Brain Teasers and Puzzles 

Can you find every occurrence of the word LOVE that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?

The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?



Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.

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The Miller next took the company aside and showed them nine sacks of flour that were standing as depicted in the sketch.

"Now, hearken, all and some," said he, "while that I do set ye the riddle of the nine sacks of flour.

And mark ye, my lords, that there be single sacks on the outside, pairs next unto them, and three together in the middle thereof.

By Saint Benedict, it doth so happen that if we do but multiply the pair, 28, by the single one, 7, the answer is 196, which is of a truth the number shown by the sacks in the middle.

Yet it be not true that the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also make 196.

Wherefore I do beg you, gentle sirs, so to place anew the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the middle."

As the Miller has stipulated in effect that as few bags as possible shall be moved, there is only one answer to this puzzle, which everybody should be able to solve.

The Miller's Puzzle, The Canterbury Puzzles, Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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There are three houses, and three utilities: water, gas, and electricity.

Your task is to connect each house to all three utilities.

Therefore, each house will have three lines, and each utility will also have three lines.

However, you cannot cross lines! You cannot pass lines through houses or utilities. You cannot share lines.

Can you draw the 9 lines required?

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In the local wood there are a number of trees. On these trees there are a number of birds.

A local bird spotter knows that there are as many birds on each tree as there are trees in the wood, and that there are between 2,000 and 2,100 birds in total.

How many trees are there in the wood?

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