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Puzzles by Dick Nuenke
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The first November cryptogram was:
HE'S
NOT
DEAD,
HE'S
ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAPHICALLY
CHALLENGED.
The correct second cryptogram should have been:
IF
THE
WORLD
DIDN'T
SUCK
WE
WOULD
ALL
FALL
OFF
MARK
RUSSELL
from his most recent TV special.
As numerous respondents pointed out, the author came out
as MRAK RUSSEL (one L).
I originally coded the quote with my BASIC program,
then realized that SUCK couldn't be decoded because of its
three unique letters.
So I added the author, coding by hand, and,
voilą a mess!
Sorry about the mixup.
Still there were many correct answers to both cryptograms:
Delmar Burkitt,
Andrzej Derdzinski,
Earl Gadd (and wife),
Tom Goulet,
Steve Herrick,
John Jackson,
Alma Litten,
Rick Magnus,
Julia Minturn,
Carla Nuenke,
Carole Perlman,
Nancy Tappendorf,
Bill Tippery,
and
Sally Yocom.
The last puzzle asked for the nationality of three out of four doctors.
The match up is that Dr. Livingstone is the Irishman, Dr. Malinkowski
is the Englishman, and Dr. Neandertal is the Scotsman.
Correct answers were submitted by
Andrzej Derdzinski,
Earl Gadd,
and
Tom Goulet.
Tom is a new member (11/01) from Columbus; Earl is from Zanesville and joined us in June.
So these are their first submissions of puzzle answers.
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This month's first puzzle is the cryptogram.
Each letter stands for a different letter in the decoded message.
Believe it or not, this one is a book title.
S E A
M E
T X Y D H
A Y D F
E R M
E L
L Y C S
S F U T C
A S Y K F
V E E H Y D Z
K E G C M F X
Y D
U
J E K H C A U Z F D
S R G
V U W
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The second puzzle is by Susan Denham from the column Enigma
in the New Scientist by permission.
I have written down ten positive integers less than one hundred in increasing
order.
One interesting thing about the list is that you can take any two adjacent
numbers in it and their difference is also one of the numbers in the list.
The other interesting thing about the list is that if you write out the
numbers in words rather than in numerals each number in the list
would use more letters than the previous one.
What is my list?
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This puzzle is by Keith Austin from the same source.
The Brrm Brmm Motor Company is testing its new C car,
which does 10 miles to the gallon.
Unfortunately, the C is slowed down by the weight of the gas it is carrying.
So its maximum speed, in mph, at any point, is 50 minus the amount of gas,
measured in gallons, in the tank at that point.
The car begins its test run of 400 miles with 40 gallons in the tank.
The driver keeps to C's maximum speed throughout the journey.
Thus he travels initially at 10 mph and finishes the test going at 50 mph.
How long does the test take, to the nearest hour?
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Correct answers and puzzle solvers will
appear next month.
Send answers by December 12th
to Dick Nuenke;
1460 Kingsgate Rd.;
Columbus, OH
43221 or call in (recording 24 hours) to
614-326-0452;
fax to 614-292-4118;
or e-mail to
rnuenke@columbus.rr.com (best bet).
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