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Puzzles
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by Dick Nuenke
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The first May cryptogram was:
TO
DOUBLE
YOUR
SUCCESSES
YOU
MUST
DOUBLE
YOUR
FAILURES.
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THOMAS J WATSON SR
Watson (1874-1956) was the first president of IBM
and leader of the company for 42 years.
His favorite slogan:
"Think".
The second cryptogram was
PATE
DE
FOIS
GRAS
IS
AN
OUTDOOR
CIRCUS
HELD
IN
NEW
ORLEANS
EVERY
YEAR.
"FOIS" should have been "FOIE".
Correct answers to both came from
Delmar Burkitt,
Andrzej Derdzinski,
Jeff Gerken,
Jeff Lamb,
Alma Litten,
Julia Minturn,
Carla Nuenke,
Kevin Skehan,
Jeff Wolfe,
and
Sally Yocom.
I also received answers to both from
Bob and Mary Jo Cox from Borderline Mensa in Arizona.
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The third puzzle deals with a license plate number
which must give a proper read upside down and in a mirror image.
That limits the characters to O, H, X, 1 and 8.
Several persons assumed an E for 3 reversible, but that's an
unacceptable stretch (especially with a better answer).
The correct answer is H181XOH with the other plate
then being HOX181H.
The same palindromic prime number 181 appears on both plates.
There were no correct answers received for this puzzle.
I failed to give credit for the 1st April Cryptogram to
Jennifer Nance.
It was Jennifer's first puzzle answer submission.
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This is the first of two cryptograms.
Each letter stands for a different letter
in the decoded message.
R I M B K R Z B
R K B
V M
R
A K W H X Z B
W Q
B N P
X W B R O P W B P H,
M W O H
I U
B N P
X W A K V W Z V A O P H
B W
B N P
X B B P K O U
I P F V O H P K P H.
— R O
Z R A A
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The second cryptogram is in a special format.
All vowels are uncoded (E=E, Y=Y, etc.), and all of the spaces
are missing, but the first line ends at the end of a word.
It's an actual line from a newspaper which
can be taken the wrong way.
M L E N O H E R I R K J U S E S M L E I G L U X W A R S X
A R S K L I J S G E R I R M L E I G C O M J U K P X U C C E G X.
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This puzzle is by Richard England, adapted from the column Enigma
in the New Scientist by permission.
Teams from Akron, Columbus, Dayton, Marion,and Newark have been
playing a soccer tournament in which every team played each of the other teams once.
Two matches were played each of five successive weekends,
each of the five teams having one weekend without a match.
Three points were awarded for a win and one point to each team for a draw.
After the second weekend of matches Akron was in the lead, one
point ahead of Columbus, who was one point ahead of Dayton, who was
one point ahead of Newark.
Remarkably, although the order of the teams kept changing, it was also true after the matches
on the third, fourth, and fifth weekends that one point separated each pair
of successive teams in the amount of total points.
List the teams in the order in which they finished in the final tally, starting with
the winning team, and give the teams and results of the two matches
played on the fifth weekend.
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Correct answers and puzzle solvers will
appear next month.
Send answers by June 18th
to Dick Nuenke;
1460 Kingsgate Rd.;
Columbus, OH
43221 or call in to
614-326-0452;
fax to 614-292-4118;
or e-mail to
rnuenke@columbus.rr.com.
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