7/30
Summary
GEYSER or CARROT
Correct!
7/30
Summary
CARROT or GEYSER
No, although I gave it a second’s thought to think about whether I thought one of my calculators could do it. If it could, I think it would be limited to base 2, 8, 10, and 16. There are a some websites with base-whatever calculators and I used one of those.
Your question made me look to see if Excel is already set up to do it. It has a BASE function, but it only converts from decimal to another base.
can just divide by 9. the remainder is the sum and carry the integer
I did that as a check, but found it easier to do it by hand, rather than set it up fully mechanically
7/31/2021 - GREEN THUMB
Start at the top and choose one letter from each successive row to form five 5-letter gardening verbs. You may jump to any column as you go down. There is never a need to rearrange the letters, and every letter will be used exactly once. What are the five things that gardeners do?
8/1/2021 - FOUR-COLOR PROBLEM
A hat contains 35 tickets: 10 red, 9 yellow, 5 green, and 11 blue. If I am blindfolded, what is the minimum number of tickets that I need to remove from this hat to guarantee that I have drawn at least 3 tickets of each color?
7/31>
Summary
GRAFT
MULCH
PRUNE
SPRAY
WATER
7/31
Graft
Mulch
Prune
Spray
Water
8/1
Summary
33
8/1
33
Gah ninja’d twice
You guys are correct on both counts!
8/2/2021 - WEAVE MADE A MESS OF THINGS
In each puzzle below, the names of three items that fit the given category are interwoven (without scrambling) to form a string of letters, so that each word reads from left to right. Can you figure out what the three items are for each category?
- Winter Olympic Sports: S C L K U U E R L L E T I O N N G G E
- Shades of green: A V E M O M C E R A I N A L D D O T
- Words that precede “brush”: S T O P A O A I N G T E T H
8/2
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SKELETON CURLING LUGE
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AVOCADO EMERALD MINT
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SAGE TOOTH PAINT
Correct!
This one took a little more time to set up. I did my best to find pictures that matched what’s on the page.
8/3/2021
Identify the images, which represent ten 4-letter words. Then starting with the item you wear, form a ten-step word ladder in which one letter changes at each step.
8/3
BOOT
FOOT
FORT
FORK
CORK
CORN
COIN
CHIN
SHIN
SHIP
Correct!
8/3 thoughts
The castle/fort picture was the hardest (both to find and for me to figure out).
The cork picture is kind of small on the actual page (tried to replicate that), and I also didn’t figure that one out until I needed to link fork and corn.
Those were the only two that really gave me trouble. I had ship or boat written for that picture, but it was pretty easy to put the other words together and figure out which was correct.
8/3 thought
Summary
I also had boat instead of ship, which actually can be used at the start before boot until I saw that we were to start with boot.
Cork was my hardest as I had “grape juice can?” written down before seeing what I needed in the word ladder