perplexity
"It thrills a woman to play chess, I always maintain."
"I'll nail a horn to your skull if you talk like that. Anyway it's not anagrams this week, and I can prove to you bridge is twice the game that chess is. Here's the sum:
CHESS+CHESS = BRIDGE
"Now if each distinct letter represents a different digit, what I want to know is: what is the value of DICE?"
A Chambers Encyclopaedic Dictionary awaits the first correct answer opened on 11 August. Entries to: Saturday Pastimes, The Independent, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL.
Last week's answers: Serious Fraud Office (Fire us cad offers IOU), British Telecom (he tries to climb), Rapid Reaction Force (Fornicator a creep I'd). Winner: Janet Lennard (Romford).
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