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Concealed in each sentence that follows is the name of a four footed beast consisting of consecutive letters in two or three words. Example: The sixtH OR SEventh shot failed to hit the target. Now try to unearth the six beasts.
1. Having lost his hundredth yen, Asimoto withdrew without uttering a single word.
2. The colonel took a pinch of snuff, then carried on as if nothing had happened.
3. The tribesmen wanted to hold out, but one of than, a Moslem, urged them to give up the fight.
4. Instead of a second hand motor car I bought a brand new motor-cycle.
5. Never before had the climbers experienced such a moist climate or such a snowstorm.
6. The fishermen had been told that a pirate ship had been sighted ten km off shore.
Puzzlelanders use Arabic numerals same as we do. However each digit stands for a figure different from ours. Here is simple addition sum taken from a Puzzlelander's exercise book. Can you translate it into our system?
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2 2 6 4 4 2 4 9 4 2 6 9 6 2 9 6 |
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This is a familiar seven word proverb written in code. Can you decipher it?
Try to supply the missing digits in the multiplication sum below. The digits 1 to 9 are each used once, and to help you get started two of them have been given.
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This number is made up of the figures, 1, 6, 8, 9, and 0 not in that particular order. When the number is inverted and the new number is subtracted the result is the lowest possible. What is the number?
Anagram the six words given here and insert the newly-obtained words spirally in the diagram. If you find the right words the two "tail" letters of each word (except the sixth) should form the two head letters of the succeeding one. |
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The employees of Square Deal Co. are paid a base monthly salary plus a bonus equal to the square of their age is dollars. In a certain month Paul and Peter earned $1411 and $1075 respectively. If Peter is six years younger than Paul, find out their ages and their basic salary.
Test your wit by trying to answer the following queries and teaserettes. With luck, you should bag at least six correct answers, Maybe you will go even better!
1. In what profession did Galen become particularly famous?
2. Which planet did Sir William Herschel discover?
3. Who is the patron saint of masons?
4. Whom did John Wilkes Booth assassinate at a theatre?
5. Rearrange MILK RICE to make a town immortalized in a war song?
6. What is Pakistan's official language?
7. A coronach is what? (a) a rally of Highland chieftains; (b) a funeral song; (c) a primitive lyre; (d) a small wreath.
8. Did Virgil, the author of the "Aeneid", live before or after Christ?
9 The Veddas are a primitive people. On which island do they live?
18. What is a Bobadil?
The hieroglyphic-like tangle on the right represents nothing, but a modest word of 10 letters. It may take you from a minute to a quarter of an, hour to unravel it Maybe you will not be equal to the task. But most puzzle enthusiasts will spot the word inside three minutes, What's your shot? |  |
1. Which language is made up entirely of monosyllables? (a) Chinese (b) Hindustani (c) Malay (d) Icelandic 2. Who lived longest? (a) Botticelli (b) Michelangelo (c) Fra Angelico (d) Titian 3. The town of Wagga Wagga is found in: (a) Kenya (b) New South Wales (c) Pakitan (d) Sri Lanka
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Below appear clues to eleven words, each of which should be inserted in its respective sector (marked off in thick lines), beginning in the numbered square and continuing in order as in tiny labyrinth. If the right words are found, the letters in the four columns marked with dots, reading downwards in columns from left to right, will produce the title of a great book and the name of its author |
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CLUES 1. It's more than here — and its round! 2. Title applied by foreigners to shogun of Japan. 3. A sculptor of imperishable fame. 4, The bear's capital city. 5. A dish from a grout. 6. The greatest legislator of all time. |
7. A sacred building where to see deity. 8. Sudden alarm. 9. To walk lamely. 10. Peninsula that gave its name to a great naval battle in World War I. 11. Large bird, partly prey. |
 | Four words with a strong Christmas flavour (of 5, 7, 7, and 9 letters respectiveiy) are hidden in this tree. Two of the words start with a C, and two with a P. Try to figure them out by picking their initial letters and then moving from one cell to an adjoining one, thence to another, and so on in any direction. No letter may remain unused and none may be employed oftener than it appears. |
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Supply the two missing letters in each word above. If the right letters are added, they will, - when read in order from top to bottom, spell a word strongly connected with Baby Jesus. What is the word? |
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Insert the words suggested by the clues, spirally in the figure. You will get a word-chain with the tail letters of one word forming the head of the next. [Note that the length of the words is not given in the clues] |
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You may want to glue the figures on cardboard and cut out the five piece. Then try to fit them together to form a magic number square in which each horizontal and vertical line, as well as each of the two diagonals shall contain the figures 1, 2, 3 and 4. |
The name of a fruit is buried in each sentence below, each word being made up of consecutive letters from two or three words. The first one is given as an example. Find out the remaining fruits:
1. When the. doorbell rang FidO RAN GEntly downstairs. (orange)
2. She had to type a children's Christmas story by noon.
3. The same long-winded tale cropped up almost every evening.
4. The floodlit match commenced at eight o'clock sharp.
5. The tribesmen tried to rob an Anatolian peasant.
6. The starving wolf ignored the farmer and made for the poultry run.
Insert the 7-letter words suggested cryptically in the hexagram on the right. |
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Here is a mixture of facts and fallacies. Try to separate the "chaff" from. the "wheat".
1. Eagles lay the largest eggs.
2. At birth, kangaroos are over ten cm [four inches] long.
3. Whales cannot dive deeper than 0.85 Km [half a mile].
4. Camels, whether dromedary or bactrian. are born without a hump.
5. The giraffe has more bones in its neck than any other living animal.
6. Sea serpents are highly venomous.
7. Some arctic terns sometimes travel over 33,000 Km [20,000 Miles] a year.
8. The most voracious fish of all is the shark.
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1. A common word in the masculine plural is turned to the feminine singular simply by adding an S at the end. What is the word?
2. Said Martin : "At heart my girl is a perfect lady ...." And
right he was. What was her name?
3. Which of the following forms of conveyance have wheels? curries, droshky, diligence, palanquin, tumbrel, whisky.
4. Who wrote the farcical comedy entitled "Blithe Spirit"?
(a) J. M. Barrie (b) Terence Rattigan
(c) Noel Coward (d) George Bernard Shaw
5. If you flew from London to Paris, at what airport would
you land?
6. What Billingsgate is to fish, Leadenhall Market is to: (a) cattle, (b) poultry, (c) second hand clothes, (d) airy produce.
The diagram on the right originally consisted of a Magic square with six 6-letter words reading both horizontally and vertically. However, just before going to press, the consonants made an unceremonious withdrawal. Below they appear in what they called "alphabetieal order" and, according to their spokesman, are willing to go back to their respective squares. Can you fit each consonant into its rightful place. ands rconstruct the square?
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The 3-letter words below were obtained by dissecting five words - one of 12, two of 9, and two of 6 letters. All five words begin with the same letter. Try to reconnect the pieces, not discarding any, and not using any of them more than once.
PEN | PER | PET | PIT | POT | RAT | SON
The object of this puzzle is to find the title of a book written by one of the masters of our time. The title of the book runs down second and fourth columns (marked with big dots) and the author dawn the sixth column (also marked with a dot). To discover them, insert the words suggested by the clues given, in their respective sectors in the diagram, beginning each word in the numbered square and continuing it in order in the remaining squares |
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An eastern potentate summoned his carpenter and, showing him the bottom of a wooden box which was shaped like the diagram on the right, he commanded him to saw it up into three parts that could be fitted together to form a square. Failure, as might be guessed, meant death at dawn the following day. Notwithstanding the ultimatum, the cool-headed artisan found a way out and gratified his master's whim. How did he saw the wood? |
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A squirrel hid 1 nut on January 1, 3 on the next day, 5 on the third day, 7 on the following day and so on for many days. Wishing to count up his hoard one day he enlisted the services of seven adders to help him. Here are the answers they arrived at:
Spotted Adder: 841 | Brown Adder : 850 | Horned Adder: 872
Tailless Adder: 787
Disgusted and dissatisfied with their incompetence, the puzzled squirrel hurried to the owl and showed her the answers. After being told the number of days, the bird quickly found out the correct number. Incidentally, one of the adders had hit on the right answer too. Which adder? And what was the number of days?
Insert the 5-letter words suggested by the clues below in their respective places in the panel on the left. Having completed the panel words, transfer each letter to the square bearing the corresponding number in the diamond figure on the right. If the right words are found (for the clues) , a magic diamond -- with the corresponding words "across" and "down" reading the same -- will appear in the figure.
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1. May be in gold, silver or notes. 2. Small roundish fruit. 3. South African grassland. 4. Unite for a fresh effort. |
5. Fruit worth remembering. 6. Aquatic mammal seen in The Potteries. 7. Long for more than a year. 8. Yellowish bream. |
Complete the 7-letter words appearing below, supplying a word of 3 letters in place of the dots. If your choices are right, the three words inserted in each line will form a 9-letter word. For instance, No. 1 should be ASS --AIL -- ANT, ASSAILANT.
