Perplex City Card Catalog

s1#001-Dem Old Bones

Can you be a master palaeontology sleuth and match the silhouettes to the correct names? Triceratops Stegosaurus Tyrannosaurus Rex Raptor Pteranodon Spinosaurus

s1#002-Designer Flakes

Bored, on a cold winter's day, Otto and Pip decided to set me a puzzle. The cut out six snowflakes, and then made six identical copies. Their challenge was to match the pairs up. they say every snowflake is unique

s1#003-Earth, Sea and Moon

WHICH BOOK IS THIS?

s1#004-Zoo Zanyism

Seven animals have escaped from the Perplex City Zoo and the zookeepers need your help to find them! Which animals can you see in this picture?

s1#005-Out On A Limb

Who am I?

s1#006-Winning Lines

1 vorrei baciarti! 2 vamos a bailar? 3 ik hou van mijn fiets - hou jij van mir?! 4 on mange chinois ou chez toi?! 5 du weckst den tiger in mir! 6 vad du ar sot! Von was out in a bar one night and decided to try a new approach to picking up women. Given the recent fad for everything Earth-related, maybe the Earth chat-up lines he'd read about would work. Sadly, he never got around to looking up their meanings, and shockingly, none of them worked - even with Von's charm. what languages did he attempt to woo the ladies with?

s1#007-Aromarama

In the Whipsmart Ice Cream factory, our cows have been working overtime to develop new flavours to tickle our customer's tastebuds and galvanize their grey matter. Can you name the four flavours below?

s1#008-Mind Candy

Can you identify the Mind Candy staff? Check out the real photos at www.mindcandydesign.com

s1#009-Ishihara

"Did you know that...fifteen percent of men are colourblind?" This Ishihara colour test is a test for red-green colour deficiencies. It was named after its designer, Dr. Shinobu Ishihara (1879-1963), a professor at the University of Tokyo, who first published his tests in 1917. The test consists of a number of coloured plates, each of which is printed with a circle made of many different sized dots of slightly different colours spread in a random manner. Within the dot pattern, and distinguishable only by colour (not, for example, by shape), is a number. The number that a person can see on the plate will reveal whether or not they are colour blind, and if so, what type of colour blindness they posess. The full test consists of thirty-eight plates, but the existence of a deficiency is usually clear after no more than four plates. Common plates include a circle of dots in shades of green and light blues with a figure differentiated in shades of brown. Others feature a circle of dots in shades of red, orange and yellow with a figure in shades of green. The former tests for protanopia, and the second for deuteranopia. Courtesty Wikipedia Strange affliction, isn't it? Stranger still is that less than one percent of women are colourblind. Anyway, there's a number in the image above. What is it?

s1#010-Spot Anything?

There is an image hidden here. What do you see? Photographer: R.C. James

s1#011-Revelation

CONCENTRATE ON THE FOUR DOTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS IMAGE FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS. THEN CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT A WHITE WALL OR SHEET OF PAPER. YOU SHOULD SEE A WHITE CIRCLE WITH AN IMAGE INSIDE IT. Who is it?

s1#012-Alcopoetry

Women, your ability to operate extra tender springs from birth.    Good machinery comes    as your contents    cause enjoyment. Cash, beer, a car ... rock and rolling?    During "it", the general warning:    "We may rick pregnancy    according to old problems" Your refund from the government for alcoholic beverages? Not OK.    Refund this premium, beer surgeon,    because premium beer impairs taste.    A drink--to the tribute of health, to the pale alcoholic. Rolling, glass tanks of beverages rock this lined mountain.    Should the defects    of consumption    drive me ... Or you? Latrobe, Latrobe COL, CT, DE, IA, MA, NY, VT, CA, MI "33"

s1#013-Sphinx

WHICH ANIMAL WALKS ON FOUR FEET IN THE MORNING, TWO FEET AT NOON AND THREE FEET IN THE EVENING?

s1#014-Cracked Crackers

THE PEOPLE OF PERPLEX CITY ARE FASCINATED BY EARTH CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS. THIS YEAR, A LEADING FIREWORK MANUFACTURER IN THE CITY HAS PRODUCED A NEW LINE, BASED ON AN OLD BRTISH TRADITION - FESTIVE CRACKERS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE CRACKER JOKES HAVE BECOME SEPARATED FROM THEIR PUNCHLINES! WITHOUT EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH TRIVIA, THE PERPLEX CITIZENS CAN'T WORK OUT HOW TO PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER. CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHICH JOKE GOES WITH WHICH ANSWER? Signed by Von A. M.T.G.G. A. A Damson in distress A. Wi Jammin A. Douglas A. No idea A. Because he's only got little legs A. Wet Feet A. A budgie with no teeth A. At launch time A. The Isle of Wight Ferry Q. What do you get if you cross a river with a bike? Q. When do astronauts eat? Q. What's ET short for? Q. How does Bob Marley like his doughnuts? Q. What goes "Splish Splosh" and comes from cows Q. What do you call a man who has lost his spade? Q. What's purple and shouts "Help"? Q. How do you spell "hungry horse" with just four letters? Q. Which bird always succeeds? Q. What do you call a reindeer with no eyes?

s1#015-Milo

1. cool, teach - mixed candy (9) 2. Pinnacle or inititially, needles top (5) 3. Sounds like hes a-restin in the mountains (9)

s1#016-XXX

The other day Caine and I were playing 3D tic-tac- toe during a particularly boring Academy lecture. To rest our brains a little we switched to a few games of traditional tic-tac-toe. After 17 straight draws in a row I caught Caine napping* and won this game comfortably. I'm X, where are the two spaces I can play next to guarantee the win? * to be fair he was also trying to compose the lyrics to a new song he was working on at the same time.

s1#017-Easy As...

WHAT NUMBER IS THIS In 1995 Goto Hiroyuki set the world record for memorizing this number. He recited it from memory to a staggering 42,195 places. Mats Bersten holds the slightly more bizarre record of reciting it while juggling three balls. In October 2004 he managed 2830 places. If mats lived in Perplex City he'd never be short of dinner party invitations.

s1#018-Natal Name

Deciding on a name for a baby has always been an entertaining way to pass time for both males and females. While some names have been perennially popular over the years, others (such as Britney, Kylie, Justin and Jason) often go out of fasion quickly. Can you match up these four top ten lists of US boys' and girls' names to these four different decades? 1910 1930 1970 1990 A B C D 1 Michael Robert Michael John 2 Christopher James Christopher William 3 Jason John Matthew James 4 David William Joshua Robert 5 James Richard Jacob Joseph 6 John Charles Andrew George 7 Robert Donald Daniel Charles 8 Brian George Nicholas Edward 9 William Thomas Tyler Frank 10 Matthew Joseph Joseph Walter 1 Jennifer Mary Ashley Mary 2 Amy Betty Jessica Helen 3 Melissa Barbara Emily Dorothy 4 Michelle Shirley Sarah Margaret 5 Kimberly Patricia Samantha Ruth 6 Lisa Dorothy Britany Mildred 7 Angela Joan Amanda Anna 8 Heather Margaret Elizabeth Elizabeth 9 Stephanie Nancy Taylor Frances 10 Jessica Helen Megan Marie card by Anna

s1#019-Magic Numbers

NUMBERS CAN PLAY FUNNY TRICKS. AND SOMETIMES THEY CAN EVEN SEEM TO BE ALIVE TRY THIS ON YOUR CALCULATOR. THINK OF ANY NUMBER BETWEEN 100-999 (SUCH AS 176). THE 1ST AND 3RD DIGITS OF THE NUMBER MUST DIFFER BY AT LEAST 2 SO 971 IS OKAY, BUT 978 IS NOT. TAKE THE REVERSE OF THAT NUMBER (671) WORK OUT THE DIFFERENCE (671 -176 = 495) ADD THAT DIFFERENCE TO ITS REVERSE (495 + 594) ADD 200 DIVIDE BY 5000 MULTIPLY BY 3 WHAT IS YOUR CALCULATOR TRYING TO TELL YOU?

s1#020-Barbeque

Among my many ceremonial duties at the academy is the opening of the Summer barbeque, where I have to cook a meal for the top three students that year. I must confess I'm not an expert chef, so generally the students have to settle for a single beefburger each. After explaining the complex cooking procedure to the three students-5 minutes for one side, 5 minutes for the other - I apologised to one of the students who would receive her burger ten minutes after the first two, since the grill can only fit two burgers at once. She then quickly pointed out that if I change the order of cooking the burgers, I could be finished cooking in 15 minutes instead of 20 - and she was right! How did I order the cooking of the burgers to achieve this?

s1#021-Divide By Three

I was in a pretty dire situation last week - it was about 4am, only Justin and Tone were still awake, and the party was well and truly winding down. Even worse, all the drink had run out. The only stuff we could find was in a room where someone had poured 7 full glasses of wine, and 7 half glasses. Justin was just about to pour them into each other so we could split them three ways when I stopped him. "Justin," I said aghast, "what the hell are you doing? That's vintage Harbin wine there, you can't mix them, it'd ruin the taste!" "So what should we do then, puzzle boy?" challenged Tone, equally aghast. I ignored him and continued, "Look guys, there's an easy way of splitting these 14 glasses three ways without any pouring. Let me show you..." How did I do it?

s1#022-Cold Fission

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. This is one of Violet's favourite poems. It's been hanging around her room as long as I can remember... What is the name of the poet?

s1#023-Pack 'O' Stars

[K clubs] [Q hearts] [J clubs] [Q diamonds] Name these kings and queens of rock & pop

s1#024-Double Vision

The Academy is very proud of its parent-friendly policies, and my twin sons, Otto and Pip, love to play in my office after school. They both especially enjoy drawing and painting. Recently, they presented me with two drawings which they'd tried to make absolutely identical. They hadn't got it quite right though. Can you spot the five things that appear in Otto's drawing but not Pip's?

s1#025-Read Between The Lines

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s1#026-Paint Factory Explosion

The Paint Factory in Perplex City has had something of a spillage Can you find your way through the maze moving vertically, horizontally or diagonally, following the colours correctly to find the hidden message?

s1#027-Bar None

Violet and I often have a quiet drink after work in our favorite bar on the Mobius Strip. It's not unusual for some bloke to try to chat her up and she usually brushes them off with a cutting one-liner. One night, a particularly persistent guy just wouldn't give up asking for her phone number, insisting that he recognized her from somewhere. Eventually, she arched one eyebrow and said: "My phone number has 11 digits and they sum to 44. Vowels in syzygy, corners on a cube, deadly sins, null in German, love in tennis, strings on a violin, degrees of separation, atomic number of lithium, horsemen of the apocalypse, colours of the rainbow, dots in a quincunx." He asked her to repeat the problem but, smiling, she refused.

s1#028-Laundered

Who was responsible for ruining my shirt? I was enjoying lunch at the Academy before my afternoon presentation when a clumsy waiter spilled half a bowl of soup over me. I hadn't time to go back home so I'd little choice but to use the Academy launderette. Luckily there was a spare machine so I popped my shirt in and ducked out to let the course organiser know I'd be a few minutes late. When I got back I found a note on the machine and an annoying surprise... ihtenragisawniahsurdna llaehtsenihcamerewysu bosideworrobsruoyepohuo ytnoddnimspitspenoemos tfelaegassamrofuoytaeh teciffoknihttisawtruk

s1#029-Beware the Puzzle Monsters

For generations, parents in Perplex City have frightened their homework shy children by introducing them to the legend of the Puzzle Monsters. These curious beasts are rumoured to dwell within the network of labyrinthine tunnels that exist deep below the city. Every now and then they surface to pose a quandary to the hapless youngster. An incorrect answer ensures a quick one-way trip to the mysterious Puzzle Monsters lair. How would you fare if one crossed your path? Unscramble these six Earth cities and tell me which is the odd one out? MORE SOLO NONOLD SPAIR ALONECRAB LOCKMOTHS

s1#030-End of the Line

MANY passages in the holy books of Gyvann are extremely obscure and hard to understand. This one, for instance, has baffled scholars and theologians for centuries and has spawned dozens of different interpretations: Precious are the stones my children, precious that which is dug from the earth. Precious are the rubies, the diamonds, the emeralds and the topaz. I hold fast to the amethysts. They mingled them with sapphires, so I threw them both from me. Only one choice remained and from then nothing was right. My children I did not despair, as you must not despair. A quadru- ped appeared before me, its middle lef held proudly forward. I turned my back to it and strode forward. But adter only 20 ammot the light was upon me. Precious, my children, is the light. However, Gyvann could also make himself quite readily understood, as in this little riddle. What does it refer to? I HAVE NO VISAGE, BUT FACES SIX, I AID THE BUILDER BUT AM NOT BRICKS, MY EDGES ARE TWELVE, MY POWER THREE, MY SELF IS ONE, DIVINE, HOLY.

s1#031-St Ives

AS I WAS GOING TO ST. IVES I MET A MAN WITH SEVEN WIVES. EACH WIFE HAD SEVEN SACKS, EACH SACK HAD SEVEN CATS, EACH CAT HAD SEVEN KITS. KITS CATS SACKS AND WIVES, HOW MANY WERE GOING TO ST. IVES?

s1#032-Cow Cow Cow Cow Cow

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s1#033-Turnabout

The Click is one of the most well-known clubs in Perplex City, and it's where Roll for Damage famously played their first gig. I was there last week while Caine's band were doing a set, when I came up with this puzzle for Violet. I bet her that she wouldn't be able to solve it before Caine finished his guitar solo. I lost. Then again, you could've played entire concerts in the time it took him to finish... Can you make this arrow point in the opposite direction by only moving three bottletops?

s1#034-Cocktails

What is the end result of all of these cocktails added together?

s1#035-Smile

"Smile and the world smiles with you. Frown and you frown alone." Can you connect these smiles with the paintings they hail from? A. PORTRAIT OF THE LAUGHING MAN B. SELF PORTRAIT BY JEAN ETIENNE LIOTARD C. THE LAUGHING VIOLINIST D. THE LAUGHING CAVALIER E. THE MONA LISA F. ADVERTISEMENT FOR 'LOU' BRAS

s1#036-Catcher

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s1#037-Muscae Volitantes

What idiom does this image show?

s1#038-Heist

The notes fluttered onto the ground behind me as I ran. Cold sweat dripped into my eyes as I began to hear sirens... Whilc currencies flew out of my satchel? choose from Japanese Yen Euro Australian Dollar Indonesian Rupiah USA Dollar

s1#039-4 Colour Theorem

One of the more enjoyable parts of your job is when you get to colour in a brand new map. All sorts of wierd and wonderful maps cross your desk and you have to decide how different areas are coloured, ensuring that no bordering segments share the same colour. You only ever use four colours (red, green, blue, and yellow) knowing that it would be impossible to with just three and a waste of ink to use five.* This imaginary country is divided into nineteen different regions. While it can be coloured in in many different ways, all of them require the area ? to be one particular colour. WHAT COLOUR MUST IT BE? *Discovering why 4 colours is always sufficient managed to perplex mathematicans for decades

s1#040-Baby on Board

All the mammals living on Earth today can be divided up into three groups. There are the marsupials (such as kangaroos) where the young are reared in pouches. There are the rare monotreme (such as platypuses) which lay eggs. Finally, there are the placental mammals, which include species like humans where the young are nourished through pregnancy within the female. Everyone knows that humans are pregnant for nine months, but what about the mammals illustrated here? You might be surprised... Dolphin (Family: Delphinidae) Lion (Family: Felidae) Rhinoceros (Family: Rhinocerotidae) Rabbit (Family: Leporidae) Mouse (Family: Muridae) Elephant (Family: Elephantidae) Fig 2. Six varied animals from Earth. These are, of course, very similar to those in Perplex City, with the notable exception of (cont. on page 176) Section Quiz Can you match these pregnancy lengths (in days) to the animals above? 10 marks Answers on page 498 108 21 640 32 450 276

s1#041-Whipsmart Wordsearch

At Whipsmart, we've been making Perplex City's favourite ice cream for over twenty years. Our ice cream isn't just delicious -it improves your IQ too! That's because Whip Smart cows are bred for their intelligence and puzzle solving skills. Check out our website at www.whipsmartice.com for more details. Within the wordsearch below, we've hidden the names of our ten bestselling flavours. You might not be familiar with them but we can guarantee you'll love them! Bring your completed wordsearch to Whip Smart for your free scoop of ice cream. v Offer not open to employees of Whip Smart, their families, milkmaids or cows. Whip Smart, 16 Lorenz Curve, Mobius Strip, Perplex City

s1#042-Pirates vs Ninjas

AVAST Landlubbers may not know it, but there's long been a deadly hatred 'tween pirates and ninjas, as ninjas are o'course sneaky swabs who can't swim and make fun o' our beards. One day, a group o' five pirates came across a secret ninja map showin' where a treasure o' 100 gold doubloons was buried. 'tweren't no ordinary map though - it had three statements on it sayin' where the treasure was, but only two o' them were true, and one 'o them was false. From this, can ye figure out which island those lyin' ninjas buried the treasure on? Arrr?

