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Robert Steinwachs
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Get ready for more than 250 ways to baffle and

befuddle your mind. Everything game: your
is fair

name, your friends and family, numbers, and words!

Before you go any further, try some of these:

How many apples would you have if you took

two apples from three apples? (Two apples!)

Write down the number eleven thousand, eleven

hundred, and eleven. (12,111)

A boy and a girl born on the same day of the

same year with the same parents are not twins.
How is this possible? Two out of a set of triplets)
(

Divide twenty by one-half and add three. What is

your answer? (43)

If you think you're ready for the rest of these mind

mixers, then start keeping score, because these
bafflers are fun to play with your family and friends!

Sterling Publishi

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 BRAIN
BAFFLERS
Robert Steinwachs
Illustrated by Myron Miller

§ Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York

Library of Congress Catalogihg-in-Publication Data
Steinwachs, Robert.
Brainbafflers / by Robert Steinwachs ; illustrated by Myron
Miller.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8069-8789-8 (Trade)
ISBN 0-8069-8787-1 (Paper)
1. Puzzles. I. Title.
GV1493.S78 1993
793.73— dc20 92-39352
CIP

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Published in 1993 by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

387 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016
© 1993 by Robert Steinwachs
Distributed in Canada by Sterling Publishing
c/o Canadian Manda Group, P.O. Box 920, Station U
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M8Z 5P9
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The author claims neither to have originated nor improved
upon a good portion of these puzzles. The puzzles were
collected over many years through verbal exchange, mimeo-
graphed, photocopied, or hand-scrawled on paper. The au-
thor's intentwas to preserve for other enthusiasts some very
informative and entertaining puzzles which might otherwise
be lost forever. Were it possible to validate originality, the
author would gladly give credit to those who created any of
the puzzles listed.

Edited by Marie Steinwachs. Additional support from Julia

Steinwachs, Christine Steinwachs, Marie Steinwachs, Marsha
Boone, Louise Stark, Anne Padelford, and Michael Hartley.
Graphics by Linda Moore and Bruce R. Helm.
 CONTENTS
Introduction 6

Warm Up on a Few Easy Ones 7

Just for Your Information 11

Can You Decipher These Famous Nursery Rhymes

and Fables? 29

Can You Decipher These Famous Sayings? 33

Eccentric Equations 35

The Delivery Route 43

Silly Sequences 45

Petals Around the Rose 45

More Sequences 58

To Find the Meanings, Think of Music 59

More Bafflers 62

A Good Card Trick 68

The Answers 77

Index 96
 INTRODUCTION

OUT OF SEVERAL IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND THE

HUNDRED PUZZLES ORIGIN OF EACH ONE. THEY
COLLECTED IN THE ARE ASSEMBLED FOR YOUR
PAST FIFTY PLEASURE AND ARE NOT ALL

YEARS THESE ARE NONSENSICAL, BUT TOUCH

THE ONES WE HAVE ON MATHEMATICS, HISTORY,
NOT BEEN ABLE TO GEOGRAPHY, ENGLISH, LOGIC
FIND PUBLISHED PROBLEMS AND BIBLE KNOW-

ANYWHERE. THEY LEDGE. SEE HOW MANY

ARE THE TYPE OF YOU CAN SOLVE WITHOUT
PUZZLES THAT MAKE REFERRING TO THE BACK
THEIR APPEARANCE IN ANSWER PAGES. BE
THE FORM OF COPIED CAREFUL! SOME MAY BE
SHEETS IN OFFICES, PURPOSELY TRICKY AND
STORES, SCHOOLS, AND MISLEADING TO YOU,
CLUBS. IT WOULD BE, BUT VERY OFTEN, ARE
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, MOST INFORMATIVE.

good luck! (Solution on page 77)

 .

Warm Up on a Few Easy Ones

1 How many apples would you have if you took two apples
from three apples? (Solution on page 80)

2. How many of each kind of animal did Moses take on the

Ark? (Solution on page 84)

3. If a billion follows a million and a trillion follows a

what number follows
billion, a trillion?
(Solution on page 87)

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4. Gus and Joe are raising pigs. Gus said that if Joe would
give him two pigs they would have an equal number, but
if Gus gave Joe two of his, Joe would have twice as many

as Gus. How many pigs did they each have?

(Solution on page 85)

5. How many months have twenty-eight days?

(Solution on page 85)

6. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

(Solution on page 86)

7. If youhad to swallow one pill every half hour, how much

time would it take for you to swallow three pills?
(Solution on page 87)

8. What day would yesterday be if Thursday was four days

before the day after tomorrow?
(Solution on page 92)

9. How should you pronounce the second day of the week

Tee-use-day or Twos-dee? (Solution on page 94)

10. Counting one number per second twenty- four hours per
day, how long would it take to count to a billion? A
trillion? (Solution on page 92)

11. Write down the number eleven thousand, eleven hun-

dred, and eleven. (Solution on page 4$)

12. What is it you sit on, sleep in, and brush your teeth with?
(Solution on page 89)

13. Write in what every good citizen should do on election

day. (Solution on page 88)
14. If Mama Bull, Papa Bull, and Baby Bull are in the pasture
and Baby Bull gets scared, who would he run to?
(Solution on page 86)

15. Write your name in the spaces provided below.

(Solution on page 81)

 (Wa5).
^SS^ . L *f »

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 Just for Your Information
you would only gamble with 10% of your money and
Let's say
would win just as many times as you lose. Would you break
even?
For example: Start with $100 and gamble with $10. You
lose, leaving $90. Now bet 10% ($9) and win. You are left with
$99! Or start with $100, gamble with $10, and win, giving you
$110. Bet 10% ($11), lose, and you end up again with $99!

16. Unscramble these letters and make one word from them,
using all letters once: oerwndo
(Solution on page 88)

17. Which is better: One raise per year of $2,000 or a raise

of $500 every six months for an indefinite time?
(Solution on page 93)

18. Read this aloud and see if you can decipher the con-
versation:

Saville der dago

Toussin buses inaro
Nojo demis trux
Summit cousin
Summit dux
(Solution on page 86)

19. Too easy? Try this one!

FUNEM?
SVFM
FUNEX?
SVFX
OKMNX
(Solution on page 83)

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20. If you had a piece of paper that was 0.001 inch thick, how
would it make
tall a pile if it was doubled fifty times?
(Solution on page 88)

21. Just $1.00 in the bank drawing 10% compound interest

fortwo hundred years would amount to how much?
(Solution on page 90)

22, At $1.00 a pack of cigarettes, if you quit smoking for fifty

years and put the money in a bank account, how much
money would you have? Figure 10% interest.
(Solution on page 92)

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23. Two cities are exactly one hundred miles apart. Charlie
leaves City A driving at thirty m.p.h.and Joe leaves City
B a half an hour later driving sixty m.p.h. Who will be
closer to City A when they meet?
(Solution on page 90)

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2£* ea/A
loo f«r 1«*

IL

nana

24. A man went into a hardware store and priced certain

items. He was told they were $0.25 each. He replied, "I
would like one hundred, please," and the clerk rang up
$0.75 on the register for the entire purchase. What did
the man buy? (Solution on page 93)

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25. The score of the baseball game is five to four, in favor of
the home team. It is the last of the seventh inning and
not one man on either side even reached second base.
Can you explain why? (Solution on page 91)
«.

26. A poor man can make one cigarette from six butts. How
many cigarettes can he make from thirty-six butts?
(Solution on page 86)

27. A man walked into a bar in a resort area and said to the
bartender, "Water, water." The bartender immediately
pulled a gun out from under the bar and shot it. The man
said,"Thank you," and left. Why?
(Solution on page 94)

28. A man home one day and made three left turns and
left

met a man with a mask on. What was the first man's
profession? (Solution on page 94)

29. A man a restaurant and ordered a bowl of

walked into
albatross soup.At first taste he shouted, "Oh, no!" and
went outside and shot himself. Why?.
(Solution on page 88)

30. Four people can sit at a table in twenty- four different

arrangements. How many arrangements are possible for
seating eight people? (Solution on page 83)

31. Name ten cities starting with the letter "M" which have
over a million people living in them, only one city per
country. (Solution on page 81)

32. Name twenty-eight parts of the body which are spelled

with four No slang,
letters. abbreviations, or plurals allowed.
(Solution on page 77)
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33. Which number follows ten thousand ninety- five?
Ten thousand ninety-seven?
Ten thousand ninety-nine?
(Solution on page 79)

34. Without using the dictionary, how is polop-

ony" pronounced? (Solution on page 77)

35. In the spaces in the box, place the numbers 1 through 16

without any consecutive number touching.
(Solution on page 84)

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n
36. A man can paint room in four hours, and another man
a
can paint the same room in two hours. How long would
it take to paint the room if they worked together?

