The famous mathematician Dr. Square Root had two sons, exactly a year apart. One day, shortly after they had both turned a year older, he noticed that if you squared their ages and then added the squares the total would be 1105. How old were the two sons?
It was a bring-your-own-food party, but not everybody could contribute food. The agreement was that those who could not bring edibles would chip in some cash. Sally brought a certain number of pies, Jane brought one more than Sally, and Hector brought one more than Jane. William brought nothing, but asked them to divide the nice little pies equally, and he would pay. The four split the pies evenly. There was a total of a dozen pies, each worth $1.00. How much should each of them get or pay?
Billy had a coin purse with fifty coins, totaling exactly $1.00. Unfortunately, while counting them, he dropped one coin behind the radiator. What is the probability that it was a penny?
A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same forward and backward. Try to come up with palindromes from the following clues, in which the word division is given. (Example: First man introduces himself to first woman---Madam, I'm Adam.)
A. Query by rodent phobic person:
___ __ _ ___ _ ___?
B. A zookeeper annouces that he has captured fewer than a dozen beasts by hitting them hard with a reticulated object and putting them inside it.
___ _______ _ ____ __ _ ___.C. Spoiled children of performing luminaries.
____ _____
The coiled sentence below will complete a rhyme with the first line "Murphy's Law is very fine." Move from the correct startng letter in any direction, letter by letter.
The following addition example uses letters instead of numbers. Each letter must be replaced with the same number each time the letter appears.
OH + OH + OH + OH = NO!
One four letter word will fit in all three pairs below to from an entirely new word or phrase with each of them. What is it?
BACK ____ SOME LEFT ____ WORK FORE ____ SHAKE
It's much easier on paper than in real life. Can you go from poor to rich in seven steps, changing one letter at a time and making a good English word at each step? (There are several correct answers.)
P O O R _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R I C H
The following line consists of three countries whose names have been "interlinked". The letters are in the correct order for each country. Can you find them?
The letters of this sentence all appear underneath the blanks where they belong, but they have been arranged in columns alphbetically. An X shows a space between words; a dash at the end of the line means that a word continues onto the next line. Can you reassemble the sentence?
_X_________X__X_X___- __X____X_____X______- _X___X______X_____XX APBOHAIAKEEPIHMANGRE S CTMMTTSEESSSOIRSTO U UT W TTE U U
Although Jim and Barbara had to buy four presents for various weddings, they found they could not agree on four identical presents. They bought four separate gifts; and the first one cost $5.00 more than the second. The second was half the cost of the first, plus one-third the cost of the first. The third cost two-thirds of the first, and the last cost double the third. They spent a total of $115. What did each of the four gifts cost?
Homonyms are words that sound alike, though they are spelled differently. One pair of homonyms has meanings that are precisely opposite, and need not be stretched. What are the two spellings of this homonym?
This simple substitution cryptogram is a warning. Each letter is replaced with the same number, letter, or symbol each time it appears. Can you solve it?
SV DSL RH GLL HSZIK HLNVGRNVH XFGH SRNHVOU.
Using all the digits from 1 to 9, you can construct many additions (for example, 317 + 628 = 945). There are four such examples which have a total of 468. Find the missing numbers. You may not simply reverse the left and right numbers; new combinations must be found.
1xx + xxx = 468
xx5 + xxx = 468
x9x + xxx = 468
xxx + x7x = 468
Each of the following words except one can be rearranged to spell the name of a person or city. Unscramble the words and find the one that cannot be unscrambled.
ANIMAL BUTCHERS PASTURE PANELS VIKING
The following coiled sentence contains an idea that every motorist agrees with. Start at the right spot and move, letter by letter, in any direction to find the sentence.
V E O E T
E U Y L P
R Y S L A
H T R O M
I N A A D
G E X R T
E C O E I
P O T F D
T H W O L
Each letter represents a numerical value. The sum of each line and column has been given for all but one line. Fill in the missing sum.
W W X Y ?? W Z X Z 85 Y X W Y 87 Z Y X Y 82 87 86 93 79
This is an Isaak Watson tale.
As the fish hung by its tail,
The angler proudly had it weighed.
"Three-fourths of its total," he then said,
"Plus three-fourths of three-fourths of a pound
Will give the whole, exact, not round."
