Puzzle 57
This is an annoying paragraph, in which you try and work out what is unusual about it. This paragraph has a quandary though. A solitary word has found a way to slink into this paragraph, to fox your fun, by going against all my jazzy plans. What is that word? Don't try to run a utility to assist you, that would spoil all of my attempts to absorb all of your avid skills in this mind blowing prank.
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Hint
Is there a missing letter?
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Attempts.
This word contains the only letter E in the entire paragraph, notice how every other letter appears at least once.
Although the letters C, E, J, Q, V, X each all appear once, the longer the piece of text the more difficult it is to avoid the letter E.
Puzzle 58
This arrow is currently pointing from South to North.
Move one line and add one other to leave the arrow pointing from East to West.
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The arrow doesn't move.
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Puzzle 59
Chess Tournament - Logic Puzzles
The results of a recent Chess tournament between five close rivals is described below:
Dale finished before Alex.
Emery finished after Bailey.
Alex finished before Chris.
Emery finished after Dale.
Bailey finished before Alex.
Dale finished after Bailey.
Chris finished before Emery.
Who finished where?
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Try rewriting each statement so that they are all 'finished before' statements instead.
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Bailey won...
...then Dale, Alex, Chris, and Emery.
Reasoning
By placing the person who finished higher to the left, we have:
Dale finished before Alex (Dale > Alex)
Emery finished after Bailey (Bailey > Emery)
Alex finished before Chris (Alex > Chris)
Emery finished after Dale (Dale > Emery)
Bailey finished before Alex (Bailey > Alex)
Dale finished after Bailey (Bailey > Dale)
Chris finished before Emery (Chris > Emery)
From (1) and (3):
Dale > Alex > Chris
Adding (7):
Dale > Alex > Chris > Emery
Adding (6):
Bailey > Dale > Alex > Chris > Emery
Which is the final placing for all the players, and can be double-checked with the remaining clues.
Puzzle 60
What comes next in this sequence:
fish archer scorpion bull maiden {?}
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These are the symbols of a common sequence.
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Water bearer.
From the signs of the Zodiac in alphabetical order, looping around:
Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo, Aquarius.
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