Puzzle 6
How many common five-letter words can you make from the following letters, using all the letters in each word?
AELST
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Hint
There are quite a few anagrams, one of which is LEAST.
Answer
Least, slate, stale, steal, tales, teals.
Remember that the question asked for common words.
Puzzle 7
Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.
You will now have 5 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of an animal.
What are the 5 animals?
soot tent
most then
much tire
area mare
leap pink
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Try: soot + tire, most + mare, much + pink.
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soot + tire = tortoise
most + mare = marmoset
much + pink = chipmunk
area + tent = anteater
leap + then = elephant
Puzzle 8
Which pair of letters comes next in this sequence:
on · et · wo · th · re · ef · ou · ?
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Try removing the spaces.
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rf.
This sequence spells out the numbers onetwothreefourfive etc.