High finance in the kindergarten: Sheree and Tyler's play store was doing well. Sheree, the more successful shopkeeper, had 75¢ in play money plus 75 percent of what Tyler had. The poor unsuccessful salesman had 50¢ in play money plus half of what Sheree had. How much did each have?
You can substitute one letter for the first letter of each word in the following pairs and make two new words. Then insert the letter on the line between the words, and you will spell a new word reading down.
TALL _ LABEL SOUND _ COUGH SLIT _ HIM ALL _ ARE ROSE _ TETHER
Tony likes indigo but not blue. He likes onions but not turnips; he likes forms but not shapes. According to the same rule does he like tomatoes or avacadoes?
Your brother is color blind and, since he has four different color socks in his drawer, he usually pulls out the first two and wears a mismatched pair. He has blue, brown, black, and blue and white striped socks in the drawer at a ratio of 8 blue to 6 brown, to 6 black, to 8 blue and white striped. How many socks would he have to pull out before he could be certain of having a matched pair?
You are decorating your home, and you've found a bargain: a huge box of beautiful decorated tiles, enough to provide a border in two rooms. You really can't figure out how to arrange them, however. If you set a border of two tiles all around, there's one left over; if you set three tiles all around, or four, or five, or six, there's still one left over. Finally, you try a block of seven tiles for each corner, and you come out even. What is the smallest number of tiles you could have to get this result?
The names of three mammals (two common, one not so commmon) are hidden in the following sentences. All the letters are in the correct order.
The large crowd at the flea market came looking for bargains.
I took off the peel and ate the banana.
He has no judgement, no sense altogether.
The following multiplication example uses all the digits from 0 to 9 once (not counting intermediate steps). Fill in the missing numbers.
(7xx)(4x) = xxxxx
The same five letters can be anagrammed into four different words to fill the blanks in the sentence to make (somewhat) good sense. What are the missing words?
The farmer with hundreds of _____, deeply _____ about the amount of rainfall, and _____ around with artificial watering systems when the ground is dry enough to _____ him about the possibility of crop failure.
An aphorism is indicated below. All the vowels have been removed and the remaining letters broken into groups of four letters each. Replace the vowels to read the saying.
NFFC NTBS NSSW MNWH FNDM CHNT HTWL DDHL FHRW RKBG HTTW.
It was time to send the kids to camp, and Sally and Jim were shopping for supplies. They spent half the money they had plus $4.00 on socks for the kids; half of what was then left plus $3.00 on name tapes; and half of what was left plus $2.00 on a small wallet for each child. They found themselves with $3.00 left over, so they treated themselves to a glass of iced tea each. How much did they start out with?
When the two met, one was half the other's age plus seven years. Ten years later, when they married, the bride was thirty, but this time one was nine-tenths the age of the other. How old was the groom? (No fractions or partial years, whole numbers only.)
The engineering department was arranging for a rather expensive catered lunch to bid farewell to their retiring colleague. They calculated that it would cost each person $30. One good mathematician remarked, "It's lucky that there aren't five fewer of us to split the bill, or it would be $10 more from each." How many engineers split the bill, and how much did it cost?
This being Halloween, we will consider the problem of witches and their cats. The whole crowd is out tonight, naturally, and an interested observer, seeing them fly by (yes, witches' cats fly), noticed that the number of legs, all told, was three and a half times the number of heads, and the total of heads and legs was seventy-two. How many cats and witches are out this Halloween?
Each of the following words contains the letters NOV. Using the definitions, fill in the words.
A dispute or argument: __N__OV____
An astronomical feature: _____NOV_
New or original: __NOV_____
Unscramble the following thirteen letters to form a commmon English word.
A T C S D R I E I N O N O
Mother was very proud of her lace tablecloth, which was an heirloom. She was most upset when the children came home from school and put their dirty school books on it. She said (start at the correct letter, and move in any directon to a touching letter):
T I P S S
L O O O K
T H O O B
E L T M Y
C O H A N
Replace the letters below with numbers so that the addition will be numerically correct.
MOM + MOM + NO = BOOK
Dot likes pots and pans, but not cooks. She likes straw, but not hay; she likes sagas, but not poems. Does she like a star or a planet?
