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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $197$
- A Puzzle with Cards
- Take from the pack the $13$ cards forming the suit of diamonds and arrange them in this order face downwards with the $3$ at the top and $5$ at the bottom:
- $3$, $8$, $7$, ace, queen, $6$, $4$, $2$, jack, king, $10$, $9$, $5$.
- Now play them out in a row on the table in this way.
- As you spell "ace" transfer for each letter a card from the top to the bottom of the pack -- A-C-E -- and play the fourth card on to the table.
- Then spell T-W-O, while transferring three more cards to the bottom, and place the next card on the table.
- Then spell T-H-R-E-E, while transferring five to the bottom, and so on until all are laid out in a row,
- and you will find that they will be all in regular order.
- Of course, you will spell out the knave as J-A-C-K.
- Can you arrange the whole pack so that they will play out correctly in order,
- first all the diamonds, then the hearts, then the spades, and lastly the clubs?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Problems Concerning Games: $197$. -- A Puzzle with Cards
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Unclassified Puzzles: $511$. A Puzzle with Cards