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“The Scissors Entangled”: Solution

Posted in Puzzles by Greg Ross on September 9th, 2008

Solution to The Scissors Entangled, from Monday:

"The scissors may be released by drawing the noose upwards through the eye of the scissors, and passing it completely over them."

From Dick & Fitzgerald, The Book of 500 Curious Puzzles, 1859.