Puzzle 165
Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.
What is the word?
--xic
--ien
--nre
--ppo
--pil
--loo
--day
--uip
--elf
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Hint
The anagrammed word begins with the letter S.
Answers
Spaghetti.
--xic = toxic
--ien = alien
--nre = genre
--ppo = hippo
--pil = pupil
--loo = igloo
--day = today
--uip = equip
--elf = shelf
Giving the letters TAGHPITES, which is an anagram of SPAGHETTI.
Puzzle 166
Using the letters AAAAEERRRRTT complete this grid. The grid reads the same across as down.
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.
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Hint
One of the words is AREA.
Answer
| S |
T |
A |
R |
| T |
A |
R |
E |
| A |
R |
E |
A |
| R |
E |
A |
P |
Puzzle 167
What comes next in this sequence:
fawn · bear · lion · mole · ?
Choose from:
seal, duck, stag, vole, wolf
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Hint
Don't look at the first letters.
Answer
Duck.
The second letters of each word are the vowels in alphabetical order, fAwn, bEar, lIon, mOle, dUck.
Puzzle 168
Can you find three consecutive even numbers that …
… total 85,008 when multiplied together?
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Hint
Try starting with the cube root of the number.
Answer
42, 44, and 46.
Reasoning
As we require 3 numbers that are multiplied together, we can start with the cube root of 85,008 ≈ 43.97.
We can now check that 44 divides 85,008 exactly: 85,008 ÷ 44 = 1,932, which means that 44 is likely to be one of the numbers.
And as we know that we need consecutive even numbers, we soon find 42 and 46 as the remaining numbers.
Double-Checking
42 x 44 x 46 = 85,008.