(Solution on page 87)

37. Can you make four equilateral triangles with six tooth-
picks? (Solution on page 87)

38. A dog had three puppies, named Mopsy, Topsy and

Spot. What was the mother's name.
(Solution on page 94)

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39. A microbe doubles itself every second, and in one minute
it fills a jar. How long would it take to the same jar if
fill

you started with four microbes?

(Solution on page 92)

40. A boy andborn on the same day of the same year

a girl
with the same parents are not twins. How is this
possible? (Solution on page 91)

41. Divide twenty by one-half and add three. What is your

answer? (Solution on page 90)

42. It is a scientific fact that a person eats over an inch of dirt

at every meal. How is this possible?
(Solution on page 89)

Y You ve Utw &^&\

;V Too MM piRT J

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 1 2 3 4
V

43. Across
1) What dogs do
2) What fish do
3) What you do when you eat
4) What you'll want to do when you solve this

Down
1) Insects
2) Optical organs
3) Pester
4) Comfort (Solution on page 87)
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44. Five men checked into a hotel with a bag of peanuts and
a monkey. They planned on dividing the peanuts evenly
the following morning. However, during the night, one
of the men got up, divided the peanuts into five equal
parts, took his fifth and had one leftover peanut which he
gave to the monkey. He put the other shares of peanuts
back into the bag and returned to bed.
A little later, a second man (who did not know that
thefirst man had been up) divided the peanuts five ways

and took his fifth. He also had one peanut left over,
which he gave to the monkey, and he returned the rest of
the peanuts to the bag.
Likewise, during the night the third, fourth and fifth

men got up and divided the peanuts, and each had one
left over for the monkey. The next morning they divided
the remaining peanuts equally five ways. How many
peanuts were originally in the bag?
(Solution on page 84)

45. Suppose the men followed the same procedure as in

Puzzle 44, but had one peanut left for the monkey the
following morning. What would be the least number of
peanuts they could have started with?
(Solution on page 85)

46. In a small midwestern town, the school chimney (ap-

proximately 75 feet tall) needed repairs on the top.
There was no inside or outside ladder, so the estimates
were very high since a contractor would have to build
expensive scaffolds.
On
the morning after Halloween, the school offi-
cialsfound that someone had put a hay wagon atop the
chimney during the night. There was no room for
cranes, and helicopters would have been heard. How did
the wagon get there? (Solution on page 81)

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47. What is the least number of queens that could be used to
command an entire chessboard?
(Solution on page 86)

LIJBLiJ
mmmm
mama
Bid
48. Is the Great Wall of China ten miles long? One hundred
miles long? A thousand miles long? Two thousand
miles? More? (Solution on page 89)

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49. Will and Jim were practising shooting, and each scored
seventy-five hits out of a hundred. After a little break,
Will tried again and hit thirty-five out of fifty shots. Jim
did not do any more shooting. Who had the best average
for the day? (Solution on page 91)

50. Two half-mile sections of steel railroad track were laid

and absolutely secured on each end. The sun expands the
steel one foot (12 inches91). Now the overall length is
5,281 feet, and since it is secured at the ends it will
buckle in the middle. How high from the ground will it
buckle? (Solution on page 91)

51. ERGRO

If you use the same three letters in the same order before
and after the given letters, you will get a very dirty word!
What is the word? (Solution on page 86)

52. A pipe can fill a tank with water in thirty minutes. A

larger pipe can fill the tank in twenty minutes, and still a
larger pipe can fill it in ten minutes. How long would it

take to fill the tank if all three were opened at once?

(Solution on page 85)

53. To open the safe shown below, certain letters on the

three dials must be turned to the arrows. To make the
combination easy to remember, it was designed so that
the letters on the dials would spell a three-letter English
word. What is the word that opens the safe?

Letters used
1st dial: qbprxlt
2nd dial: mtscfdy
3rd dial: hjsxfgw (Solution on page 88)
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54. A young lady looked at a picture and said, "This person's
mother was my mother's mother-in-law." Who was in
the picture? (Solution on page 85)

55. We asked the stationmaster how long the train would be

in the station. He answered, "222222." We also asked
about the train on the next track and he answered,
"2222222." What did he mean?
(Solution on page 87)

56. A four-inch cube of solid-white material is painted black

on and then cut into one-inch cubes. Some
all six faces,

of the small cubes will have three black faces, some will
have two black faces, some one, and some none. How
many will there be of each?
(Solution on page 91)
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57. GHOTI
Broken down phonetically, the above word will be
pronounced "fish." How? (Solution on page 94)

58. How many spaces in a wheel with 16 spokes — 15, 16, or

17? (Solution on page 93)

59. Three playing cards are in a row. A diamond is to the left

of a spade (not necessarily next to it). An eight is to the
right of a king. A ten is to the left of a heart. A heart is

to the left of a spade. What are the three cards?

(Solution on page 93)
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60. If you drove somewhere averaging 60 m.p.h. and you
returned the same distance averaging 40 m.p.h., what
would your average speed be?
(Solution on page 92)

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lSvrR£WV£ C0QR.T ]

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ptFtNt>M^r
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61. If your peacock laid an egg just six inches across your
neighbor's property line, who would legally own the
egg? (Solution on page 90)

62. Read the sentence below:

JULY 4th, the day of the

ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE, IS CELEBRATED IN
ALL OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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 Now, go back and count number of times the
the
letter "E" appears in the sentence. Count them only
once and do not go back and count them again. How
many "E"s did you count? (Solution on page 89)

63. The Sheriff and his posse, while looking for some
outlaws in the woods, came upon what they thought
were old Indian signs. Can you read them?
(Solution on page 88)

^
64. Fill in the numbers:
Just sure as and are
The Wonders of the World
Friday the (Solution on page 80)

65. All answers end with "sting."

A sting that cures fatigue
A sting that cures hunger
A sting that tidies your room
A sting that makes you laugh
A sting that cooks your meat
A sting that spoils your tools
A sting that makes you read a book through
A sting that some observe in Lent
A sting that cooks are always using
A sting that browns your bread
(Solution on page 78)
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66. Rearrange these numbers so they total 34 horizontally,
and diagonally.
vertically,

14 6 8 11
16 3 9 5
12 4 7
k
2
10 13 1 15
(Solution on page 79)

67. If you do the following exercise correctly, you will

change the name of an American president into the name
of a European country. Check your method, speed and
accuracy in following directions.
Write the words george Washington.
Take out all the "E"s.
Counting only the remaining letters, add an "l"
after each seventh letter. Move the second "g" to the
beginning and put the last letter in its place. Whenever
three consonants appear together, change their order so
that the first consonant in the group becomes the last,
the one in the second place takes the first position, and
the one in the third position becomes the middle con-
sonant of the group. Take out the last two vowels.

Where a double consonant appears, take out both letters.

