Correct.
I got the topic for #2 with only SCAT, but I had a hard time coming up with the rest, although I shouldn’t have.
Correct!
03/11/2022
Eight knights - numbered 1 through 8 - are seated facing the Round Table in such a way that any two knights sitting next to each other have numbers that are at least three apart. Additionally, knight 5 is not opposite knight 7, and knight 1 is directly opposite the man on knight 8’s immediate right. With knights 4 and 6 seated as shown, seat the rest of the knights. A hint is available.
Correct!
03/12/2022 Washing Up
Sophie starts to wash a pile of 234 dessert plates at a rate of three per minute. Elijah joins her after six minutes and washes places at a rate of five per minute. When they are finished washing the entire pile of plates, how many plates has each of them washed?
03/13/2022 It’s Your Call
A radio station wants the phone number 255-8255 because of the seven-letter phrase that the number spells. What’s the phrase?
OK, I"m not gonna reproduce the picture of a phone keypad. Here it the info in an easier-to-type format (or, really, just check your phone):
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI
5 - JKL
6 - MNO
7 - PQRS
8 - TUV
9 - WXYZ
3/12
(234 - 3x6)/(3+5) = 27
S = 3x6 + 3x27 = 99
E = 5x27 = 135
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Lol. I saw the result of using asterisks before the edit. It made it look like bad math.
Correct!
Yep, silly asterisks
3/13
ALL-TALK
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3/13
Summary
255-8255
ALL-TALK
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3/12
Summary
Sophie: 99
Elijah: 135
total: 234
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Correct!
03/14/2022 Catching A Code
We’ve taken five common six-letter words, listed in alphabetical order, and disguised them using a random substitution cipher. We’ll tell you that P stands for M, and Q stands for V. Can you determine the words?
B X G W K P
W C D B C Z
P K G D Q C
Z C G D L X
Q C Z P D L
03/15/2022 Twisty Path
The answers to the clues form a chain of words, each answer overlapping the next by at least two letters, as HIPPO, POETRY, and TRYST do in HIPPOETRYST. The chain forms a twisty path through the grid starting in the upper-left corner and moving right, left, down, or up at each letter, but never diagonally. We’ve already entered the letters from the chain that do not overlap. Can you fill in the rest to show the path?
Clues (in order): tour leader * give the meaning of * space cloud * opulent * “butterflied” seafood * African antelope * royal home * Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument * detest * hypothesis
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Summary
FATHOM
HEIFER (?)
MOTIVE
RETINA
VERMIN
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Correct!
Right!