Puzzle 13
Below are safari animals, however, each letter has been replaced by its position in the alphabet, but the spaces between the resulting numbers have been removed.
For example, DOG = 4 15 7 = 4157.
What are the safari animals?
18891415
3181531549125
79181665
38552018
12515161184
89161615
512516811420
2216611215
1291514
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The first letters of the words are: R, C, G, C, L, H, E, B, L.
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18 8 9 14 15 = rhino
3 18 15 3 15 4 9 12 5 = crocodile
7 9 18 1 6 6 5 = giraffe
3 8 5 5 20 1 8 = cheetah
12 5 15 16 1 18 4 = leopard
8 9 16 16 15 = hippo
5 12 5 16 8 1 14 20 = elephant
2 21 6 6 1 12 15 = buffalo
12 9 15 14 = lion
Puzzle 14
Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, which complete this sentence:
Due to a recent outbreak of a ? infection in the zebra house, the local animal sanctuary had to ? their electron microscope correctly, to ensure rapid detection.
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One word begins with the letter B, and the other begins with the letter C.
Answer
Bacterial and calibrate.
Puzzle 15
What comes next in this sequence:
dog · goat · tarantula · aardvark · koala · ?
Choose from:
cat, mouse, antelope, elephant, frog
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Look at the first and last letters.
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Antelope.
Each word starts with the last letter of the previous word.
Puzzle 16
What number comes next in this sequence:
1 · 4 · 1 · 5 · 9 · 2 · ?
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The full sequence starts with 3.
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6.
These are the decimal places of π ≈ 3.1415926.
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