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Subj:.....The Squarest Game On The Beach (S606)           From the book             "Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd"              Edited by Martin Gardner              From: Dover Publications in 1959 How can you score exactly fifty points? A friend and I were taking in the side shows at Coney Island the other day when we came to what the man told us was the squarest game on the beach.  There were ten little dummies which you were to knock over with baseballs.  The man said: "Take as many throws as you like at a cent apiece and stand as close as you please.  Add up the numbers on all the men that you knock down and when the sum amounts to exactly 50, neither more nor less, you get a genuine 25 cent Maggie Cline cigar with a gold band around it." Our money gave out before we learned how to win, and we noticed that lots of people didn't smoke any more Maggie Clines that we did.  Can you show how we might have made exactly 50 points?

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