Puzzle 5
Which letter is missing from this sequence:
B C E G K Q S W
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Hint
Convert the letters to positions in the alphabet.
Answer
M.
Reasoning
These are letters that occupy prime number positions in the alphabet:
B = 2
C = 3
E = 5
G = 7
K = 11
M = 13 *
Q = 17
S = 19
W = 23
Puzzle 6
What are the next five letters in this sequence:
JAJWUTH
TFAPOW
JFDABHC
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Hint
This is a well known nursery rhyme.
Answer
AJCTA.
These are the initial letters from the nursery rhyme 'Jack and Jill went up the hill'. The letters represent 'and Jill came tumbling after'.
Puzzle 7
Can you decode this well-known saying:
V CCVCCC VC CVCV CVCVC CVCV
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Hint
V represents a vowel (AEIOU).
Answer
A stitch in time saves nine.
Each vowel (AEIOU) is represented by the letter V and each consonant is represented by C.
Puzzle 8
Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26.
Can you find any common 6-letter words that have a total over 115?
For example, WIZARD = 23 + 9 + 26 + 1 + 18 + 4 = 81.
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Hint
There are many answers, however, Z doesn't appear very often.
Answers
Choose from: luxury, struts, stylus, syrupy, trusts, twisty.
Other less common words include: scuzzy, syrups, syzygy, trouty, trusty, tryout, trysts.
