What four-digit number has Digit 1 three smaller than Digit 4, which is one more than Digit 2, which is twice Digit 3, which is one more than one third of Digit 4?
Hint
Find anagrams of the words in this order: PLEASE, TRANCE, LISTEN, WARNED, VEINED, BRUISE.
Answer
ANSWER.
Reasoning
The initial letters are RWASEN, which is an anagram of ANSWER. bruise becomes rubieswarned becomes wander (or warden)please becomes asleeplisten becomes silentveined becomes envied (or endive)trance becomes nectar
The word DEBATE can also be made, but this requires an obscure anagram.
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Puzzle 4
This BrainBashers safe has a rather unusual control panel.
In order to open the safe, you have to press every single square once only, in the correct sequence, ending on the square marked E.
Each square indicates which square to press next, for example, 2U means move up 2 squares and 3R means move right 3 squares.
Can you determine which square you must start with?
3R
4R
2R
2D
2R
4D
2D
2R
1U
1U
3D
2D
1R
2L
3D
1D
3R
1R
2L
4L
1D
1U
4R
2L
3D
2D
2L
4L
4U
1L
2D
E
2R
1D
4L
1R
1D
1R
4U
2R
3L
1D
5U
5U
2L
2R
2U
5U
2L
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the safe buttons cannot be clicked.