By Muriel Bristol (Transcriber) | November 13, 2018
J.O. Porter, Jr., was son of Milton ice industry magnate J.O. Porter. The younger Porter posed the following problem to the Puzzle Problems column of the Boston Globe in December 1901:
I have been reading your puzzle column and am very much interested therein, and now send one that I think will interest your readers.
If a bottle and its cork cost $1.10 and the bottle cost $1 more than the cork, how much did the cork cost?
J.O. Porter, Jr., Marblehead (Boston Globe, December 19, 1901).
The Porters may have been preparing for their next Milton ice harvest when the younger Porter sent in this relatively simple problem.
[Answer to Puzzle #10 to follow in the next Puzzle]
Solution to Puzzle #9: Puzzle #9: How Did They Get There?
The coal, carrot, and scarf came from a snowman. “Nobody put them on the lawn” because they placed them on the snowman. When the snowman melted, they fell to the lawn.
Yes, yes, this one was much too easy. Commenters thought I might not be well. Philo Beddo got there within minutes, with several others following shortly thereafter.
If you have a nice logic puzzle, situated somewhere between those intended for schoolchildren (like this one evidently was) and those intended for MIT physicists (with charts, diagrams, and calculus), drop it in a comment.
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