Daily Brain Puzzlers Calendar

3/23

Summary

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I could have made a mistake burning through them.

03/24/2022

Four answers in this small crossword are too long for their spaces and extend part the border by one letter at either the front or the back. The four protruding letters, taken clockwise from the top, spell a certain type of mixture. What is this bonus word?

Across

  1. Headquarters
  2. Tease
  3. French farewell
  4. Tastes a hot drink

Down

  1. Sheep cries
  2. Financial inspection
  3. Scissors sound
  4. Doles (out)

3/24

m
b a s e
t a u n t
a d i e u
s i p s
t
mutt
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Correct!

Took as long to type as it did to solve.

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two minutes of my time was to put in in Excel so I could type the response

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03/25/2022

Fit the pieces into the frame to form common, uncapitalized words reading across and down corssword-style. There’s no need to rotate pieces: They’ll fit as shown, with each piece used exactly once.

03/26/2022 Plus One

Add the same letter to each four-letter word and rearrange the letters to spell a five-letter word. Write the words across, one letter per square. The added letter must always fall in the shaded square.

RAID
DIKE
CHIP
YOGA
MEOW

3/25

Summary

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3/26

Summary

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Correct!

Correct! And, well, at least they didn’t say “common word” this time. Although I’m familiar with the word. I’m not sure in what context I know the word. Maybe a sports announcer trying to work in vocabulary?

03/27/2022 Magnifying Glasses

When a pitcher of milk is 2/7 full, it contains exactly enough milk to fill 8 identical glasses. How full would the pitcher be if it had exactly enough milk to fill 18 of the same glasses?

03/28/2022 Coordinated Placement

The three words coded below are clues to the placement of their letters in this grid. Each number in the code represents the sum of the column and row heading of that letter. Can you put the letters into the proper cells of the grid to spell, reading across, a three-word phrase you might see near a door?

3/27

9/14 full

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Correct!

3/28

Summary

Wipe Your Feet

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Correct!

It’s got this stuck in my head because of the last line

Oh. And the last line of the first verse.

03/29/2022 Sweet Sixteen

Complete the word square below by inserting the 16 letters into the grid, one per cell, to create the same words reading across and down.