Puzzle 49
The BrainBashers golf world tour is well underway and Fred is planning the journey to each location.
Unfortunately, the BrainBashers atlas is playing up again and has worked out the mileage incorrectly, as shown below.
Birmingham 47,000
Oslo 18,000
Chicago 32,000
Manhattan 42,000
According to the system, how many miles is it to Sydney?
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How much is each vowel (AEIOU) worth?
Answer
29,000 miles.
Reasoning
Each vowel (AEIOU) is worth 4,000 miles and each consonant is worth 5,000 miles.
Double-Checking
Sydney has 1 vowel (E = 1 x 4,000) and 5 consonants (SYDNY = 5 x 5,000) = 29 thousand miles.
Puzzle 50
Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but...
...if pronounced wrong is right?
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The answer is in the question.
Puzzle 51
Yesterday I was asked to buy some stamps.
Stamps, in the land of BrainBashers, are available in 2p, 7p, 10p, 15p and 20p denominations.
For three types of stamp, I was asked to buy five of each.
For the other two types of stamps, I was asked to buy six of each.
Unfortunately, I forgot which I was supposed to buy five of and which to buy six of.
I had been given £3.00, which just happened to be the exact money required, so the shopkeeper was able to work out what stamps I needed.
Which stamps did I buy?
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I bought at least 5 of every stamp.
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Five lots of 2p, 7p and 15p, and six lots of 10p, and 20p.
Reasoning
The shopkeeper rightly figured that I required five lots of all of the stamps, which came to (2p + 7p + 10p + 15p + 20p) x 5 = £2.70.
For two of the stamps I needed one more of each, and these must have added to the remaining 30p, so can only have been the 10p and 20p stamps.
Puzzle 52
How many words can you find...
...that contain two consecutive U's?
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Some are much more common than others.
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Common: vacuum, vacuumed, vacuuming, vacuums.
Less common: continuum, continuums, muumuu, muumuus.
Much less common: carduus, carduuses, continuua, duumvir, duumviral, duumvirate, duumvirates, duumviri, duumvirs, individuum, individuums, lituus, lituuses, menstruum, menstruums, mutuum, mutuums, paramenstruum, paramenstruums, residuum, residuums, squush, squushed, squushes, squushier, squushiest, squushing, squushy, triduum, triduums, ultravacuum, ultravacuums, weltanschauung, weltanschauungen, weltanschauungs.
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