Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/25 - A Dreamland Clock
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $25$
- A Dreamland Clock
- In a dream, I was travelling in a country where they had strange ways of doing things.
- One little incident was fresh in my memory when I awakened.
- I saw a clock and announced the time as it appeared to be indicated.
- but my guide corrected me.
- He said, "You are apparently not aware that the minute hand always moves in the opposite direction to the hour hand.
- Except for this improvement, our clocks are precisely the same as those you have been accustomed to."
- Now, as the hands were exactly together between the hours of $4$ and $5$ o'clock,
- and they started together at noon,
- what was the real time?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Clock Puzzles: $25$. -- A Dreamland Clock
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Clock Puzzles: $46$. A Dreamland Clock