Puzzle 17
Starting with SOFT, change one letter at a time until you have the word LENS.
Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a proper word.
What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?
SOFT
....
....
....
LENS
Puzzle 18
By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.
Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?
Therefore, what now reads 'vokahliuppw' will become a real word.
oval
post
skin
malt
when
slab
miss
fund
aped
sped
sway
Puzzle 19
At the local play group for babies and toddlers, I was asking about the number of teddies each of child had.
The four children are aged 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Remarkably, the children have one, two, three and four teddies, although not necessarily respectively.
Dale has more teddies that their age. Jesse is older than Morgan. Curiously only one child has the same number of teddies as their age. Pat has fewer teddies than Jesse and the child aged 3 has two teddies. Pat is the youngest.
Can you determine who has which teddies?
Puzzle 20
What comes next in this sequence:
dog · cat · mouse · mole · deer · pig · ?
Choose from:
llama, cow, rabbit, frog