Beginning with the third letter from the left, interchange
each two letters. Take out the last two letters. Move the
last letter so it will be the first letter. Add a "D" after

each fourth letter and at the beginning. Replace every

"S" with an "N". Take out the middle three letters.
Take out the final letter and put the first letter in its
place.
You should now have the name of the European
country. (Solution on page 87)

68. Twenty-one birds are nesting in a tree. If a man shot into

the tree and killed one-seventh of them, how many
would remain? (Solution on page 85)

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69. Name the offspring of:

Mr. & Mrs. Voyant

Mr. & Mrs. Tress
Mr. & Mrs. Nasium
Mr. & Mrs. Tate
Mr. & Mrs. Fi
Mr. & Mrs. Itosis
Mr. & Mrs. Anthemum
Mr. & Mrs. Mander
Mr. & Mrs. Mite (Solution on page 83)

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70. Answer the following with parts of the body (no slang).
Example: Heard in Congress while voting Answer: eyes
& nose
A strong box
Two baby cows
A shellfish
Two measures
Two places of worship
Scholars
Part of a shoe
What every builder must have
Something made by whips
What the soldier carries (Solution on page 84)

71. There are three sealed envelopes. One contains two $5

bills,one contains a $10 and a $5 bill, and the third
contains two $10 bills. Unfortunately, all three envelopes
have the wrong amount marked on the outside. How
could you correct all three by opening one envelope and
looking at only one bill? (Solution on page 80)

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 Can You Decipher These Famous
Nursery Rhymes and Fables?
72. A female of the Homo sapiens species was the possessor of
a small immature ruminant of the genus Ovis, whose
outermost covering reflected all wavelengths of visible
light with a luminosity equal to that of a mass of
naturally occurring microscopically crystalline water.
Regardless of the translational pathway chosen by the
Homo sapiens female, there was a 100% probability that
the aforementioned ruminant would select the same
pathway. (Solution on page 93)

...AMpTfcte 0V1& §TMKep

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73. A research team proceeded toward the apex of a natural
geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition
being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of
oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was
unspecified. One member of the team precipitously
descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial
portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the
second member of the team performed a self-rotational
translation oriented in the direction taken by the first

team member. (Solution on page 89)

74. A young male human was situated near the intersection

of two supporting elements at right angles to each other;
said subject was involved in ingesting a saccharine com-
position prepared in conjunction with the ritual obser-
vance of an annual fixed-day religious festival. Insertion
into the saccharine composition of the opposable digit of
his forelimb was followed by removal of a drop of genus
Prunus. Subsequently, the subject made a declarative
statement regarding the high quality of his character as a
young male human. (Solution on page 94)

75. A geriatric human female proceeded to a storage com-

partment for the purpose of procuring a fragment of
osseous tissue from an unidentified deceased specimen to
transfer to an indigent carnivorous domesticated mam-
mal, Canis familiaris, family Canidae. Upon arrival at her
destination, she found the storage compartment in de-
nuded condition, with the consequence that the indigent
carnivore was deprived of the intended donation.
(Solution on page 94)

76. A human female, extremely captious and given to op-

posed behavior, was questioned as to the dynamic state
of her cultivated tract of land used for the production of
various types of flora. The tract components were enu-
merated as argentous tone-producing agents, a rare

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 species of oceanic growth, and pulchritudinous young
females situated in a linear orientation.
(Solution on page 93)

77. Complications arose during an investigation of dietary

influence; one researcher was unable to assimilate adi-
pose tissue, and another was unable to consume tissue
consisting chiefly of muscle fibre. By a reciprocal ar-
rangement between the two researchers, total consump-
tion of the viands under consideration was achieved, thus
leaving the original container of the viands devoid of
contents. (Solution on page 91)

Y/eLL> MoTHeR \J\kHV

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78. A triumvirate of murine rodents totally devoid of oph-
thalmic acuity was observed in a state of rapid locomo-
tion in pursuit of an agriculturalist's uxorial adjunct. Said
adjunct then performed a triple caudectomy utilizing an
acutely honed bladed instrument generally used for
subdivision of edible tissue.
(Solution on page 91)

V'j

i^H: J

^
For more eccentric equations, see pages 35 —41

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 Can You Decipher These
Famous Sayings?
79. A mass of concentrated earthly material perennially
rotatingon its axis will not accumulate an accretion of
bryophytic vegetation. (Solution on page 90)

80. A superabundance of talent skilled in the preparation of

gastronomic concoctions will impair the quality of a
certain potable solution made by immersing a gallina-
ceous bird in ebullient Adam's ale.

(Solution on page 86)

81. Individuals who perforce are constrained to be domiciled

in vitreous structures of patent frangibility should on no
account employ petrous formations as projectiles.
(Solution on page 85)

82. That prudent avis which matutinally deserts the coziness

of abode will ensnare a vermiculate creature.
its

(Solution on page 88)

83. Everything that coruscates with effulgence is not ipso

facto aurous. (Solution on page 92)

84. Do not dissipate your competence by hebetudinous

prodigality lest you subsequently lament an exiguous
inadequacy. (Solution on page 94)

85. An addlepate and his specie divaricate with startling

prematurity. (Solution on page 94)
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86. It can be no other than a maleficent horizontally pro-
pelled current of gaseous matter whose portentous ad-
vent not the harbinger of
is a modicum of beneficence.
(Solution on page 89)

87. Scintillate, scintillate, globule of vivific

Fain would Ifathom thy nature specific
Loftily poised above the capacious
Closest resembling a gem carbonaceous.
(Solution on page 91)

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 Eccentric Equations
See how many of these equations you can solve without
looking up the answers. The first one is free!

88. 26=L of the A (Solution: Letters of the

Alphabet)

89. 7=WoftheAW (Solution on page 93)

90. 10=C (Solution on page 78)

91. 1,001=A N (Solution on page 79)

92. 12=S of the Z (Solution on page 80)

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 93. 54=C in a D (with the J) (Solution on page 81)

94. 9=P in the S S (Solution on page 81)

95. 88=P K (Solution on page 89)

96. 32=D F at which WF (Solution on page 95)

97. 18=H in a GC (Solution on page 94)

98. 90=D in a RA (Solution on page 93)

99. 200=D for P G in M (Solution on page 92)

100. 8=S on a S S (Solution on page 91)

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101. 3=B M (S H T R) (Solution on page 90)

102. 24=H in a D (Solution on page 89)

103. 1=W on a U (Solution on page 86)

104. 1,000=W that a P is W (Solution on page 91)

105. 29=D in F in a LY (Solution on page 93)

106. 64=S on a C B (Solution on page 81)

107. 40=D and N of the G F (Solution on page 82)

108. 6=W of H the E (Solution on page 1^8)

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109. 101=D (Solution on page 89)

110. 60=S in a M (Solution on page 95)

111. 7=H of R (Solution on page 95)

112. 5=F on each H (or T on each F)

(Solution on page 93)

113. 40=T with AB (Solution on page 91)

114. 30=D H S AJ and N (Solution on page 88)

115. 1=D at a T (Solution on page 85)

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116. 2=TD (andaPinaPT)
(Solution on page 85)

117. 4=H of the A (Solution on page 86)

118. 13=CinaS (Solution on page 87)

1 19. 8=P of S in the EL (Solution on page 90)

120. 20,000=L U the S (Solution on page 90)

121. 360=D in a C (Solution on page 86)

122. 60=M in an H (Solution on page 94)

123. 13=B D (Solution on page 94)

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124. 2001=A S O (Solution on page 93)

125. 6=S on a C (Solution on page 91)

126. 32=T including WT (Solution on page 91)

127. 100=L on a C (Solution on page 88)

128. 3=W M (Solution on page 87)

129. 7=D (Solution on page 80)

130. 1, 2=B MS (Solution on page 88)

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131. 206=B in the B (Solution on page 88)

132. 6=S on a H (Solution on page 91)

133. 4=S in a Y (Solution on page 93)

134. 2=Y before the M (Solution on page 94)

135. 21=G S (Solution on page 93)

136. 4=C in a CC (Solution on page 91)

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 For more eccentric equations, see pages 35-41

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 The Delivery Route

137. The driver of a beer delivery truck had to make deliveries

to nine stores in nine different towns —K,I,F,
G,E,N,M,L, and J. He did not want to go over the same
route twice and he did not want to go to any of the nine
towns more than once. From the map above, list the towns
in the order he should make his deliveries. The brewery
is town P. (Solution on page 85)

138. How many letters are there in the Hawaiian alphabet?

(Solution on page 86)

139. How could you take one from nineteen and leave
twenty? (Solution on page 87)

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140. Three men were selling melons at $1.00 each at a
market. One started with 33 melons, the second with 29
melons, and the third man with only 27. They each sold
only a few until one man dropped his price to 3/$ 1.00.
The other two did likewise, and at this price they all soon
Comparing their business later, they found
sold out. that
each took in the same amount of money. How did this
happen? (Solution on page 88)

141. A boy was offered a bonushe sold one hundred

if

subscriptions to a magazine. Each day he sold three

subscriptions more than he had on the previous day, and
on the eighth day he reached his one hundred quota.
How many subscriptions did he sell each day?
(Solution on page 90)

$0) WMT WAS) YouR BoNug)

ftR geLL'MG loo §>u&£c£irTiotf&?