The lovely, but not terribly bright contessa was swindled of her jewels. She knew that her beautiful diamond pin had nine diamonds down each side, and nine across the top and bottom, clustered as shown below, but she never really examined the arrangement closely. A clever thief had figured out a way to steal four of the magnificent diamonds so that the contessa never missed them. He had reset the diamonds so there were still nine diamonds on each side of the pin, but only twenty diamonds in all. How did he reset the jewels to get away with four of them?
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
You have one of those fancy double boilers whose lid fits either pot. They aren't very heavy pots, either. The bigger pot weighs 12 ounces by itself; with the lid on it weighs twice as much as the little pot without the cover. The little pot, with the lid on, weighs one-third more than the big pot all by itself. What does the pot lid weigh by itself?
Of three sisters named April, May and June none is yet twenty-one. April is now as old as June was fourteen years ago, and two-thirds of May's age. May, on the other hand, will be June's age when May is twice as old as she is now plus 2 years. Three years ago, May was as old as April is now. How old are April, May and June?
Take the number of states before Alaska and Hawaii were added. Double that and add the number of "winds". Then subtract the number of Ali Baba's thieves, not counting Ali Baba. Divide by the number of days in May minus 1. Cube the result. What do you get?
A definition was dropped onto the blanks below. Each of the letters shown is in its proper column, but they have been arranged alphabetically. The X's show the spaces between words; a dash at the end of the line shows where a word has been broken. Fill in the definition.
_ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ X _ _ _- _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I E L F I N B B E R E A D B E R A B E A I I L T P D E I R N E E M I T H E L E W N O U R O W L T N L S S W W H L E W N S U S O V S S U P R N
Somehow I got talked into buying something on the installment plan. I'm not sure I got a good deal. The payments to date, according to my checkbook, have reached $96. The second year cost $2.00 more than the first; the third year cost $3.00 more than the second; and the fourth year cost me $4.00 more than the third. What were my payments the first year?
The following coiled sentence, when you find the proper starting letter and move in any direction to a touching letter, will finish the quartrain below. There is one null letter. Each letter is used only once.
T E A T R O E E X O H D A P V M V A N L Y T O E R S T E R A T H G I O N T H O S E I D I D
The following cryptogram has been done in simple substitution cipher: each number represents a letter and the same number always represents the same letter. What does it say?
14 26 23 26 14 22 24 6 9 18 22 24 26 15 15 22 23. 8 26 18 23 8 19 22 4 26 8 20 22 7 7 18 13 20 20 15 12 4 18 13 20 9 22 11 12 9 7 8 12 13 19 22 9 4 12 9 16.
In this addition alphametic, you can replace each letter with a number (the same number for each time a letter appears), to find a correct arithmetical solution.
HANG HANG HANG GANGS
In the puzzle below, change the first letter of each word on either side of the blank to form a new word. Use the same letter for both words on one line. Then fill in the new letter on the line between the two words. When you have finished, you will have a new word, reading down.
MART _ HARD ROUND _ WERE FASTER _ WITHER PLASTIC _ FAST BOLES _ AIMLESS
You've bought your weekly egg supply at the local farm store. The first morning you have company for breakfast and use half the eggs plus one-half an egg. The next morning you use one-half of what's left plus one-half an egg. The third morning you use one-half of what's left plus one-half an egg and on the fourth morning you're down to one solitary egg so you make french toast. In all this cooking you've never had one-half an egg to carry over to the next day. How many eggs did you buy originally?
What two letters would logically come next in the following sequence?
A Y D V G S J P M M P J ? ?
As you may recall, a palindrome is a word or group of words that reads the same backward as forward (Madam I'm Adam). Definitions for the two palindromes are given below, as well as the number of letters. Complete the palindromes.
Unselfish mother, says caring child.__ __ __ ________ __ _ __.
A scarlet alcoholic beverage is homicide, politely.
___ ___ ___ __ ______
By using all the digits 1 through 9, it is possible to construct four addition examples with the sum 873. Reversing the top and bottom numbers is not permitted. Each combination must be different. One number in each set has been filled in to give you a head start.
xx4 xx9 x5x xxx xxx xxx xxx 6xx 873 873 873 873
The following cryptogram is simple substitution of an unusual sort. Each letter or symbol represents one letter, the same one each time. Decipher the sentence. (Can you figure out the logic that the code follows?)
JS[[OMRDD OD S DYPVL YJSY D[;OYD YJTRR GPT PMR YJR FSU SGYRT UPI NIU OY.
