Puzzle 5
What proverb is hidden below?
Llamas often overlook khaki bagels. Every furry orangutan relishes eating yummy orange umbrellas. Leopards enjoy aquamarine parsnips.
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Hint
The first word begins with L.
Answer
Look before you leap.
Using the initial letters of each word.
Puzzle 6
Exactly how many minutes is it before eight o'clock if …
… 40 minutes ago, it was three times as many minutes past four o'clock?
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How many minutes are between the times?
Answer
50 minutes.
Reasoning
If we call the number of unknown minutes T.
Between four o'clock and eight o'clock, there are 240 minutes.
There is some point between these two times, before which we have 3 lots of T, and after which we have one lot of T plus 40 minutes.
Therefore, in the 240 minutes, there are 4 lots of T plus 40 minutes.
240 = 4 x T + 40.
Therefore, T = 50 minutes.
Puzzle 7
What well known saying is this:
lla ta devol evah ot reven naht tsol dna devol evah ot retteb sit
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Try reading the words in a different way.
Answer
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
This is a quote by Alfred Tennyson, and is written backwards.
Puzzle 8
Can you unscramble the following anagrams to find ten well known seasonal words:
aanst, beeehhlmt, eeilmostt, hlloy, cgiknost, adentv, dhlopru, ejssu, amnnosw, aiinttvy
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Hint
The first letters of the words are: S, B, M, H, S, A, R, J, S, N.
Answer
Santa, Bethlehem, mistletoe, holly, stocking, advent, Rudolph, Jesus, snowman, nativity.
