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Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 2, 2013 4:35 PM EDT
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04/05/13: UPDATE - answer and winner revealed on page 54. Greetings everyone and thanks for joining me on the AARP message boards! Beginning today, we're starting a fun challenge, in tandem with our brain health sweeps, for all you gamers who love a good brainer teaser now and then. Here's what we'll do: Each week I'll post a brain teaser in this forum and you will give an answer in a reply post. We'll collect responses all week up until midnight Thursday. On Friday the answer will be revealed and a $20 gift card will be awarded at random. A person is eligible to win whether they answer correctly or not. (Tip: Don't miss out on the fun, subscribe to this discussion.) Let's start with one of my favorites called Missing Letters! Count the "f"s in the passage below. How many "f"s do you count? Post your answer now and check back Friday for the answer. start here:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS credit: Posit Science Want to play more brain games? You can become a "student" of AARP Brain University by entering our current sweepstakes. Enter and play more fun games to keep your brain strong and have a chance to win $25,000! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends 5/5/13. To play and for Official Rules, click here. Have a great week--see you on Friday! -LynneG |
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Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 3, 2013 10:03 AM EDT
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In response to "Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!": Greetings everyone and thanks for joining me on the AARP message boards! Beginning today, we're starting a fun challenge, in tandem with our brain health sweeps, for all you gamers who love a good brainer teaser now and then. Here's what we'll do: Each week I'll post a brain teaser in this forum and you will give an answer in a reply post. We'll collect responses all week up until midnight Thursday. On Friday the answer will be revealed and a $20 giftcard will be awarded at random. A person is eligible to win whether they answer correctly or not. (Tip: Don't miss out on the fun, subscribe to this discussion.) Let's start with one of my favorites called Missing Letters! Count the "f"s in the following passage. How many "f"s did you count? Post your answer now and check back Friday for the answer. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS credit: Posit Science Want to play more brain games? You can become a "student" of AARP Brain University by entering our current sweepstakes. Enter and play more fun games to keep your brain strong and have a chance to win $25,000! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends 5/5/13. To play and for Official Rules, click here . Have a great week--see you on Friday! -LynneG Posted by LynneG I see 3 and love these types of brain teasers. |
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Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 3, 2013 12:36 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!: 4! Posted by ash81052 Thanks for your post, ash81052. Good luck! (Btw great profile pic!) |
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Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 3, 2013 12:50 PM EDT
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I'm not sure about the F's but it looks like there are 3 Y's. Do I get any credit for counting those correctly?  In Response to Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!: Greetings everyone and thanks for joining me on the AARP message boards! Beginning today, we're starting a fun challenge, in tandem with our brain health sweeps, for all you gamers who love a good brainer teaser now and then. Here's what we'll do: Each week I'll post a brain teaser in this forum and you will give an answer in a reply post. We'll collect responses all week up until midnight Thursday. On Friday the answer will be revealed and a $20 giftcard will be awarded at random. A person is eligible to win whether they answer correctly or not. (Tip: Don't miss out on the fun, subscribe to this discussion.) Let's start with one of my favorites called Missing Letters! Count the "f"s in the following passage. How many "f"s did you count? Post your answer now and check back Friday for the answer. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS credit: Posit Science Want to play more brain games? You can become a "student" of AARP Brain University by entering our current sweepstakes. Enter and play more fun games to keep your brain strong and have a chance to win $25,000! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends 5/5/13. To play and for Official Rules, click here . Have a great week--see you on Friday! -LynneG Posted by LynneG |
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Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 3, 2013 1:33 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!: I'm not sure about the F's but it looks like there are 3 Y's. Do I get any credit for counting those correctly? In Response to Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card! : Posted by livvi Give it a try, livvi, you can do it! |
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Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 3, 2013 2:37 PM EDT
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(Let's start with one of my favorites called Missing Letters! Count the "f"s in the following passage. How many "f"s did you count? Post your answer now and check back Friday for the answer. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS) ......................................................... If by "following passage" you mean all the words following that statement then I count: 9 If you mean just the passage in red then I count: 6 |
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Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!
posted at April 3, 2013 4:37 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Play "Missing Letters" and you may win a $20 gift card!: Thanks for playing, Sparkel18! Good point. What I mean is the passage in red, all caps. I'll edit my original post for clarity. (Let's start with one of my favorites called Missing Letters! Count the "f"s in the following passage. How many "f"s did you count? Post your answer now and check back Friday for the answer. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS) ......................................................... If by "following passage" you mean all the words following that statement then I count: 9 If you mean just the passage in red then I count: 6 Posted by Sparkel18 |