s1#043-Use Your Anterior Cingulate

??????? RED YELLOW BLUEMGREEN PURPLE BLUE PURPLE RED YELLOW GREEN YELLOW BLUE PURPLE GREEN RED GREEN RED PURPLE YELLOW BLUE This test takes advantage of our ability to read words more quickly and automatically than we can name colors. There aren't many tests in which children who can't yet read outperform adults but this is one of them. This unusual test is named after the psychologist who discovered the phenomenom in the 1930's. WHAT WAS HIS NAME?

s1#044-You Are Here

There are NINE PLANETS in your Solar System. Can you name them? Hope we haven't given too much away by highlighting the THIRD ONE from the sun. in tiny letters down the right hand side : MY VERY EXCELLENT MEMORY JUST SUMS UP NINE PLANETS

s1#045-Snake Eyes

s1#046-Sum Shortcut

Fredrich Gauss was a legendary German mathematician, astronomer and physicist. His contributions to science have been so great that he is sometimes reffered to as the 'Prince of Mathematics'. Even from an early age his talent was evident. His father guessed he had a child prodigy on his hands when at the tender age of three his son spotted an error while he was calculating his payroll. Gauss junior was also making similar waves at school. His class was particularly rowdy and one afternoon his exasperated teacher set them all a problem to try and keep them quiet for as long as possible. The task was to add up all the numbers between 1 and 100. Most of the children had barely put chalk to slate when the five-year-old Gauss announced he had the soloution. What answer did Guass give to his starled teacher? Now. before you plough headlong into this problem and spend ages summing the numbers one by one, is there an easier way to tackle this problem? You never know when such a shortcut might come in handy.

s1#047-Opposites Attract

...yet birds of a feather flock together. If proverbs are supposed to impart such useful wisdom how come so many of them contradict each other? There are eighteen such gems of wisdom below. Can you identify the nine pairs of contradictory proverbs? 1. Look before you leap. 2. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 3. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 4. Never judge a book by its cover. 5. Seek and ye shall find. 6. He who hesitates is lost. 7. Time waits for no man. 8. Clothes make the man. 9. Haste makes waste. 10. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. 11. It's better to be safe than sorry. 12. Curiosity killed the cat. 13. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 14. Silence is golden. 15. The squeaking wheel gets the grease. 16. One man's meat is another man's poison. 17. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 18. Many hands make light work.

s1#048-Pop Words

Every year has its buzzword - a word that has entered popular culture and represents the newest fashion, saying or biggest event of that year. A recent book in the UK by wordfox Susie Dent has identified every year's buzzword from 1904 (hip) to 2004 (chav). The buzzwords below are grouped by decade. Can you identify which decade each set of words comes from? <table><tr><td>A 19_0 applet 19_1 hot-desking 19_2 url 19_3 having it large 19_4 botox 19_5 kitten heels 19_6 ghetto fabulous 19_7 dot-commer 19_8 text message 19_9 google </td> <td>D 19_0 demob 19_1 pop 19_2 wizard 19_3 hem-line 19_4 lumpenproletariat 19_5 avant garde 19_6 kitsch 19_7 sudden death 19_8 big apple 19_9 sex </td></tr> <tr><td>B 19_0 sacred cow 19_1 gene 19_2 blues 19_3 celeb 19_4 cheerio 19_5 civvy street 19_6 u-boat 19_7 tailspin 19_8 ceasefire 19_9 ad-lib </td> <td>E 19_0 hypermarket 19_1 green 19_2 watergate 19_3 f-word 19_4 punk 19_5 detox 19_6 trekkie 19_7 naff all 19_8 trainers 19_9 karaoke </td></tr> <tr><td>C 19_0 cyborg 19_1 awesome 19_2 bossa nova 19_3 peacenik 19_4 byte 19_5 miniskirt 19_6 acid 19_7 love-in 19_8 it-girl 19_9 microchip </td> <td>F 19_0 power dressing 19_1 toyboy 19_2 hip-hop 19_3 beatbox 19_4 double-click 19_5 ok yah 19_6 mobile 19_7 virtual reality 19_8 gangsta 19_9 latte </td></tr></table>

s1#049-Bookworm

Imagine that a bookworm has managed to get past the security and cleaning devices in the Perplex City Library and reached the very tasty 10 volume "The Collected Writings and Travels of Noi". Each volume has 1000 pages in total. If the bookworm starts eating at page 1 of volume 1 and finishes at page 1000 of volume 10, how many pages of Noi's writings has it eaten through?

s1#050-Eight States

Box 1. the untidy garden verges on the ridiculous Box 2. the placebo is exceptionally difficult to swallow Box 3. the hostel sells ale, mead and porter Box 4. kneel and chant 'allah" as seen on tv Box 5. the nomad is on his way south Box 6. hero had overtaken leander Box 7. in no particular order, my favourite months are june, august and july Hidden within the seven sentences above are the names of eight US state capital cities. Can you find the eight capitals and then name the states they hail from? Guest puzzle architect {Matt Shone}

s1#051-Jigsaw

Where?

s1#052-The View From Here

Greetings From?

s1#053-Etaoin Schrdlu

For centuries codebreakers have used 'letter frequency analysis' as a starting point to crack certain types of coded message. The reason being that some letters in the English langugage appear much more frequently than others. E is the most common, followed by T, A and O. On the other hand, letters like Z, J, Q and X rarely get a look in and are a long way behind (although on the plus side they'll score you a lot of points in Scrabble*). Assuminy you had plenty of time on your hands and you were able to tot up all the letters in a book such as 'Alice in Wonderland', the order of frequency would look like this: etaoihnsrdluwgcymfpbkvqxjz You'd get a fairly similar result if you were to do the same for 'Pride and Prejudice': etaoinhsrdlumcywfgbpvkzjxq But I digress. As fascinating as all this is it isn't directly relevant to the two-part puzzle below. 1. READ THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE LETTER F APPEAR WITHIN IT? 2. IN 1969 THE AUTHOR GEORGES PEREC WROTE A 300 PAGE BOOK CALLED 'LA DISPARATION'. HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE LETTER 'E' APPEAR WITHIN THE NOVEL? * Sadly not so for the Polish version of Scrabble where a 'Z' is worth just a single point. Uwierz mi!

s1#054-9 Ball

LAST WEEK, I FOUND MYSELF NURSING A HANGOVER AND PLAYING MY MATE TONE AT 9 BALL. NOW, I'M A MODEST GUY, BUT MOST PEOPLE WOULD AGREE THAT I'M PRETTY SHARP AT POOL. SO WHEN TONE BEAT ME FOR THE THIRD TIME RUNNING THAT MORNING, I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. NOT WITH ME - WITH THE POOL BALLS. I'M NOT ACCUSING TONE HERE, BUT I WAS CONVINCED THAT ONE OF THEM WAS LIGHTER THAN THE OTHERS, WHICH TOTALLY THREW OFF MY AIM. TONE DIDN'T TAKE THIS WELL AND CHALLENGED ME TO PROVE IT. "I WILL PROVE IT!" I ANNOUNCED, TAKING DOWN THE REGULATION WEIGHING SCALES FROM THE WALL (ALL BARS HAVE THEM, DON'T ASK ME WHY). WHAT WAS THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF WEIGHINGS OF THE NINE BALL POOLS I NEEDED TO TAKE TO FIND OUT WHICH WAS LIGHTER THAN THE OTHERS?

s1#055-Speed Sight

This is one of the visual perception tests we conduct in the Academy. The puzzle is to remove all the polygons in order. If a polygon can be removed only when there are no other polygons sitting on top of it, what order would you need to remove these polygons in?

s1#056-Gravity

IF ALL THESE BALLS ARE RELEASED AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH TRACK WILL SEE ITS BALL REACH THE FINISH LINE FIRST?

s1#057-Volume

The other day I overheard Tippy and Caine teasing Von about a party they had all been to, where young Von had a little more drink than he could handle. "I'm telling you, it was a stomach bug!" exclaimed Von. "Right, alcohol allergy, that it? What's that you got there?" asked Caine. "Couple of pills of Clarity. I need to get 400ml of water to dissolve them in." Caine went and grabbed a couple of cups from the watercooler, and gave a "you know the drill" wink to Tippy, who said, "Let me see how quick you are under the influence. We've got two cups here that hold 300ml and 500ml - how can you use them to get exactly 400ml without any measuring?" Von gave an amused smile, and in under a minute he'd done it and watered a nearby plant as well. As he walked off in triumph, he called over his shoulder, "by the way, the anthro group is showing Die Hard 3 tonight, you might want to check it out..." Card by Anna

s1#058-Breaking and Entering

I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FASCINATION WITH EARTH SECURITY TAKE THIS LOCK FOR INSTANCE. A THREE DIAL COMBINATION LOCK WITH EACH DIAL LABELLED A, B, C, D AND E. LOCKS OF THIS TYPE ARE USED A LOT ON EARTH, BUT GIVEN THAT IT ONLY TAKES ME 10 SECONDS TO TRY A COMBINATION, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE ME TO GUARANTEE CRACKING THE CODE AND BREAKING IN?

s1#059-Urban Myths

You've probably heard of all these famous urban myths before but you might be surprised to discover that only one of them is true. which one? 1. Van Halen's standard performance contract contained a clause that asked for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms, but with all the brown ones removed. 2. Kevin's lovable yet geeky sidekick in TV's "The Wonder Years" was played by Marilyn Manson. 3. The athletic shoe Adidas gained its name from an acronym for 'All Day I Dream About Sex'. 4. The word 'posh' is an acronym for 'Port Out Starboard Home' which was printed on the first-class tickets issued by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. 5. In the 1960s the BBC was forced to take the children's TV show, Captain Pugwash, off the air due to the startling revelation that several of the characters has names that were less than wholesome. 6. The word 'golf' is an acronym formed from "gentlemen only; ladies forbidden. 7. The Great Wall Of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon. 8. The John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath was published in a Japanese translation with title The Angry Raisins.

s1#060-Celebration

All of these Earth Celebrations... Have Something In Common With A Traditional Perplexian Holiday - Which One? Diwali Kwanzaa Obon Yuan Xiao Jie Chanukkah Timket Christmas Loi Krathong

s1#061-Ticket To Ride

AT WHAT DAY AND TIME WOULD YOU NOT OCCUR A PARKING TICKET? URBAN CLEARWAY Monday to Friday am 8.00 - 9.30 pm 4.30 - 7.00 Friday Parking With Monkey Only NO PARKING BEFORE 12:00 WHEN THE CHILD IS FULL OF GRACE No Parking On Days With An 'N' In NO PARKING ON DAYS WITH MORE THAN 7 LETTERS NO PARKING EVERY SIXTH HOUR OF THE DAY 19- 7h LUN A VEN NO SIMIANS AT ANY TIME

s1#062-Sweet Child O' Mine

ROCK STARS ARE WELL KNOWN FOR THEIR EXCESSES, SUCH AS THE CLICHÉS OF THROWING TVS OUT OF WINDOWS, BITING HEADS OFF OF BATS AND DEMANDING CERTAIN COLOURS OF M&MS. HOWEVER, ONE EXCESS THAT NEVE GETS OLD - OR LESS EMBARRASSING AER THE OUTRAGEOUS NAMES SOME ROCK STARS GIVE TO THEIR CHILDREN THE EDGE KEITH RICHARDS CHRIS MARTIN BOB GELDOF MICHAEL JACKSON FRANK ZAPPA JERMAINE JACKSON DIANA ROSS MICHAEL HUTCHENCE DAVID BOWIE CAN YOU MATCH UP THE ROCK STARS TO THEIR CHILDREN? JERMAJESTY PRINCE MICHAEL APPLE Moon Unit ZOWIE ROSS DANDELION BLUE ANGEL HEAVENLY HIRAANI TIGER LILI FIFI TRIXIBELLE

s1#063-The Next Generation

Many T.V. shows have had successful, and not so successful, spin-offs. Can you match the spin-off to the show that spawned it? Beverly Hills 90210 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cheers Columbo Dallas Doctor Who Friends Happy Days Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Porridge The X-Files Angel Frasier Going Straight Joey K9 and Company Knots Landing Melrose Place Mork and Mindy Mrs. Columbo The Lone Gunmen Xena: Warrior Princess

s1#064-Hollywood Stars

The movie business of Hollywood all seems to be interlinked. So much so that within nine steps you can return to where you started. Can you fill in the missing gaps? HOLLYWOOD Spring 2006 Jonny Lee Miller Was married to -------- ----- Who is expecting the child of ---- ---- Was once engaged to ------- ------- Who dated her Shakespeare in Love co-star --- ------- Who was engaged to -------- ----- Who starred in Out of Sight with ------ ------- Whose co-star in Ocean's Eleven was ----- ------- Who went to My Best Friend's Wedding with ------- ---- Who had A Life Less Ordinary with director ----- ----- Who directed Trainspotting which starred Jonny Lee Miller

s1#065-Going Underground

Name the cities that these map fragments come from

s1#066-Lost in Mockba

"What does this tattoo say?"

s1#067-Popcorn

Can you match these famous quotes with the movies they come from? You might notice that there are 15 quotes but only 14 movies. Which movie does that unmatched quote come from? "Well, you have a sweet bike. And you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're like the only guy at school who has a mustache." "Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something." "First you gotta do the truffle shuffle." "Where do you want to be oiled first?" "Nobody puts Baby in the corner." "Slippery little suckers." "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now." "I'm being toyed with by a bunch of depraved children." "In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns." "I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons." "Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating." "I'm having an old friend for dinner." "You changed my life. You changed my life, and I've known you four days. This is the start of something really big, but right now, I gotta go." "Violet, you're turning violet, Violet!" "We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are." The Goonies Pretty Woman Dirty Dancing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Godfather Garden State The Wizard of Oz Withnail and I Memento Napoleon Dynamite Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Trainspotting Silence of the Lambs Back to the Future

s1#068-Picto Dot

answer the questions, then connect the dots in that order. what animal have you created? 1 - XLIX 2 - 4! 3 - only number whose letters are in alphabetical order 4 - keys on a piano 5 - only number that is twice the sum of its digits 6 - what triskaidekophobics fear 7 - clickety click 8 - 101100 9 - pounds in a stone 10 - cow stomachs 11 - french hens my true love gave to me 12 - platinum jubilee 13 - pele's shirt 14 - smallest perfect number 15 - huit in french 16 - sides on a 50p pence (sic) piece 17 - fairport convention album 18 - nigel tufnel's amp goes to this 19 - number on herbie 20 - age of elvis when he died 21 - military-controlled area in Nevada 22 - spots on a standard die 23 - labours of hercules 24 - german international dialing code

s1#069-Algebragraffiti

R=F+E T=4 A=N N=P+R F=H-T X=A-2M M=E+1 E=F^2 H=7 P=5M What does X equal?

