The sun., 1912-07-14
cover In what manner the big sweep Il
to I've brought OF.
PROBLEM no. 1sc. CHECKERS.
BY Capt Frank Roy.
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White.
White to play and win.
THOSE FAT POKER HANDS.

was in the nature, of catch. and
/ should have been solved without even
laying out the cards. yet several per-
1 sons wrote thar II was impossible under
the conditions named.
The conditions were that the four
dcuccs. four skies and three trcys were
| to be taken out Of the pack. the trey
~ spades being left In. Then seven
more spades were To he taken out. the
trey to remain, so that there should he
| only four spades available. This gave
pack NJ thirty-four cards, from which
the solver might take any twenty-five
| cards he pleased and see II he could
make five pat hands out of them.
The trap in the problem Is all this
requirement about the trey 81 spades.
| II induced many persons To lay out the
cards and worry over their arrange
! ment while the ridicuously simple
answer 20 the puzzle is that as there
are ten cards ~ three different suits
| InNailnnl. there are siN bushes IN thirty
Of the 'hirty-four cards. and therefore
hve fushcs in twenty five cards
| Up to week ago all the solutions
sent IN had hands cf four of kind
among the selections, and the Ques-
'ion was raised as to whether or not
four Of a kind is a pat hand. This is
a definition that has often hen in dis
pute. ACCoNding to Stokes Hoyle,
which has technical terms in the ap-
pcndix. pat hand at poker is one that
10 played withou. discarding any Of the
Ave cards originally dcSlt. This defni-
tion Is intended. of course. to cover Kill
ters. which are played pat as a point
NJ honor In the South. and all sorts
| nf hnH Io tSSsn s,ta ,,,t
to royal hushes.
which is to he exposed on the table.
as in these puzzles of finding five Of
them In twenty-five cards. seems to be
one in which there is no chance to
borrow card 20 make mp another
hand without destroying the value Of
the one from which II IL taken. Four
of kind Is not necessarily a pat hand.
as one of the cards can he discarded
and any old card will do in It's place.
II this is the true definition. II clearly
excludes four Of a kind from the rank
~ pat hands. because a player hold
ing four Of kind could disca-d and
draw Just as II he held a lGhtail flush
or two pairs. or three Of a~kind and a
kicker. or busted straight. open either
NJ one end or both ends or in the
middle
Tho trap that evidently caught So
tmanv on this problem was tho state.
ment that the trey Of spades must he
left In the pack. but II was not stated
tha, this card must he one Of tho
twenty Ave seiecAed for the solution
although II must be ono Of the thirty
four from which the selection is made
A number ~ solvers went To good
deal Of trouble to find hands that wouf
solve the problem In a roundabout way
showing that they quito overlooked the
lave flushes. Hero Is a good example OF
an ingenious arrancement:
Full X, n X. : =. IA, DE-
Full-D A, C. A. " 5. C. 5. u s.
| S,raight--S J. II 10. $ 2. = S. y :.
S,rairht-D X. u g. n j. n II. ..
Straicbt--C !, { 10. { .. g $. n :.
Hero is another one. in which all tn.
hands are different from those jus,
ciVn
Flush-C j. g q g s, s,C7. 7.C4
Full--C .. X O. u =. rs. s.Ds
Full \. II \. Il a. H, :.
Full-H X. II X. G Il. & s. D5
Straicht--S 4, s K, O. u J. 10
Here are the names Of those who 60
the correct solution. five hushes:
FSank Roy. W. L. Coyte, q. II. Bos
ton and George II. Bates.
Here are the names Of those who go
, solutions by an arrangement Of hand
% various classes. but not including an
four Of kind
4. !. Strasbureer. Charles y. Shuld
J ham, A. G. Kelly, Walter McMartir
George p. Glover. W. T.. BeRgs. D. +
| Bcrolzheimer. r. G, Werdann, George j
Jones. n. II. Miller. Frederick Adaml
n. ". Coleman. s S. Hart. II. T. Cope
| land, Maurice j. Hawkins, Walter I
Darkin. Sidney Goldenhurg. ]. B. Sand
ford and Thomas Elliott.