Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-08 | Page 5 | Puzzle of the Poor Men

puzzle of the poor men here Is an amusing puzzle which looks awfully easy after it Is solved once upon a time four poor men settled around the banks of a very small but very beautiful lake the white squares represent their four houses as shown in figure 1 now it seems that coir men coveted the lake they tried to buy the four poor men out at first but these people refused to sell then the r ch men knowing just bow much land each of the poor men owned which was hard ly more than that covered by the poor men s houses bought ever foot of A sj i the property around the lake and around each poor man s land after which the rich men erected a ducal pile as shown by the black squares in figure 2 then the rich men being stronger and more influential than their poor neighbors decided to exclude them entirely from the use ot the 1 do tats they had to build a high stone wall what shape was the wall before looking at figure 3 which Is the solution see if QU can trace the correct shape of this very peculiar wall on figure 2