Puzzle 1
Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central P and you can move one letter in any direction (including diagonally) to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?
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Hint
Each of the letters surrounding the central P becomes the second letter of a word.
Answer
Pancake, physics, pinball, plaster, popular, premium, psychic, pyramid.
Puzzle 2
Each of these words can have the same letter placed at the beginning and the end to form a new (common) word.
For example, -LIT- becomes ELITE by adding an E at both ends.
What are the new words?
-eve-
-able-
-carve-
-as-
-on-
-ode-
-elude-
-ape-
-ate-
-rod-
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Hint
One of the words starts and ends with T.
Answers
eve = level
able = tablet
carve = scarves
as = ease, hash, sass
on = gong, sons
ode = codec, modem
elude = deluded
ape = lapel
ate = dated, rater
rod = erode
Puzzle 3
What comes next in this sequence:
fawn bear lion mole {?}
Choose from:
seal, duck, stag, vole, wolf
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Don't look at the first letters.
Answer
Duck.
The second letters of each word are the vowels in alphabetical order, fAwn, bEar, lIon, mOle, dUck.
Puzzle 4
Which are there more of…
…square feet in half a square mile or cubic yards in a cubic furlong?
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Hint
There are 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile, and 8 furlongs in a mile.
Answer
Square feet in half a square mile.
Reasoning
There are 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile, and 8 furlongs in a mile.
A mile is 1760 x 3 = 5280 feet in a mile.
A square mile is 5280 x 5280 = 27878400 square feet.
Therefore, half a square mile = 13,939,200 square feet.
A furlong is 1760 ÷ 8 = 220 yards.
Therefore, a cubic furlong is 220 x 220 x 220 = 10,648,000 cubic yards.
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