Puzzle 197
What word comes next in this sequence:
penguin · umbrella · zebra · zip · llama · egg · ?
Choose from:
salt, pen, ark, glass
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Hint
It's nothing to do with the word lengths, or vowels (AEIOU).
Answer
Salt.
The initial letters of the words are spelling the word 'PUZZLES'.
Puzzle 198
What comes next in this sequence:
dog · goat · tarantula · aardvark · koala · ?
Choose from:
cat, mouse, antelope, elephant, frog
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Look at the first and last letters.
Answer
Antelope.
Each word starts with the last letter of the previous word.
Puzzle 199
At the local play group for babies and toddlers, I was asking about the number of teddies each of child had.
The four children are aged 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Remarkably, the children have one, two, three and four teddies, although not necessarily respectively.
Dale has more teddies that their age. Jesse is older than Morgan. Curiously only one child has the same number of teddies as their age. Pat has fewer teddies than Jesse and the child aged 3 has two teddies. Pat is the youngest.
Can you determine who has which teddies?
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Jesse is the oldest.
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Morgan is 3 and has two teddies.
Pat is 1 and has one teddy.
Jesse is 4 and has three teddies.
Dale is 2 and has four teddies.
Puzzle 200
If 7 ingots of IRON weigh 112 tonnes, 4 ingots of COBALT weigh 104 tonnes and 3 ingots of GOLD weigh 54 tonnes.
How heavy are 5 ingots of TIN?
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Start by looking at the consonants and vowels (AEIOU).
Answer
65 tonnes.
Reasoning
Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 3 and consonants are worth 5, added together and then multiplied by the number of ingots.
IRON = V + C + V + C = 3 + 5 + 3 + 5 = 16, and 7 of these = 7 x 16 = 112 tonnes.
COBALT = C + V + C + V + C + C = 5 + 3 + 5 + 3 + 5 + 5 = 26, and 4 of these = 4 x 16 = 104 tonnes.
GOLD = C + V + C + C = 5 + 3 + 5 + 5 = 18, and 3 of these = 3 x 54 tonnes.
TIN = C + V + C = 5 + 3 + 5 = 13, and 5 of these = 5 x 13 = 65 tonnes.
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