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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $343$
- Tom Tiddler's Ground
- I am on Tom Tiddler's ground picking up gold and silver.
- Here we have a piece of land marked off with $36$ circular plots,
- on each of which is deposited a bag containing as many sovereigns as the figures indicate in the diagram.
- I am allowed to pick up as many bags of gold as I like,
- provided I do not take two lying on the same line.
- What is the greatest amount of money I can secure?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Unclassified Problems: $343$. -- Tom Tiddler's Ground
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Combinatorial & Topological Problems: Miscellaneous Combinatorial Puzzles: $469$. Tom Tiddler's Ground