Puzzle 253
Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26.
Can you find any common 6-letter words that have a total over 115?
For example, WIZARD = 23 + 9 + 26 + 1 + 18 + 4 = 81.
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Hint
There are many answers, however, Z doesn't appear very often.
Answer
Choose from: luxury, struts, stylus, syrupy, trusts, twisty.
Other less common words include: scuzzy, syrups, syzygy, trouty, trusty, tryout, trysts.
Puzzle 254
Can you find three words which...
...contain EE twice?
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Hint
One possibility starts with the word BEE.
Answer
Choose from: beekeeper, beekeepers, beekeeping, freebee, freebees, freewheel, freewheeled, freewheeling, freewheels, peewee, peewees, squeegee, squeegeed, squeegeeing, squeegees, teepee, teepees.
Puzzle 255
What are the next five letters in this sequence:
HDSOAW
HDHAGF
ATKHAATKM
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Hint
From common children's song.
Answer
CPHTA.
From:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Puzzle 256
Which letter completes this sequence:
T A O T B I E S O T R H N E O Q T U T E O S B T E I T O H {?}
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Hint
Look for the question.
Answer
N.
Reasoning
Starting with the first letter and taking every other letter gives: TO BE OR NOT TO BE TH
Starting with the second letter and taking every other letter gives: AT IS THE QUESTIO
Combining gives: TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT IS THE QUESTIO – and the last letter of QUESTION is missing.
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