Puzzle 269
Look at the following sentence once, and once only. How many times can you find the letter F?
Furry foxes of far origin often come of age far before scientific study forecasts.
Puzzle 270
What letter comes next in this sequence:
E · O · E · R · E · ?
Puzzle 271
Again, my BrainBashers thesaurus has let me down again. This time I was after boy's names and it failed to show the vowels.
What were the boy's names?
rn
jms
kvn
smn
kth
jrmh
Puzzle 272
In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.
The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.
This sentence contains exactly ? E's and not one more.
However, this sentence contains exactly ? S's, with a single Z.
Finally, to finish, this sentence has exactly ? I's.