Puzzle 569
What comes next in this sequence:
dog cat mouse mole deer pig {?}
Choose from:
llama, cow, rabbit, frog
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The list is related to numbers.
Answer
Llama.
The length of each word is the same length as the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, etc.
The next number is SEVEN, which has 5 letters, and llama is the only word with 5 letters.
Puzzle 570
What word most logically goes in the brackets:
SAFE [FAST] MALT
OUST [....] FLAW
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The answer is in the words given.
Answer
SLOW.
From the third letter of the first word, plus the second letter of the second word, plus the first letter of the first word, plus the fourth letter of the second word.
Puzzle 571
The local CD shop operates an unusual discount policy. The discount on the next purchase is worked out on the current purchase in the following way: for every whole pound spent you get 0.5% discount on the next purchase. For example, if you purchased £8.99 on the first purchase, you would then get a 4% discount on the next purchase and so on. You can make as many purchases as necessary.
You need to buy 7 CDs, costing, £11.50, £12.00, £12.00, £12.50, £13.00, £13.00 and £14.50 — what is the cheapest method of buying them?
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Purchase 1: £11.50, £12.00, £12.00, £12.50 = £48.00 (which gives a 24% discount on the next purchase). Purchase 2: £13.00, £13.00, £14.50 = £40.50 minus 24% discount = £30.78. For a total cost of £78.78.
Puzzle 572
The beginning of a well known book has been encrypted below. Each letter of the alphabet has been replaced by another using a simple substitution technique. For example, A may always be represented by G, etc. Can you name the book?
Qdne gnpn hyq ptmxgte admxipnh qy rnumh gmqd. M iyh'q cwjjycn qdne dti nonp qdywudq trywq ptmxgtec nbanjq tc t vnthc yl unqqmhu qy Vtcznxehn thi Ayyz'c, qdn Jthqyvmvn, Syyxyumatx Utpinhc, thi Vtitvn Qwcctwi'c. Qdne gnpn kwcq ypimhtpe cwrwprth admxipnh, thi qdne xmoni gmqd qdnmp Ltqdnp thi Vyqdnp mh th ypimhtpe pni-rpmaz-lpyhqni omxxt, gmqd ayxywpni uxtcc mh qdn lpyhq iyyp, t qmxni jtcctun qdtq gtc atxxni t dtxx, t rtqd-pyyv gmqd dyq thi ayxi gtqnp, nxnaqpma rnxxc, Lpnhad gmhiygc, thi t uyyi intx yl gdmqn jtmhq, thi 'nonpe vyinph ayhonhmnhan', tc qdn dywcn-tunhqc cte.
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The first word is THEY.
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The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit.
The piece of text is from the original book and should read:
They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.
a has been represented by t.
b has been represented by r.
c has been represented by a.
d has been represented by i.
e has been represented by n.
f has been represented by l.
g has been represented by u.
h has been represented by d.
i has been represented by m.
j has been represented by k.
k has been represented by z.
l has been represented by x.
m has been represented by v.
n has been represented by h.
o has been represented by y.
p has been represented by j.
q has been represented by f.
r has been represented by p.
s has been represented by c.
t has been represented by q.
u has been represented by w.
v has been represented by o.
w has been represented by g.
x has been represented by b.
y has been represented by e.
z has been represented by s.
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