Puzzle 1
Can you highlight exactly three numbers that add to 17?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.
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Hint
You have to highlight three numbers.
Answer
2 + 13 + 2 = 17.
The puzzle didn't ask for three digits to be highlighted!
Puzzle 2
In my money box, I found $36.80 made up of equal numbers of quarters, dimes, and nickels.
How many of each coin did I find?
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Hint
Remember that a quarter is 25c, a dime is 10c and a nickel is 5c.
Answer
92 of each coin.
Reasoning
There are an equal number of quarters, dimes and nickels, so we know that the answer must be a multiple of:
25c + 10c + 5c = 40c
and:
3680c ÷ 40c = 92 coins.
Puzzle 3
What letter is missing from this sequence:
A B G D E ? E
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Hint
This is quite a common alphabet.
Answer
Z.
From Zeta, first letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta.
Puzzle 4
Place the words below into pairs.
You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of at least one other word.
Can you find the 5 pairings, and at least one anagram each?
peer
time
date
wall
june
tone
snob
seat
pale
veil
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Hint
Try: pale + tone, veil + june, peer + date.
Answers
pale + tone = antelope
veil + june = juvenile
peer + date = repeated, departee
snob + wall = snowball
time + seat = estimate, meatiest, teatimes
