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Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

213.—TURKS AND RUSSIANS.

This puzzle is on the lines of the Afridi problem published by me in Tit-Bits some years

ago.

On an open level tract of country a party of Russian infantry, no two of whom were

stationed at the same spot, were suddenly surprised by thirty-two Turks, who opened fire

on the Russians from all directions. Each of the Turks simultaneously fired a bullet, and

each bullet passed immediately over the heads of three Russian soldiers. As each of these

bullets when fired killed a different man, the puzzle is to discover what is the smallest

possible number of soldiers of which the Russian party could have consisted and what

were the casualties on each side.

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