“Tracking the Fugitives”

Puzzles Archives - Futility Closet · Sep 27, 2026

From the Strand, December 1903: These tracks were left by a man in flight leading a child. “In order to throw his pursuers off the trail the man changed his means of locomotion at each of the places marked in numbers on the diagram. The problem consists in discovering the manner of locomotion between each of these stations and the next; what vehicles the man took; what happened to him in the course of his flight; and what he did with the child at the different stages of the journey.”

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“The solution of this amusing problem is as follows: The fugitive…