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46 - THREE IN ONE
Using the nine letters spelling the names of three creatures above rearrange them to form a totally different creature's name. All the NINE letters and no more must be used.
47 - WORD SQUARE
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This is a Magic Word Square, that is the seven words spell the same across as well as down. Note that the square is divided into numbered sectors corresponding to the letters of the same number. So go ahead and insert the letters in the respective sectors. |
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48 - OBSERVATION QUIZ
Do you believe you are an observant person? Here is chance to gauge your power of observation and know where you stand. All that is required of you is to go through the five words in each set that follows and single out the intruder, that. is, the word that for some reason or other does not belong to the group. For; instance, AUSTRIA, the only not'behind-the-Iron-Curtin ' country in the first set is the intruder. Can youu spot the rest?
1. Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Austria
2. madam, deified, reviver, cotton, radar
3. pearl, heart, chart, weary, beard
4. 12345, 23456, 24690, 37035, 49380
5. nectar, canter, carter, trance, recant
6. 127, 137, 147, 157, 167
7. carbuncle, smother, haunt, apparent, menace
8. egnaro, hcaep, eparg, erapg, ognam
9. vivid, civil, limit, livid, mimic
10. alluvial, enliven, mahatma, refer, amalgam
49 - HALF AND HALF
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Substitute digits for letters in the simple addition sum above and prove that two halves make a whole.... Since there is more than one solution, discover the highest possible "whole"
50 - SLIDING ASSES
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STAR, SANTA, SPACE, MOSS, AIMS, SPOUT, RAND, GLASS, ASSES, CRAM, ALIAS, STAN, PALE, SAILS |
51 - CAR NUMBER AND AGES
When Professor Odd moved to Puzzleland to teach mathematics at a college there, his car number, in accordance with the custom current in his country of adoption, was translated into letters as' can be seen from the plate above. Having given that twice SW is equal to XS, and that S + W + S + X = 24, it is possible to discover the origina1 car number which represents the product of the professor's age in years, that of his only son and those of his two daughters. How old is the professor?
52 - BIRTHDAY PARTY PROBLEM
Farmer Jones decided to celebrate his 50th birthday in a big way. "Go to town" he ordered his son, handing him ten dollars "and spend all the lot — not a cent more nor a cent less — on fifty bottles .... champagne at 50 ¢ per bottle, marsala at 12.5¢, and common table wine at 2.5¢. As long as you bring back 50 bottles, and at least one of each kind, I shall be satisfied." The youth, whe preferred marsala to any other type of wine, accomplished his mission to everyone's satisfaction, but mostly to his own. How were the bottles he brought back assorted?
53 - MAGIC DIAMOND
X 0 X
X O X O X
X 0 X 0 X 0 X
X 0 X X 0
X 0 0
X
Build a magic diamond (with the corresponding words "across" and "down" reading the same) by translating the O's into vowels and.. the X's into consonants. Only the letters in the word CORNETS are to be used. E's being commoner than O's and T's being commoner than S's. The letter R should be used as often as the letter N.
"... And don't forget to ring me up often," added Uncle Timothy as a kind of postscript before taking leave.
54 - TELEPHONE TANGLE
"What is your telephone number?" inquired his nephews in unison.
"Well when my telephone number is inverted," explained "' the old man, "and the number thus obtained is subtracted from the actual number, the result is 17622."
Can you figure it out?
The three missing letters in each of the following pairs of six-letter words are the same and spell a three letter word. Thus, the word MAN would complete the first pair of words. Can you supply the remaining missing links?
| 1. SEAS ... | ...AGE | 2. TEN ... | ... ATE |
| 3. ERR ... | ... HEM | 4. CAR ... | ... TEN |
| 5. CAN ... | ... DID | 6. DIP ... | ... USE |
| 7. SON ... | ... HER | 8. CON ... | ... LED |
| 9. TOR ... | ... DEN | 10. POT ... | ... ORE |
Beginning with the single letter word at the top of the pyramid, move downwards, adding a new letter at each successive step, followed by a rearrangement of the letters, making a new word at each step till you reach the word CERTAIN. When you have reached that word, the task of finishing the whole pyramid should be a breeze. The figures 1 to 10 replace the letters spelling the base word. |
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When nothing better is available, fish and
chips make appetizing fare. Here is food for thought in a different flavour: it is a letter addition sum in which each letter stands for a particular figure. If R = 7, can you substitute figures for the letters to make the workings come out correctly.
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F I S H C H I P S S U P P E R |
Add one letter to each word below and re-arrange the letters to form the name of a country. Can you spot them all in five minutes?
