Bicycle tour
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Puzzle
W. and Good Roads Association
have done so much toward bettering
the bicycle paths of the
country, it is being suggested by the
dress that something might be done
to impart an artistic finish to many
popular routes for the benefit of
those who ride by the wheel or auto.
Whether it is intended to round off
the harsh corners and convert the
straight lines into graceful curves,
or to induce the malicious fiends who
scatter tire-puncturing carpet tacks
along the paths, to throw poppy and
sunflower seeds instead, is not made
clear, but the idea is a good one, and
suggests the accompanying artistic
snap, with a pretty puzzle incidentally added.
The map shows twenty-three prominent
cities of the State of Pensylvania
connected by bicycle routes of
more or less artistic design.
The problem is a very simple one:
merely start on your summer outing
and go from Philadelphia to Erie,
passing through every one of the
cities but once and without going
over any road twice. That is all
where is to it. The cities are numbered so as to enable solvers to
describe their routes by a sequence of
figures. In this trip the usual
practice of getting there by the
"shortest route possible, etc.," will
be dispensed with. Just get there
without minding the cyclometer,
and get an answer by giving the
sequence of towns passed through.
Puzzle in short
Move from Philadelphia to Erie passing all cities but once and never travel any road more than once.
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References
- Loyd, Sam [1914]. in Loyd, Sam, Jr.: Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles Tricks and Conundrums (in English). New York: Lamb Publishing company, page 11.
