Puzzle 229
Below you can find a proverb.
The letters have been converted to their location in the alphabet.
For example: CAT = 3 + 1 + 20 = 3 1 2 0
1 2 1 2 1 7 8 2 0 5 1 8 9 1 9 2 0 8 5 2 5 1 9 2 0 1 3 5 4 9 3 9 1 4 5
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Hint
The first letter is 12 = L.
Answer
Laughter is the best medicine.
Reasoning
Laughter = 12 + 1 + 21 + 7 + 8 + 20 + 5 + 18
is = 9 + 19
the = 20 + 8 + 5
best = 2 + 5 + 19 + 20
medicine = 13 + 5 + 4 + 9 + 3 + 9 + 14 + 5.
Puzzle 230
If 5 cats can catch 5 rats in 5 minutes …
… how many cats do you need to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes?
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How many rats can one cat catch in 5 minutes?
Answer
5.
5 cats can catch 5 rats in 5 minutes.
So
1 cat can catch 1 rat in 5 minutes.
1 cat can catch 2 rats in 10 minutes.
1 cat can catch 20 rats in 100 minutes.
Therefore
5 cats can catch 100 rats in 100 minutes.
Puzzle 231
What comes next in this sequence:
elgnairt erauqs nogatnep nogaxeh nogatpeh {?}
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Answer
nogatco.
Reasoning
These are geometric shapes, the number of sides increases, and the words are reversed.
3 elgnairt = triangle
4 erauqs = square
5 nogatnep = pentagon
6 nogaxeh = hexagon
7 nogatpeh = heptagon
8 nogatco = octagon
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