Stl

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 Silly Sequences
142. 1 2 5 10 13 26 29? (Solution on page 90)

143. 9 7 8 5 7 3? (Solution on page 88)

Petals Around the Rose

144.

• .
• • • • •

• • • • =2
• • • • • •

• • • ••••• =12
•
•

•• •

•
•

••••
• • •

• • • • • • •

• • • • • =0
• • • • • • •

•
•
•

••••••
•
=6

• • • • • •

• •
•

• •
• •
•
•
•
=2

Study the above samples and see if you can break the
code. (Solution on page 85)

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145. How many holes are there in a "Chinese Checkers"
board? (Solution on page 88)

146. In which war did the first jet airplane combat take place?
(Solution on page 87)

147. Which swim but

bird can can't fly?
(Solution on page 95)

148. Which gambling device was invented around 1244 b.c.e.?

(Solution on page 87)

149. On which day does Mardi Gras begin?

(Solution on page 86)

150. What percentage of the circle is labelled A and what

percentage is labelled B? (Solution on page 93)

10°/<

15%
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151. Which word has three pairs of letters?
(Solution on page 90)

152. What is 550 foot lbs. per second equal to?

(Solution on page 90)

153. What color is traditional for a Chinese wedding dress?

(Solution on page 94)

1 54. Which country had the first adhesive postage stamp?

(Solution on page 94)

ftFTWl 1* At>H€5»ve STAMP

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155. Multiply the number of letters in the sign of the lion by
the number of letters in the sign of the bull. Subtract the
number of letters in the sign of the fish. Divide by the
number of letters in the sign of the crab. Multiply by
the number of letters in the sign of the twins. What is
the answer? (Solution on page 93)

156. Tom is older than Sue, and Sue is younger than Mary,
who is older than Tom. Who is the oldest of the three?
(Solution on page 92)

157. You buy a large bottle of juice in a returnable bottle for

$1.60. The juice costs $1.20 more than the bottle. After
the bottle is empty, you return it for your refund. How
much should you receive? (Solution on page 89)

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158. In grid A below,
the circles have been placed so that no
circle is same row or in the same column as any
in the
other circle. However, two circles are on the same
diagonal (the one shown with the arrow). Place four
circles on grid B so that no circles are in the same row,
column, or diagonal. (Solution on page 95)

B
o
o
o
o \

159. Arrange twenty cubes in four piles using these clues:

• All piles contain an even number of cubes.
• There are twice as many cubes in the first pile as in the
second pile.
• The largest number of cubes is in the first pile.
• All piles have a different number of cubes.
• Each pile has at least one cube.
How many cubes would be in Pile 1? Pile 2? Pile 3?
Pile 4? (Solution on page 85)

1
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160. Alex played a game of darts. He made throws and hit
five

the target each time. His total score was sixty points.
Where on the target did his darts land?
(Solution on page 88)

161. In order to win this game of darts, you have to throw

four darts and get exactly twenty-six points. Which areas
of the board would you hit to get your twenty-six points?
If youneeded twenty-nine points with four throws, what
would you need to hit? (Solution on page 91)

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162. How many shots are necessary to score exactly 100 on
the target below? (Solution on page 92)

163. September 9, 1981 (9/9/81) was the last time in this

century that the product of the month times the day is
the last two digits of the year. When will this happen
again?
(Solution on page 92)
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164. In the land of Woz, each person has only one car. The
license plate of each car is different, and contains just one
letter and one one-digit number including zero. How
many people live in the land of Woz?
(Solution on page 77)

165. Answer this one quickly. After a gas tank of a car is filled,

which happens first?

A. the tank is 3A empty
B. the tank is
2
A full (Solution on page 89)

166. A typical license plate composed of three letters and

is

three numbers (ex. ABC-123) How many of these plates

can be made without duplication? How many license
plates can be formed if duplication of letters or numbers
is not allowed? (Solution on page 94)
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167. A man took a truckload of chickens to market. In the first
hour he sold one-half of his birds plus one-half of a
chicken. The next hour he sold one-third of a chicken.
The third hour he sold one-fourth of what he had left
plus three-fourths of a chicken. The last hour he sold
one-fifth of the chickens plus one-fifth of a chicken. He
did not cut up any chickens to make any of these sales.
He returned home with nineteen chickens. How many
did he take to market? (Solution on page 94)

168. What beast of burden can carry more on its back than an
elephant? (Solution on page 90)

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169. In a small town, was found that ninety percent of the
it

people drank coffee, and eighty percent drank tea. Also,

seventy percent drank Bourbon whiskey, and sixty per-
cent drank vodka. None of the people drank all four
items, but they all did drink three of the four beverages.
What percent of the people drank liquor?
(Solution on page 92)

170. A man istwenty years old plus half his age. How old is

he? (Solution on page 86)

171. Name thirty parts of the body spelled with five letters.
No plurals, no abbreviations, and no slang.
(Solution on page 83)

172. A very thrifty housewife was checking soap prices in a

supermarket. She noted that brand A was 50% more
expensive than brand C
and contained 20% less weight
than brand B. However, brand B was 50% heavier than
brand C, and cost 25% more than brand A. Which
would be the best buy? (Solution on page 80)

173. Sam raced Jake on a 100-yard dash, and beat him by 10

yards. The next day Sam told Jake to take a 10-yard lead
and they would race again. If they both maintained the
same speed as the previous day, would the race be a tie or
who would win, and why? (Solution on page 85)

174. Cut awheel of cheese in 16 fairly equal shapes and

approximate weights with only four cuts of a knife. Only
straight cuts may be used. (Solution on page 83)

175. Which of the following letter designs is not like the

other six?

Y E N F H A Z
(Solution on page 87)

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1 76. The first day Tony put a new display of apples in his fruit
them and gave two to the local
stand, he sold half of
policeman. The next day he removed three bruised
apples and sold one-third of the remainder. The third
day he ate three, gave two more away, and sold one-
fourth of what was left. The last day he sold one-fifth of
the remainder, threw five rotten ones away, and had
enough left for an average-size apple pie. How many
apples did he start with? (Solution on page 87)

177. How long would it take a half-mile train going one mile
a minute to go through a two-mile tunnel?
(Solution on page 88)

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178. How many minutes would it be before six o'clock if fifty
minutes earlier it had been four times as many minutes
after three o'clock? (Solution on page 93)

179. Using the following sequence, where would 13 fit in, and
why?
8 11 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 12 2
(Solution on page 89)

180. Alex, twelve years old, is three times as old as his sister.

How old will Alex be when he is twice as old as his sister?

(Solution on page 95)

181. Which of the following do not in the series?

(Solution
ADGIJMPS
on page 92)
letters fit

182. Which of the following numbers do not fit in with the

order of the others?
2 3 6 7 8 14 15 30
(Solution on page 90)

183. Make a path from start to finish that does not cross itself

or cut diagonally and totals 54.

(Solution on page 95)

Start 7 9 13
3 5 / 15
16 4 7 11
15 1 3 Finish

1 and a six-hour candle were lit at the

84. If a five-hour candle
same time, how much time would elapse before one
candle would be five times longer than the other?
(Solution on page 94)

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185. What number is divisible by any number from two to
nine, and will always have one number left for a remain-
der? Hint:The number is less than 3,000!
(Solution on page 93)

186. If the car rental agency charges $35.00 per day and $0.45
per mile to rent their cars, how many miles can you drive
and still keep the cost under $125.00 per day?
(Solution on page 92)

187. A salesman is paid a salary of $300.00 plus a 40%

commission in sales. How much does he have to sell to
make an income of $2,000.00?
(Solution on page 90)

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188. If $3,600.00 was invested at 15% interest compounded
how much money would there be in seven years?
daily,
(Solution on page 89)

189. Where is the world's highest chimney, and how tall is it

(approximately)? (Solution on page 86)

More Sequences .

