Puzzle 17
Can you find the number that best completes this puzzle?
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Hint
The answer involves a square root.
Answer
4.
The middle of each triangle contains the square root of the sum of the three surrounding numbers.
Puzzle 18
In the local wood there are a number of trees. On these trees there are a number of birds.
A local bird spotter knows that there are as many birds on each tree as there are trees in the wood, and that there are between 2,000 and 2,100 birds in total.
How many trees are there in the wood?
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Hint
The answer involves a square number.
Answer
45 trees.
Reasoning
We are after a number whose square lies between 2,000 and 2,100.
45 is the only possible number.
Puzzle 19
The same three-letter word has been removed from all of these words, leaving the letters below (which are still in the correct order).
What was the three-letter word?
loe
ch
she
er
vae
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Hint
The missing word is in these locations: lo---e, ---ch, s---he, ---er, va---e.
Answer
Cat.
loe = locat e
ch = cat ch
she = scat he
er = cat er
vae = vacat e
Puzzle 20
Can you find a word starting with BR …
… that with the addition of the letter E becomes another word that sounds the same as the first?
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There are at least two different answers.
Answer
BRAKING becomes BREAKING
or
BROWS becomes BROWSE
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