s1#070-Dissolution

"We've increased the security. There's a new code this week, let me show you." "How do I get in?" While in Old Town for Academy business, I noticed two people acting suspiciously in an alleyway. I managed to overhear a snatch of what they said. The symbols only lasted a few seconds before they were washed away, but I managed to figure out what they meant. They might be of interest to you - can you figure out what the code is?

s1#071-Discovery

What links these images?

s1#072-Yippie Ka Ye

PXC Presents: In Space, No-one Can Hear You Scream They Only Met Once, But It Changed Their Lives Forever Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them Debonair. Defiant. Defrosted. He's Out To Prove He's Got Nothing To Prove If You Can't Be Famous, Be Infamous 3% Body Fat, 1% Brain Activity She Was The First Some People Just Don't Belong (c) 2006 PXC Entertainment Co. Distributed by PXC WHICH NINE MOVIES DO THESE TAG-LINES COME FROM?

s1#073-Animal Magic

We're very jealous of whoever gets to give names to collections of animals. What a great job. Hats off to the person who decided to name a group of gnus as an 'implausibility' There are twelve more below. Can you hook up the animals with their correct collective nouns? <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10><tr><td valign=top>LOCUSTS LIONS MONKEYS RATTLESNAKES LIZARDS JELLYFISH CROWS ANTS OWLS RAVENS GIRAFFES BACTERIA </td><td valign=top>PARLIAMENT TOWER CULTURE MURDER PRIDE PLAGUE RHUMBA LOUNGE TROOP SMACK UNKINDNESS COLONY</td></tr></table>

s1#074-WordSpy

Several hundred words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary every year, but only after careful consideration and research; it can take years before a word makes it into the dictionary after its first use. Here are some brand new words that haven't made it in yet (and may never will). Can you figure out what they mean? 1.darknet · A Marvel's newest superhero - a sentient network of dark matter that fights crime. B a type of night-time fishing device invented by Earl Stephenson in 1714. C a shady way of entrapping criminals involving illegal electronic surveillance. D the collection of networks and technologies used to share copyrighted digital content. 2.pomosexual · A someone who shuns rigid sexual categories such as heterosexual and bisexual. B a man who doesn't know the difference between teal and aqua and doesn't care. C someone who has an unusual but fulfilling relationship with pomegranates. D someone who switches sexual categories regularly 3.bluejacking · A gaining partial access to someone's mobile phone using the Bluetooth protocol. B the funky and fresh new name for the Young Conservatives. C a fusion of hip-hop dance and blues music. D the feeling given to a player who loses big at blackjack. 4.hasbian · A a former thespian who no longer participates in drama. B a former lesbian who is now in a heterosexual relationship. C a fan of Hasbro's board games. D celebrities who engage in lesbian antics in order to attract publicity. 5.irritable male syndrome · A a phenomenon observed approximately 24 hours following a wedding. B a phenomenon observed whenever a partner discusses previous relationships. C a state of hypersensitivity, frustration and anger in males caused by testosterone deficiency. D a state of hypersensitivity, frustration and anger in females caused by uncommunicative males.

s1#075-Poison Pill

On week five of the hit Perplex City reality show, 'The Lab', the labmates awakened to a surprise challenge involving five full jars of pills. Information: Four of the jars had pills weighing 10g in them, with the remaining jar having 'poisoned' 9g pills. The labmate who could work out which jar contained the 9g pills with just a single weighing, using the least number of pills, was given an extra week to prepare for their vital research presentation (not something to be sniffed at!). Can you solve the challenge? All the pills are shaped identically, and you're not allowed to weigh a pill and then keep adding more while still checking the weight. Only one weighing of as few or as many pills as you want, at once - is allowed.

s1#076-Close Up

Name the objects GUEST PUZZLE ARCHITECT { Justin Berkovi }

s1#077-Mondegreen

YOU MAY NOT KNOW... ...the word mondegreen. Coined by Sylvia Wright over fifty years ago, in an Atlantic article, it describes the phenomenon where you mishear a statement or song lyric. At the time of the article, the most famous example saw people singing "she's got a tick in her eye," to a Beatles song. THIS PHENOMENON crops up in music more than anywhere else. The main reason is the tendency for many singers to mumble their words - maybe it's out of a desire to appear enigmatic, or perhaps just because they forgot their lyrics. WE'VE LISTED ten genuine examples below. All you have to do is name the songs they come from. Chances are that you'll find one that you actually thought was real, in which case consider yourself lucky - better to discover the error in private rather than live on stage at your next office Christmas party! 1 MICE AROMA 2 SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY 3 I CAN'T, I CAN'T, I CAN'T STAND LUCY 4 PRETTY WALNUT, WHO I WOULD LIKE TO EAT 5 GREEN POODLE BASHER ON THE 45 6 I WON'T POKE MY EYES OUT AND SURRENDER 7 MY NAME IS PERRY MASON, I'M ADDICTED TO DRUGS 8 FIRST I'M GONNA GIVE YOU UP THEN I'M GONNA LET YOU DOWN THEN I'M GONNA RUN AND AROUND AND HURT YOU 9 DECK THE HALLS WITH BUDDY HOLLY 10 A WIENER WRAP, A WIENER WRAP

s1#078-Edible Love

I'm feeling romantic. What am I making? Ingredients 25g lightly salted butter 2.5 tbsp double cream 30g caster sugar 15g hazelnuts 15g almond flakes 25g glazed cherries 15g plain flour A pinch of salt Topping: 30g white chocolate 30g plain chocolate Recipe First melt the butter in a pan and add the cream and sugar and bring to a boil. Switch off the gas and add the hazelnuts, almond flakes and cherries. Sieve the flour and the salt together and fold into the mixture. Use a teaspoon to pour out the mixture in blobs on a baking tray approximately 3 inches apart and flatten with a wet fork. Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake for about 10 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. Leave to cool for about 5 minutes and then remove from the tray and onto a cooling rack until firm. For the topping, melt the chocolate and spread over one side and leave it to set. Just before it is fully set, you can make impressions or wavy designs on it with a fork. Or you can write your beloved's name or even intial it with your own.

s1#079-Strange Loops

Is it possible to draw four lines that connect each of these matching shapes? The lines don't need to be straight but they can't pass through other shapes, cross, or go outside of the rectangle

s1#080-Cruel And Unusual

Once upon a time, a particularly cruel dictator with an overactive imagination devised a punishment for four of his prisoners. He buried the four in a line up to their heads in the ground, with a wall seperating them. They were all buried facing the wall so they could only see what was in front of them, so Dave can see Bella and Charlie, and Charlie can see Bella but not Dave. The dictator then placed hats on top of the prisoners' heads as in this picture. The prisoners knew that there were two black hats and two white hats, but they didn't know the colour of their own hat. If one of prisoners could correctly say what colour is on their hat, they'd all be freed. Which prisoner ended up saving the day?

s1#081-What Car?

NAME THE MAKE OF CAR

s1#082-Sharp Red

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s1#083-Pawnbroking

0028643658 0375422331 0380977427 0520088174 0631205497 0762413485 0792148215 0806513500 0942487028 1414276559 Find the common thread

s1#084-Insights

While researching puzzle ideas I spend a fair bit of time on your websites. These are four of my favourites. Can you name them?

s1#085-Sweet Dreams

Many years ago when Violet was a little girl she used to spend hours in her room working on various strange projects and making notes she'd never show anyone else. One evening as I was passing her room I niticed that she'd fallen asleep with her bedside light on. I went in to turn it off and spotted a sheet of paper on her desk filled with numbers. The series began 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 and continued for some way. The last number she'd written before falling asleep was 317811. I looked downat the Nautilus Shell she used as a paperweight and smiled. Had Violet stayed awake a little longer what would have been the next number in the series?

s1#086-A Pair of Squares

While waiting for an acquaintance at Fenlon's, one of the better games coffee houses on Van den Huyghes Street, I noticed that some fool had damaged the chessboard on my table by removing the bottom left and top right corner squares. As I picked up some black and white dominoes as a replacement, I became intrigued - with the chessboard only having 62 squares instead of 64, would it be possible to arrange the dominoes in such a way that they would match the pattern of the entire board?

s1#087-Bar Crossing

It was getting late and there were three of us left in the bar after one of the Academy summer parties. The staff were closing the section of the bar we were in and requesting that we moved to a table in an adjacent room. As the most sober member of the trio it fell to me to organise the logistics of the table switch. I had a problem though. I couldn't leave Tippy alone with her cocktail since she had to give a lecture the next morning on game theory and she'd already had one Cosmopolitan too many. I didn't dare leave the senior fellow in the company of Tippy without my steadying influence for fear that he might try and steal a kiss from her. I can only take one of them at a time to the other table (Senior Fellow, Tippy or cocktail). How do I make the transfer without leaving the Senior Fellow alone with Tippy or Tippy alone with the cocktail?

s1#088-Pyramidal

We've all encountered pyramid schemes which promise you an easy path to millions if you send a little cash to a few people on a list and forward the message to all of your grateful friends. Few realise that pyramid schemes, if unchecked, have the potential to ruin entire countires. During 1996-1997, a number of companies operated pyramid schemes in Albania that collectively attracted nearly 2 million people out of a population of 3.5 million. Three of the companies alone had deposits worth $390 million, or 15% of GDP. Eventually the government banned the schemes but couldn't prevent the country's descent into chaos. Imagine the extremely unlikely situation of a pyramid scheme sweeping Perplex City, where each participant recruits six people and sends money to people in the levels above them. If the population of Perplex City is 10 million, how many levels will it take for the pyramid scheme to run out of new members to recruit, leaving lots of people very broke and unhappy?

s1#089-Forever Foe

Forever foe to what is wrong, Men rage it I be lost by theft; I am what justice works to bring, All have you have when nothings left.

s1#090-Also Known As

SOMETIMES, IF YOU WANT TO GET AHEAD IN THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT, BEING CALLED DAVE SMITH JUST ISN'T GOING TO CUT IT. AFTER MATCHING THESE STARS TO THEIR RELA NAMES YOU WILL HAVE ONE NAME LEFT. JUST TELL US WHO THEY ARE WHEN THE MAKE UP GOES ON... ROBERT ZIMMERMAN..................................ELTON JOHN FRANCES GUMM.........................................JOHN WAYNE VINCENT FURNIER......................................JOHN PEEL FREDERICK AUSTERLITZ .............................BRUCE LEE CHIAM WITZ...............................................BOB DYLAN VIRGINIA MCMATH.....................................JUDY GARLAND JOHN RAVENSCROFT.................................GINGER ROGERS MARION MORRISON..................................ALICE COOPER REGINALD DWIGHT....................................FRED ASTAIRE LEE JUN FAN..............................................?

s1#091-Twisty Little Passages

Get from red to blue, there are just 9 junctions in this maze, all crossroads, list in order the compass directions to take at each junction to solve the maze by the shortest possible route....

s1#092-Dudeney's Medallion

AVAST! After digging up the fabled treasure o' the ninjas and escapin' from a stranded isle, ye've found yeself a place on a great grand ship. Afore ye weigh anchor and sail home tho', there remains one more mystery. Y'see, the ninja treasure held a truly wondrous piece - Dead Pirate Dudeney's Medallion! But as with a lot o' pirate gold circulatin' these days, it be mathematically cursed (indeed, it be playin' merry hell with ye PEGLEG holing's - the Pirate Exchange for Gold with Landlubbers for Economic Greed, o' course!) If ye can't solve the curse, ye be doomed to lose yet ANOTHER leg and eye! Ye can't ask ye scurvy pirate crewmates for help, as they all be right regular geomety experts and surely would laugh at ye for bein' an uneducated, lily-livered scallawag - and then toss ye off the deck! So ye'll have to answer the curse yeself, and show them all the be biscuit eating dogs!

s1#093-Crossed Wires

I'm notoriously bad at tidying my house, particularly my office. Going against all safety regulation I've plugged my four desk lights into a variety of battery powered timer switches (on/off) and extension cables, but I've no idea at what time the next light is going to come on. Given that it's now 06:35, CAN YOU HELP?

s1#094-Prime Rhyme Crime

A Crime Wave is sweeping Fairytale land! Two rival newspapers, The Moral Guardian and The Magic Mirror, are reporting developments in a number of cases. Can you match up the more sensational Mirror headlines to the Guardian's more staid versions? Casle Castle Numbers at the bottom: 1-1114112321-1 2-4111111441-2

s1#095-Lazy Susan

For my birthday party, I decided to take four of my fellow scribes out to one of the new Chinese-style Earth restaurants that'd sprung up on Alchemy Bay. Each of the five of us ordered a different dish, and the plates were placed on a Lazy Susan in front of the person who ordered them. That's when it got interesting, and people started spinning the Lazy Susan around to sample other dishes, accompanied with 'whooshing' noises... First, we moved the Lazy Susan 3 places clockwise. Next, Tippy and Caine swapped the plates in front of them. We then moved the Lazy Susan 4 more places clockwise. Kurt reached over to get his plate back again, and swapped it with the one in front of him. Finally, Tippy swapped the dish in front of her with the plate that I ordered. If the Lazy Susan was then revolved 4 places anti-clockwise, whose order did Garnet have sitting in front of him? (From the top, clockwise, Tippy, Kurt, Anna (me), Caine, Garnet)

s1#096-Castle in the Sky

While researching Earth architecture, I realised how much smaller the buildings are compared to Ascendancy Point. Even your proposed buildings don't come near to its colossal 1.3kn height. CAN YOU MATCH THE BUILDINGS TO THEIR CORRECT NAMES? Sears Tower, Trump Megastructure, Kingdom Centre Shanghai World Financial Center, Burj Al Arab, Taipei 101 London Bridge Tower, Petronas Twin Towers

s1#097-419 SCAM

From: Samson Deevicdo <samson.deevicdo@perplexcitybankingcorporation.com> Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2005 11:52:47 To: undisclosed recipients Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL PLEASE ALLOW THE INTRODUCE OF MYSELF. I AM DR. SAMSON DEEVICDO THE SEVENTH SON OF THE LATE CANTHI DEEVICDO. IT IS BY BLOODLINE THAT OUR RELATION TO THE HONOURABLE SENTE OF THE PERPLEX CITY ACADEMY IS 100% ASSURED. I AM IN THE EMPLOY OF THE WELL KNOWN FINANCE INSTITUTION OF PCBC (PERPLEX CITY BANKING CORPORATION). UPON THE TRAGIC DEATH OF MY FATHER WE HAVE UNCOVERED A DEPOSIT ACCOUNT CONTAINING THE SUM OF $40,000,000 (FORTY MILLION US DOLLARS). FOR SAFE KEEPING THE FUNDS ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION BY A TEN- DIGIT SECURITY CODE. I REQUIRE URGENT AND SECRET ASSISTANCE OUTSIDE THE CONFINES OF PERPLEX CITY TO SOLVE THE CODE AND PERFORM A TRANSFER OF THIS MONEY. HAVING GOTTEN YOUR PARTICULARS FROM MY FATHER'S LIBRARY, I HAVE NO DOUBT TO YOUR CAPACITY, COODWILL AND PUZZLE SOLVING APTITUDE TO HELP US IN CRACKING THIS MOST ENIGMATIC OF CODES. LET IT BE ASSURED THAT WE WILL BE HAPPY TO FURNISH YOU WITH A SIZABLE PERCENTAGE OF THE FUNDS ONCE THIS TRANSACTION HAS BEEN RESOLVED. MY FATHER WAS A GREAT FAN OF LITERATURE AND IT IS OUR FIRM BELIEF THAT HE DREW THE INSPIRATION FOR THE SECURITY CODE FROM A POPULAR BOOK FROM YOUR WORLD. THE ONLY CLUE TO THE BOOK IN QUESTION WOULD TRANSPIRE TO BE A NOTE LEFT WITHIN HIS BANKING FILES: 0552149519. I HAVE ALREADY TRIED INPUTTING THIS CODE AT THE BANK WITHOUT SUCCESS. SO IT IS TO YOU I NOW TURN FOR ASSISTANCE. WITH THE INFORMATION FURNISHED CAN YOU DEDUCE THE TEN-DIGIT CODE I SEEK? I AM IN ANTICIPATION OF YOUR FULLEST CO-OPERATION AND UNRESERVED CONFIDENTIALLY IN THIS MOST EXCITING YET SENSITIVE OF MATTERS. YOURS WARMLY THE REVEREND DR. SAMSON DEEVICDO

s1#098-Magic Square

Magic squares originated from the Chinese legend of Lo Shu from over 3000 years ago. A magic square is an arrangement of numbers in a square grid where each row, column and diagonal of the grid adds up to the same number. A 3x3 grid will have the numbers 1 to 9, and a 4x4 grid will have 1 to 16. 3x3 magic squares are pretty easy, but can you complete this 4x4 magic square? Two of the numbers have already been filled in. Each row, column and diagonal should add up to 34.

