Puzzles for Adults and Children
The puzzle Bread and Butter has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
The puzzle this week is Disassemble/Reassemble. I’ve always liked to take things apart to see how they work.
Each line contains two foods which go together (such as Bread and Butter) interlaced, but there is something missing.
The hint for last week’s Bread and Butter has been uploaded, as has the solution to Coats of Arms from two weeks ago.
This week’s new puzzle is Disassemble/Reassemble. Time to break out the scissors and tape!
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In each pair of clues, the solution to the clue on the right sounds like the solution to the clue on the left with a syllable added. In each case, this syllable sounds like the name of a letter. (The clue in the flavor text is M + TEA = EMPTY):
The added letters spell out the phrase COLORLESS BILLIARDS ORB, which is a CUE BALL, which of course sounds like Q + BALL.
The puzzle Coats of Arms has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
The puzzle this week is Bread and Butter. Hopefully you’ll find it delicious.
Each line is made of two foods which go together (like Bread and Butter) interlaced, but something is missing.
The hint for last week’s Coats of Arms has been uploaded, as has the solution to Sound Initials from two weeks ago.
This week’s new puzzle is Bread and Butter. Some things are just better together.
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In these three arithmetic problems, there are ten letters, which can be assumed to each replace a different digit from zero to nine. There are several ways to work through this puzzle, but one logical path is below:
The final translated math facts are 90654 + 5304 = 95958, 539 x 247 = 133133, and 309401 / 29 = 10669.
The question marks from one to seven are replacing the digits 3, 5, 9, 1, 3, 0, and 1. Translated to letters, these spell out the answer ACTUARY.
The puzzle Sound Initials has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
The puzzle this week is Coats of Arms. Each of the coats has a hidden meaning.
Words in the first column sound like words in the second column if you add the sound of a letter to their front. For example, a SON becomes a SEASON, or C-SON, if you prefer.
The hint for last week’s Sound Initials has been uploaded, as has the solution to Some Sums from two weeks ago. March is off to a great start, with twenty-two solvers over the first two weeks.
This week’s new puzzle is Coats of Arms. Can you tell what these crests stand for?
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The seven words given in this metapuzzle can be paired up with the answers to the previous puzzles as members of seven different categories:
A closer look will show that each of these groups has an ordering, and most of them are numbered. Further examination reveals that each of the seven words given here hold a unique position between first and seventh in their sets. Sorting the list by those numbers gives the following table:
| Category | Given Word | # in Set | Puzzle Answer | # in Set |
| Elements | Hydrogen | 1 | Silicon | 14 |
| Zodiac | Taurus | 2 | Aries | 1 |
| Tarot | The Empress | 3 | Judgement | 20 |
| Trains | Gordon | 4 | Samson | 15 |
| Presidents | Monroe | 5 | Garfield | 20 |
| Greek | Zeta | 6 | Psi | 23 |
| Pokémon | Squirtle | 7 | Beedrill | 15 |
In this order, the positions of the puzzle answers in the sets can be converted to letters, with 1=A, 2=B, etc., to make the phrase NATO TWO. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the second member is BRAVO. Bravo to you for solving this metapuzzle!
The puzzle Some Sums has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
This week’s new puzzle is Sound Initials. We’ve gone from a math puzzle to a reading one.
Each of the letters in the puzzle stands for the same digit from 0-9 wherever it appears. The question marks also stand for digits, but you will have to translate them into their respective letters to solve the puzzle.
We can see from the first step of the division problem that AR-HT=Y, so A must be one greater than H. Look for other relationships between numbers and use those to solve.