For the Amusement of the Young — Puzzles and Competitions

Edma Shakhashiri and Nuzha Marwa

You will find the names of ten girls, and you are asked to distribute them over the squares just as the name "Anisa" has been distributed. You will notice that you have already solved a competition like this one, under the title "The Crossword of Columbus's Voyage," in last June's issue.

The girls' names: Afaf, Aniya, Rayya, Suad, Muna, Farida, Hala, Lama, Najad, Raad.

[6] The Fruit-Names Puzzle

Take a sheet of paper and draw upon it, as you see here, these two columns of rectangles. Copy the word-syllables just as they stand in the first column, then search out the other syllable that matches each one and write it opposite it, and you will obtain the names of some fruits that

you love.

Column 1: in-, mish-, mu-, bat-, bu-, khu-, -tqal, aki- Column 2: -z, -ikh, -b, -kh, -t, -dunya, -tqal, -mish

For the Amusement of the Young

[7] The Animal-Names Puzzle

And here draw two more columns and solve this puzzle as you solved the one before, and you will obtain the names of some animals that you know.

Column 1: ka-, a-, hi-, ja-, zara-, hisa-, sul-, qir-

Column 2: -rra, -mal, -fa, -b, -sad, -d, -n, -hfa

Edma Shakhashiri and Nuzha Marwa — Committee for the Amusement of the Young, the Lebanese Society for Public Health