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The Canterbury Puzzles

by Henry Ernest Dudeney

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70 Romeo and Juliet

This is rather a difficult puzzle, though, as the Professor remarked when Hawkhurst hit on the solution, it is “just one of those puzzles that a person might solve at a glance” by pure luck. Yet when the solution, with its pretty, symmetrical arrangement, is seen, it looks ridiculously simple.

It will be found that Romeo reaches Juliet’s balcony after visiting every house once and only once, and making fourteen turnings, not counting the turn he makes at starting. These are the fewest turnings possible, and the problem can only be solved by the route shown or its reversal.

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