2015 | February 8 - 14

IN THE BLEACHERS BY STEVE MOORE OUT ON A LIMB BY GARY KOPERVAS DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE ONLINE: www.nfldherald.com February 8 - 14, 2015/The Newfoundland Herald 99

WISHING WELL–––————————— EVEN TIED! Four even num- bers – 2, 4, 12 and 14 – appear in the diagram at right. Insert four more even numbers – 6, 8, 10 and 16 – in blank spaces so that three numbers on each of the four sides total exactly 28. Hint: Discover the number that belongs in the top left corner and you’ve just about solved the problem. Answer — Place 16 at top left (the only place it can function), 8 at top right, 10 at bot- tom left and 6 at bottom right. ON THE HOUSE! ––––––––––––––––––– Here is a little game that will give you a message every day. It’s a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your for- Originally, the notice (at left) is said to tune. Count the letters in your first name. If the number have appeared on the doorway of an of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is less English tavern. It beckoned passersby than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the to drop in and enjoy themselves for a upper left-hand corner and check one of your key num- while. Although written in English, it bers, left to right. Then read the message the letters required a bit of study to decode. It is under the checked figures give you. representative of an early form of secret writing – a simple portrayal of a message with purposely confused spacing. SPELLBINDER! –––––––––––––––––––––– Can you to read the message the innkeeper devised? Score 10 points for using all the letters “Here stop and spend a social hour in harmless mirth and fun. Let friendship in the word to form two complete words: reign, be just and kind, and evil speak of none.” TACITURN __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Then score two points each for all words of four letters or more found among the letters. Try to score at least 50 points. Possible twosome — ruin, tact. FUN SPOT! Colour by numbers ––––––– TEST RUN! It’s warm-up time for the ski team. Add these colours by number: 1: red; 2: light blue; 3: yellow; 4: light brown; 5: flesh tones; 6. light green; 7. purple; 8. dark blue. 100 The Newfoundland Herald/February 8 - 14, 2015

BY HENRY BOLTINOFF Find at least six differences in vision teaserdetails between the panels. Differences: 1. Yard sale sign is missing. 2. Dog’s ear is shorter. 3. Mitten is removed. 4. The sun is missing. 5. Book is missing. 6. Cap is missing. RIDDLE SEARCH: EUROPE! ––––––––––––––––– Look up, down, and diagonally, both forward and backward to find every word on the list below. Circle each one as you find it. When all the words are circled, take the unused letters and write them on the blanks below. Go from left to right and top to bottom to find the an- swer to this riddle. Why is a map of Europe like a frying pan? RIDDLE ANSWER: Miah, Grade 1, St. Edwards’s, CBS Answer — It has Greece on the bottom.__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __. ATHENS BLACK SEA BULGARIA GENOA IRELAND ITALY KIEV LYON MALTA MOSCOW NORTH SEA PARIS PRAGUE ROME SPAIN THE ALPS KNOCK KNOCK! Who’s there? Heaven! Heaven who? Heaven seen you in ages, that’s why I’m here. If you’re looking for a pen pal, would like to show us your drawings, tell us a joke or tongue twister, send your stuff to: WRITE: Kids Corner, c/o ‘The Newfoundland Herald,’ P.O. Box 2015, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5R7 or e-mail: lslaney@nfldherald.com SIT-DOWN STRIKE! TONGUE TWISTER! One of four persons reaches the Say SACK OF UNSIFTED THISTLES 5 Times Fast! empty TV chair above. February 8 - 14, 2015/The Newfoundland Herald 101 Which one is for you to decide. DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE ONLINE: www.nfldherald.com

SCENES OF NL PHOTO CONTEST! ENTER YOUR PHOTOS: [email protected] BOAT HARBOUR, NL: Boat Harbour is located on the south coast of Newfoundland on the Placentia Bay side of Burin Peninsula. (roadsidethoughts.com) — Elaine Strong Photo Newfoundlandia Photo Quiz Brigus, NL. — Bill Flaherty Q. Do you know where these pictures were taken? a: Comfort Bight b: Argentia c: Main Brook d: Quidi Vidi – Connie Duffett Photo Answer: (D) Quidi Vidi West Pond, NL. — Edith Mercer 102 The Newfoundland Herald/February 8 - 14, 2015 The Herald reserves the right to crop, republish or colour correct submitted images.

