Can you solve these three rebus puzzles? The numbers in the brackets indicate how many letters are in each word of the answer.
1. (3, 4, 2, 2, 4)
2. (5, 2, 6)
3. (2, 6, 3)
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Clue:
The first letters of each word in the answer are:
1. F, O, I, M, L
2. S, U, C
3. A, I, J
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Answer:
1. For once in my life (four 1s inside ‘my life’)
2. Stand up comedy (stand up comma d)
3. An inside job
What unique trait do the following words have in common? When you have worked out the correct answer, you will be in no doubt that you are correct.
PAWS, THRONE, TANG, LEAF, EMITTER
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Clue: You need to anagram each word.
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Answer: All the words are anagrams of insects.
PAWS = WASP
THRONE = HORNET
TANG = GNAT
LEAF = FLEA
EMITTER = TERMITE
Today’s puzzle is white to move and mate in two. Can you solve it?
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Clue: Both of white’s moves involve their rook being moved.
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Answer:
1. Rb3, Ka5
2. Ra3#
In other words, white needs to move their rook to b3. This will block black’s pawn from moving, ensuring that black’s only valid move is king to a5. White can then move their rook to a3, and it’s checkmate.
How many of the below letter puzzles can you solve? There are multiple valid answers for each question.
1. Name a word that contains six i’s.
2. Name a word that contains four u’s.
3. Name a nine-letter word that contains two pairs of double o’s.
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Clue: The answers begin…
1. In…
2. Tu… and Un…
3. Foo…
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Answers:
1. Indivisibility, invisibilities and ineligibilities.
2. Tumultuous and unscrupulous
3. Foolproof and footstool. Brett has found two additional words: Boohooing and poolrooms. @cvwillegen has also found voodooism and cookbooks.
I have 47 post-it notes that are consecutively numbered from 1 to 47. I have placed them in a row in ascending order: 1, 2, 3,….45, 46, 47. Your challenge is to rearrange these notes so that for any two given numbers, their arithmetic mean doesn’t lie between them. In other words, number 8 cannot lie between 1 and 15.
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Clue: Focus on odd vs even numbers.
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Answer: There are many possible answers to this puzzle. The trick to this question is to determine that all 24 odd numbers must be grouped, while all 23 even numbers must also be grouped.
One such answers appears below:
9, 1, 41, 25, 33, 17, 21, 5, 13, 37, 45, 29, 43, 11, 3, 27, 35, 19, 31, 47, 15, 23, 7, 39, 10, 2, 42, 26, 34, 18, 22, 6, 14, 38, 46, 30, 44, 12, 4, 28, 36, 20, 32, 16, 24, 8, 40
Can you solve these three rebus puzzles? The numbers in the brackets indicate how many letters are in each word of the answer.
2. (4, 2, 5)
3. (6, 5)
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Clues: The first letter of each word of each answer appears below:
1. T, M, O, N
2. M, I, C
3. E, T
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Answers:
All Ten is a maths game in which you must use the four numbers exactly once to make 1 through to 10. You are permitted to use all four basic operations as well as brackets. You are also permitted to form fractions and negatives throughout your expression. Furthermore, you can turn any expression into a new combination by pressing equals. You are also permitted to join numbers together, so in the above example, you could form the number 34.
Below is an example of how to form each of the numbers 1 through to 10 using the basic digits 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Your All Ten stats are recorded and these include daily streaks and how many times you have managed to obtain a perfect 10/10 score. There is a new All Ten to solve every day. Can you solve today’s? Play here: https://beastacademy.com/all-ten
A few days ago, I posted two number sequences. Today, there are two letter sequences. Can you solve both of them?
1. What comes next in the below sequence?
NE, US, RN, ER, RS, TH, US, __
2. What two letters are missing from the below sequence?
WT, TO, LS, AE, MG, FM, ??, BW, SE
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Clues:
1. This sequence consists of the last two letters of words.
2. Read the question carefully.
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Answers:
1. RY
The sequence consists of the last two letters of each of the eight planets, from farthest to closest to the Sun. The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury, hence the answer is RY.
2. TE
Each two-letter term in the sequence is constructed from the first and last letter of each word in the question. The missing letters are TE, which are the first and last letters from ‘THE’.
Alice, Belinda and Chris each have a two digit number of lollies.
How many lollies do each of Alice, Belinda and Chris possess?
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Clue: Alice and Chris each have between 80 and 90 lollies. Belinda has between 91 and 99 lollies.
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Answer: Alice has 85 lollies, Belinda has 98 lollies and Chris has 89 lollies.
There are two well-known elements whose names can be spelled using three different chemical symbols from the Periodic table. One of these elements is silver: Si (silicon) + Lv (livermorium) + Er (erbium). What is the other element?
Note: self-referential names are not permitted; so you can’t go neon: Ne (neon) + O (oxygen) + N (nitrogen).
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Clue: You are after an element that appears in the first 30 elements on the Periodic table.
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Answer: Iron.
Iron can be spelled using Ir (iridium) + O (oxygen) + N (nitrogen).
If self-referential names were permitted, then Neon = Ne (Neon) + O (Oxygen) + N (Nitrogen), and Xenon = Xe (Xenon) + No (Nobelium) + N (Nitrogen).
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