Puzzle 37
Can you complete this sentence using words which are anagrams of each other?
Only the {?} students could solve the hard {?} equation.
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Both words begin with the letter B.
Answer
Brainy and binary.
Puzzle 38
Below, 9 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine what the 9 words are?
ome clo ere ref int ere
bar ple pin ise phy gra
hni bio ewh eap sor fes
tec ckw som que tpr pro
nce ter foo
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One of the words is clockwise.
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foo + tpr + int = footprint
som + ewh + ere = somewhere
pin + eap + ple = pineapple
tec + hni + que = technique
ref + ere + nce = reference
pro + fes + sor = professor
bio + gra + phy = biography
clo + ckw + ise = clockwise
bar + ome + ter = barometer
Puzzle 39
Four shepherds were watching over their flocks, and they were commenting on how many sheep they each had.
If Alex had three more sheep, then he'd have one fewer sheep than Billie.
Whereas Drew has the same number as the other three shepherds put together.
If Charlie had three fewer sheep, he'd have exactly three times the number of Alex.
If they were evenly distributed, they'd each have eleven sheep.
How many sheep does Alex have?
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Find how many sheep Drew has first.
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3.
Reasoning
If we denote Alex by A, Billie by B, Charlie by C, and Drew by D and number the clues.
If Alex had three more sheep, then he'd have one fewer sheep than Billie.
Whereas Drew has the same number as the other three shepherds put together.
If Charlie had three fewer sheep, he'd have exactly three times the number of Alex.
If they were evenly distributed, they'd each have eleven sheep.
By (4):
A + B + C + D = 44
And, by (2), these are shared equally between A + B + C and D.
So D = 22, and A + B + C = 22 (*)
By (1):
A + 3 = B – 1
A + 4 = B
By (3):
C – 3 = 3A
C = 3A + 3
Substitute B and C in (*):
A + (A+4) + (3A+3) = 22
5A + 7 = 22
5A = 15
A = 3
And, B = 7, C = 12.
Double-Checking
A = 3, B = 7, C = 12, D = 22.
(1) 3 + 3 = 7 – 1
(2) 3 + 7 + 12 = 22
(3) 12 – 3 = 3 x 3
(4) 3 + 7 + 12 + 22 = 44, and 44 ÷ 4 = 11 each.
Puzzle 40
Only using the letters A I O S T, what is the longest word you can find?
You may use each letter more than once.
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The word begins with the letter T.
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Tattooists.
Which has 10 letters.
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