Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/349 - Releasing the Stick

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 * Releasing the Stick
 * Here is a puzzle that will often cause a good deal of bewilderment amongst your friends,
 * though it is not so generally known as it deserves to be.
 * I think it was invented by the late, the American chess and puzzle genius.


 * It is simply a loop of string passed through one end of a stick as here shown, but not long enough to pass round the other end.
 * The puzzle is to suspend it in the manner shown from the top hole of a man's coat, and then get it free again.


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