Various 5 (Round 2)

[Rudi]

1. In this puzzle, each letter represents a different number. Can you work out
what number (0-9) each letter stands for? The leftmost letter can not be zero
in any word.

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2. Adrian is an accountant, Arthur is a lawyer, Darren is a carpenter. Who is
an engineer - George or Daniel and why?

3. ABSORB, DIVIDE, GLITCH, MARGIN, RECESS.
Which one of the following words belongs in the list above and why?
QUIVER, SHAKEN, SHIVER, TINGLE, TREMOR.

4. Phillip is 12 years old, Norman is 13, Harold is 15. Who is 16 -
Ralph or Barry and why?

5. Each of these people has a birthday today. Tom is three times older than Del,
who is twice the age of Amy, who is ten years younger than Gus, who is half the
age of Zac, who is half the age of Ben, who is ten years older than Mel. How old
is each person if their combined ages total 220 years?

[Rudi]

Since nobody has taken a shot in round 2, wanna see the answers?

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Awe, c'mon...you didn't think it was gonna be THAT easy, did ya?

[StuartR]

5.

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Tom is 36, Del is 12, Amy is 6, Gus is 16, Zac is 32, Ben is 64, Mel is 54

[Rudi]

100% Stuart...

[StuartR]

4.

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Ralph - 4th letter of the name is 16th letter of the alphabet

[Rudi]

4.

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Ralph - 4th letter of the name is 16th letter of the alphabet

Yep....correct.

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I wonder how we'd pronounce our names if the 4th letter matched our age? - It'd probably sound like Klingon

[Rudi]

Any more takes on questions 1,2 and 3? (before I really hand out the answers)

[StuartR]

3.

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QUIVER - First and last letters are AB, DE, GH, MN, RS, QR

[Rudi]

Absolutely correct Stuart.

[Rudi]

Here are the solutions to the rest of this puzzle... "Really!"

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