Puzzle 109
Can you complete this grid of letters?
Each line is a valid 5-letter word with its first and last letters missing.
The missing letters form a word when read downwards, and the same word appears both at the start and at the end.
What is the missing word?
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Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.
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Hint
The first missing letter is D, giving DineD.
Answer
DENTS.
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Puzzle 110
In 1978,
what happened on the 5th of June,
at 34 minutes past 12?
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Hint
How can we write this time and date?
Answer
The time and day became:
12:34 5/6/78 (in UK format)
In US format, this happened on the 6th of May.
Puzzle 111
This famous river has a number of cities along its course.
What is its name?
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Hint
The answer is right in front of you.
Answer
Mississippi.
The diagram is actually the word 'mississippi' on its side.
Puzzle 112
A parent recently arranged a children's party, and had 187 sweets to give out equally to the children.
Each child had more than one sweet, and there were more children than there were sweets per child.
How many sweets did each child end up with?
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Hint
Find two numbers that multiply to 187.
Answer
There were 17 children, with 11 sweets each.
Reasoning
If we number the clues:
each child had more than one sweet
there were more children than there were sweets per child
187 only has the factors 1, 11, 17, 187. Therefore, the only possible answers are:
1 child, with 187 sweets each, which is not allowed by (2)
11 children, with 17 sweets each, which is not allowed by (2)
17 children, with 11 sweets each (*)
187 children, with 1 sweet each, which is not allowed by (1)
Only one possible answer (*) isn't eliminated.
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