Puzzle 1
What number comes next in this sequence:
1 · 2 · 2 · 4 · 8 · 11 · 33 · 37 · 148 · ?
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Hint
The sequence involves both adding and multiplying in some way.
Answer
153.
The sequence is created using: +1 x1 +2 x2 +3 x3 +4 x4 +5.
Puzzle 2
What well known saying is expressed here:
Refrain from enumerating your owned domestic fowl while their hard, porous calcium containers are undamaged.
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Don't count your chickens until they're hatched.
Puzzle 3
Where on Earth do …
… the winds always blow from the South?
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Where on Earth is everything South?
Puzzle 4
Can you find a number such that …
… its double is fourteen more than its quarter?
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The number is less than 20.
Answer
8.
Reasoning
We need a number (N) such that:
2 x N = 14 + N
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4
Multiply throughout by 4 to give:
8 x N = 56 + N
So:
7 x N = 56
So N = 8.
Double-Checking
Its double is 16.
Its quarter is 2.
So its double is fourteen more than its quarter.
