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.