All the vowels have been removed from the following cynical statement, and the remaining letters have been broken into groups of three letters each. Reconstruct the sentence.
PDS TRN SCM NTW SRT STH QCK NDT HDD.
You have stealthily raided your small child's piggy bank. You feel slightly guilty as you count the money. You have the same number of dimes and quarters, totaling $2.45. When you turn honest and put it back, how many of each coin will you need to replace?
When Maria went to get a passport, she had to give her real date of birth, but under all other circumstances she refused. When somebody asked how old she was, she said she was twenty-one, mentally omitting all Sundays. Sundays she didn't work, so naturally she didn't get any older. How old was Maria really?
If you reverse the digits of my age, you have the age of my son. A year ago I was twice his age. How old are we both now?
It's not easy having a mathematics professor as a new friend. When she invites you to her house she says, "All the houses on my side of the steet are numbered consecutively in even numbers. There are six houses on my side of the block and the sum of their numbers is 9870. You don't know which block I live on, and it's a long, long street, but I will tell you that I live in the lowest numbered house on my side of the block. What's the number? Or are you just going to ring the first even numbered doorbell for twenty blocks?"
The following brief message has been broken into letters. Each letter has been placed below its proper position in the diagram, but the letters have been put in alphabetical order. The X's show word divisions. Fill in the saying.
_ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ X X X E E A C C A L L B D R A K I L E P E A S H E S O E E O P P L L S V E O N V E W
You have ten coins totaling 49¢. By an odd coincidence, so does your friend Henry with whom you are walking. One of you accidentally loses a coin through a hole in a pocket. What is the chance it is a dime?
While Isabelle was out walking one day with her husband, Ferdinand, she met Cristoforo who was her only sister's mother-in-law's only son's grandfather-in-law. What was his relationship to Ferdidnand and Isabelle?
The names of three countries appear in the paragraph below. All the letters of each country are in the proper order. Can you discover the names?
Interpol and the FBI were working on the same case. "How can a daily routine be so varied?" asked the chief. "Oh, just watch the lady decked in diamonds," Agent Hobart replied. "She changes her route everyday."
Tom is younger than Rose, but older than Will and Jack, in that order. Rose is younger than Suzie, but older than Jack. Jack is younger than Jim. Suzie is older than Rose, but younger than Jim. Jim is older than Tom. Who is the oldest?
You're on your way home for Thanksgiving with the family. You fill the gas tank of your nice new small car, which holds 10 gallons and gives you 25 miles to the gallon. That should get you home easily, as home is 220 miles away. Unfortunately, about 20 miles from home, the car stops, and you discover the tank is dry--obviously a leak, because you can see drops dripping. How many gallons of gasoline have you lost?
A Thanksgiving message as been dropped onto the blanks below. Word divisions are indicated by X's and the letters for each of the boxes have been placed, not in the correct order but in alphbetical order, below each column. Fill in the letters in their proper places in the columns above them to read the message. A dash represents a broken word.
_ _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ X _- _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ X _ _- _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _- _ _ _ _ _ X X X X X X X X X X X E E R E E R K E U F A N D F R H E I V S S S E Y S F U F U T S F L T T W T T O T H N W U
The following multiplication example uses all the digits from 0 to 9 once and only once (not counting intermediate steps). Finish the problem. One number has been filled in to get you started.
xxx x5 xxxxx
The coiled sentence below contains the lines that will complete the following rhyme. By starting at the correct letter and moving in any direction, up, down, sideways and diagonally, you can work it out. (There are 2 null letters, used as fillers, that don't appear in the lines.)
As Hans was walking up the Alps, A vision turned his head. With mother on the handlebars Along the road Fritz sped. They hit a curve!
H E O K E J U S P O L E T S A H K O C N O N S N O M A H B B D I A S E
There is a very odd zoo on the planet XzyQE. It houses animals with two heads and three legs and animals with two heads and two legs. A count reveals there are 102 heads and 134 legs in all. How many of each kind of animal are there?
A young fellow was extremely eager to join his girlfriend for dinner. It was a 24-mile run upstream to visit her. His boat's speed would be 14 miles per hour but the current is running 4 miles per hour against him. He just filled his tank and he knows he has 20 gallons, but he uses up 6 gallons per hour. Will he make it or will he run out of gas? Explain.