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Here are the middles of five 9-letter words. Reconstruct the words by adding the same two letters, in the same order, for both head and tail.
. . T R O N O . .
. . C A P T U . .
. . E L A N D . .
. . A R T A C . .
Only three letters, K, L, M, the arithmetical operation on the left. If you have nothing easier to keep you absorbed, feel free to try substituting figures for the letters to make this work out correctly.
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K L M -M L K K) M K L L L |
| Forty matches are arranged to form a big square with other smaller squares forming part Of the whole structure. Altogether. there are 30 different squares of four sizes. Can you remove the smallest number of matches and leave only fifteen different squares in all? |
Reconstruct a word square (with the corresponding words reading the same across and down) by adding a four-letter word to each of the six skeleton
words printed horizontally. Here (not in order) are the clues to the six four-letter words required:
All men in a certain fishing village in Japan are engaged in pearl diving. One fifth of them have one leg, one-fourth of the remainder have lost both legs, while the rest are absolutely normal. Altogether 144 legs are missing. How many pearl divers are there? 
Each of the cubes in the diagram has six letters painted on the faces - one on each - the six letters spelling the name of a European Capital city. With the help of the visible letters try to identify the three capitals. Inserting the hidden letters in the panel - first three not in order in squares marked 1. Next three in squares marked 2, and the last three in squares marked 3.
Here are five familiar sayings in a pedant's version. Can you translate them into everyday language more familiar to us?
Check out the correct answer:
The above statistics have just reached us from Puzzleland. J U N E and J U L Y respectively stand for the sum total of the degrees of the average temperatures of each day in June and July respectively. HEAT, of course, represents the total for the two months, ON the difference between the two totals, and OT the mean temperature for the two months.
Complete each of the following words by inserting three consecutive letters of the alphabet in reverse order in
place of the dots:
Unearth the two 8 letter words concealed in the grid above. Both words start with the same letter and each can be spelt by moving from square to square up, down, right or left, but not diagonally. No letter may be ignored or made use of more than once.
Insert each of the eight 4-letter words suggested by the following clues in their respective places in the grid above. Then supply the missing letter in the yellow spaces to make four 9-letter words. A drink should appear in the yellow spaces, Go to it.
Here is a mixed bag of queries and teaserettes to test your all-round sharpness of wit. You should be able to get at least six correct answers. If you only get a score five or less, do not be unduly alarmed, it's not the end of the world. You're not the only one!
Insert the words suggested by the clues in the diagram. If the right words are found, they should form a magic cross with the corresponding words "across" and "down" reading the same.
Assign the right values to each letter in this addition and make the sum turn out correctly.
Rearrange the letters in the phrases given to form the surname of a famous immortal. To help you out, the particular field of fame is listed in brackets.
Ramon, Puzzleland's notorious bandit, was recently captured by the police while he was repairing his bullet-proof car at a secret workshop in a forest clearing. The car number is here presented in code form With each letter standing for a digit. Having given that
Here are six 4-letter words in the adjoining diagram. Your task is to cut the diagram into four identical
pieces which are then fitted together to form a rectangle in which four six-letter words appear horizontally
Here is your chance to show your wit. In this multiplication sum, the digits 1 to 9 appear only once. There is only one solution. Can you reconstruct the sum?
The twelve 2-letter pieces given here were obtained by trisecting four 6-letter words — all anagrams of each other. Fit the right pieces together and discover the four words.
Can you match these famous classic book with their author?
Complete the six 7-letter words in the grid by inserting a three-letter word in the middle of each, not forgetting that each
of the missing letters involved has been replaced by one of the numbers 1 to 8. When you have finished your task, the name of a great English poet will appear down the central column.
CLUES ACROSS: Here are four common words chopped up into smaller words of two, three, or four letters, and mixed up .... find the four words,
The flight of stairs on the right conceals nine words beginning with one of one letter at the top and finishing with a nine-letter one at the bottom step. Each word (except the top one) is obtained by adding a new letter to the letter or letters in the preceding word followed
by a rearrangement of the letters (where necessary). The words are hidden horizontally, the nine letters involved being substituted .by the 0numbers 1 to 9. For instance, the first five words might be A, AN, NAG, GAIN, GIANT, Find the words. All digits from 1 to 9 are involved in the simple division but the last five have been replaced with * Supply the missing digits to make it work out correctly.
1. Ottmar Mergenthadler made an invaluable contribution towards the rapid spreading of literature. What did he invent? |