s1#099-Well Red Ad

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s1#100-It's All Greek To Me

Can you match the Greek Classics with their slightly less than classic descriptions? 1. THE ILIAD 2. OEDIPUS THE KING 3. THE AENEID 4. THE ODYSSEY 5. THE REPUBLIC 6. THE ORESTEIA 7. THE SYMPOSIUM 8. THE GOLDEN ASS A. Playboy Paris wants to date stunner Helen. His army heads to Troy. A row erupts during which an angry bloke named Achilles kills a guy called Hector. B. Man travels home after a war. He meets a bunch of one-eyed weirdos then has a seven-year fling with a girl on a holiday isle. He arrives home to find a bunch of sleazeballs trying it on with his bird and butchers them. C. Mega-rich toff Oedipus has a bad day. He discovers he has accidentally topped his dad and romped with his mum. She kills herself and Oedipus flees to live on a mountain. D. Pals hold a posh party. Bloke called Socrates gets lost and turns up late. Air turns blue after chat turns to sex. Everyone gets wasted and then falls asleep. E. War hers Aeneas dazzles pin-up beauty Dido by boasting of his battle exploits. He leaves so she tops herself. A massive fight develops against his Italian neighbours. Aeneas wins. F. A loser called Lucius watches a passer-by use magic to turn himself into an owl. Lucius tries to copy him. He screws up the spell and becomes an ass instead. Later he turns back into a man. G. Arrogant loudmouths get together to discuss how to run a city. Barmy bloke called Socrates claims philosophy boffins should be appointed dictators. He rambles on about the afterlife. H. Butch queen Clytemnestra slaughters her royal hubby Agamemmnon. A bloodbath develops after she is in turn killed by her son Orestes. Descriptions courtesy of The Sun newspaper, 2004

s1#101-Petals Around The Rose

There aren't many things that are guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of Bill Gates, but Petals Around The Rose is one of them. Unlike normal puzzles, it's said that the smarter you are, the longer it takes you to work out the rules behind this fiendish game, because you start coming up with outlandishly complex formulas to explain it. It's said that Bill took rather a long time on this one, and almost fooled people into thinking he'd solved it when he hadn't, by memorising dozens of dice rolls. Of course, he did get it in the end - eventually. Here's how it works: You roll five dice, and from them, you have to work out the number of 'petals around the rose'. There is only a single correct answer for each roll. We've included a number of rolls and answers below. Can you figure out the rules behind Petals Around The Rose? What's the answer for this roll?

s1#102-Riff

Four guitar riffs. Four songs. Name them.

s1#103-Sudoku

(2, A) Winner (4, A) Holy for Christians (5, A) Cat Lives (6, A) Towers in Gondor (1, B) Corners of a square (8, B) The Beatles' days in a week (2, C) Binary 11 (5, C) A Pirate's Pieces (6, D) Feet Under (8, D) Horsemen of the apocalypse (1, E) Dante's Circles of Hell (3, F) Minimum for a chord (6, F) Ancient Wonders (7, F) Geese a laying (8, F) The lonliest number you'll ever do (9, F) Dr. Evil's Henchman (1, G) Greek Muses (6, G) President-carrying aircraft (9, G) That magic ball (2, H) Blood types (4, H) The third square number (3, I) An extra sense (6, I) Infinity on its end (8, I) Points on a Sheriff's star

s1#104-Hit and Miss

Which Animal

s1#105-Arrange My Lace Bits

An Anagram* is a word or phrase made from the letters of another word or phrase. so for example "earth" is an anagram of "heart" or (getting slightly more complicated) "a rolling stone gathers no moss" is an anagram of " stroller on go, amasses nothing" people's names often lend themselves nicely to being anagrammed. occasionally these can reveal a little about the person or their character. whether that's pure coincidence or some kind of divine message from the universe itself is a matter we won't comment on. we've often wondered what virginia bottomley would have to say on the subject though. There are 8 anagrams of celebrities and other famous people below. Can you name them? 1. LIVES 2. VIVIAN DARKBLOOM 3. OLD WEST ACTION 4. HE BUGS GORE 5. SELECT ODD WORDS, LAUGHING 6. THAT GREAT CHARMER 7. ANGEL OF THE RECLINING 8. BRA INSERTS? YEP! *From: Greek ana (up, again, back, new) + gram (letter) Card by Tippy

s1#106-Rickety Old Bridge

Sente, Violet, Scarlett and Kurt have spent the day hiking in the hills to the south of the city. On their way home is a rickety old bridge that's only strong enough for two of them to be on it at the same time. The light is fading fast and so they need to use a flashlight every time they making a crossing. The bridge is too long and narrow to throw the flashlight across, so someone will always have to carry it back and forth. What's more, Sente was injured earlier in the day and will take 10 minutes to cross the bridge. Scarlet can cross in 5 minutes, Kurt in 2 minutes and Violet in just 1 minute. A storm is brewing and they can't waste any time. Kurt thinks for a moment and claims they can all cross the bridge in just 17 minutes. How?

s1#107-Blockword

1. A false God A. Suffering 2. Against B. Indigo 3. Illuminate C. The self 4. Panache D. Waterfall How long have we sought the truth?

s1#108-My Three Children

During one of the weekly tutorials I give in Basic Puzzle Design, one of my students arrived early and we started chatting about my kids. "I think you mentioned you had three children, how old are they now?" she asked. Sensing the opportunity to give a bit of extra tuition here, I replied, "The product of their ages is 36. Oh, and the sum of their ages is this room number." She glanced up at the door, mulled this over for a while and eventually said, "I still can't work it out with that." "You're absolutely right. Did I mention that my youngest daughter has blue eyes?" I said helpfully. And with that, she worked it out. Can you figure out how old my children are?

s1#109-Infinite Series

The architects of Perplex City's railroads loved building everything in straight lines - mountains, rivers, valleys - none of it mattered to them. There's still one stretch west of the city that continues for 100km with practically no turns. Imagine there are two trains travelling towards each other at either end of the 100km stretch at 50km/h. Flying back and forth directly between the two trains at 75km/h is a bee that starts on the front of one of the trains when they're 100km apart, and immediately turns around to the other train as soon as it reaches it, and so on. How far will the bee have travelled in this zig zag fashion before the two trains meet?

s1#110-Freudian Texts

Predictive text on mobile phones can make messaging much faster, but it can;t read your mind. Can you decode this message made by someone in a hurry? Was in the car after hole tried to get poisoned from the carnage but got a shot of barking instead. Got a lips off bomb, but now she's good good Card by Von

s1#111-Opening Lines

Sometimes the opening line to a book is so powerful and moving it stays with you long after you've finished the final page. That's true for some but certainly not all of the examples below. Can you name the nine books in question? A All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. B Call me Ishmael. C It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents- except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. D Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. E It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. F It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. G The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. H A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. I I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

s1#112-Three Little Words

The language of love may be universal but being able to say "I love you" in something other than your mother tongue could come in useful one day. Can you identify the ten languages below: JE T'AIME 1 TI AMO 2 ICH LIEBE DICH 3 YR WYE I YN DY GARU 4 AMIN MELA LLE 5 JEG ELSKER DIG 6 KIMI O AI SHITERU 7 YA TYEMBYA LYUBLYU 8 ME DOR WO 9 NAKUPENDA 10

s1#113-A Capital Idea

The word 'capital' is derived from one of the names of the seven hills of Rome. The original city is said to have been founded by Romulus on the Palatine Hill, with the other six hills being The Aventine, The Quirinal, The Viminal, The Esquiline, The Caelian and The Capitoline. There are seven countries below - what are their capitals?

s1#114-Taking The Biscuit

Name all the biscuits No meeting in the Mind Candy offices is complete without a well-stacked plate of biscuits. We tailor every selection to our guests. We doubt anyone notices but that's not the point. This is one such offering. Can you identify the names of all nine biscuits? We were very keen to include a Jaffa Cake in the selection but not wanting to fan the flames of the long running 'Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit' debate we reluctantly decided to leave it off.

s1#115-The Age Of Sente

Several of the local schools in Perplex City take their children to the Academy for an annual guided tour. The teachers hope some of the magic from the hallowed institution will rub off on the youngsters and improve their puzzle setting and solving skills. By a stroke of luck this group bumped into the Master of the Academy during a recent tour. Too young to know any better, one of the children asked Sente how old he was. Sente smiled briefly before telling the children the following riddle: If to my age there added be, One half, one third and three times three; Six score and ten the sum you'll see, Pray find out what my age may be. None of the children could solve the riddle before Sente disappeared down the corridor. Can you figure out his age?

s1#116-The Rice Gambit

According to legend, the game of chess was invented hundreds of years ago by the Grand Vizier Sissa Ben Dahir, for King Shirham of India. King Shirham was so delighted with the new game that he offered his Grand Vizier any reward he wished for. "Majesty, I desire but one grain of rice on the first square, two grains on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth and so on, until every square on the board is covered." "Is that all you wish, Sissa, you fool?" exclaimed the astonished King. But Sissa's request was far from foolish. How many grains of rice had Sissa asked for?

s1#117-Band Name Etymology

Ever wondered how certain bands got their names? Well, wonder no more as we delve into the mysterious world of band name etymology. The letters in the red spaces spell out a lyric from a famous song. Name the song! Clues: First dog in space (5) - red 2 Medieval torture device (4,6) - red 4,8 Albert Camus novel (3,4) - red 1,2 No-one ever really dies (4) - red 2 1983 Nicole Kidman movie (3,7) - red 1,5 His assassination started WWI (5,9) - red 4 Japanese words for 'new' and 'old' (7) - red 1,5 Antique US fire engine (3,10) - red 1,13 Slang expression for UFOs in WWII (3,8) - red 9 Roald Dahl character (6,4) - red 1 French for 'fast fashion' (7,4) - red 4 Portuguese for 'panther' (7) - red 6 Clown from Stephen King book 'It' (9) - red 6,9 Villain from Barbarella (5,5) - red 4,8 Title of Woody Allen movie (7) - red 1 Small town near Bristol (10) - red 9 Milk drink from Clockwork Orange (6) - red 1 Song by Tim Buckley (10) - red 6 Dadaist café in Zurich (7,8) - red 1

s1#118-Chemistry Experiment

There's a particular biochemical theory of mine that's never worked out experimentally. I've checked and rechecked my methods, but every trial has left me with the same unusable solid. On my last try, I finally got it working! In the experiment, I took some embryonic avian cells and placed them in an emulsion with these chemicals: C12 H22 O11 NaCl NaHCO3 KHC4H4O6 I then added a quantity of white fluid, a strong-smelling brown liquid and a fine white powder. I placed the resulting mixture into a ventilated container and heated it uniformly. Remarkably, the odour of my experiment was so overpowering that my labmates rushed over to see what I was doing! What were the final three substances I used?

s1#119-Mind The Gap

WHICH TILE FILLS THE HOLE AND YIELDS A SOLVEABLE MAZE? GUEST PUZZLE ARCHITECT { Andrea Gilbert }

s1#120-Cube Tube

IMAGINE YOU NEED TO PUSH A MARBLE FROM THE TOP ARROW TO THE BOTTOM BY THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE ROUTE. AND IT CAN T JUMP THE GAPS BUT CAN TRAVEL UPWARDS. WHAT'S THE ORDER IN WHICH YOU PASS THE CHECKPOINTS?

s1#121-Seven Bridges

In the old down of Perplex City are seven bridges crossing the river Mazy. In the past, visiters were often asked whether they could go for a walk that would cross all seven bridges once, but not any of them twice. Can you?

s1#122-Interesting Times

1. World Population 2. Sales of Perplex City Cards 3. Hurricanes making landfall in the U.S 4. FTSE 100 (Yearly Average) 5. Total Energy Consumption in the U.S

s1#123-Illogical

Between all the distractions and parties at university. I did manage to fit in a few experimental psychology lectures. One of the most interesting things i learned was how at heart, people arent as logical as they think. Try this problem: Each of these cards has a letter (A or K) on one side and a number (2 or 7) on the reverse. If i told you there was a rule stating that a card with A on one side will have a 2 on the reverse, which two cards would you turn over to find out if the rule was true.

s1#124-Dream Ticket

A Weekend of Love and Music The Beatles The Jimi Hendrix Experience The Who Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones The Mind Benders July 20th and 21st IN WHAT YEAR COULD THIS FANTASTICAL CONCERT HAVE TAKEN PLACE?

s1#125-Karma Chameleon

NAME THESE ALBUMS 1988 REM 1980 AC/DC 2005 Viard 1969 The Beatles 1968 The Velvet Underground 1983 U2 1997 Mansun 1961 Elvis 1999 Shed 7

s1#126-Offside

AHHH FOOTBALL! While I personally don't totally understand it (the offside rule, naturally), I find the idea of people running around after an inflated pig bladder quite entertaining. Since our link to Earth became more stable, these teams have developed quite a following in Perplex City - kindly fill in the gaps below of the teams, where they play and what they're known as... NAME - STADIUM - NICKNAME BOLTON WANDERERS - REEBOK STADIUM - ? MANCHESTER UNITED - ? - ? EVERTON - GOODISON PARK - ? CHARLTON ATHLETIC - ? - ADDICKS BLACKBURN ROVERS - ? - ROVERS ? - ST JAMES' PARK - MAGPIES ARSENAL - ? - GUNNERS ? - VILLA PARK - VILLAINS ? - RIVERSIDE STADIUM - BORO NOW BY FILLING IN THE GAPS CAN YOU TELL WHERE MY ALLEGIANCES LIE?

s1#127-Card House

I WAS WAITING FOR VIOLET - LATE AS USUAL - AFTER WORK ONE DAY, AND GOT TO BUILDING A TOWER OUT OF SPARE PERPLEX CITY CARDS. IF ALL OF THE NON- HORIZONTAL CARDS MEET AT A 30' ANGLE; AND I DON'T OVERLAP ANY OF THE HORIZONTAL CARDS LESS THAN 2CM; AND I USE 38 CARDS IN TOTAL... HOW TALL IS MY TOWER?

s1#128-Perplexing Portraits

Whilst attending the opening of the new 'Perplex City Today' exhibit at the Maitland Museum, I noticed a large group of Academy fellows gathered round a painting. Moving closer, I saw that it was the latest work from the renowned artist Hugo Bonvini. "Apparently he's painted 140 of us and the picture changes to a different one every minute. It's completely random though, Johnstone's come up twice in the last ten minutes" explained one fellow. "Bonvini's a genius with a brush. I'm not leaving until I see my picture. Can't be too long now!" exclaimed another. Just then the picture changed again to Johnstone and I realised how long to fellow could expect to be waiting for his portrait to appear. Laughing to myself at how clever the artist was, I walked away, making a mental note to check none of the group belonged to the Mathematics Department. HOW LONG SHOULD THE FELLOW EXPECT TO WAIT ON AVERAGE?

