Puzzle 109
Which is larger, the number of seconds in a day or …
… the number of hours in 10 years?
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Hint
Do leap years make a difference?
Answer
Hours in 10 years.
Reasoning
In a day, there are 60 x 60 x 24 seconds = 86,400 seconds.
In 10 years, there are 10 x 365 x 24 hours = 87,600 hours, which even without the leap years is already the larger number.
Puzzle 110
What well-known saying has been altered below:
lla doog shingt eomc ot ehost ohw taiw
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Hint
There are no missing letters.
Answer
All good things come to those who wait.
The first and last letters of each word have been exchanged.
Puzzle 111
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.
I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia 500 miles
Peru 8,000 miles
India 4,500 miles
Scotland 9,500 miles
France ? miles
Can you work out the distance to France?
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Only the first letter is important.
Answer
3,000 miles.
Take the alphabetic position of the first letter, halve, and then multiply by 1000.
You could also multiply by 500 instead.
Double-Checking
F is the 6th letter of the alphabet, halving gives 3, multiplying by 1000 gives 6000.
Puzzle 112
What letter comes next in this sequence:
Y Y H L Y E Y T ?
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This is a well-known sequence.
Answer
R.
The last letter of September.
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