Puzzle 153
The month of March in the year 1980 contained 5 Saturdays and 5 Mondays.
What day of the week was the 15th of March?
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Hint
What day of the week was the 1st?
Answer
Saturday.
Reasoning
For a 31-day month, such as March, to have 5 Saturdays and 5 Mondays the 1st must be a Saturday (and the 31st a Monday).
You can then work forwards from the 1st.
Puzzle 154
Can you guess what the following abbreviations mean
COM DRA ADV ACT SPO MUS HOR SCI
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Answer
Movie types: comedy, drama, adventure, action, sports, musicals, horror, science fiction.
Puzzle 155
What is the next letter in this sequence:
Q · E · T · U · ?
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Answer
O.
Every other letter from the top row of a standard keyboard.
Puzzle 156
My BrainBashers calculator is low on batteries again, and the following multiplication is wrong. Can you correct it?
Each of the numbers has the correct digits, but they have been mixed up.
Luckily, the solution is correct, which makes the task a little easier.
2471
3725 x
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22084429
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Hint
How can the answer end in 9?
Answer
4,217 x 5,237 = 22,084,429.
Reasoning
The only way the answer can end in 9 is if the two numbers both end in 7 (7 x 7 = 49).
The only way we can reach 22 million is if the two numbers begin with 4 and 5 respectively.
This leaves each number with just 2 options, and the answer is quickly found.
