| CHALLENGE ROOM |
| Tongue Twisters |
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| Say the following statement as quickly as possible : |
| 1/ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper . A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked ? 2/ Betty Botter bought some butter, But, she said, the butter's bitter; If I put it in my batter It will make my batter bitter So she bought a bit of butter Better than her bitter butter, And she put it in her batter, And the batter wasn't bitter. 3/ Whether the weather is cold Or whether the weather is hot We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather Whether we like it or not. 4/ Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round, A round roll Robert Rowley rolled round, Where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round? 5/ Good great green gorillas grow green grapes. 6/ Five fuzzy fellows found five fuzzy fleas on their fuzzy feet. 7/ A pinch of paprika pepper popped in a paper. 8/ Two toads totally tired of trying to trot to Tetbury. 9/ She likes French shirts, Russian sugar and English shoes. 10/ Ruth thought of the death threat. |
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| CODES |
| ' When I make my best inventions,' said Professsor Crankshaft, I naturally want to write down the details. But then somebody might steal the idea. So I use a code. The simplest one I use is very straightforward, just a substitution of one letter for another. I write out two alphabets: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ CRANKSHFTBDEGIJLMOPQUVWXYZ And instead of the letters in the top row I use the ones below them in the second row. Suppose I want to write this message in code: ' Your dinner is in the fridge' Underneath Y is the letter Y, under O is J, under U U , under R O, and so on... I get the message: YJUO NTIIKO TP TI QFK SOTNHK ' To decode, I work the other way: I replace each letter by the one above it, to get the original message: Now, suppose Professor Crankshaft writes this code message: QFTP TP IJQ C RTH AFCEEKIHK. TS YJU ACIIJQ NKAJNK QFTP BUPQ AETAD RKEJW SJO QFK CIPWKO |
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