190. Complete these sequences, if you can!

30 5 1 4 12 ? = 6
7 7 7 4 4 ? = 1
(Solution on page 86)

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 To Find the Meanings, Think of
Music

191. Move hitherwards, the entire assembly of those who are

steadfast. (Solution on page 90)

192. Ecstasy towards the terrestrial sphere.

(Solution on page 91)

^^
«s»

193. Hush, the celestialmessengers produce harmonious

sounds. (Solution on page 91)

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194. Creator, cool you kooky
it, cats.
(Solution on page 91)

195. O tatterdemalion ebony atmosphere.

(Solution on page 93)

196. The thing manifested itself at the onset of a transparent

day. (Solution on page 94)

197. Embellish the interior passageways.

(Solution on page 89)

198. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted

metallic resonant cups. (Solution on page 78)

199. Hey, minuscule urban area south of Jerusalem.

(Solution on page 81)

200. Nocturnal timespan of unbroken quietness.

(Solution on page 86)

201. This autocratic troika originates near the ascent of

Apollo. (Solution on page 86)

202. The primary carol. (Solution on page 88)

203. Natal celebration devoid of color, rather albino, as in a

hallucinatory phenomenon for me.
(Solution on page 92)

204. Valentino, the roseate proboscis wapiti.

(Solution on page 93)

205. Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percus-

sionistic cylinders. (Solution on page 94)

206. O nativity conifer. (Solution on page 94)

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207. During the time bovine caretakers supervised their
charges past midnight. (Solution on page 77)

208. What offspring abides thus?

(Solution on page 91)

209. Removed in a bovine feeding trough.

(Solution on page 88)

210. Expectation of arrival at populated area by mythical,

masculine, perennial gift- giver.
(Solution on page 95)

211. Geographic state of fantasy during the season of Mother

Nature's dormancy. (Solution on page 89)

212. Proceed to declare something upon a specific geograph-

ical Alpine formation. (Solution on page 92)

213. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds

of minute crystals. (Solution on page 89)

214. Jovial yuletide desired for the second person singular or

plural by us. (Solution on page 80)

215. Thoracic-Squirrel Diet barbecue.

(Solution on page 79)

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 More Bafflers

216. Charley bought a motorcycle to tour the country with.

After two years, it had depreciated to $6,000 and in five
years it hadbook value of $3,750. What did the
a
motorcycle cost originally, and how long before it would
have a book value of $0? (Solution on page 87)

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 111 ——

217. Above are twenty- five squares. Take the twenty-six letter
alphabet, cross out any one of the letters and fill the
squares with the remaining letters. See how many words
you can form by joining letters horizontally, vertically, or
diagonally. You may go backwards and use a letter in
more than one place. By putting the vowels in choice
places, the letters were arranged so that I was able to
build 104 words. Can you beat that record?
(Solution on page 81)

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218. One summer, two high school athletes decided to walk
117 miles along a mountain trail. They started out early

on Sunday morning packed with energy. However, each

day they walked one mile less than they had the previous
day. They did not give up, and on the following Monday,
eight days later, they finished their hike. How many
miles did they hike each day?
(Solution on page 92)

219. Why would it take a plane flying from San Francisco to

New York nonstop longer than the same type of plane
flying from New York to San Francisco, when weather,
speed, winds, and all flying conditions were the same
each way? (Solution on page 88)

220. Slippery Joe ran against Sneaky Pete, Big Looie the Con,
and Dragnet Doug for the mayor's job in a small town.
Out of 1,648 total votes, Joe beat Pete by 8 votes, Looie
by 76 votes, and Doug by 187 votes. How many votes did
each of these stalwart gentlemen receive?
(Solution on page 78)

221. Just for fun, how many different ways is the word "shot"
used in our modern-day language? I found at least

twenty. Can you find more?

(Solution on page 78)

222. June 2 1 has been called the longest day of the year. What
day of the year is longer than that day?
(Solution on page 91)

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223. A bridge was built in a perfect arch across a river. A man
walked out on the bridge twenty-seven feet from the
shore and determined that the water level of the river
was just nine feet below the bridge. When he got to the
center of the bridge, he measured again and the distance
from the bridge to the water level was ten feet. How wide
was the river? (Solution on page 93)

224. If you drop one of those "super bounce" rubber balls

from a distance of nine feet from the floor, the ball keeps
bouncing. Each time it bounces back two-thirds of the
distance of the previous bounce. What distance would
the ball travel before it stopped?
(Solution on page 95)

225. Unscramble the following and, using all the letters, make
a ten-letter word that a four-year-old child would rec-
ognize. Very possibly you have never had occasion to
write the word, but it's likely that you've spoken it

several times:
ROAST MULES
(Solution on page 89)

226. Replace the letters with numbers in the following addi-

tion tasks:

ABC LMN RSTU

+ BDE + ONL + UTSR
FGEB PQQQ VWWV
(Solution on page 90)

227. A man work each day averaging a speed of 40

drives to
m.p.h. and always arrives just on time to start work.
However, one morning the traffic was bad and at the
halfway point he found that he was averaging only 20
m.p.h. How fast must he travel the rest of the way to get
to work on time? (Solution on page 86)
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228. If seven cats can catch seven rats seven ways in seven
days, how long will it take ten cats to catch ten rats ten
ways? (Solution on page 89)

229. In his will, a grandfatherleft each of his grandsons as

many dollars he had grandsons, and each of his

as
granddaughters as many dollars as he had granddaugh-
ters. He did likewise with his four great-grandchildren

and willed $441 for all. How many grandsons, grand-

daughters, and great-grandchildren did he have?
(Solution on page 85)

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230. In which country are the following:
Stonehenge
Alhambra
Parthenon
Eiffel Tower
Colosseum
Piccadilly Circus
Big Ben
Leaning Tower
Blarney Stone
Bridge of Sighs
Black Forest
Kremlin
Matterhorn
Monte Carlo
Little Mermaid
Louvre
Great Pyramid
Mozart's Birthplace
Tivoli Gardens
(Solutions on page 84)

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 A Good Card Trick
231. Shuffle a deck of cards well, and then spread them face
down on the table. Have a friend pick three cards, one at
a time. The friend hands you the cards face down
without looking at them. You will be able to tell him

what each card is and have it written down before you

peek at the card! You pick a final card yourself and tell
what it is before you look at it. Then turn over all four
cards and show that you were right! How is this done?
(Solution on page 79)

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232. A grocery clerk must stack thirty cases of canned vege-
tables. Each case contains twenty-four cans. He wants to
display them in a pyramid, with each row containing one
less can than the row below it. Is it possible to use up all

the cans and have a top row with only one can? How
many rows of cans would he have?
(Solution on page 91)

233. Below an example of a "two-way addition pattern,"

is

using the nine digits. The numbers form the correct sum
as they stand or rotated 90 degrees to the right. Can you
make another similar pattern using the nine digits?
(Solution on page 95)
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1 5
+6 3

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234. My next door neighbor rotated the tires on his car every
5,000 miles. When he had 10,000 miles of use, one of the
tires was damaged and replaced. He continued rotating
the tires every 5,000 miles but did not use the new tire as
a spare until all five tires had worn equally. When the
new tire first became a spare, how many miles had he
added on his odometer? (Solution on page 94)

235. Suppose a teacher obtains a job with a starting salary of

$15,000 and receives a raise of $500 every year for ten
years. What will her salary be in ten years? If she was
offered the alternative of accepting a 3 % raise each year
instead of the $500 raise, which would be the higher
salary in ten years? (Solution on page 92)

236. More sequences:

9 7 13 11 17 ?

57 49 42 36 ?

5 8 6 9?
1 3 6 10 ?

1 3 6 11 13 16 18 20 ?

(Solutions on page 95)

237. part 1769 stoxe 49385 patersox 17956438

so —
What number should be put in the blank?
(Solution on page 90)

238. If you had $10,000 in the bank and would like it to grow

what interest would you have to

to $20,000 in ten years,
—
get assuming annual compounding?
(Solution on page 87)

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239. A farmer butchered twenty-pigs in six days. He butch-
ered on every one of the six days and an odd number of
How many were butchered on each
pigs each time. day?
(Solution on page 89)

240. A man wanted to invest exactly $10,000 in five different

stocks at the following market price:
202
13
46l/4
91 Vi
108
Not taking brokers or any other fees into account, how
many of each of the stocks did he buy?
(Solution on page 87)

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241. A small town, in an effort to raise money, hired a
well-known country band to play in its civic stadium.
The band offered to give one concert for $10,000 and
20% of the gate receipts. It is assumed that 10,000
people will attend. What admission price would the town
have to charge just to break even? What admission price
would it have to charge to earn a profit of $25,000?

