Puzzle 737
What do you get if …
… you add 2 to 200 four times?
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Try it once, and then try it again.
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You get 202 each time!
Puzzle 738
Painter Pete, our local DIY expert, is renovating the local hospital.
He has to number each of the rooms in the hospital with plastic numbers.
However, he has run out of the number 9.
Unfortunately, he has no spare 6's available, which certainly would have been useful.
How many 9's must Pete buy in order to number all 1,000 rooms?
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Don't forget the extra 9's in 90, 91, etc.
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300.
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Start with: 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 – which is 20 9's.
We then repeat this for 100, 200, 300, up to 900 – which is 200 9's.
But from 900 to 999 we have an extra 100 9's as each starts with a 9.
So the total is 300.
Puzzle 739
Can you find every occurrence of the word JULY that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?
The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.
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The word JULY appears 64 times.
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The word JULY appears 64 times.
Puzzle 740
Below is a grid which should contain boy's names. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid?
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The first missing name is Adam.
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