s1#129-Dot Gone

Internet fever ... gripped Earth during the last few years of the twentieth century. The dot.com bubble, as it came to be called, finally burst on March 11th, 2000.The NASDAQ crashed and brought to an abrupt end a period of extraordinary financial irrational exuberance. It wasn't the first time investors had gotten so carried away (who could forget the tulip bulb craze of the 1630's or the South Sea Bubble of 1711?) and it certainly won't be the last. The dot.com boom spawned thousands of new companies flush with venture capital financing. Many of these companies burned brightly and then slipped quietly into obsolescence or were acquired by competitors for a fraction of their former value. You might even have shopped at some of them before their virtual doors shut forever. Can you identify these four dot.com companies?

s1#130-Aibohphobia

Aziza: "Good day!" Bob: "I know." Aziza: "Really? How strange that you should think so." Bob: "I thought it was self evident." Aziza: "Hmm. I suppose you are right." Bob: "Anyway. I finished the Hofstadter book you lent me, 'Godel, Escer, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid'. An exceptional read." Aziza: "Ah, excellent! I knew you would like it." Bob: "Yes - oh, I also especially liked that new section on orizabus subaziro." Aziza: "Oh, I agree! I say, this all reminds me of a peculiar classical piece, but I can't recall it at all. Well, we'd better swap over our books, shouldn't we?" Aziza: "Good day!" Bob: "I know." Aziza: "Really? How strange that you should think so." Bob: "I thought it was self evident." Aziza: "Hmm. I suppose you are right." Bob: "Anyway. I finished the Gebstadter book you lent me, 'Copper, Silver, Gold: an Indestructible Metal Alloy'. An exceptional read." Aziza: "Ah, excellent! I knew you would like it." Bob: "Yes - oh, I also especially liked that new section on subaziro orizabus." Aziza: "I agree completely. I say, this all reminds me of a peculiar biological molecule. Well, we'd better swap over our books, shouldn't we?"

s1#131-Detail

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s1#132-Ales of the Earth

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s1#133-Don't Play With Your Food

Last Friday, I was out on a date with the newest, brightest and best-looking intern in the Academy Arts Department. Never mind Conundra (*so* 267) - I'd managed to get the top table at McGonigal's in Hardcastle Docks, since a friend of the sister of the girlfriend of the owner used to play in my band. By 'play', I mean 'occasionally serve drinks to'. Anyway. Everything was going perfectly well until we started swapping puzzles. She was just knocking all of mine down, one after the other; she even managed to demolish my stock of favourite puzzles I only use for dating emergencies like this one! In desperation, I deployed one I'd just heard. Working in a daze, I placed a coin on a plate, filled the plate with water so that it just covered the coin, and said, "You need to pick up the coin without touching the water, and all you have is an olive, a wine glass and a match. You're not allowed to touch the plate or just push the coin off it, but you can light the match. Sweetie." It did the trick - she figured it out, but only by the time we got back to my apartment...

s1#134-Four Friends Acting Up

Fixing four friends up for a date I traced my course far from home Wick to Bath; then Tain, Derry Blackpool, King's Lynn, Weymouth, Rosslare, Lancaster, Tynemouth, Tain again; Stirling, Dublin, Cardiff, Hull, Glasgow; Bath to Montrose; and when I was done They met, and talked about their past. My question is a simple one - Which friend was is joined last?

s1#135-Beadwork

IN PERPLEX CITY, EVEN SEEMINGLY RANDOM STRINGS OF BEADS ARE OFTEN FOLLOWING A VERY SPECIFIC PATTERN DEEMED PLEASING TO THE EYE -- OR TO THE INTELLECT. CAN YOU DETECT THE PATTERN THIS STRING IS FOLLOWING AND DISCERN WHAT THE NEXT FIVE BEADS WILL BE?

s1#136-Bling Bunny

CAN YOU GUESS WHICH LONDON UNDERGROUND STATIONS THESE PEOPLE HAVE COME DRESSED AS?

s1#137-Sub Rosa

tin is taught from an early age in Perplex City but as on Earth it's not an especially popular subject. While knowing your particium praesentiis from your particun futuri might come in handy every now and then, there are a few Latin phrases that are surprisingly useful to know. Fifeteen of the more common ones are listed below. Can you hook them up with their English equivalents to reveal a mysterious Latin message? 1. In Vino Veritas 2. Carpe Diem 3. Annus Mirabilis 4. Aqua Vitae 5. Ad Naseum 6. Alma Mater 7. Cogito Ergo Sum 8. Hung Tu Caveto 9. Inter Alia 10. Quid Pro Quo 11. Omnia Vincit Amor 12. Non Sequitur 13. Ceteris Paribus 14. Arcana Imperii 15. Deus Ex Machina U. Secrets of the Empire E. Love Conquers All B. Something for Something N. A Wonderful Year N. It Does Not Follow E. To the point of Making One Sick C. Water of Life N. In Wine There is Truth T. I Think Therefore I Am U. Seize the Day B. Beware of This Man S. Nurturing Mother I. Among Other Things D. Other Things Being Equal M. God From The Machine (Signed Anna)

s1#138-Geek Antiques

I'VE BEEN COLLECTING VINTAGE COMPUTERS FOR YEARS. TRY AS I MIGHT I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET MY HANDS ON A DIFFERENT ENGINE BUT I'VE STILL MANAGED TO AMASS A PRETTY REASONABLE COLLECTION. CAST YOUR MIND BACK A FEW YEARS (OR HAVE A SCOUT AROUND YOUR BASEMENT) AND SEE IF YOU CAN PUT NAMES TO THESE CLASSIC MACHINES Card By: Kurt

s1#139-This Sentence Is False

Complete these sentences with the correct digits until they are all true: THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 0 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 1 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 2 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 3 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 4 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 5 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 6 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 7 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 8 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE DIGIT 9 APPEARS IN THIS PUZZLE IS_ There are two solutions possible with this puzzle. What are thay? Card by (can't make it out-looks like Buffo:?) Also 9 of Hearts top right corner and pieces of letters top and bottom left

s1#140-Mornington Crescent

while riding the subway to the academy one morning i bumped into scarlett, to pass the time we decided to play a quick game of mornington crescent. i wont insult anyones intelligence but explaining the rules here but needless to say the game is played exactly the same way as the classic game based on the london underground. The only difference is we use stations from perplex city subway system. scarlett began with the rare and exceedingly risky swaze gambit. her swashbuckling style paid off and i was soon caught in her spiders web of blind alleys and forced plays. The killer blow came on her 6th turn, which guaranteed her safe passage to mornington crescent on the very next move. several other people in the carriage who had been eavesdropping broke into spontaneous applause. what station did scarlett play on her inspired 6th move? Scarlett Lower Mobius Magine Corner Trellis Gate Traveren Square Milamont Parade ? Von North Bay Candle Place Schrodinger's Junction Lyttleton Dreyer Park *actually there are a few other subtle differences such as the banning of Dervish Loops and Whisper Conventions in the perplex city variant but these maneuvers are so rare in the modern game as not to be worth mentioning.

s1#141-Love Code

Fdicsjd nm ved tbxev nm ved knnz, Jbtado bj mnszu nz ved knno; Czu fdicsjd nm ved tbxev nm ved jsz, Vedod bj xntu nz ved gcttj nm ved lnno. Fdicsjd nm ved tbxev nm ved jvcoj, Ltczdvj cod mnszu bz ved jvodck; Czu fdicsjd nm ved tbxev nm rnso drdj Vedod bj tnad bz ved udlvej nm kr uodck. Kr ucotbzx Kcobc, kddv kd cv dbxev vnzbxev nsvjbud ved Injknockc, Odxdzv Jvoddv. p IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND YOUNG LOVERS WERE OFTEN PROHIBITED FROM PUBLICLY EXPRESSING THEIR AFFECTION FOR EACH OTHER. EVEN CORRESPONDING BY LETTER WAS CONSIDERED TOO RISKY IN CASE THEIR PARENTS INTERCEPTED THEM. INSTEAD MANY LOVERS SENT CODED MESSAGES TO EACH OTHER VIA THE PERSONAL COLUMNS OF NEWSPAPERS. A young man has penned this missive for his sweetheart. Can you decode it to reveal where they are planning to meet tonight?

s1#142-Photoshopped

Name The Various Photoshop Filters Applied To this Image

s1#143-Pocket Rockets

The most popular Poker variant, Texas Hold'em, starts with all players being dealt two cards face down. These Hole Cards are crucial to the game and many of the 169 possible combinations have gained their own nicknames. Dreaming up amusing names for these hands certainly helps pass the time during a long drought of good cards. Only 6 of the starting hands listed below feature in the photographs. Can you name them? DEAD MAN'S HAND | SUNSET STRIP | DOLLY PARTON | FLAT TIRE | RAQUEL WELCH BIG SLICK | SNOWMEN | BRODERICK CRAWFORD | KICKS | UNION OIL | DARTH VADER SAN FRANCISCO BUS BOY | FISHHOOKS | JOHNNY MOSS | HARRY POTTER | COWBOYS 1. King of Spades & King of Hearts 2. Ace of Spades & 8 of Clubs 3. Ace of Diamonds & King of Spades 4. 9 of Hearts & 5 of Clubs 5. 4 of Clubs & 4 of Spades 6. 10 of Diamonds & 4 of Hearts

s1#144-Mastermind

Your task is to crack the secret code which is made up of four coloured pegs. Bear in mind that the codemaker has six possible colours to make up the code (red, yellow, green, blue, white and black) and that the same colour may appear more than once in the final solution. On the board below four incorrect guesses have been made. The codemaker uses a mini black pin to indicate a correct colour in the right position and a mini white pin to indicate a correct colour but in the wrong position. It is possible to figure out the code with your next guess. What is it? MASTERMIND ©1981 Pressman Toy Corporation. By agreement with Invicta Plastics Ltd. UK

s1#145-The Red Ace

the other day i was down at bullets poker club in the mobius strip playing texas hold em. it was a pretty tight crowd and i couldnt get much action but this was one of the more interesting hands of the night. i limped in on the button with suited connectors (8's, 9's). The flip came down Ac, 7's, 6's. A rock in ealy position raised it up up about triple the big blind. Everyone folded round to me but i stayed along for the ride. He had a pretty sizable stack and didnt hesitate to go all in when a red ace hit on the turn. this put me in a tricky spot, my fear was obviously that he'd been slow oplaying rockets. if that were the case, the onlyway to win the hand would be to land a straight flush on the river. two questions for you: 1. what are my odds of hitting that killer straight flush? 2. out of interest, what are my odds of making any straight or flush at the river? no prizes for guessing what i did with my hand.

s1#146-You Are Cordially Invited

You are cordially invited to join the staff of the Perplex city academy for our Annual Ball January 15th 2004 Gatehouse 1 Taversen square The Old Town Black tie or White tie "There is an old story of two brothers at the Academy called Sinister and Dexter. they worked as guards, and it is said that on their patrols of the grounds, they would meet like clockwork at the Fellow's Garden several times a day. Because Sinister was the elder brother, he always walked a little slower than Dexter, and so they would meet at different points around the garden each time. When Sinister and Dexter meet for the seventh time after they begin their patrols, be at Gatehouse 1." Sente. When should you be at Gatehouse 1? ----- Some cards have a Black-light sensitive message in the upper left hand corner of the invitation that says: Electric Splash BB, 21 to 24 4: C, V, K, Q 20, V to 24

s1#147-Directionless

Get from the red arrow to the red dot by the shortest possible route. You can step one square at a time, always following the arrows. If you step off the grid you must re-enter at the other end of the same row or column - imagine the north and south edges are connected, as are the east and west edges. What's the sequence of steps you take through the maze, expressed in compass directions? GUEST PUZZLE ARCHITECT { Andrea Gilbert } GUEST ARTIST { Andrea Gilbert }

s1#148-Serious Scientific Sokoban

On week three of the hit Perplex CIty reality TV show, 'The Lab", Evan ordered a new fume hood after the other labmates threatened to throw him out because of his atrociously smelly experiments. The producers of the show used this opportunity to set Evan a puzzle and left him the crate containing the fume hood in a storage room full of unmovable obstacles. Evan has to enter from the south of the room and leave with the crate by the same door. If he can only push the crate from behind (He can't quite manage to pull it), what is the shortes sequence of lettered checkpoints that the crate must pass over on its way out?

s1#149-Complex Basic

Play? 50 I=0 100 I=I+1 110 ON I GOTO 1002.1004.1003.1001.1007.1001.1001.1006.1003 1008.1005.1012.1004.1005.1009.1006.1013.1009 1014.1010.1015.1010.1003.1008.1011.130 120 GOTO 100 130 PRINT "?" 140 END 1001 PRINT "s";: GOTO 100 1002 PRINT "o";: GOTO 100 1003 PRINT "mi";: GOTO 100 1004 PRINT "h";: GOTO 2000 1005 PRINT "e";: GOTO 2000 1006 PRINT " ";: GOTO 100 1007 PRINT "t";: GOTO 1009 1008 PRINT "n";: GOTO 100 1009 PRINT "r";: GOTO 1005 1010 PRINT "o";: GOTO 2100 1011 PRINT "g";: GOTO 100 1012 PRINT "w";: GOTO 100 1013 PRINT "a";: GOTO 100 1014 PRINT "y";: GOTO 100 1015 PRINT "r";: GOTO 100 2000 IF (I=2) OR (I=11) OR (I=18) THEN PRINT " "; 2010 GOTO 100 2100 IF (I=20) THEN PRINT "u "; 2110 IF (I=22) THEN PRINT "a"; 2120 GOTO 100 There is a small queen of hearts symbol in the top left

s1#150-A Journey In The Desert

One day, nine travellers, each with their own car, meet on the northern edge of a great desert, their goal is to explore the interior of the desert by constantly driving due south. Each car can travel forty miles to the gallon, which is also the capacity of their cars' petrol tanks. Their tanks are all full at the start of the journey, and each traveller can also fit nine extra gallon tins of petrol in the back of their car. During the journey, extra gallon tins of petrol can be moved from car to car. None of the travellers can leave their car and they can't leave any caches of petrol along the way in the desert since they might get stolen. HOW FAR SOUTH CAN AT LEAST ONE OF THE TRAVELLERS REACH, GIVEN THAT THEY ALL NEED TO RETURN BACK NORTH TO THE EDGE OF THE DESERT?

s1#151-Crazy Talk

(Multiple Languages, So Won't Transcribe)

s1#152-Barcode Recipe

While barcodes were first invented in 1949 and patented in 1952, it took another 22 years until the first retail product was sold using a barcode reader (in case you were wondering, it was a ten pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit chewing gum). Today, there are over 300 different types of barcodes used all over the world. Here are the barcodes for four different products. What could you cook if you had them? M 0265 263 S 8 888003 215407 W 2200 8886 G 5 034739 501922

s1#153-The Spider And The Fly

THIS CLASSIC PUZZLE WAS FIRST CREATED IN 1903 FOR THE STRAND MAGAZINE BY HENRY ERNEST DUDENEY, ONE OF THE GREATEST PUZZLE-COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME. IN A ROOM MEASURING 12M X 12M X 30M, THERE IS A SPIDER IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE SMALLER WALLS, 1 METRE FROM THE CEILING. SHE SEES A FLY, TOO PETRIFIED TO MOVE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OPPOSITE WALL, 1 METRE FROM THE FLOOR. WHAT IS THE SHORTEST PATH THE SPIDER CAN CRAWL, WITHOUT LEAVING A SURFACE, TO GET TO THE FLY?