SCENES OF NL PHOTO CONTEST! St. Lawrence, NL. — Hailey Lake Aguathuna, NL. — Edward J. Duffy Renews, NL. — Mary Dunne WIN A CAMERA FROM HENRY’S PHOTO-VIDEO-DIGITAL e-mail: photodesk@nfldherald.com Capture the moments that make Newfoundland and Labrador such an exciting place and you could win a Canon Rebel with 18- 55IS DSLR Kit, Lexar 8GB SDHC Memory card and one free DSLR 101: Canon Rebel course from Henry’s School of Imaging. Enter The Scenes of NL Photo Contest LAST WEEKS’S CONTEST QUALIFIER! for your chance to win. Caribou, NL. — Brandy Barry GOT THE PICTURE? Send photos, NL lo- cations and your name to: Scenes c/o The Herald, P.O. Box 2015, St. John’s NL, A1C 5R7 or e-mail: photodesk@nfldherald.com DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE ONLINE: www.nfldherald.com February 8 - 14, 2015/The Newfoundland Herald 103

LAST LAUGH! @TheNfldHerald # facebook.com/nfldherald www.NFLDherald.com QUICK CHUCKLES What do you get from a pampered cow? Spoiled milk. What job did the frog AJOKE OF THE WEEK have at the hotel? Bellhop What do you call sad coffee? dad is putting his daughter in What do you call a man with Despresso. bed. He hears her saying her no body and just a nose? No- prayers, “God bless mommy, body nose! Why did the banana go to the daddy, and grandma. Rest in peace How do you make an Octopus Doctor? Because it was not grandpa.” laugh? With ten-tickles peeling well How do you shoot a killer The dad asks, “Why did you say bee? With a BB gun. What has one head, one foot that?” The daughter replies, “I had to.” and four legs? A bed. The next day, grandpa dies. The dad ### LOGIC BY THE BAG FULL ### thinks, “Is this just a coincidence?” Three robbers are being The officer then kicked the That night he tucked his daughter chased by police. They come third sack and nothing hap- into bed and hears her prayers again, upon three empty sacks and hid pened. He kicked it again and “Bless mommy, daddy, and rest in inside them. The officer walks still nothing happened. He peace grandma.” by and sees the sacks. He kicked kicked it for the last time and fi- the first sack and the guy in the nally the guy in the sack says, The dad thinks, “My daughter can sack says, “Wooff, wooff.” “I’m a potato. Potatoes don’t see the future!” talk.” The officer thinks it’s only a The next day, grandma dies. dog. He then kicks the second ‘FULL BELLY’ LAUGHS A week later, he is tucking his bag and the guy says, “Meow, daughter into bed again. Sure enough, meow.” The offi- As a teacher, I hear stories there is another prayer, “Bless you cer thinks from my students about things mommy, rest in peace daddy.” it’s only a going on in their family. The dad is panicking and says, “I’m cat. going to die tomorrow!” Harry’s mother was expect- Time passes and it’s now midnight. ing a baby, and he was very ex- The dad says, “How is this possible? cited about it. One day Harry I should be dead!” stopped talking about it, so I He goes home to find his wife on questioned him on why. the couch. She bursts out, “I saw the mailman die yesterday!” Harry said, “Mom told me I could feel the baby mov- ing in her stomach… I think she ate it!” 104 The Newfoundland Herald/February 8 - 14, 2015 DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE ONLINE: www.nfldherald.com