Subj:.....The
Quarrelsome Neighbors (S616)
From the book
"Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd"
Edited by Martin Gardner
From: Dover Publications in 1959
Can you draw the three
paths correctly?
This odd little puzzle
was one of my earliest productions,
published more than
half a century ago. Reproducted above
is the original drawing
which I made when a lad of nine.
It is told that three
neighbors who shared a small park, as
shown in the sketch,
had a falling out. The owner of the
large house, complaining
that his neighbor's chickens
annoyed him, built
an enclosed pathway from his door to the
gate at the bottom
of the picture. Then the man on the
right built a path
to the gate on the left, and the man on
the left built a
path to the gate on the right.
None of the paths
crossed. Can you draw the three paths
correctly? |