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Check out Quest
for more brain exercising.
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The April 2001 cryptogram was:
PEOPLE
LIVING
ON
THE
EQUATOR
ARE
CALLED
EQUESTRIANS.
Correct answers came from
Delmar Burkitt,
Andrzej Derdzinski,
John Jackson,
Alma Litten,
Julia Minturn,
Carla Nuenke,
William Tippery,
and
Sally Yocom.
William Tippery also had the April cryptogram correct (my mistake).
In Puzzle #2 there were 48 households using SWOOSH detergent and 48 using Brand X.
The correct sequence of baby snapshots in the third puzzle was 5, 6, 4, 7, 3, 2, 1.
Andrzej Derdzinski was the only one to submit
answers to puzzles 2 and 3, both of which were correct.
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This month's first puzzle is the cryptogram.
Each letter stands for a different letter in the decoded message.
There are many actual newspaper headlines which due to their brevity
in choice of words often lead to statements which are ambiguous (often
on purpose I'm afraid).
Examples are Air Head Fired or Stud Tires Out.
This month's cryptogram is one such headline and it makes it a
bit harder than the usual one.
Lots of X's in this one.
X J R D M T
D B W D Y M X
X J T
X K Q C C A
P H X
W J X X D V Z D Y X
X Q C H A E
P D
P D A M D E.
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This puzzle is by Martin Hollis from the column Tantalizer
in the New Scientist by permission.
Four widows live on different floors of a tall apartment complex.
Gertrude and the coroner's widow are on adjacent floors.
The bishop's widow is four floors above Florence.
Emily and the architect's widow are ten floors apart.
There are three elevators, one stopping every third, one every fourth, and one
every fifth floor.
No floor is served by all three elevators (except, of course, for floor 0).
None of the widows is served by even one elevator.
Since none of these ladies will consent to walk upstairs, this means that
when Gertrude visits the doctor's widow, she has to walk down at least four flights
of stairs, no matter how often she changes elevators on the way.
What floor does Harriet live on and what did her late husband do for a living?
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This puzzle is also adapted from a Martin Hollis Tantilizer.
You have probably seen those neat calendars where the date is
given by two cubes laid side by side in a box so that only
the top face of each is visible.
Each face of each cube bears a number and by suitable numbering
and the necessary twiddling you can make the exposed faces show any
number up to the necessary 31.
Numbers below 10 are shown as 01, 02, etc., and 6 and 9 are invertible.
What is the highest number the cubes can be set to count up to without missing
any numbers?
And if you have three cubes to show numbers below 100 as 001, 012, etc., what is
the highest number you can count up to continuously?
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Correct answers and puzzle solvers will
appear next month.
Send answers by June 11th
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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