s1#154-Intoxicating Silk

What drugs were these spiders given? benzedrine mescaline chloral hydrate caffeine

s1#155-Sadako Sasaki

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s1#156-Going Dotty

(Special ink) RUBIESDIAMONDSEMERALD STOPAZAMETHYSTSSAPPHI RESRUBIESDIAMONDSEMER ALDSTOPAZAMETHYSTSSAP PHIRESRUBIESDIAMONDSE MERALDSTOPAZAMETHYSTS SAPPHIRESRUBIESDIAMON DSEMERALDSTOPAZAMETHY STSSAPPHIRESRUBIESDIA MONDSEMERALDSTOPAZAME THYSTSSAPPHIRESRUBIES

s1#157-International Superhits

POP MUSIC IS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE Since the inception of the UK singles chart in November 14th 1952 (where American Al Martino was top of the pops with 'Here In My Heart') acts from all round the world would have been in the British Top 40. We've translated these song titles into the act's native languages, but can you tell us the names of the artists we're looking for?

s1#158-Worship

In Perplex City, the Brotherhood of the Six worship devoutly. 30 brothers each attend the daily sunset service 4 times a week. Whilst they are all present on Sunday, the numbers present throughout the week varies from day to day. Alan Hobb wanted to learn more about the religion. He knew the brothers were in great demand for their knowledge and wisdom but he could only make the Friday service. Checking the notice board outside the steps he saw the following: - The brother attending on Monday also go on Tuesday and Wednesday. - Twice as many go on Wednesday as on Monday. - The number present on Tuesday is the sum of the number on Wednesday and Thursday. - Those attending on Friday or Saturday do not go to the Thursday service. - Half as many go on Thursday as on Monday. - They don't all go on Tuesday. How many brothers would be at the temple for him to talk to?

s1#159-Handbags and Gladrags

Looks matter. That's what we're told about Earth, anyway. In fact, the only thing that matters more is money. So, if a girl's got to have the latest fashions, but can't afford them, certain compromises have to be met in terms of quality. Which designers are the inspiration for these wonderful - and affordable - 'homages'? A B C D E

s1#160-Fingerprints

FOLLOWING NIGHT OF MURDER AND MYSTERY AT... AIKO'S PLACE (fingerprints l-r from top, Kurt, Von, Caine, Violet, Tippy, Anna) ...we discovered that an actual crime had been perpetrated. The last bottle of wine (which Aiko had been saving as a prize for the winner) had been sneakily polished off by one of our party. Ever prepared, I broke out the fingerprinting kit and swiftly dusted down the bottle, followed by an inking of everyone's whorls, loops and arches. In truth, I could only find a small section of non-smudge print, but it should be enough - WHO IS THE CULPRIT?

s1#161-Dances With Bees

Which flower is this bee dancing about? Apis mellifera carnica

s1#162-Loopy Pixels

(from left) - 1st (from top) - 2nd

s1#163-Domino Dilemma

I tend to create my best puzzles when I'm waiting for friends at Fenlon's coffee house, counting down the minutes. Today, I was idly playing around with some dominoes when I put them into this particularly interesting arrangement. How would you label each domino with two numbers from 1 to 6 (just like normal dominoes) so that all the dominoes are different, no two like numbers touch, and each number is larger than the ones vertically below it? None of the dominoes are blanks, so you'll have to label both halves of all of them - I've already filled one in to start you off. Remember, according to the rules, you can't put another 2 next to it, and all the numbers above it must be larger.

s1#164-Weighs and Means

There's a game we used to play at school in the labs, where we tried to make the most elaborate set of weights and rods that'd balance perfectly. Yes, I had a lot more free time back then... Here are two diagrams of balances I've set up, with the weight labels removed. Each weight is always a whole kilo - 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, etc. Assuming that the strings and rods have no weight, can you figure out the value of the weights that I've numbered? If you use the lightest possible combination of weights, there's only one correct solution...

s1#165-Rolling Around

Rule 1: In this maze you must always run straight ahead until you hit a wall. Rule 2: When you hit a wall, you can turn left, right or reverse back the way you came. The Challenge: You have to enter the maze, collect all the labelled goals, and then exit. The Question: In what order do you visit the goals, excluding repeat visits?

s1#166-Noise

THE DETAIL IS IN THE DIFFERENCE

s1#167-Circular

Each circle in this sequence increases in size. What is the radius of the next circle in the sequence, in centimeters, to four decimal places?

s1#168-100% Acrylic

I'm being whisked away for a glamorous weekend, but almost of my clothes are at the dry cleaners. I always keep a supply of fresh underwear, but I need to pack 6 outfits, including one for the journey. I have just 10 outfits to choose from - and at the moment they're all dirty. I need to leave in 3 hours. I refuse to use the launderette unless absolutely necessary and, with these nails, hand washing is not an option. But I still think I can make it. My dinky washing machine can hold two items. The seperate dryer can only take one, and of course, I can only iron one thing at a time. Washing takes 10 mins on cool, 20 mins on warm, and 30 mins on hot. Drying takes 10 mins on high, 15 mins on medium, and 20 mins on low. Ironing takes 5 mins on hight and 15 mins on low. Check out these washing instructions. Items within outfits can be washed seperately, but the 6 chosen outfits must be complete in the end. What's the most time I can have left for packing?

s1#169-Queen Quandary

What is the maximum number of queens that can be placed on a normal chessboard so that no two queens attack each other?

s1#170-Vexillogy

The scribe that wrote this puzzle needs to see Anna Heath for grammar lessons immediately. S

s1#171-Witch Script

I was in the Academy library recently researching the ancient scripts and languages of Perplex city. One of the many wonderful books I stumbled across appeared to be written in a rare language use primarily by witches. I believe the text is part of a long spell that you might recognize from your world. What does it say?

s1#172-Freefall

There are over 2000 artificial satellites orbiting Earth. Can you name the coloured satellites shown here? The blue, yellow, and red dots are all constellations of satellites, while the green and purple dots are individual satellites.

s1#173-The 14-15 Puzzle

Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was born in Philadelphia and lived in New York. Loyd was one of the greatest puzzle designers of his time and the 14-15 puzzle was perhpas his most infamous. This puzzle was a traditional sliding tile puzzle, arranged just like the one below. The challenge was to move the 14 and 15 tiles back to their correct position. Loyd offered a $1000 prize for the first correct solution, an enormous amount of money back then, but it was never claimed, despite the thousands who say they performed the feat. He recounts that 'people became infatuated with the puzzle and ludicrous tales are told of shopkeepers who neglected to open their stores; of a distinguished clergyman who stood under a street lamp all through a wintry night trying to recall the way he had performed the feat. The mysterious feature of the puzzle is that none seem to be able to remember the sequence of moves whereby they feel sure they succeeded in solving the puzzle.' Instead of tormenting you with his original 14-15 puzzle, here is a slightly easier version. What is the shortest way to move the tiles in order to get the vacant square from the bottom right to the top left corner and swap the 14 and 15 tiles?

s1#174-Jaunty Paul

In a Perplex City gameshow hosted by Jaunty Paul, you're presented with 3 doors. Behind one of the doors is a yacht, and the other two doors hide goats. Imagine you pick door A. Before you open it, Jaunty (who knows where everything is) steps in and opens up door C, which has one of the goats behind it. He then asks you, "Are you absolutely sure you want to stick with your choice, or do you want to switch to door B?" What is the probability that you'll get the yacht if you stay with door A, and what's the probability if you switch to door B?

s1#175-Binary

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don't.

s1#176-The Lake

Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was born in Philadephia (sic) and lived in New York. Loyd was one of the greatest puzzle designers of his time and this is one of his classics: 'I went to Lakewood the other day to attend an auction sale of some land, but did not make any purchases on account of a peculiar problem which developed. The land was advertised as shown in the posters on the fence as 560 acres, including a triangular lake. The three plots show the 560 acres without the lake, but since the lake was included in the sale, I, as well as other would-be purchasers, wished to know whether the lake area was really deducted from the land...the auctioneer guaranteed 560 acres "more or less". This was not satisfactory to the purchasers, so we left him arguing with katydids, and shouting to the bullfrogs in the lake, which in reality was a swamp. The question which I ask our puzzlists is to determine how many acres there be in that triangular lake, surrounded as shown by square plots of 370, 116 and 74 acres. The problem is of particular interest to those of a mathematical turn, in that it gives a positive and definite answer to a proposition which, according to usual methods, produces one of those ever-decreasing, but never-ending decimal fractions.'

s1#177-Consider A Spherical World

I've always been fascinated by equations and how deceptively powerful they are in solving problems like this one. Imagine you tied a rope around the earth's equator and then you cut it and added 1M to its length. If you could somehow suspend the rope above the ground so that it floated like a ring around the planet, how big would the gap be between the rope and the ground?

s1#178-Sex Linked

Colour blindness affects a significant minority of people in teh world, and is caused by a sex linked genetic disorder. Can you answer these questions about how colour blindness is inherited? 1) On which chromosome does this genetic mutation reside? 2) What is the probability of A being a female carrier of colour blindness? 3) What is B's genotype?

s1#179-By Another Name

What are these places? 1) 18.6N, 134.0W a tough climb 2)19.33N, 33.55W my first wheels 3)22.48N, 49.97W the pioneer settled here 4)0.8N, 113.4W right on the equator, a good place for an elevator 5) 72.8N, 164.5E the Chief Designer 6) 2.7S, 16.7E farsighted mapmaker

s1#180-ARG!

At Perplex City, we've been told that ARGS, or Alternate Reality Games, are the next big thing 1 On what date was Evan Chan killed? 2 Which princely security guard saved the king? 3 What community service did Steve Peters, Aveena, Rowan Lambelle (and others) provide? 4 Which fruity character slew the beast after only a week? 5 Who did the notorious Lt. Weephun rat out? 6 Who links synthasia and Aglaura and Mid-Jersey mobile? 7 Jung'f gur zbfg birehfrq zrgubq bs pbqvat grkg va netf? 8 A famous delicacy in the arg community, often lovingly presented to beginner players 9 Which soviet group suceeded where the Philadelphia Experiment didn't? 10 What's the name of the most feared coroner in the 22nd century? 11 What is the answer to the only puzzle the cloudmakers missed? If only they had taken a view from above and gazed upon the sights...

s1#181-Down, A, B, Up, Up, Right

CHEAT CODES have been around ever since the first videogames were sold. Though we'd all like to think we could master any game out there, sometimes it's just more fun (and much quicker) to take a little shortcut. Which games are these famous cheat codes from? 1. [up][up][down][down][left][right][left][right][B][A][START] 2. [down][Z][up][X][A][Y][B][C] 3. [FUND][FUND][FUND] 4. IDKFA 5. Alt+Shift+Control+C, klapaucius 6. [left][right][left][right][left][left][right][right][A] 7. LFCK 8. L1, TRIANGLE, R2, L2, L2, R2, CIRCLE, L1 9. Origin - k 10. POKE 14711, 165 / SYS 8192

s1#182-Transit

HIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM ONE OF PERPLEX CITY'S BESTSELLING NOVELS. SET IN OUR WORLD Chapter five November 10th 2084 After weeks of arduous climbing, I finally summitted today, a scant few hours early. The sun was a brilliant chip of light, like a diamond among a sackful of gems carelessly strewn across the sky. You wouldn't believe how far I can see from here, there can't be another view like this anywhere in the world. i didn't bother setting up camp before unpacking my 'scope and tripod, so i could watch that bright little star as it fell towards the Sun. The transit itself...i felt so close. You're not supposed to cry in these suits, they say it interferes with the oxygen filter, but I couldn't help myself - don't laugh! Anyway, I have to sign off now and make some measurements. Keep a seat warm for me at Underhill base. K. Harris, Exploration Scientist WHERE IS HARRIS, AND WHAT IS SHE SEEING

s1#183-Drinking Gourd

After a successful voyage captaining your ship across the Atlantic, your backstabbing crew mutinies and decides to turn pirate! Before they throw you off, you manage to grab your prized sextant and a map (it's only afterwards that you realise some gold and a sword might have been a better idea). All you know is that you're somewhere on the east coast of America. Using your sextant you take a few readings from the stars, but can you figure out where they left you, so you know the way home back to Boston?

s1#184-Love Letters

To, what fiery pursuit for pique! Tho' gorged, boozed, kava'd, no more secrets between us ~ 'tis all in vain in a lexical game

s1#185-Spin Cycle

this is an excerpt from mission to mars, one of perplex city's best selling novels. chaper 15, page 350 "But isnt it true that travel in space, especially or long periods is extremly unhealthy? Bone loss, muscle loss, problems with the immune system" rattled off the reporter. "Not to mention heart problems, balance disorders and anaemia," interjected harris quickly, sighing, "space travel is extreamly unhealthy, yes. Weightless space travel that is. We intend to use artificial gravity to eliminate all of those problems." "Ah, you mean spinning up the ship" replied the reporter with an exceptionally crafty and self satisfied look on his face. "Surely you'd need a very large and expensive spacecraft to reduce the rotation speed and keep coriolis forces down?" Harris smiled. Clearly this reporter wasnt as ignorant as she'd first thought. "No, we're using a tether system. We're spinning up to mars gavity after our initial burn, with a tether radius of *Blanked Out* metres and two rotations per minute. Again problem solved" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What's the effective radius of the tether?

s1#186-Between Two Trees

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s1#187-Logical Fallacies

Many people (in fact, most people) commit logical fallacies during arguments. Logical fallacies are errors in arguments that are based around the way the arguments are structured, not what facts they use. An common pastime of academy members is arguing. Not the normal kind of arguing - they're perfectly good at that and prefer to save that sort of thing for more serious occasions. Instead, they enjoy trying to argue with each other as badly as possible, packing in as many logical fallacies as they can. Can you identify which fallacies are used where? Anna: Afternoon, Dr. Bajdan. So what do you think of X's new proposal to ban malicious obfuscation in puzzle construction? Practically all of the subcommittee members back it. Dr. Bajdan: I think it's absurd! Why, Dr. Canovitch's always said that we're making it too simple these days, which should be good enough for anyone.1 Anna: Dr. Canovitch's a drunk! He hasn't produced a decent puzzle for years!2 If we let Canovitch have any say in these things we'd end up with impossibly byzantine puzzles that you couldn't even read.3 Dr. Bajdan: I shall prentend I didn't hear that. Honestly, the choice here is for puzzles to be absurdly simple or sensibly designed, and I know which I'd go for4 I haven't seen any proof that people think our puzzles are too obtuse5 Anna: A typically inconsistent argument, one which I have come to expect from you. Indeed, I recall that after your group altered the format for the Academy summer tournaments, registrations dropped 30%.6 7 Dr. Bajdan: Hum! I see that we will have to agree to disagree on this issue. Anna: Agreed. More cake? Dr. Bajdan: Absolutely. APPEAL TO AUTHORITY FALSE DILEMMA STRAWMAN ARGUMENT FROM IGNORANCE SLIPPERY SLOPE ATTACKING THE PERSON COINCIDENTAL CORRELATION

s1#188-Hybridization

IF YOU COULD CROSS THESE SPECIES, WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT? 1) STENOTAPHRUM SECUNDATUM X SYNEDRELL NODIFLORA 2) GENISTA SCORPIUS X TARAXACUM MONGLICUM X YUCCA FILAMENTOSA 3) TRIFOLIUM ARVENSE X ASCLEPIAS ASPERULA 4) CHAENORRHINUM MINUS X DACTYLIS GLOMERATA 5) CNICUS SPICATUS X OPHIOPOGON JAPONICUS X (DIGITALIS PURPUREA X PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM) X CUCUMIS FLEXUOSIS

s1#189-Multi-threaded

HOW LONG? PASS THROUGH EACH NOTCH FOUR TIMES

s1#190-Some Assembly Required

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s1#191-My Dear Watson

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s1#192-Pronunciation

Which country do these points meet at? You might want the help of Gerardus.