(Solution on page 85)

242. —
Some gentlemen Sneaky Pete, Looie the Con, and
—
Dragnet Doug met parolee Bad Bob. Bob told them
about a shrine in the Shamir Desert in which there was
an idol adorned with jewels. To reach the shrine would
take ten days' travel time. A man would need one gallon
of water a day to travel and could carry no more than ten

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 gallons on his back. They each had four two-and-a-half-
gallon cans of water with no place available to get more.
It would be possible to cache cans of water along the
route. They decided to pool their supply and to place it

in such places on the route that one man could cross to

the shrine and return safely. If a man walked five miles
out and returned, he would have no water to leave on the
trail. Is it possible to get a man across and return with the

loot? (Solution on page 80)

243. A man buys a piece of farm equipment which costs

$10,000 and it depreciates 20% of its current value every
year. The first would depreciate $2,000, the
year it

second year $1,600, and so on. How many years would it

take for the equipment to reach total depreciation?
(Solution on page 95)

244. A farmer took 141 bushels of three different grains to the

market and received $565 for the load. His wheat sold
for $5 a bushel, corn for $4, and oats for $2.50. How
many bushels of each kind of grain did he take to
market? (Solution on page 83)

245. If the length and width of a rectangular field totalled

1,350 feet, which figures in length and width would give
the most square footage?
(Solution on page 77)

246. A E HIKLMNOP UW
BCD F J QRST V

Does xyz belong above or below the line, and why?

(Solution on page 90)

247. Picture a pyramid of blocks. Ten blocks in the bottom

row, with one block less in each row for ten rows, totals
fifty- five blocks. How many blocks would there be if the
pyramid started at one hundred blocks?
(Solution on page 89)

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248. A man obtained a job in a factory with $20,000 as his
starting salary. If he received an 8% raise every year,
what would his salary be in ten years?
(Solution on page 81)

249. Two planes took off from an airport just thirty minutes
apart. The first headed'due and the second flew due
east,
west. In seventy- five minutes they were exactly 700 miles
apart. How fast was each plane flying?
(Solution on page 95)

250. What is the name of the number in the world? If

largest
you say a googol, that number has only 100 zeros
following the digit. There is a number much larger than
this! (Solution on page 78)

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251. Many years ago, an eccentric woman named Lucy King
wrote this riddle. A wealthy manufacturer offered her a
which he could not solve,
prize if she could write a riddle
and her subject was to be from the Bible. Following is
Lucy's riddle. Can you solve it?

Adam, God made out of dust, And when from me that soul
But thought it best to make me had fled,
first. I was the same as when first

So I was made before the man, made.

To answer God's most holy And without hands or feet or
plan. soul
I travel on from pole to pole.
My body God did make
complete I labor hard by day and night,
But without arms or legs or To fallen man I give great
feet. hght.
My ways and acts He did Thousands of people young and
control, old
But to my body gave no soul. Will by my death great light
behold.
A living being I became
And Adam gave to me a name. Nor right nor wrong can I

I from his presence then conceive,

withdrew, The Scriptures I cannot believe.
And more of Adam never knew. Although my name is therein
found
They are to me an empty
I did my
Maker's law obey,
sound.
Nor from it ever went astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear
But seldom on the earth appear.
No fear of death doth trouble
me,
Real happiness I never shall see.
For a purpose wise which God To Heaven I shall never go,
did see, Or to the grave or Hell below.
He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me my God did Now when these lines you
claim, slowly read,
And took from me that soul Go search your Bible, with all

again. speed.

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For that my name's recorded I honestly to you declare,
there,

(Solution on page 86)

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 THE ANSWERS
Introduction: Out of several hundred puzzles collected in the
past fifty years these are the ones I have not been able to find
published anywhere. They are the type of puzzle that makes its

appearance in the form of copied sheets in offices, stores,

schools and clubs. It would be after all these years almost
impossible to find the origin of each one. They are assembled
for your pleasure and are not all nonsensical, but touch on
mathematics, history, geography, English, logic, and Bible
knowledge. See how many you can solve without referring to
the back answer pages, but be careful, as some may be
purposely tricky and misleading to you, but very often are also
most informative.

164. 520

207. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocl

V\o-rA
32. nose hair neck
vein skin heel
palm \C0T
brow calf
nail bone pore
drum jowl iris

head chin face

cell arch nape
anus lung knee
lobe back uvea
y
fist l lash axon
baL
34. Polo pony. (You ride it when you play polo!)

245. 674 x 676 length and width would give the most square
footage.

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65. resting
feasting
dusting
jesting
roasting
rusting
interesting
fasting
tasting
toasting

221. 1 shot a squirrel in a tree, (killed)

A long shot in betting, (odds)
A shot in the arm. (vaccination)
A shot in the dark, (guessing)
A shot of liquor, (portion)
I'm all shot today, (tired)
Shot the day. (wasted)
Shot a picture, (took)
Took a shot at farming, (chance)
Shot a gun. (fired)
Shot an arrow, (expelled from a bow)
Shot a game of pool, (played)
Basketball shot, (throw)
Business is shot, (ruined)
You look shot, (bad)
Shot the works, (spent)
Shot pellets in a gun. (metal particles)
I took a shot at it. (try)

He's a big shot at work, (top man)

The bird shot out of the tree, (flew)
90. 10 Commandments
198. Jingle Bells

250. There is no such thing

as "the world's largest number,"
because anyone claimed to invent it, you would simply
if

have to add "one" and make it a larger number. Professor

Edward Krasner of Columbia University coined the goo-
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 gol, followed by the googolplex. To imagine the immen-
sity of these numbers, a trillion is a number followed by 12
zeros but a googol is a number followed by 100 zeros. A
googolplex is a googol to the googol power, or goo-
googo1
GOL . If the googolplex could be written on a single
line of a typewriter, the line would be longer than ten times
around the world, or farther than the distance of the earth
googo1
to the moon. Even a number like GOOGOLPLEX which ,

is beyond comprehension for man, is still not an infinite

number. Gives you something to think about, doesn't it?

91. 1,001 Arabian Nights

215. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

66. 1 11 6 16
8 14 3 9
15 5 12 2
10 4 13 7

33. 10,096; 10,098; 10,100

231. Shuffle the cards until you get a chance to see what the
bottom card is. Let's say the bottom card is the Jack of
Spades. Spread cards on the table face down and remem-
ber where you put the Jack of Spades, even if it is partially

covered with some of the other cards. When your friend

picks up a card, he does not look at it but gives it to you
face down. You call it the Jack of Spades, have it written
down, and then you alone look at it. Let's say the card
you look at is the Two of Clubs. The next card he picks
up you call the Two of Clubs, have it written down, take
a peek at it, and let him pick another card with the same
procedure. After he has taken three or four cards, it is

now your turn. You pick up that Jack of Spades you had
planted and call out the last card your friend gave you
before you even turn it over or look at it. Turn over all

the called cards at the same time and let your friends
check with the written answers. They will be amazed and
baffled! Practise this a few times before you try it on
someone.

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214. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
1. Two apples, of course.

92. 12 Signs of the Zodiac

242. Let's call the starting point A; B, C, and D are interme-

diate points; and E, the^shrine. Two men leave A, go out
2Vi days to B, each leave 5 gallons of water, and return to
A. The third man leaves A, goes to B, picks up one can,
travels on to C, leaves 5 gallons of water, returns to B,
picks up a 2 Vi gallon can of water to return back to A.
Now the fourth man leaves A, goes to B, takes one can,
goes on to C, and picks up a can there. He now can travel
to E and back to C, take the last can left there, return to
B and take the last can left there, to get safely back with
the loot!

64. 2, 2, 4
7
13

172. Brands A and B are of equal value and C is better than

either of them.

129. 7 Dwarfs

71. Take one bill from the envelope marked $15 (which is a
wrong marking). Say it would be a $5 bill. Now you
know the other left in the envelope is also a $5 bill. You
also know now that the envelope labelled $20, since it is
labelled wrong, cannot contain $20. You already know
which is the correct $10 envelope, hence the one labelled
$20 has to contain $15. The remaining envelope has to
be the one with $20 in it. Use the same procedure if you
should pick the one with the two $10 bills in it.