Another Tom Swifty. Follow the rules and trace from letter to letter in any direction. One null letter fills in a space.
I L I P S K T Y L I E H X R C E S S A M E C S I O H I P D T
The great detective is hot on the trail of the guilty party who has perpetrated some atrocious puns. "Intent to deceive" is the charge, and he is now interrogating three suspects. George says, "I'm innocent -- Jane is too." Jane says, "Sally did it, and George is innocent." Sally says, "I'm innocent and Jane did it." The guilty one lied and the innocent both told the truth. Who is the perpetrator?
Your solar clock isn't working perfectly. Each day, in broad sunlight, it picks up half a minute, and each night, in the darkness, it loses one-third of a minute. In how many days, starting at sunrise on the first day, will it be five minutes fast? (Assuming that daylight and darkness are constant, of course, or the puzzle won't work.)
Here's another palindrome puzzle. Palindromes read the same forward and backwards and can be words, phrases or whole sentences. Find the palindromes for the defintitions given below.
What you do when the walls of your apartment are no longer fresh: _______
First television appearance: ____ _____
The following word square has five letters across and down. Fill it in so that it contains, in addition to the letters shown, one each, R and I; two each, T,O, and L; three E's; and five S's.
H A B I T A B I T
The same seven letters, rearranged into two different words, can be used to fill in the blanks below. Fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.
"What happened to your constant _______?" asked the lady with the parisol, having the driver stop her carriage to ask this most indiscreet question. "Well," said the lady in the bustle gown who had just returned to town for a visit, "Didn't you hear? We _______."
If you have a good memory and a big vocabulary, you may be able to come up with at least three words containing all the vowels, A, E, I, O, and U. The vowels don't have to appear in order (though they can be), and you don't have to include Y (though you can).
The digits from 0 to 9 have been used in the multiplication example below (excluding intermediate steps). Fill in the missing numbers.
x02 x9 1xxx8
Each of these boys' names except one can be anagrammed into a common english noun. What are the nouns and which name cannot be made into another word?
CORNELIUS DANIEL CAMERON THOMAS BOSWELL
Shopping can present a terrible dilemma, the new couple discovered. Three pounds of potatoes and two pounds of eggplants cost $2.25. Or they could just buy eggplants for the same amount of money and make a casserole out of all those eggplants. But potaoes are cheaper than eggplants. How much did potatoes cost per pound?
Here a common proverb has been dressed up in multisylabic guise. Dress it down to its normal language.
A totality of numerous objects that coruscate or are refulgent are not necessarily composed entirely of auriferous substances.
Find the two anagrams of the same nine letters that make sense in the following statement.
The delegates at the international conference were extremely _________. They had completed the first _________ agreement in a very important area, and even though it was not finalized, it was a good start.
Can you cross from DUSK to DAWN in only five steps, changing one letter at a time and using a good English word each time?
D A W N _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D U S K
A quotation has been placed on the blanks below and the letters have been put in alphbetical order below the blanks where they belong. Word divisions are shown by the X's. A dash at the end of the line indicates a broken word. Fill in the blanks to read the saying.
_ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _- _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ X _ _- _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _- _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X X XE E G E I E D A B I A E A L B H N H I R H D E N T H H E O D I N R W S I E E R T H N G R L I O T S N T N U Y S R T U M O T U N V R Y S T T T W T
Each of the following words contains the same common 3 letter word within it. Fill in the missing words.
Persistant, sticking to a goal: ______
A religious theory or belief: _____
Slang for an old sailor: ______
Our hero the brave knight, is trying to rescue the beautiful Princess of Puzzleland. The maiden has slipped him a message. She will be able to stand at the stable gate from 12:30 to 12:40, but no more than those ten minutes, on the following day. If he arrives promptly, she will elope with him. If not, she will be married later that same evening to his hated rival. The castle is 12 miles away. The first third is uphill, and his horse can make 4 miles per hour uphill; the second third is level, at 8 miles per hour, and the last part, one-third, is downhill, at 12 miles per hour. He figures that that averages out to 8 miles per hour, so if he leaves at 10:55 to give himself five minutes' leeway, he should arrive exactly within the ten minutes. Of course, he can't get there too early, or he'll be caught hanging around. Does he make it in time? Why or why not?
The following is an easy type of substitution cryptogram (each number standing for a different letter with the same substitution each time.)
