Puzzle 197
Below, you will find some eight-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Can you find the words?
-----yee
-----egy
-----igm
-----lse
-----com
-----bet
-----lel
-----dee
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Puzzle 198
Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central P and you can move one letter in any direction (including diagonally) to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?
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Puzzle 199
By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.
Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?
Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake
swap
opal
dyed
idle
snow
lump
aces
melt
spun
rant
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Puzzle 200
Start in the bottom left corner and move either up or right, one square at a time, using the numbers and the mathematical signs along the way. What is the largest total you can make?
| + | 2 | – | 4 | + | 2 |
| 2 | + | 2 | – | 2 | + |
| – | 1 | + | 3 | – | 3 |
| 2 | – | 3 | + | 1 | – |
| + | 1 | – | 3 | + | 2 |
| 3 | + | 3 | – | 2 | + |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.
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