46. Several balloons were filled with helium and guided with
linesfrom the ground. The hay wagon was made as light
as possible. When the wagon was directly over the
chimney, the balloons were punctured from the ground,

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 or unhooked from the wagon from the ground and
released.
Using the formula to determine the volume of a sphere
4/3xcR3, a six-foot weather balloon with a radius of 3 feet

would be approximately 112 cubic feet. Assuming a cubic

foot of helium would lift 3oz. with proper temperature
and atmospheric pressure, each balloon would lift about
2 1 lbs. (I have a 4x4 wagon. Shipping weight was 55 lbs.)

15. Anything other than the words "y our name" is wrong.

94. 9 Planets in the Solar System

31. Miami, United States

Mexico City, Mexico
Milan, Italy
Moscow, Russia
Melbourne, Australia
Manila, Philippines
Madrid, Spain
Manchester, England
Montreal, Canada
Montevideo, Uruguay
Madras, India
Medellin, Colombia
Marseilles, France
Munich, Germany

93. 54 Cards in a Deck (with the Jokers)

199. O Little Town of Bethlehem

106. 64 Squares on a Checkerboard

248. His pay would be about $55,214

217. b C D F G
N A P U R
W Y E Q Z
s O T I V
H J K L M
81
 ANY AD AYE ANYWAY
AWN AN AWAY DAY
APE

DUG PAD EYE

DUE RUE FUR

DUET SOY GURU
DUPE SOWN HOT
HOW SO IT

JOY WAN JOT

KET SHOE KITE

KILT TO LIE

SHOW TOT MILK

PUP TOY NAPE
BAN TOW OWN
BANANA TOE PAWN
BAY TIE QUE
BAD TILT RUG
CAN TYPE SOW
CAB VIE TOWN
CAD SWAN UP
CAP SOT VIM
CAPE WOK WAY
CAY WOE YAWN
CABANA WAD ZITI

LIT YET PUB

MIL TEA PUPA

MITE TOTE BANYAN

NAY PAW CAW
NAP PETITE CANADA
SWAY SWAP DAD
SHOT SWAB DAB

NAB BANC DID

PAN CANAPE QUEAN

PAY DAWN QUEUE
PET

107. 40 Days and Nights of the Great Flood

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171. Brain
Navel Sinus
Cheek
Groin Trunk
Heart
Thigh Skull
Liver
Blood Mouth
Elbow
Femur Flesh
Wrist
Ankle Anvil
Thumb
Pupil Uvula
Tooth
Nerve Joint
Scalp
Aorta Gland
Chest

30. 40,320 ways.

1x2x3x4 = 24
1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8 = 40,320

244. He sold 52 bushels of wheat, 55 bushels of corn, and 34

bushels of oats.

19. Translation:
"Have you any ham?"
"Yes,we have ham."
"Have you any eggs?"
"Yes, we have eggs."
"OK, ham and eggs."
69. Clare
Matt
Jim
Dick
Hy
Hal
Chris
Sally
Dinah

174. First cut the cheese in half (like a layer cake). Now cut it
in four equal pieces from the top. Take three of the four
quarters, which are already cut in half, stack them on top
of the fourth quarter, and make your fourth cut, making
16 pieces.

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 2. Moses? Noah was the captain of the Ark.

108. 6 Wives of Henry the Eighth

35. 1 9 2 10 I 5" .2 (c
3 11 4 12 9 /3 to N
5 13 6 14 7 3 # H
7 15 8 16 IS
// J2 lie

230
England Italy Monaco
Spain Ireland Denmark
Greece Italy France
France Germany Egypt
Italy Russia Austria
England Switzerland Denmark
England

44. 3,121 peanuts

Original Bag Monkey's Share Purloined Portion
3121 624 kept by #1
2496 499 kept by #2
1996 399 kept by #3
1596 319 kept by #4
1276 257 kept by #5
1020 204 divided among all

70. chest
calves
muscle
feet
temples
pupils
heel
nails
lashes
arms

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144. The middle spot on the dice is the "rose," so therefore
the "petals" are the spots around the rose. 3 is 2 petals

and 5 is 4 petals. 1, of course, is the rose. It sounds

simple, but very few people can break the code.

52. A bit over SVi minutes

116. 2 Turtle Doves (and a Partridge in a Pear Tree)

45. 15,621 peanuts

Original Bag Monkey's Share Purloined Portion
15,621 3,124 kept by #1
12,496 2,499 kept by #2
9,996 1,999 kept by #3
7,996 1,599 kept by #4
6,396 1,279 kept by #5
5,116 1,023 divided among all

68. None. They would all fly away.

241. $1.25 to break even

$4.38 to make $25,000.00
4. Gus had ten pigs, Joe had fourteen pigs.

173. Sam would still win. He would run the extra ten yards in
less time than Jake.

54. Her father

137. PFIGJLNMEKP

81. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

115. 1 Day at a Time

159. 8 4 6 2

229. 16 grandsons $256

13 granddaughters $169
4 great-grandchildren $16

5. All twelve months have 28 days.

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18. Translation:
"Say, Willie, there they go,
Thousand buses in a row."
"No, Joe, them is trucks,
Some with cows in,
Some with ducks."
200. Silent Night

190. Divided by 6, divided by 5, times 4, times 3, divided by 2,

divided by 1, equals 6
Plus 0, plus 0, minus 3, plus 0, plus 0, minus 3 = 1

51. undERGROltnd
189. International Nickel Co. stack in New Jersey is 1,251 ft.

47. Five queens

138. 12 Letters

251. Jonah's whale

26. Seven. He makes six cigarettes, smokes them, and has six

butts to make the seventh cigarette.

14. Whoever heard of a Mama Bull?

149. Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, or the

beginning of Lent

227. He is just not going to be on time this morning.

80. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

170. 40 years old

201. We Three Kings of Orient Are

103. 1 Wheel on a Unicycle

121. 360 Degrees in a Circle

6. No, he would be dead!

117. 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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67. Holland

148 Dice.
.

43. BITE
BITE
BITE *

BITE

220. Slippery got 479 votes, Pete 471, Looie 403, and Doug
295.

175. E is made of four straight lines.

240. 20 shares @ 202 = 4,040.00

10 shares® 13 = 130.00
50 shares @ 46V4 = 2,312.50
25 shares @ 91Vi = 2,437.50
10 shares @ 108 = 1,080.00
10,000.00

55. Two minutes to two to two minutes after two.

Two minutes to two to two minutes after two, too.

36. 80 minutes

128. 3 Wise Men

139. Use Roman numerals xix.

7. One hour — for instance, if you swallowed one at 7:00,

one at 7:30, and one at 8:00.

118. 13 Cards in a Suit

37. Make a pyramid out of the six toothpicks.

176. 88 Apples

216. $7,500; 10 years

238. 7 /2 1
% to 8%
3. One trillion and one.

146. Korean War

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 13. If you printed and did not write the word, you are wrong.

63. TO THE HIDEOUT

130. 1,2 Button My Shoe

143. 6 (minus 2 plus 1, minus 3 plus 2, etc.)

53. pyx, a vessel used for religious services

202. The First Noel

160.9 11 9 11 20 = 60 ffd

82. The early bird catches the worm.

20. About 18,000,000 miles!

140. 1st man sold 3 @ $1, 30 @ 3/$1.00 = $13

2nd man sold 5 @ $1, 24 @ 3/$1.00 = $13
3rd man sold 6 @ $1, 21 @ 3/$1.00 = $13

16. ONE WORD

219. Since the earth rotates from west to east, the plane would
have to fly farther to get to New York.

114. 30 Days Hath September, April, June, and November

29. The man who walked into the restaurant was a sailor who
had been shipwrecked with his best buddy and another
man for a month. One morning, the other man said that
the best buddy had left during the night to go for help.
The man then fed the sailor what he called "albatross
soup" for a whole month.

127. 100 Legs on a Centipede

145. 120 holes

209. Away in a Manger

131. 206 Bones in the Body
177. 2 l
/2 minutes

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42. There is at least an inch of dirt under the chair a person
is sitting on (it may be under the floorboards, but it's

there).

12. A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.

102. 24 Hours in a Day

62. If you said 19, chalk one on your score. Your eyes are
good!

239. He butchered three pigs on Monday morning and three

in the afternoon. The week he butchered
rest of the three
a day. There was an odd number each time.

188. $10,285.33

211. Winter Wonderland

157. $0.20

73. Jack and Jill

48. Over 3,000 miles long

228. 7 days

247. 5,050

179. Between 10 and 3. The numbers are written alphabeti-

cally.

