzzle successfully. There is no guess-work
involved. The answers are obtained through sound reasoning and
from the key information supplied.
The puzzle was invented when
there were 20 shillings to the English pound.
1 rood = 1/4 acre, 1 acre = 4840 square yards, 1 mile = 1760
yards. One of the cross numbers is the same as one of the down
numbers. One number in the puzzle (relating to something quite
different) happens to be the area in roods of the rectangular
field known as Dogsmead.
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| ACROSS |
DOWN |
- Area of Dogsmead in square
yards.
- Age of farmer
Dunk's daughter Martha.
- Difference between length
and breadth (in yards) of Dogsmead.
- Number of roods in Dogsmead
times 9 DOWN.
- Year when Little Piggley
came into occupation of the Dunks.
- Farmer Dunk's
age.
- Year of birth of Mary,
Dunk's youngest.
- Perimeter (in
yards) of Dogsmead.
- Cube of Dunk's walking
speed (in Miles Per Hour).
- 15 ACROSS minus 9 DOWN.
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- Value of Dogsmead in
shillings per acre.
- Square of Mrs. Grooby's
age.
- Mary's age.
- Value of Dogsmead in
English pounds.
- Age of Dunk's
firstborn, Ed, who will be twice as old as Mary
next year.
- Square of the number of
yards which is the breadth of Dogsmead.
- Number of minutes Farmer
Dunk takes to walk 1 & 1/3 times around
Dogsmead.
- See 10 DOWN.
- 10 ACROSS times 9 DOWN.
- Sum of digits in
2nd column plus one.
- Length of tenure (in years)
of Little Piggley by the Dunks.
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