Puzzle 489
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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The anagrammed word begins with the letter S.
Answers
Spaghetti.
--xic = t oxic
--ien = a lien
--nre = g enre
--ppo = h ippo
--pil = p upil
--loo = i gloo
--day = t oday
--uip = e quip
--elf = s helf
Giving the letters TAGHPITES, which is an anagram of SPAGHETTI.
Puzzle 490
If tomorrow's yesterday is today…
…what day is yesterday's tomorrow?
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Tomorrow's yesterday is always today.
Answer
Today.
Reasoning
Tomorrow's yesterday is always today.
And yesterday's tomorrow is also always today.
Puzzle 491
What number comes next in this sequence:
16 · 21 · 26 · 26 · 12 · 5 · ?
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Try converting each number to a letter.
Answer
19.
From the alphabetical position of S, making the word PUZZLES.
16 = P
21 = U
26 = Z
26 = Z
12 = L
5 = E
19 = S
Puzzle 492
Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.
You will now have 6 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of something that lives in water.
dish leek
tray shoe
raft sign
cram golf
ears fern
loud hiss
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Try: dish + golf, tray + sign, raft + hiss.
Answers
dish + golf = goldfish
tray + sign = stingray
raft + hiss = starfish
cram + leek = mackerel
ears + shoe = seahorse
loud + fern = flounder
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