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Hint
One answer changes Warm to Worm.

Answer
WARM, WORM, WORK, CORK, COOK, COOL

or

WARM, WORM, WORD, WOOD, WOOL, COOL.

Workings

Hint
Where do the letters of STOP occur in SAFE, STAY, SOON, SKIP?

Answer
POST.

Using the first letter of the first word, the second letter of the second word, etc.

Workings

Hint
The fourth player is the key to this tricky question.

Answer
9 points.

Respectively the scores were 7, 14, 20, 30, 23, 9.

Reasoning
If we label the six players A, B, C, D, E, and F, we know that:

[1]  A + B + C + D + E + F = 103

and from the clues:

   A = B ÷ 2
   B = C – 6
   C = D x 2 ÷ 3
   E = D – A
   F = E – 14

If instead we choose E = A – D, we'd later see that we end up with a negative value for E, which isn't allowed.

Since D is the letter we're missing information for, it's best to find all of the other letters in terms of D.

These steps are left as an exercise (use C in the equation for B, etc), but the result is:

   A = ( D –  9)  ÷ 3
   B = (2D – 18)  ÷ 3
   C = (2D     )  ÷ 3
   D = (3D     )  ÷ 3
   E = (2D +  9)  ÷ 3
   F = (2D – 33)  ÷ 3

Writing it as D = 3D ÷ 3 makes it slightly clearer to see, when adding in the next step.

We can then use these in [1] to find that 12D = 360, so D = 30.

Therefore, F = 9.

Workings

Hint
You don't need to use a calculator.

Answer
Cube root of 2.

Reasoning
We could use a calculator to see that the tenth root of 10 = 1.2589 and the cube root of 2 = 1.2599.

But, if you've not got your calculator handy …

We have:

   10^1/10 or 2^1/3

Raise each to the power of 30 (since 10 x 3 = 30) to give:

   (10^1/10)³⁰ or (2^1/3)³⁰

   10^{1/10 x 30} or 2^{1/3 x 30}

   10³ or 2¹⁰

   1000 or 1024

Therefore, the cube root of 2 is larger.