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Private Muggin's Service number is ABCDEF, which of course represent digits 1 to 6 not in order. When the number is divided by 125 the result is exactly FDEF. What is the actual number?
The names of eight famous people are concealed horizontally in this diagram and a ninth is formed by the initial letters reading downwards. The diagram is divided
into twelve rectangles [#1 to #12] of six squares, one of which is occupied by a letter. A word of five - letters is suggested by each clue here. The first letter being inserted in the square marked 1, the second in the one marked 2 and so on. When all the five-letter words are inserted, the celebrity parade is complete. |
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1. Ship. 3. Gregarious animals live in them. 5. Idler in the hive. 7. Clio and Erato are two. 9. Comb-maker's file. 11. Water-lily. |
2. Half a quadruped. 4. Former famous Italian cyclist. 6. Subject. 8. Associated with Tyre. 10. Bird's claw. 12. Saint Nicholas round Christmas. |
One morning Puzzleland's citizens woke up to find a giant poster shown here in the main square. To them there was nothing enigmatical about it, and in a matter of minutes most of them unravelled the titles of the titles of the four operas advertised. Can you do the same?
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There were 21 rainy days and nights in March. When the number of rainy days multiplied by the number of rainless nights, the result 1s 299. If there were more fine days than wet nights, how many rain-less nights Were there?
Two answers are provided with each query below but of course, only one is applicable. Can you tick off all the right answers?
1. Which European capital was -formerly known as Christania? (a) Copenhagen (b) Oslo
2. When did Turkey adopt the Gregorian calendar? (a) 400 years ago (b) less than 100 years ago
3. Is Picasso (a) a real name? (b) a nom-de-plume?
4. By profession Anton Chekhov was. (a) a doctor? (b) a lawyer?
5. Beethoven dedicated his first compositions for pianoforte to (a) Haydn? (b) Napoleon?
6. The ancient Greeks were great puzzle enthusiasts. Were crosswords known to them? (a) yes (b) no
7. When was the typewriter invented? (a) before 1880 (b) after 1900
8. Did Alexandre Dumas (father) have some negro blood in his veins? (a) yes (b) no.
OUR | RAM | RAN | RED | TEE | TON | TOW
Above are fourteen words of three letters which originally formed part of seven 7-letter words, but the linking central letters have been lost. Provide the missing letters and reconstruct the original words. If your letter links are the right ones, they should spell the name of a well known bird. Can you bag it?
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Each letter in the addition sum on the right stands for a digit, but the answer, which is also a name strongly connected with M rk, Luke- and Paul, is translated into figures and provides useful clues that should prove helpful in solving the poser. Can you decode the three names, making the arithmetical operation involved turn out correctly? |
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Reconstruct the magic cross on the left, substituting consonants from the list given below, for the asterisks, and making the words read the same horizontally and vertically. |
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Consider the word chain on the right - each word after the first is made up by beheading the previous one, followed by the addition of a letter at the end. Using the same pattern try to change THE into END, using seven intermediate words. |
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Don't try to visit the gnetleman whos card appars here, on your next trip to Europe! Simply try to figure out the four colours from which the name and address have been made up.
VIA DELLE TORRI SAN MARINO |
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Pair off the above words and rearrange the six letters in pairs so as to form the name of a bird. Then, insert the six birds you obtain horizontally in the panel in such a way that a seventh bird will appear along the diagonal marked in thick-lined squares. What is the diagonal bird? |
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A straight piece of wire 50 cm long is bent at four points as in the figure, making AC a perfect straight line and angle A, a right angle. AB and BC are together equal to the sum of AD, DC and BD, which is exactly 10 cm long. What the length of DC? |
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After effecting a daylight robbery with great audacity, two gangsters stole a car and made off. When they reached a secluded spot they stopped, unscrewed the number plates and screwed them back in an inverted position to appear differently from the registered number to try and fool the cops. (Thus, for instance if the original number were 89109, the new number would have been 60168) If the second number was 20691 smaller than the original, what was the car's registered number?
Here are some of the most profound thinkers of all time, but all of them are in a muddle. Some are not hard to unmask, others present a stiffer proposition. Of course, surnames only are involved in the jumbles:
| 1. NO CAB | 5. SEED CARTS | |
| 2. A SURE SOU | 6. ZINC SHEET | |
| 3. SORE MEN | 7. CAME VIA HILL | |
| 4. MINE TANGO | 8. HURON PEACHES |
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