Puzzle 209
Find an word which is singular, add an 's' and it becomes plural, and add another 's' it becomes singular again?
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Hint
One of answers involves royalty.
Answer
Prince, princes, princess.
Bra, bras, brass.
A similar change is care, cares, caress, but these are not nouns.
Puzzle 210
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.
Answer
Choose from: luxury, struts, stylus, syrupy, trusts, twisty.
Other less common words include: scuzzy, syrups, syzygy, trouty, trusty, tryout, trysts.
Puzzle 211
What comes next in this sequence:
M N B V C X {?}
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Z.
From the bottom row of a typewriter backwards.
Puzzle 212
Which one of these letters is the odd one out?
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Hint
These are all Greek letters.
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θ (theta).
Reasoning
These are all Greek letters, and they are:
xi, chi, theta, psi, pi, phi
They all sound similar to each other, except θ.
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