Puzzle 5
Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26.
Can you find any common 6-letter words that have a total over 115?
For example, WIZARD = 23 + 9 + 26 + 1 + 18 + 4 = 81.
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Hint
There are many answers, however, Z doesn't appear very often.
Answers
Choose from: luxury, struts, stylus, syrupy, trusts, twisty.
Other less common words include: scuzzy, syrups, syzygy, trouty, trusty, tryout, trysts.
Puzzle 6
Without using any reference material can you find the hidden countries?
In each case, the letter indicates the first letter of the country in question, the number represents the number of letters in the country.
For example, E7 would be England.
B10 E5 F4 F7 J5 L13 N9 S11 T7 Z6
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Hint
The first country is Bangladesh.
Answer
Bangladesh, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Nicaragua, Switzerland, Tunisia, Zambia.
Puzzle 7
Can you highlight exactly three numbers that add to 19?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.
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Hint
You have to highlight three numbers.
Answer
6 + 1 + 12 = 19.
The puzzle didn't ask for three digits to be highlighted!
Puzzle 8
Which is larger:
seconds in a week
feet in 100 miles
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Hint
There are three feet in a yard, and 1,760 yards in a mile.
Answer
Seconds in a week.
Reasoning
There are 60 x 60 x 24 x 7 = 604,800 seconds in a week.
There are 3 x 1760 x 100 = 528,000 feet in 100 miles.