s1#193-Three Thousand Words

Who are the people in these famous photographs? A:On a cold day, a dashing young couple pause outside a cafe on a busy street to exchange a brief but passionate kiss. The man wears a flamboyant open shirt and coat, while the woman is leaned back slightly, supported by his reassuring arm. Two passers-by studiously ignore them, staring straight ahead. B:A girl casually strolls towards the net, a wooden tennis racket hanging from her right hand. It's the end of the day, and as she goes to collect her tennis balls, she uninhibitedly scratches an itch she developed from the match. C:A man in a thick white suit and backpack is standing on rocky yet flat terrain. Though it is nighttime, the scene is lit up brilliantly and he casts a sharp shadow towards us. His face is obscured by a perfectly reflective visor, in which we can see the photographer himself. There are two flags in this photo; one on the man's shoulder, and one barely perceptible, only visible in the blankness where his face should be.

s1#194-Confounding Cube

What is it?

s1#195-Road Trip

Imagine you've taken posession of a really fast sports car that you want to try out. Since you can't decide on which states to visit, you resolve to take a road trip through the lower 48 states of the US, visiting each state once and only once. Since you want to show off your new car to your friends (or alternatively, sleep on their couches), you plan for the 11th state you visit to be Tennessee, Wyoming 14th and Arkansas 35th. There happens to be only one particular route you can take through the 48 states to do this, which is convenient, since you were never good at making decisions. NAME THE 48 STATES IN THE ORDER THAT YOU VISIT THEM.

s1#196-RGB

More than a few adventurers have found themselves lost in the famous Mimasan Maze in Perplex City, which has over 15km of walkways, tunnels, ladders and slides. The maze also contains a number of fiendish sub-mazes like this one. Here, you enter the maze by first stepping over the centre-bottom red line. Next, you have to step over a green line, and then a blue line. Repeat this sequence - red, green, blue, red, green, blue, and so on - until you can exit the maze by stepping over the centre-top blue line (finishing red, green, blue, naturally). [maze] What is the quickest way to get out, and what letters do you pass over along your route (including repeat visits)?

s1#197-Linguini Junction

The linguini junction is a particularly tricky section in the notoriously large mimisan maze in Perplex City, which has over 15km of twisty passages. Rules 1. Enter at the top. 2. You must keep going straight, except at a labeled node where you must turn either left or right. 3. Reversing is not permitted. If the aim is to get out and visit as few nodes as possible, what are the nodes that you don't visit, in alphabetical order? You may have to visit some nodes more than once.

s1#198-Headrush

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s1#199-Three

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s1#200-A Dream of Babel

-unction and ongoing efforts to -tafiction with actual history. -data i- -infor- -rcher- -an cu- -f, evo- -data- -ed through the data link. -fiction and what is non- -s clear. -e been dealt with, but -afictional literature. -tives of any media -similar to episto- -s and correspon- -broader, in the -d' manuscripts -erplex City -literature -here are -ng and -eople -are -al -works are identical in status to- -se or 'Robin Hood' and 'King Arthur' (i.e. they are still under debate by Earth scholars, who have access to primary sources), it is the authors' belief that the absence of Earth literature means that no debate exists, and so they are either obviously (to Earth dwellers) fictional or non-fictitional. To recap, due to the large amount of literature and information being recieved over the data link from Earth, it was extremely difficult for scholars to determine what was fact and what was fiction, and even today, there is some dispute as to the reality of the following events of people: 1. Hawthorne's bizarre fiction of a Allied victory. 2. The shocking defeat of the US Army at Grover's Mill. 3. M. le Comte J. N. A. de Fortsas' unparalleled collection of rare books. 4. The exploits of Jimmy Valentine's son. 5. Teach's use of a coded rhyme to recruit new students, for just a song and sixpence. 6. The unforgivably dense error of G. and C. Merriam, lying in between 'dorcopsis' and 'doré'. 7. The bestselling octolingual writer from Florin City, S. Morgenstern and his tales of adventure and romance. Scholars in Perplex City are still trying to determine which - if any of these works is acually true. In the following sections of this paper we will discuss the balance of evidence for these seven works and invent our own conclusions. August 2005 (V-

s1#201-Smoke and Mirrors

A very few steps brought her to the edge of the brook, and she was just going to spring over, when she heard a deep sigh, which seemed to come from the wood behind her. Who sighed?

s1#202-Mother Tongue

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s1#203-Ecliptic

In how many millennia will I return to my first point?

s1#204-Script

Page 2 Scene 1: Int. University Common Room The lead and his colleagues are welcomed to the university as the importance of their work is explained to them. Scene 2: Ext. University Grounds The lead socialises with his colleagues, attempts to explain a really bad toie, and trades insults with his nearest rival, in particular commenting on the lack of originality in his work. Scene 3: Ext. University Grounds The lead walks up some steps to the area of the university his room is located in. Scene 4: Int. The Lead's Room The lead is rearranging his furniture when his disheveled and hung-over roommate arrives, discussing how it would feel to die of thirst. Scene 5: Int. The Lead's Room, Another Day The lead is busy working when his roommate enters and persuades him to go out for a drink. <Highlighed> Who is the lead character? <On Notes> 10am make-up meeting with Full production meeting tomorrow There is also a mug with reverse letters on it in the top right.

s1#205-Whipsmart Hot Fudge

Our Famous HOT FUDGE CONE . Take the crispiest, crunchiest cone . Scoop in a big, 2 inch diameter ball of vanilla ice-cream . Add four identical scoops of chocolate icecream inside the cone, making sure they're arranged so as to all touch the top of the vanilla . Pour over lashings of hot fudge sauce . Cover in whipped cream . Put a cherry on the top. At Whipsmart, we've been making our famous hot fudge cone for over 50 years now and it's still one of our biggest sellers. that's because we like to make sure our customers get the most ice cream possible. Unfortunately we forgot to include a detail on our new instruction poster - how much chocolate ice cream! Given that our cones have a 30 degree apex, what's the biggest diameter scoops of chocolate ice cream we can use in inches (to 2 decimal places)?

s1#206-Mexid Massege

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s1#207-Huey Teocalli

On the island of Tenoch at Huey Teocall, the Greater Temple of the Aztecs the Great Speaker Ahuizoti looked on the finished as it dazzled in the sun, a fitting tribute to Huizilopochtli. But all was not well, for the inaugural sacrifice had fled their chamber and was making their way to the exit of the temple. But the wrath of Huizilopochtli was great, and as the sacrifice passed each of the four rooms dedicated to the sun god, the sun disapeared or reappeared in the sky. Fearing escape impossible the sacrifice raced for freedom, taking but 1 second to cross a tile.

s1#208-Freak Word

It's what Robbie Williams does to unwind after a long concert. Kylie Minogue wants to become the face of it. Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Madonna and the Queen of England are said to be huge fans of it. It's hardly suprising that Scrabble(R) has been a worldwide phenomenon since its launch 67 years ago and is now enjoying a resurgance of popularity E S N E R U I WHAT IS THE HIGHEST SCORING WORD YOU CAN MAKE WITH THESE LETTERS? Card by Tippy

s1#209-Little Pigley Farm

We're all familiar with crossword puzzles, but good cross-number puzzles are more difficult to come by. This one has been adapted from the famous Little Pigley Farm puzzle, created by W. T. Williams and G. H. Savage. You might like to know that 1 mile is 1760 yards, 1 rood is 1210 square yards, there are 20 shillings in £1 and the year is 1939. The land on which the rectangular farm stands is called Dog's Mead. Completing the puzzle will reveal the ultimate secret of Mrs Grooby's age (Farmer Dunk's mother-in-law). Down 1. Value of dog's mead in shillings per rood. 2. Square of mrs grooby's age. 3. Age of mary, farmer dunk's daughter. 4. Value of dog's mead in pounds. 6. Current age of ted, son of farmer dunk, who in 1945 will be twice as old as his sister mary. 7. Square of the width of dog's mead, in yards. 8. Number of minutes in which farmer dunk walks 11/3 times around dog's mead. 9. 10 Across divided by 10 down. 10. See 9 down. 12. Sum of the digits of 10 vertical plus 1. 13. Number of years that dog's mead has been owned by the dunk family. Across 1. Area of dog's mead in square yards. 5. Age of martha, the aunt of farmer dunk. 6. Difference between the length and breadth of dog's mead in yards. 7. Number of roods in dog's mead multiplied by 8 vertical. 8. Year in which the dunk family became owner of dog's mead. 10. Age of farmer dunk. 11. Year in which mary was born. 14. Perimiter of dog's mead (in yards). 15. The cube of farmer dunk's walking speed in miles per hour. 16. 15 Across minus 9 down.

s1#210-New Notation

The Entertainer [diagram] Name This Song [diagram]

s1#211-Molecular

Name these three molecules

s1#212-Whipsmart Birthday

For their tenth anniversary, Whipsmart Icecream held a competition at their parlour. The manager announced that they would give a year's worth of free ice cream to the first person in the line whose birthday is the same as someone else in front who has already bought an ice cream. Assuming that all birthdays are randomly distributed in the year and you don't know anyone else's birthday, what position in the line would give you the greatest chance of being the first duplicate birthday and bagging a whole lot of ice cream (plus a dentist's appointment)?

s1#213-We Be Rational Pirates! Arrr!

AVAST! 'Tis said by landlubbers that there were once five scurvy pirate dogs, stranded on an island. They'd a rich bounty o' 100 gold doubloons, and vowed to split the plunder according t' pirate custom. That custom tells us that first, the oldest, scurviest pirate gets to propose a spilt between all five o' them, and then all five take a vote (pirates bein' highly civilized and democratic-like in private). If least half o' them vote 'Aye' for the spilt - even if t' other half vote 'Nay' - it goes ahead. But if over half vote 'Nay', well, the pirate dog who proposed the spilt has 'is gizzard slit, and then the next oldest pirate gets to have a try with the othe three, and so on. THE QUESTION IS... ...me hearties, if you were that oldest, scurviest pirate o' the five of them, the first to propose the split, what would ye propose so that ye'd get the most money possible, and also get t' live? What would ye give yeself, and what would ye give to each o' the other pirates? (dogs that they are, ye can give 'em all different amounts - even nothing!) Arrr!

s1#214-Traces

Who lived here in 1921? Hint: The location has the following co-ordinates: Latitude: 61:29:26N (61.4905) Longitude: 7:36:02E (7.6006).

s1#215-Harmony

Just to help people out a bit, since the scan isn't very clear, each square has a wave drawn inside. All the squares contain complete wavelengths, (multiples of 4,5 and 6). There are red arrows which help to show the sequence of sounds you have to follow to name the tune. <code> Square No. | No. of complete waves ---------------------------------- 1 | 4 2 | 4 3 | 5 4 | 4 5 | 5 6 | 6 7 | 6 8 | 5 9 | 4 10 | 6 11 | 5 12 | 4 13 | 4 14 | 5 15 | 6 16 | 5 17 | 6 18 | 6 19 | 5 20 | 4 21 | 4 22 | 4 23 | 5 ---------------------------------- </code> each square is 16mm wide, (if you view the card sideways) so you can calculate the wavelengths if you want...

s1#216-Formal Logic

Key /'∀/' Corresponds roughly to the English word /'every/'. '∃' Corresponds roughly to the English word /'some/'. The variables x,y,z range over objects. /'_→_/' Corresponds roughly to the English phrase /'if_then_/'. Question 1 Which of the following formalises the claim that every person has a common ancestor (where /'P/' = /'_is a person/' and /'A/' = /'is an ancestor of __/'). (i) (∃x)(∀y)(P(y)→A(xy)) (ii) (∀x)(∃y)(P(x)→A(yx)) (iii) (∀x)(P(x)→A(xx)) Question 2 What is the name of the paradox that is represented in the following set-theorectic notation. R = {x : x ∉ x} (i) Sorities Paradox (ii) Cantor's Paradox (iii) Russell's Paradox

s1#217-Tower of Cubes

Perplex City is home to many strange groups and organizations; perhaps none stranger than the Brotherhood of the Six, who revere and venerate the Cube. In the centre of their temple, in the heart of the old city, is a structure they call the "Tower of Cubes". It consists of 3 poles and 36 cubes of diminishing size, each with a hole through the centre. At the beginning of time, so it is said, all the cubes were arranged in perfect order on the first, black pole. It is the duty of the Brotherhood to transfer all the cubes so that they sit, in perfect order, on the final, white pole. Various rules govern this holy activity. A larger cube can never sit on top of a smaller one, and only one cube may be transferred at one time; it is not permitted to hold a cube in one's hand, or to place it anywhere other than one of the poles. According to ancient prophecy, when the cubes are all arranged on the white pole, the universe will be aligned in perfect harmony and there will be an end to all sorrow and grief. If one cube is transferred every minute, how long will it take for this blissful state of affairs to come to pass?

s1#218-The World

R045 R393 R059 R021 R114 R346 R078 R303 R023 R337 R303 R025 R023 R070 R393 R395 R114 R005 R393 R393

s1#219-The Master of Secrets

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s1#220-Precision

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s1#221-Destination

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s1#222-Instigator

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s1#223-Secret Location

"In each of these books, a character discovers a hidden location. Can you name the books and their authors?" 1) A professor of religious symbology at Harvard University is called in to solve a murder of the curatorof a Paris museum. The quest leads him to discover the truth behind the story of the Holy Grail. 2) The heroine of this book, a little girl, dreams of being able to bring together all the people she loves under one roof. On the day of her brother's birthday picnic, she and her friends find their way to a little home she has dreamed of, travelling by dogcart, landau, victoria, govern-ess cart and, shockingly, motor car. 3) A sailor, imprisoned for many years for a crime he did not commit, befriends an old clergyman who teaches him history, science,languages, and philosophy. The clergyman, knowing he is close to death confides in the sailor the location of a hidden treasure. 4) Travelling far and wide in search of a floating land, a prince encouters exciting adventures and interesting people. They include two rich and wicked princes, the prettiest girl in the world, and a tortoise with an unusual facial feature. 5) After enchanting a broom with a flower, Mary flies to a college for witches. She discovers that the experiments taking place there are sinis-ter and horrifying. The author reccomends the Helibroom for readers who might wish to undertake such a journey themselves.

s1#224-Once Upon A Time

IT was 8 in the morning.... when Little Red Riding Hood set out for her grandmother's with a basket of 10 cakes. The grandmother was 127 years old and lived far away out in the woods. Her cottage had been in her family for 184 years and she refused to leave it, even after her only daughter moved away. 181 feet from her house, Little Red Riding Hood looked back at her mother who had made her promise to take great care and not walk by herself in the woods. Waving goodbye, she set off on the 39km journey to the cottage. She rode on a cart for the first 22km with an old man on his way to the hilltop castle, but as they drew nearer, the wood thickened and she was forced to continue on foot. Barely 48 yards in there was a suddent movement in the shadows. Looming out of the darkness came a tall grey wolf, its fangs glistening in the moonlight. "I have lived in these woods for 59 years and never seen a girl so pretty as you," it growled. "I am off to my grandmother's to take her these cakes. Would you like to try one?" "You are most kind," whispered the wolf, as he reached into her basket. His paws were large and he snatched up several, leaving only 7 cakes behind. "I'd best let you be on your way." Little Red Riding Hood set off again on her journey, not realising the wolf had circled around her and was racing ahead to her grandmother's house. When she eventually arrived at the cottage, there was smoke rising from the fire and the smell of baking bread in the air. The door was old and battered and the number 78 on the front door had long since rusted. As the door creaked open, Little Red Riding Hood could just make out her grandmother lying on the bed. Moving closer she saw there was something strange about the old woman. "Oh, grandmother, what big ears you have!" she said as she moved a little closer. "All the better to hear you with, my child," rumbled the figure on the bed. "And what big eyes you have!" she said as she moved even closer still. "All the better to see you with, dear," the deep voice answered back, almost smiling in its tone. "But grandmother, what a terribly big mouth you have!" "All the better to eat you with!" snarled the wolf as it lept from the bed and devoured the poor girl in a single bite. Full from his meal, the wolf lay down to sleep, but a passing huntsman heard the loud snoring and entered the cottage to investigate. Seeing the wolf, he knew it had eaten the old woman who lived there, and so took a pair of scissors and cut open its stomach whilst it slept. Inside he saw Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, still alive and whole. Crawling out from the wolf's belly, Little Red Riding Hood quickly rushed out to fetch 26 stones to fill the wolf now empty stomach. Soon the wolf awoke, and seeing the huntsman tried to run away, but the stones were so heavy he collapsed at once and fell dead. All three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cakes and lived for another 29 years; and Little Red Riding Hood thought to herself, "I will never go into the woods by myself when my mother has told me not too."

