Puzzle 197
Disastrous Dave was washing windows on a multi-storey office building when he took a fall off a fifty foot ladder, directly onto the concrete pavement below.
Amazingly, Dave didn't get hurt at all.
How can this be possible?
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Where was Dave standing when he fell?
Answer
Dave fell off the very bottom rung of the ladder!
Puzzle 198
Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, that complete this sentence:
While captive in the ? , James ? an entire book.
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One word starts with T and the other with W.
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Tower and wrote.
While captive in the tower, James wrote an entire book.
Puzzle 199
Can you find three consecutive prime numbers …
… that equal 409,457 when multiplied together?
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The cube root of the given number is a good starting point.
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71, 73, 79.
Reasoning
The cube root of 409,457 is around 74.
The closest consecutive prime numbers to 74 are: 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97.
Using a calculator, it is quickly seen that the answer can only be found using 71, 73 and 79.
Puzzle 200
What do you get if …
… you add 2 to 200 four times?
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Try it once, and then try it again.
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You get 202 each time!
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