Puzzle 553
The BrainBashers golf world tour is well underway and Fred is planning the journey to each location.
Unfortunately, the BrainBashers atlas is playing up again and has worked out the mileage incorrectly, as shown below.
Birmingham 47,000
Oslo 18,000
Chicago 32,000
Manhattan 42,000
According to the system, how many miles is it to Sydney?
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Hint
How much is each vowel (AEIOU) worth?
Answer
29,000 miles.
Each vowel (AEIOU) is worth 4,000 miles and each consonant is worth 5,000 miles.
Double-Checking
Sydney has 1 vowel (E = 1 x 4,000) and 5 consonants (SYDNY = 5 x 5,000) = 29 thousand miles.
Puzzle 554
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This is a simple substitution cipher.
Answer
50.
This puzzle is a simple test to see how easy a ROT13 part encrypted puzzle can be. Every other letter has been converted to ROT13 and the other letters are left as they were. But, you may ask, what is the puzzle – well, how many words are in this puzzle!
ROT13 replaces each character with the one 13 places away.
A = N, B = O, C = P, D = Q, E = R, F = S, G = T, H = U, I = V, J = W, K = X, L = Y, M = Z, N = A, O = B, P = C, Q = D, R = E, S = F, T = G, U = H, V = I, W = J, X = K, Y = L, Z = M.
Puzzle 555
What are the next 3 digits in this sequence:
7 3 1 8 2 8 5 3 1 5 3 0 3 3 1 4 3 0 {?} {?} {?}
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Hint
This question involves the months in some way.
Answer
431.
This is the sequence of the length of the name of the month and the number of days in that month. For example, January has 7 letters and 31 days: 731. February has 8 letters and 28 days, etc. The next 3 digits are therefore 431 since July has 4 letters and 31 days.
Puzzle 556
What is the next number in this sequence:
1 1 2 4 3 9 4 61 5 52 6 63 7 94 8 {?}
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Can you see 1, 2, 3...?
Answer
46.
Reasoning
Take the numbers in pairs, square the first, and reverse the digits.
1 1 (1 x 1 = 1, reversed is 1)
2 4 (2 x 2 = 4, reversed is 4)
3 9 (3 x 3 = 9, reversed is 9)
4 61 (4 x 4 = 16, reversed is 61)
5 52 (5 x 5 = 25, reversed is 52)
6 63 (6 x 6 = 36, reversed is 63)
7 94 (7 x 7 = 49, reversed is 94)
so we require:
8 46 (8 x 8 = 64, reversed is 46)
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