Daily Brain Puzzlers Calendar

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 1:29pm

7/20/2021 - BLOCK INTERLOCK
Divide this rectangle along the lines into two identically shaped 12-block pieces so that each piece contains the letters from A through L.

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vjvj · July 27, 2021, 2:10pm

7/20

FLDIAG
B K
JEH C

leftmost B, that is

skysn93 · July 27, 2021, 2:15pm

I was never going to get that.

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 2:20pm

Here’s how I did it:

7/20

I started on the right hand side where there were two A’s close together. I knew there had to be a line between them. I just started highlighting stuff and got lucky. I would highlight something on the bottom right and then highlight the same spaces on the top left.

vjvj · July 27, 2021, 2:25pm

Yeah, I did exactly the same. The border between the As and Gs was the first thing I got and things worked pretty easily from there.

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 2:30pm

7/21/2021
Eight words and phrases associated with the circus have been translated into a random cipher alphabet. Letter substitutions remain constant from word to word. Can you decipher them all?

KUZ PTV

ANTIC

JAFTKJP

GNGVDJCP

MULGMDTI

PUZDPFTVG

FUCZQJMPGF

NGTPJFLM

skysn93 · July 27, 2021, 2:35pm

7/21

Summary

BIG TOP
CLOWN
ACROBAT
ELEPHANT
SIDESHOW
TIGHTROPE
RINGMASTER
LEOTARDS

vjvj · July 27, 2021, 2:37pm

Summary

It had me double checking to make sure it wasn’t leopards

DeepPurple · July 27, 2021, 2:50pm

There are no elephants at circuses in 2021. Nor at many zoos either.

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 3:36pm

Thanks for the clue DeepPurple - gave me a place to start and I was able to solve from there.

Summary

Although I filled out #5 last and had _I_eshow and thought “live show” - but if I had actually stopped to see what the missing letters were (I had solved for them in other words) I would have gotten the correct answer.

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 3:40pm

Ok, last one for today. If we do 3 per day then I think we’ll get caught up on Thursday, and just do 1 per day after that (except Mondays where we’ll get to do the weekend ones as well).

7/22/2021
Place the numbers 1 to 9, one per circle, so that each side of this triangle totals 19. We’ve started you off with the 3, 8 and 9. Can you finish the triangle?

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NumericalNeuroticism · July 27, 2021, 3:49pm

7/22

ALivelySedative · July 27, 2021, 3:51pm

7/22

_____1
___9___6
__2______8
7__5___3___4

ALivelySedative · July 27, 2021, 3:52pm

Saw you start typing as I was trying to format mine. Epic ninja.

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 4:00pm

For some reason I was trying to get the sides up to 18 instead of 19. I’ll use that as my excuse for why I couldn’t get this one!

Bro · July 27, 2021, 5:26pm

I got it! Didn’t put my solution, because I’m obviously late to the party, but I still want to play along. This was like a mini-sudoku, and I credit having watched about 200 of Simon’s Cracking the Cryptic videos over the past year with a much improved understanding of how to eliminate potentials and solve stuff like this.

BruteForce · July 27, 2021, 5:43pm

That’s awesome! There’s something satisfying about solving one of these puzzles.

BruteForce · July 28, 2021, 1:28pm

7/23/2021 - HISS AND CAT
Find a rhyme for each word below to form a common phrase of paird words contained by the word “and.” For example, HISS and CAT becomes THIS and THAT.

SLIDE and BOOM

WED and FOLDERS

JOHNNY and SIGHED

JOINT and PICK

DARBY and MEN

ARRIVE and TICKING

MayanActuary · July 28, 2021, 1:44pm

7/23 - #3 took me the longest

Bride and Groom
Head and Shoulders
Bonnie and Clyde
Point and Click
Barbie and Ken
Alive and Kicking

BruteForce · July 28, 2021, 1:59pm

That’s funny because I got #3 first and the others took me a while. I didn’t get #2, and for #6 I got the first word but got stuck on the second word (Ticking fit too well and I couldn’t think of the actual word).