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Puzzles
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by Dick Nuenke
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The first February cryptogram was:
WHEN
PASSENGER
OF
FOOT
HEAVE
IN
SIGHT,
TOOTLE
THE
HORN.
TRUMPET
HIM
MELODIOUSLY
AT
FIRST,
BUT
IF
HE
STILL
OBSTACLES
YOUR
PASSAGE,
THEN
TOOTLE
HIM
WITH
VIGOR.
And the second cryptogram was
GAMBLING
IS
A
DISEASE
OF
BARBARIANS
SUPERFICIALLY
CIVILIZED.
—
DEAN
INGE.
(William R. Inge (1860-1954), Dean of St. Paul's, not the novelist
and playwright William M. Inge.)
Correct answers to both came from
Delmar Burkitt,
Andrzej Derdzinski,
Elizabeth Foote,
Jeff Lamb,
Alma Litten,
Julia Minturn,
Carla Nuenke,
Kevin Skehan,
Bill Tippery
and
Sally Yocom.
John Jackson
and
Carole Perlman
also did the first cryptogram.
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The third puzzle had problems, aside from that of the circles not printing as
a result of electronic transfer.
There are virtually an infinite number of answers,
and numerous trivial ones.
Elizabeth Foote noted that any single number used
four times will work.
The original example showed four different numbers,
but unfortunately the directions didn't specify that.
One answer (of many possible), given in the
New Scientist, was 13, 25, 41, and 35.
I accepted the answers from
Andrzej,
Elizabeth,
Jeff,
and
Bob Walton.
Bob is apparently a member of another group.
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This is the first of two cryptograms.
Each letter stands for a different letter
in the decoded message.
V H M S
X S
F
N H U
O F V X S,
F K V M H R W
V X W M O W
E W A X W E
F N U W M ' R
N F I
F S E
E X E
S H J
V W O H K W
D M W R X E W S J.
— O N X A J H S A F E X K F S
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The second cryptogram is what I'd call
an "alternative definition".
(Think B.C.)
U N Y P O Y N U V N :
J K X N U M L O U I N I P R
J U X S N B O U Y
M G N
I A A B O U
R A C B
U O Y G M O N.
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This puzzle is by Richard England from the column Enigma in
the New Scientist by permission.
Andre and Boris played a tennis match in which the winner was the first player
to win three sets.
A set is won by the first player to win 6 games, except that
if it goes to 5 games all, it will be won either 7 games
to 5 or 7 games to 6.
In the match Andre won the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th and 16th games
and all the others whose numbers were perfect squares or cubes.
Boris won the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 11th games and
all the others whose numbers were primes.
When the match was over it was noted that each player had won exactly
the same number of games, that number being the smallest compatible with
the other information given.
In giving the score of a tennis match it is the convention to give the score
in each set in order, always giving the match-winner's score first, so that
if the score is given as, for example, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0, it shows
that the one set that the match-winner lost was the second set, won by the
opponent 6 games to 4.
Using this convention tell me who won the match, and what were the set scores?
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Correct answers and puzzle solvers will
appear next month.
Send answers by March 14th
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.
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