Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/348 - Blowing Out the Candle

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $348$

Blowing Out the Candle

Candles were lighted on Colonel Crackham's breakfast-table one foggy morning.

When the fog lifted, the Colonel rolled a sheet of paper into the form of a hollow cone, like a megaphone.

He then challenged his young friends to use it in blowing out the candles.

They failed, until he showed them the trick.

Of course, you blow through the small end.

Sources

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