Daily puzzles/problems.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Oh, *^$£*.

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If that's a cryptogram, it looks like you've chosen an out-of-the-ordinary obscenity.

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Originally Posted by billl

If that's a cryptogram, it looks like you've chosen an out-of-the-ordinary obscenity.

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Ah, yes - the choice of an out-of-the-ordinary obscenity. <sigh> That takes me back.

Hang on a mo' the Great One hasn't pronounced yet. She did say it was a pure maths - no word play - question.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Hang on a mo' the Great One hasn't pronounced yet. She did say it was a pure maths - no word play - question.

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Nah - there was no word play. I just fell for it. In fact, you can see me falling for it, at the point where I say 'hang on'.

Right then, re-arrange the following into 4 groups of 4 connected words.

anvil, largo, prime, triangle,

tympanum, piano, irrational, altering,

grave, relating, cube, intergral,

presto, hammer, square , stirrup.

Yes, I have been watching 'Only Connect' on telly, to play it properly you have to do it in three minutes!

1 / triangle , cube , square
2 / piano , tympano , largo
3/ hammer, anvil , ( maybe grave is here ) :P
4/ altering , relating , irrational

stirrup .. maybe in 3...
aaaaah i got lost.. someone fill the blanks :)

45 seconds...


Ear – anvil, stirrup, hammer, tympanum
Key – largo, piano
Number – irrational, prime,

I can declare the ear group correct and complete.

Cube, square, irrational, prime are numbers
Presto and largo are tempo markings, and piano and triangle are percussion instruments. Would all fit together under "music"?

Ear – anvil, stirrup, hammer, tympanum
music – largo, piano, presto, grave
number – irrational, prime, square, integral
?? - Altering, triangle, relating, cube

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Nah - there was no word play. I just fell for it. In fact, you can see me falling for it, at the point where I say 'hang on'.

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258 wouldn't work because you'll have 3 left at the last bridge. They don't know fractions and you must have only two for the market. A problem for both. I go with two coins to start. No word play, since everything's specified. They must give you one back no matter how much they can take.

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Originally Posted by cafolini

I go with two coins to start. No word play, since everything's specified. They must give you one back no matter how much they can take.

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cafolini, good work, but Mick already solved it.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Ear – anvil, stirrup, hammer, tympanum
music – largo, piano, presto, grave
number – irrational, prime, square, integral
?? - Altering, triangle, relating, cube

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thats so close.


you need to find the connection for the last group then you'll see where you err.

"Integral," "altering," "triangle," and "relating" are all anagrams of each other. (Which puts "cube" under numbers. And the musical terms are three tempos and a volume?)

Hmm, noted for future Scrabble use.

Actually, they're different arrangements.


Ear, music, number, arrangement?






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