Puzzle 5
What is the next number in this sequence:
100 · 365 · 24 · 60 · ?
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Hint
The answers are related to time.
Answer
60.
The numbers represent 100 years in a century, 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute.
Puzzle 6
Can you find every occurrence of the word APPLES 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 APPLES appears 34 times.
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The word APPLES appears 34 times.
Puzzle 7
What letter comes next in this sequence:
A · O · E · A · O · T · F · ?
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This is quite a common representation of the alphabet.
Answer
L.
The last letter from hoteL, which is H in the phonetic alphabet, alphA, bravO, charliE, etc.
Puzzle 8
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
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