Hint
Something's wrong with the letter O, and the word 'oifoeront' is important to the answer.
Answer
15 different letters: acdefhilmrstvwy.
Reasoning
The sentences should read:
As you can see, my printer replaces every third letter with the letter 'o'.
How many different letters have been replaced?
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Puzzle 58
Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine what the 10 words are?
ent sen oom ush ile cro
cla rbr ise lis ssr lig
hai mar htn age ess new
sag clo gar ion ing oth
enc ine col our erw cod
Hints
The first letters of the words are: N, C, C, C, E, H, O, C, L, M.
Answers
new + sag + ent = newsagent
cro + cod + ile = crocodile
col + lis + ion = collision
cla + ssr + oom = classroom
enc + our + age = encourage
hai + rbr + ush = hairbrush
oth + erw + ise = otherwise
clo + sen + ess = closeness
lig + htn + ing = lightning
mar + gar + ine = margarine
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Puzzle 59
Recently Kevin had a party and because it was his birthday he wanted a mathematical cake!
He ordered a cake in the shape of a cube and had it completely iced (but of course the shop didn't ice the underneath because that just isn't very sensible).
He cut every side of the cake into three equal pieces, giving 27 slices of cake.
He ended up eating all of the pieces of cake that had exactly 2 sides with icing.
So, how many pieces did that leave for the guests?
