Puzzle 17
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Hint
The puzzle contains the question.
Answer
26.
Reasoning
The puzzle reads 'how many letters in this puzzle'.
The puzzle's letters alternate between the top and bottom lines.
Puzzle 18
Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
a-a-e
--ave
-uie-
--gon
p--ot
vi-e-
-ac-t
--met
b--ep
-u-ge
-lan-
-ra-e
bon--
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Hint
The 2nd word begins with the letter B.
Answers
a-a-e = amaze (MZ)
--ave = brave (BR)
-uie- = quiet (QT)
--gon = wagon (WA)
p--ot = pivot (IV)
vi-e- = vixen (XN)
-ac-t = yacht (YH)
--met = comet (CO)
b--ep = bleep (LE)
-u-ge = judge (JD)
-lan- = flank (FK)
-ra-e = grape (GP)
bon-- = bonus (US)
This puzzle isn't guaranteed to have a unique answer, can you find another?
Puzzle 19
Bungled Heist all logic puzzles
After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.
Eventually, the police managed to get a confession.
Below is a summary of their statements, and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.
Would you make a good detective? Can you work out who committed the crime?
Alex said:
It wasn't Brook
It was Charlie
Brook said:
It wasn't Alex
It was Dale
Charlie said:
It wasn't Dale
It wasn't Brook
Dale said:
It wasn't Emery
It was Alex
Emery said:
It wasn't Charlie
It was Dale
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Hint
How many statements would be true if the culprit was Alex?
Answer
Emery committed the crime.
Reasoning
If we assume that Alex was the culprit, we can see that there would be 6 true statements, but we know there were exactly 5 true statements, so it can't be Alex.
We can repeat this will all five suspects and quickly see that only Emery being the culprit would result in exactly 5 statements being true.
Puzzle 20
In this long division, each number has been replaced by another. The answer has also been removed. Can you determine the answer?
....
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75 | 796767
791
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57
30
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86
82
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47
47
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9
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Answer
6423 = 109,191 ÷ 17.
The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 have been replaced by 7, 1, 8, 2, 4, 3, 5, 0, 6, 9 respectively.
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