Puzzle 265
Can you find a three-letter word that completes these words?
b---
d---
m---et
p---ing
sh---
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Hint
One possible answer begins with the letter A.
Answer
ark: bark, dark, market, parking, shark.
or:
ill: bill, dill, millet, pilling, shill.
Puzzle 266
Which is larger:
days in a year
bones in an adult human body
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Adults have fewer bones than children.
Answer
Days in a year.
There are usually around 206 bones in an adult human body, and 365 or 366 days in a year.
Puzzle 267
Can you find a word that can suffix (go after) each of these letters:
re
deva
rein
over
inter
under
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The missing word is five letters long.
Answer
State.
restate
devastate
reinstate
overstate
interstate
understate.
Puzzle 268
Last night, I was looking at a road sign and could see that Leeds was 13 miles away, Stoke was 13 miles away and Leek was 10 miles away.
Unfortunately, it was too dark to see how far it was to Manchester. Can you help me?
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Each vowel (AEIOU) counts as 2 miles.
Answer
27 miles.
Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 2 miles and consonants are worth 3 miles.