Puzzle 317
If 7 ingots of IRON weigh 112 tonnes, 4 ingots of COBALT weigh 104 tonnes and 3 ingots of GOLD weigh 54 tonnes.
How heavy are 5 ingots of TIN?
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Start by looking at the consonants and vowels (AEIOU).
Answer
65 tonnes.
Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 3 and consonants are worth 5, added together and then multiplied by the number of ingots.
So TIN has 1 vowel (worth 3) and 2 consonants (worth 10).
Added gives 13, then multiplied by 5 ingots = 65.
Puzzle 319
This is a well known children's musical piece, the vowels have been removed and the remaining letters have been grouped together. Can you determine the correct words?
lttl mssm ffts tntf fttn ghrc rdsn dwhy thrc mbgs pdrw hstd wnbs dhrn dfrg htnd mssm fftw y
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The piece ends with the word AWAY.
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Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey:
There came a big spider
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
Puzzle 320
Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:
At school, most of my friends learnt French. I learnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.
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The country spans more than one word.
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Chile.
At school, most of my friends learnt FrenCH. I LE arnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.
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