13 15 14 5 25 20 1 12 11 19, 2 21 20 20 15 13 5 9 20 19 1 25 19 7 15 15 4 2 25 5.
All the vowels have been removed from the following statement, and the remaining letters have been broken into groups of three letters each. Replace the vowels and reconstruct the words to read the sentence.
THN LYT HNG WRS THN HSB NDW HNV RNT CSW HTY CKR WHT YWR SHS BND WHL WYS NTC SWH TYC KND WHT YWR.
Jack and John had been friends for a long time. Jack was six years older, but it hadn't made any difference when they met, and it didn't on the day they were talking about their friendship. "It's twenty-two years this week since we met at Bill's wedding," said John. "Yes, and our ages now, added together, are exactly double what they were then. That makes makes me feel old," said Jack, but they really were not, not even fifty. How old are they now?
In each of the word pairs that follows, a different word can be placed between the two words on the line to make two new words. The number of letters is indicated by the dashes. What are the four words?
BACK ____ ROBE
DOOR ____ STONE
PAD ____ STEP
SAW ____ WHEEL
What is the five-digit number, with no zeros and no repeated numbers, in which the second digit is two times the first, the third is three times the second, the fourth is four times the first and the last is one-half more than the second?
The following coiled sentence can be unscrambled by finding the right letter for a start, and then tracing letter by letter up, down, sideways, or diagonally to find a statement. (There are two null letters.)
I H E W I D R A T T E R I T L Y D N H S A O N G F O U I M S K I E V I K N H O C
The new teacher thought she'd get the children to drink the milk at recess more cheerfully by offering cookies with it. A lot of the children had illnesses and were out, causing various numbers of children to be present each day. One day the teacher noted that if there were five fewer children the next day, they would each get two cookies more if she brought the same number she had that day. However, the absentee list was low the next day, and she had four more children instead of five fewer. This meant that each received one cookie less than each child had received the day before. How many cookies did the children get the second day?
The name of a country is hidden in each of the sentences below. Find the countries.
The doorbell sign said, " Don't touch. In a real emergency, pull the cord."
They got married secretly, but no one is wed entirely alone, so there were witnesses.
We needed to visit a health resort, so we went to a spa in another country.
There are many words which have the same pair of letters at the beginning and the end, like ONION. Here are four words with only the middle of each one showing. The number of dashes indicates the number of letters that must be placed before and after, the same letters for each individual word, but different letters for different words. Fill in the letters.
__EPSA__
__RISCO__
__IT__
__BL__
Each of the following words includes the letters JAN in order. (They may include another J,A, or N, which does nont appear in the lines shown.) The definition for each word is given. Find the words.
A variety of semiprecious stone, a color either blue or orangy: J A _ _ N _ _
A type of soldier: J A N _ _ _ _ _ _
Pertaining, now, to the Democratic party of the U.S., but originally with a slightly different meaning. Adjectival form of a politiciamn's name: J _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A N
Each of the following groups of letters is actually a scrambled word that has one letter, the same letter for all the words, removed. The remaining letters were then scrambled. Reconstitute the words.
ENCU RUEC CATU RCHA IOAR ANVI
In the following mathematics example, you can substitute a different number for each letter (that is A = the same number each time), and come up with a correct math example.
A B C D E F G H I
x I
+ A J
A A A A A A A A A A
Can you go from DIRT to ROAD in only seven steps, changing one letter at a time and making a good English word each time?
D I R T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R O A D
The first word of a word square is given in the diagram below. Fill in the rest, using, in addition to the letters shown, one D, one S, one P, and two each A, E, and T.
L I K E
I
K
E
One three-letter word can be placed in front of each of the following words to make four new words. The same three letter word must be used in each case.
_ _ _ B L E D
_ _ _ R O W
_ _ _ G I N
_ _ _ T I N
Using the numbers 0, 4, 8, and 12 in the following square, you can complete it so that all the verticle, horizontal, and long diagonal rows add up to 24. (You may use each number more than once.)
0 __ 12 0 __ __ __ __ 4 __ __ __ __ __ __ 12
The following multisyllabic pronouncement is a badly garbled proverb. Translate it into common English.
Individuals residing in habitations composed of dried vegetable matter are seriously advised to consider the inadvisability of having seats of power kept for safekeeping in a repository in said domicile.