Daily Brain Puzzlers Calendar

The Sandbox Games
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1/19

Summary

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NOUGAT
FUDGE
CHOCOLATE
GUMBALL
TUFFLE
TOFFEE
LICORICE

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01/21/2022 AN OMISSION

Answer the clues to arrive at pairs of words. The title should give you a hint as to how the two words on each line are related. Can you solve them all?

  1. Munich’s country * bacteria-ridden
  2. Teenage ______ Ninja Turtles * mongrel
  3. Bowl-shaped strainer * more frigid
  4. Coal mine birds * tooth decay
  5. Droopy-eared pooch * sales pitch
  6. Origin * French region containing Arles and Avignon
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01/22/2022 Fresh Faces

In each row, change the first letter of the two words to a different letter (the same letter for both) to form two new words. Write the new letter in the blank. What word is formed vertically by the new letters?

YOGA__SURF
ITCH__GELS
FUSE__DISK
BOTH__CUTE
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1/21

Summary
  1. GERMANY / GERMY
  2. MUTANT / MUTT
  3. COLANDER / COLDER
  4. CANARIES / CARIES
  5. SPANIEL / SPIEL
  6. PROVENANCE / PROVENCE

I had to search for thing for #6.

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2254

For the short term, I think I know the answer.

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1/21

Had to look up part of #4 just to confirm; I was not familiar with that term.
#6 took me longer than it should have, considering all the French I took in school.

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2256

1/22

Summary

YOGA(T)SURF
ITCH(E)GELS
FUSE(R)DISK
BOTH(M)CUTE

=TERM

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2257

Correct. Yeah, I didn’t know #6. And I don’t believe I’ve ever heard the tooth decay term, although it was obvious what the word had to be from the coal mine part.

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2258

Correct!

2259

01/23/2022 Four-Color Problem

A bag contains 18 red marbles, 12 yellow marbles, 5 green marbles, and 2 blue marbles. What is the minimum number of marbles you need to draw from this bag (without looking) to ensure that you have drawn at least four marbles of the same color?

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01/24/2022 Criss-Cross Math

Place the digits 1 to 9 into the empty cells so that the three rows across and three columns down form correct arithmetic statements. All calculations involve only positive whole numbers and should be performed from left to right and top to bottom, ignoring mathematical order of operations.

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1/23

12
Up to 11, it’s possible to have some combination of 0-3 red, 0-3 yellow, 0-3 green, & 0-2 blue.
There’s no combination of 12 marbles that doesn’t have at least 4 of one of the colors red, yellow, or green

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2262

Correct!

2263

For 1/24, I don’t think they were totally clear. You can only use each of the numbers 1 through 9 once.

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1/24

Summary

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2265

Correct!

2266

01/25/2022 Burns Day

Eight words and phrases related to the works of Robert Burns have been translated into a random cipher alphabet. Letter substitutions remain consistent from word to word. Can you decipher the all? A starting hint, if you need it, is that E stands for L.

  1. MPBBVF
  2. FUWZEPKT
  3. XQT, XQT XWFQ
  4. PLXFMVXQ
  5. POET EPKB FLKQ
  6. ZW P EWOFQ
  7. DVUQ PKT DQK
  8. ZPD W’FMPKZQX
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1/25

Summary
  1. HAGGIS
  2. SCOTLAND
  3. RED, RED ROSE
  4. AYRSHIRE
  5. AULD LANG SYNE
  6. TO A LOUSE
  7. MICE AND MEN
  8. TAM O’SHANTER

Fun fact, I studied in Scotland for a semester during college. We were over there for the Robbie Burns dinner. First (and only!) time I ate haggis. It was delicious.

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2268

Correct!

I didn’t get any of these, although I probably should have gotten at least some.

2269

you post at odd hours, I tend to miss they are up until someone else answers