86. An ill wind blows no good.

109. 101 Dalmatians

225. SOMERSAULT

95. 88 Piano Keys

197. Deck the Halls

165. B
213. Frostie the Snowman
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246. xyz goes below the line because above the line is the
entire Hawaiian alphabet!

119. 8 Parts of Speech in the English Language

21. Over a million dollars

141. First day sales were 2 subscriptions, then 5, 8, 11, 14, 17,

20, 23, which total 100.

187. $4,250.00

61. Peacocks do not lay eggs. Peahens do!

233. 5 8 3

+ 14 6
7 2 9

191. Come All Ye Faithful

151. Bookkeeper

79. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

226. 9 5 7 4 3 6 6 5 4 2
5 2 8 5 6 4 2 4 5 6
14 8 5 10 8 9 9 8

168. Camel
142. 58 (times 2 plus 3)

120. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

23. Both would be the same distance from City A.

182. 8 (plus 1 times 2, plus 1 times 2, etc.)

237. 43 are the numbers for SO

152. 1 Horsepower

41. 43

11. 12,111.

101. 3 Blind Mice (See How They Run)

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56. 8 will have 3 black faces
24 will have 2 black faces
24 will have 1 black face
8 will be white

132. 6 Sides on a Hexagon

192. Joy to the World
78. Three Blind Mice

208. What Child Is This?

232. Thirteen cans on the bottom row to one on top, but he

would have to have four cans deep to use all 720.

193. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

40. Two out of a set of triplets

50. Over 55 feet

126. 32 Teeth including Wisdom Teeth

104. 1,000 Words that a Picture Is Worth
87. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

113. 40 Thieves with Ali Baba

125. 6 Sides on a Cube

222. The day that they turn the clocks back when Daylight
Savings Time is over has 25 hours!

25. They were both women's teams.

194. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

161.7 7 7 5 = 26
7 7 5 10 = 29

100. 8 Sides on a Stop Sign

136. 4 Cylinders in a Compact Car

49. Jim's average is higher.

77. Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat

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186. 200 miles a day

10. Approximately 3.2 years to count to a mere billion, and

about 3,200 years to count to a trillion.

218. 17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9. Actually, nine trips are made

in the 8 days.

181. 1. (A skip 2 letters, D skip 2 letters, etc.)

60. 48 miles per hour. Let us say the distance was 60 miles
(120 miles round trip). Travelling 60 m.p.h. it would take
60 minutes. Travelling 40 m.p.h. it would take 90
minutes. Total 150 minutes or 2 h
x
hours. Averaging a
speed of 48 m.p.h. for 2 x
h hours, you would cover 120
miles.

22. Approximately $775,000.

156. Mary

169. 100% of the people drank liquor.

99. 200 Dollars for Passing "Go" in Monopoly

88. 26 Letters of the Alphabet

162.15 15 17 17 18 18=100 # lb
fa
203. I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

8. Friday

83. All that glitters is not gold.

39. 58 seconds

235. 3% is more.

163. 1/1/01 (2001)

212. Go Tell It on the Mountain

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17. $500 every six months is better. To prove it, take a
$10,000 a year salary: $500 every six months; $2,000 per
year
1st year: $5,000 + $5,500 = $10,500 vs $10,000
2nd yedr: $6,000 + $6,500 = $12,500 vs $12,000
3rd year: $7,000 + $7,500 = $14,500 vs $14,000

155. Leo times Taurus minus Pisces divided by Cancer times

Gemini =12

59. Ten of Diamonds, King of Hearts, and Eight of Spades

76. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

178. It would be 5:46, or 14 minutes to 6

135. 21 Gun Salute

195. O Holy Night

204. Rudolph, the Rednose Reindeer

223. 80 ft. wide

124. 2001: A Space Odyssey

24. House numbers!

105. 29 Days in February in a Leap Year

89. 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

185.2,521

249. 320 m.p.h., 400 m.p.h.

112. 5 Fingers on Each Hand (or Toes on Each Foot)

150. Slightly under 64% A, 25% B

133.4 Seasons in a Year

72. Mary Had a Little Lamb

58. 16 spaces

98. 90 Degrees in a Right Angle

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205. The Little Drummer Boy
184. 3 hours, 45 minutes

9. The second day of the week is pronounced Mon-day!

74. Little Jack Horner

28. A baseball player.

154. Hong Kong

134. 2 Years before the Mast

57. gh in enough sounds like f

o in women sounds like i (wimmen)
ti in notion sounds like sh

123. 13 Baker's Dozen

167. 101 chickens

38. "What"
234. 3 5, 000 miles

84. Haste makes waste.

97. 18 Holes in a Golf Course

206. O Christmas Tree

3 3
166. 26 x 10 = 17,576,000
26 x 25 x 24 x 10 x 9 x 8 = 11,232,000

122. 60 Minutes in an Hour

153. Red
85. A fool and his money are soon parted.

196. It Came upon a Midnight Clear

27. He had hiccoughs!

75. Old Mother Hubbard

180. 16

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224. 50 ft. approximately

243. 1 got as far as 31 years and still had around $10 equity
left.

96. 32 Degrees Fahrenheit, at which Water Freezes

110. 60 Seconds in a Minute

210. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

147. Penguin

111. Seven Hills of Rome

249. 320 m.p.h.; 400 m.p.h.

233. 5 8 3

+ 14 6

7 2 9

236.15 31 7 15 23

183.

otan."" 7
i
o
V 13

3 5 7 15
/

1 1
16 4 7 .

15 1 J7 Finish

158.

o
o
o
o
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 Index
Age relationships, 48, Fables, 29-32 Measurements, 12, 20-
54,56 Family relationships, 8, 21,47,58,65,73
Animals, 7, 9, 46, 52, 66 17, 22, 27, 66 Money, 28, 54, 72-73
Arrangement, 14, 49, 69, Music, 59-61
73 Geography, 14, 20, 47,

on checkerboard, 20, 67 Names, 9, 14, 16, 54

49 Geometry, 22, 54, 56 Numbers. See Math
of deliveries, 43 Good Card Trick, A, Nursery rhymes, 29-32
of letters, 52, 54,63 68-75
of numbers, 15, 26 Guessing, 8, 20, 46 Percentages, 46, 54
Petals Around the Rose,
Banking/finance, 11-12, History, 46 45-58
28, 58, 70-71
Biblical knowledge, 7, Information bafflers, Quotations, 33-34
75-76 11-28
Body parts, 28, 54 Interest, compound, 12, Salaries/wages, 11, 70, 74
Buying/selling. See Sales 58,70 Sales, 13, 43-44, 48, 52,
Inventions, 46 54-55, 57, 62, 72-
Can You Decipher Investments, 71 73
These Famous Sequences, 45, 56, 58,
Nursery Rhymes Just For Your 70,73
and Fables?, 29-32 Information, 11-28 Shapes, 16
Can You Decipher Silly Sequences, 45
These Famous Legal, 24 Speed. See Distance-
Quotations?, 33-34 Letters, 24-25, 43, 73. time-speed
Cards, 23, 68 See also Words Spelling, 14, 21, 26, 54
Code deciphering, 11, arrangement, 52, 54, Sports, 13, 21
21,25,45 63
Crossword puzzle, 18 unscrambling, 11, 65 Targets, 50-51
Logic, 14, 17, 19, 22 Time, rate of, 8, 14, 16-
Dart scores, 50 17, 21, 56, 71. See
Dates, 8, 46, 51, 64 Maps, 43 also Distance-time-
Deciphering Math, 8, 22, 26, 43-44, speed
codes, 11, 21, 25, 45 48, 52. See also To Find the Meanings,
fables, 29-32 Sequences Think of Music,
nursery rhymes, 29- addition, 65, 69 59-61
32 arrangement of
quotations, 33-34 numbers, 15, 26, 52 Votes/elections, 8, 64
Distance-time-speed, 13, counting, 7-8, 15, 26,
21, 24, 54-55, 57, 74 Warm Up on a Few
64-65, 70, 72-74 division, 17, 57 Easy Ones, 7-9
numbers, 23, 25, 64 Words, 25, 47, 64. See
Easy bafflers, 7-9 percentages, 46, 54 also Letters; Spelling
Equations, eccentric, subtraction, 7, 43 pronunciation, 8,

35-41 writing numbers, 8 15,23

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