Puzzle 17
Can you decode this well-known saying:
V CCVCCC VC CVCV CVCVC CVCV
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V represents a vowel (AEIOU).
Answer
A stitch in time saves nine.
Each vowel (AEIOU) is represented by the letter V and each consonant is represented by C.
Puzzle 18
What are the next two numbers in this sequence:
14 · 91 · 62 · 53 · 64 · 96 · ? · ?
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Try removing the spaces between the numbers.
Answer
48 and 11.
Reasoning
These are the squares of numbers without the correct spacing.
1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100
with no spaces becomes:
149162536496481100
broken into blocks of two:
14 91 62 53 64 96 48 11 00
So the next two in the sequence are 48 and 11.
Puzzle 19
If a farmer buys chicken feed for 57c per tonne, pig feed for $1.52 per tonne and cattle feed for 43c per tonne. The feed can only be purchased by the tonne, and part tonnes aren't sold.
How much of each would he have if they had 100 tonnes for $100?
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Answer
49 tonnes of chicken feed, 46 tonnes of pig feed and 5 tonnes of cattle feed.
Puzzle 20
A 'complete' word is a word in which every letter, in turn, can be replaced by another to form a new word.
For example, RUG is a complete word because:
-ug = hug
r-g = rig
ru- = run
How many of the following words are not complete words? Proper nouns and names are not allowed.
team
cost
flew
ward
fail
rook
soft
most
lamp
load
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Hint
Another example, PEN is a complete word because:
-en = ten
p-n = pin
pe- = pea
Answer
Three of the words are not complete: flew, rook, lamp.
Reasoning
The remaining 7 words can be changed as follows:
team:
-eam = beam
t-am = tram
te-m = term
tea- = tear
cost:
-ost = host
c-st = cast
co-t = coat
cos- = cosy
flew:
-lew = blew
f-ew = ---- X
fl-w = flow
fle- = flex
ward:
-ard = card
w-rd = word
wa-d = wand
war- = warm
fail:
-ail = nail
f-il = foil
fa-l = fall
fai- = fair
rook:
-ook = book
r-ok = ---- X
ro-k = rock
roo- = roof
soft:
-oft = loft
s-ft = sift
so-t = sort
sof- = sofa
most:
-ost = cost
m-st = mast
mo-t = moat
mos- = moss
lamp:
-amp = damp
l-mp = lump
la-p = ---- X
lam- = lamb
Note that LARP is an uppercase acronym, and not in any of my word lists.
load:
-oad = road
l-ad = lead
lo-d = loud
loa- = loaf
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