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Brain Games: Try These Three Puzzles

BRAIN GAMES

Puzzles 

BY STANLEY NEWMAN

Illustration of a stack of books with a question mark in the middle of the books Illustration of a stack of books with a question mark in the middle of the books

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SPELLING LESSON

What nine-letter word for a popular college major has exactly one of each of the vowels A, E, I, O and U?

(Hint: It begins with a vowel.) 

WORDPLAY

FALLEN APART

The eight letters in the word

The word crumbled made to look like it crumbling The word crumbled made to look like it crumbling

can be rearranged to form a pair of common four-letter words in only one way. What are those two words?

NUMBER FUN

WHAT’S NEXT?

There’s a pattern to how each number, after the first in the series, is derived from the number preceding it. Following that pattern, what comes after 24?

An illustrated band with the numbers 120, 60,40,30 and 24 on it An illustrated band with the numbers 120, 60,40,30 and 24 on it

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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

SPELLING LESSON: EDUCATION
FALLEN APART: CURB and MELD
WHAT’S NEXT? 20. (60 is ½ of 120; 40 is ⅔ of 60; 30 is ¾ of 40; 24 is ⅘ of 30; and 20 is ⅚ of 24.)

Illustrations by Sam Island

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