Daily Brain Puzzlers Calendar

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Summary

Pan Pipe was the weirdest one to me. No idea what that is, but it’s the only thing that fit since Cake was already taken.

That’s what I had but somehow this didn’t sit too well with me:

pan pipe

why? seemed like a natural connection

I’ve just never heard that word before. I just googled it, and didn’t realize it was another word for what I would probably just call “pipes”.

Summary

I didn’t recognize pan pipe, so I linked Pan Air (seemed familiar, though googling seems it isn’t anything) then Air Pipe like wind pipe, but then that left Open Strip and I was stuck

Summary

Maybe you were thinking of Pan Am, the airline?

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ok, I googled and saw flute, pipe is how I would refer to it

3/16/2021
A zigzag puzzle features four-letter words that overlap their neighbors by two letters, like GLOW and OWNS in the example below. We’ve supplied the first and last letters. Using the clues (which are listed randomly), can you fill the grid?
Example


Clues

  • Hard to hold
  • otherwise
  • fencing sword
  • tenant’s payment
  • Durham school
  • leak slowly
  • instruments for Orpheus
  • boat stabilizer

Puzzle

There are 16 squares between the D and T, if it helps.

Summary

DUKE
KEEL
ELSE
SEEP
EPEE
EELY
LYRE
RENT

Looks right to me, I had to use a mix of working from both sides and building a group in the middle to eventually place, similar to working a jigsaw puzzle.

Yes, OldTimer is right!

Here’s a numerical one:

3/17/2021 - FREEHAND DRAWING
A bag contains 8 green and 6 white balls. A second bag contains 5 green and 3 white balls. If you reach in and draw one ball at random from each bag, find the probability that one of the two drawn balls is green and the other one is white.

Summary

48%

You’re right. The official answer is in fraction form though!

Summary

27/56

You are right (after you edited :slight_smile: )

I wasn’t wearing my glasses

Ohhhhh!!! For 3/16 I had it in my head that the clues were in order of the words for some reason. I was completely lost.

eta: realize this is in the description now, so I can neither read nor produce words.

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These math ones are so easy that they are not worth posting about

Yeah, but they do make me feel good that I can solve them.