s1#225-Broadside

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s1#226-Instruction

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s1#227-NAND

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s1#228-Primer

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s1#229-Ball Night

The same night the Receda Cube was stolen, the annual Academy Ball was held. During the ball, each of the five events occurred in a different place, featured its own speaker, took a different amount of time, and was sponsored by a different Senior Fellow. Can you decipher everything that happened that night, and in which order? 1. The art and social sciences senior fellows sponsored the last two events. 2. Sente gave the welcoming words personally in Carrick Hall. 3. The fireworks were not the third event. 4. Prof. Wildwood did not sponsor the event where Sente spoke. 5. The first event was longer than the second. 6. Prof. Adamek left during the event in the Noi Ballroom. 7. The fireworks took a quarter of the time as the event where Camryn Scott spoke. 8. The second event was in Kermeen Hall. 9. Aiko Entrescore was careful to thank Prof. Ekeba when she spoke. 10. The outdoor event was the shortest. 11. The event in the Museum took three times as long as the shortest event, and twice as long as the second-shortest. 12. The senior fellow of cryptography was jealous that the second event took ten minutes less than Sedgewick's did. 13. Anna Heath gave a quick few words for the 20-minute event, then hurried home before the dancing. 14. Robert Zhi-Hui arrived to speak at the awards too late for cocktails, but did stay for the art exhibit.

s1#230-Eternally Grateful

Seeing no apparent issue, but our wtay not entirley shut up We are pressed on every side, yet not straitened We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed We are perplexed, but not in despair We are afflicted in every way HOW SHALL WE GIVE THANKS?

s1#231-Cast Adrift 2

The boats weigh anchor and set sail, each arriving at an island at every step of their journey. Which islands, in order, does boat B visit?

s1#232-Water Music

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s1#233-The Earth's Destiny

ARE OUR LIVES PREORDAINED Ever since the dawn of time, every step we've taken, every advance we've made, every minute of our lives has already been decided. TO WHICH MYSTICAL PLACE WERE THESE LOCATIONS FATED?

s1#234-Mosaically Challenged

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s1#235-Circuitous

Whose Story?

s1#236-Swarms

Sibling Rivalry?

s1#237-Roaming Identity

as of March 2006

s1#238-Riemann

Prime numbers are numbers that cannot be divided by any other number except themselves and 1. For example, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 17 are all prime numbers. Aside from their theoretical interest, large prime numbers have become increasingly important in day to day life since they underpin the cryptography that allows secure transactions to take place on the internet (such as encrypting your credit card details when you buy online). While there are standard techniques to discover new primes, and more importantly, check whether a number really is a prime, mathematicians have not been able to discover if there is any order to the way in which primes are distributed. However, the German mathematician G.F.G. Riemann (1826-1866) noticed that the frequency of primes is highly related to the Zeta Function, now known as the Riemann Zeta Function. [EQUATION] The Riemann Hypothesis is that "The real part of any non-trivial zero of the Riemann Zeta Function is 1/2." It sounds complicated (and it is!) but a lot rests on whether his hypothesis is true. There are many equations in abstract mathematics that have been solved on the assumption that the hypothesis is true--and if it isn't, then not only would we have to look at those equations again, but it would aso imply that there is a certain order to primes. (As of 2004, the largest known prime was 7235733 digits long!) BOTTOM RIGHT: $1,000,000 prize offered upon solving this puzzle see http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Riemann_Hypothesis/

s1#239-Persian

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s1#240-Elucidate

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s1#241-T-L-P

What proposition does the following diagram represent?

s1#242-Ciphers Of History

When professor Hale catches students passing notes in class, he reads them out loud. Naturally, his students have turned to extreme measures to avoid embarassment. What does this note say?

s1#243-Shuffled

Last year, someone found a weakness in the Academy's computer security systems and accessed several files using a program called the Djinn Worm. I helped the Perplex City Police to plug the leak but we still didn't know who was responsible and all our leads had gone cold. Then I received an anonymous note suggesting I should be at the Five of Cups bar one night. I was waiting for something to happen while playing poker, when one of the players at my table cashed out and he subtly indicated he wanted to talk to me. At a convenient pause in the game, I walked over to meet him at the bar, where he quickly pressed a pack of cards into my hand and whispered, "If entropy wins, outward looks should leave you cold." He then promptly walked out. When I returned home, I spread the cards out on my table and looked for any marks or signs, but they were all new and untouched, apart from one joker which had a star on it. It took me some time to figure out what he was trying to tell me - can you decode the message and find out who created the Worm? ---- Side of the pack has the letters: EODMF XRUTH WBBMC HGFIB LXCQY WEZFL ITHPJ LFHWY ETKWY LJOTY YNGYJ BIOGI FUVMR XIHGU RAGXH NQHRS XAWJU FJTAM SMMOS MVBAA KPGVV WXOVM YKZPL LUL FHURG IFULP

s1#244-Syzygy Cube

Can you solve this cube so that each face spells out six words (three horizontally, three vertically)?

s1#245-Relativity

Professor Adamek and Dr Badjan are travelling at different speeds towards a distant, small disc Both are travelling along the disk's axis. At the moment they pass each other, Adamek sees the diameter of the disk as five times the diameter seen by Badjan. What is the relative speed of the two observers as a fraction of the speed of light?

s1#246-Homage In Glass

For the celebration to commemorate the discovery of Earth, the Perplex City Museum of Art commissioned the acclaimed artist R. Grant to create several works honoring famous earth artists. To which work does this piece pay homage?

s1#247-Polar

77º38 36.9 S 166º45 58.5 E What lies here?

s1#248-Differently Lethal

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s1#249-The Angel's Key

I came at last to the Convent of the San Miguelino de los Mercados, where I rested for several days. When I was well enough to tour the grounds, the Mother Superior, a woman of stern and forbidding dispostiion,offered to show me their greatest treasure: a mural of unknown age which, she said, gave directions to find a hidden set of keys. Holding a flickering lamp above her head, she led me through the cellars of the Convent, until we came at last to a large, high-ceilinged room, one of whose walls was entirely covered by a painting in the medieval style. In the centre was a figure of an angel - a tall, winged form in white. His hands were extended, holding out an open book. Across the pages lay a silver key. At the angel's feet sat three animals: a bull, an eagle and a lion, each seemingly at rest. The holy woman raised her lamp higher and I saw that, above the heads of the angel and animals, another scene was painted; a map of stars. I recognized the two constellations facing each other: the herdsman and the hunter. In each constellation, one star was different from the others: painted red. Stranger still, was the small figure, set between the two constellations, of a horse leaping through a ring of fire. The entire scene; the angel, the animals, the constellations, the horse, seemed to have some significance, but I was at a loss to comprehend it. "Do you recognize the stars?" she asked. I looked harder, trying to recall the instruction given me by the Astronomer Royal. "that one, there, in the herdsman, is that Arcturus?" She nodded. "And the other... in Orion... ah! That's Rigel." "Good. Do you understand now?" "But how, I mean what, I mean..." "The horse," she said, "the flaming steed. You have an excellent education, they tell me. Think hard, my child. You will find you know the answer. And when you know it, tell me what the keys you find will open." I am afraid that, even in the meditative atmosphere of San Miguelino, the problem took several more days to work through. When, finally, I was able to tell the Mother Superior that I had found the keys she had spoken of, that I knew what they would open, she seemed pleased but not surprised. Many had found them before me, many would find them in the future. I remained with the excellent women of San Miguelino de los Mercados for several weeks, before continuing my journey further south...

s1#250-Manoeuvres

To what purpose?

s1#251-The Thirteenth Labour

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s1#252-C. 237.85, F. 460.13,

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s1#253-Sightseeing

Lots of numbers.

s1#254-Escape

Instructiobns at bottom of card: MISSION: HIT THE FIVE BLUE SWITCHES AND GET OUT THE DOOR RULES: I WALK AT 2 SECONDS A SQUARE ON THE GRID LINES, THE GUARDS ONLY TAKE 1 SECOND. UNLIKE ME, THEY TAKE A SECOND TO SPIN ON THE SPOT AT CORNERS AND ONLY EVER LOOK THE WAY THEY ARE FACING. I CAN'T START MOVING TO A SQUARE UNTIL THE GUARD HAS GONE AND CAN'T SEE ME. I CAN ONLY BE SURE I'M OUTTA SIGHT WHEN I REACH THE NEXT SQUARE. OBJECTIVE; WHAT IS THE SHORTEST TIME I CAN GET OUT IN? Other bits of text on card (in case you can't read on low-res scan) Top right black text: YOU CAN CALL ME STEALTH Top right above red line: THE DOOR Middle arrow to red cone: WATCH OUT FOR THE CAMERA! Bottom left arrow to blue switch: TAKES ME TWO SECONDS TO HIT A SWITCH Bottom right in room: Garnet (signature) Bottom middle next to blip: THIS IS ME - WELL SORTA

s1#255-Clinical Explanation

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s1#256-Billion To One

Translated Japanese Characters: "Find Me"

s1#257-The Cube

[various signatures]

s2#001-My...

My first is five as Roman's count, that's plain enough to see. My second is the word we use when we refer to "me". My third's a circle, plain and round - could it be any neater? My fourth's an ancient fifty or today might be a litre My fifth can stand for energy but with my final letter, It represents an alien - Now what could be much better? Now that you have found my parts fit them together well, I am a bloom, a hue, a girl - a shy one, you can tell

s2#002-Issue 1 - Break In

"Marlowe got me the code this afternoon. Now I'm hoping the old man is a heavy sleeper." "Marlowe! The idiot missed the last two digits. But it looks like it follows some sort of pattern..." "What are the last two digits?"

s2#003-Road To Nowhere

It's not very often I visit the desert. However, the one time I decide to go, lo and behold, I get lost! By some sheer stroke of luck I come across an old wooden sign in the ground, with some very odd symbols drawn on it. Attached is a piece of tatty old paper which reads: 'To Civilisation, head this way'. Which way should I head?

s2#004-Pinball Wizard

Planet Pinball There's a way to score exactly 50 points on this machine with every ball. Which different bumpers would the ball have to bounce off to complete the challenge? Score: 0 0 0 0 0 0

s2#005-Ixtlilton

To celebrate the completion of the great temple, a feast for all the people was arranged. Ixtlilton had been tasked with preparing a drink of chocolate and spices to be served at the occasion, but in the excitement and chaos of the day the storage jars and been moved around. In which jars are located the chocolate, vanilla and cinnamon?

s2#006-The Beautiful Game

Quote: What sport links these words? United Palace Wanderers Rovers Albion Rangers Town Alexandra Villa Forest Country Wednesday Athletic Vale Argyle Hotspur End Harriers City Diamonds Orient

s2#007-Mini Maze

Quote: Without going back on yourself, make your way from the start to the finish. Which lettered rooms do you pass through on the way?

s2#008-Bright Eyed

There are 2 rabbits in front of 2 other rabbits. There are 2 rabbits behind two other rabbits. There are two rabbits beside 2 other rabbits. How many rabbits are there?

s2#009-Tapestry

How many moves would it take you to get from the start to the finish when the following rules apply: You can only move to a square that has either the same colour or the same shading You can only move one square at a time, horizontally or vertically, not diagonally

s2#010-Blockwork

Which of the shapes below can pass through each hole and fit them all exactly?

s2#011-Connections

Place the numbers from 1 to 8 in the shapes so that no two consecutive numbers aare directly connected to each other.

s2#012-The Owl and the Wolf

A story tells of an evil magician who was in love with a young girl. the girl, however, had already met her true love and so spurned the attentions of the magician. In his rage, the magician cursed the couple. The girl would spend the day as a human and the night as an owl whilst her true love would spend the day as a wolf and the night as a human. They could never be together again as boy and girl. The curse would last until there was a night within a day or until the girl gave herself to the evil magician, sealing the bargain with a kiss. Save giving in, what would break the curse?

s2#013-If You Go Down To The Woods Today

How many animals can you see in this forest scene?

s2#014-Alibi

A man was found murdered one Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. + The wife said she was in bed reading a book + The cook claimed she was cooking breakfast + The gardener claimed he was planting seeds + The maid claimed she was getting the mail + The butler claimed he was polishing the silver The police instantly arrested the murderer. Whom did they arrest?

s2#015-Lost in Time - The Jump

At what time do all three hands of a clock line up exactly?

s2#016-Qwerty

[On the Keyboard] WHATLETTER HASNOTBEE NMOVED?

s2#033-Stepping Stones

We came at last to the hidden grove that separated us from the palace. Between us and the palace stood an underground lake, covered with water lilies large enough for a man to stand on. Protruding from the surface were sturdy rocks on which stood idols to the Shichi Fukujin. This was a sacred place: in crossing we would have to pass each statue and pay tribute. We crossed the lake together, both standing on the same water lilies, but the giant leaves began to sink as soon as we stood on them, blocking the path back. Which statue did we pass twice?

s2#034-California

In recent years the idea of love triangles has become a little bit passe. If your mother hasn't slept with your boyfriend, and your dad's not marrying a woman half his age, then you're a nobody. Can you recognise this mixed relationship web, and tell us which TV show's first season this is based upon?

s2#035-A-tribute-d

Can you match the band to their tribute? Bjorn Again Definitely Might Be Stoned Again Fully Clothed Gents Whole Lotta Led One Step Behind Floydian Slip The Muffin Men Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Bare Naked Ladies Oasis Madness Abba Frank Zappa The Rolling Stones

s2#036-Jelly Beans

To keep the Mind Candy staff motivated, a large jar of eight different flavoured jelly beans is kept in the office for anyone to help themselves. How many beans would someone need to take out to be certain of getting three of the same colour?

s2#037-Issue 2 - Cornered

"Time's up." THUMP THUMP THUMP "It's just for show..." "The Old Man always carries a gun." "There's a chance. From the stairs he's 7' away from seeing the door. I'm 20' away from the actual door." "He moves at 2 yrds/s but I move at 6 yrds/s" "Can I make it to the door before he sees me?"

s2#038-Snakes and Ladders

In the game shown above the dice represent the throws during the game. Each player moves forward the number of squares stated on the relevant dice colour. If you land on the top of a snake or the bottom of a ladder you must journey to the other end immediately. If, however you land on another player then you take their square and they have to return to the start. It is then the turn of the next player. To reach the finish you must land on the 25th square exactly. Which colour won?

s2#039-Clash of the Titans

Can you match up the words to create 6 American Football teams? Chicago Philadelphia Miami Jacksonville Detroit Seattle Jaguards Lions Eagles Seahawks Dolphins Bears

s2#040-Snapped

The top half of a "face card" in a deck is supposed to be a rotated copy og its bottom half. This is not true in the cards pictured here. Can you spot the differences between the top and bottom halves of each card? Count how many mistakes you see on each.

s2#041-Toil and Trouble

Can you match these famous Shakespearian lines to their plays? a. �But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?� b. �Why, then the world�s mine oyster, Which I with this sword will open.� c. "To be or not to be, that is the question" d. "A horse! A horse! My kningdom for a horse!" e. "Is this a dagger which I see before me..." f. "Et tu, Brute?" 1. The Merry WIves of Windsor (II, ii, 2-3) 2. Hamlet (III, i, 56) 3. Julius Caesar (III, i, 77) 4. King Richard III (V, iv, 7) 5. Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) 6. Macbeth (II, i, 33)

s2#042-Patterns of Light

What shape comes next in the sequence? A Dodecagon B Triskaidecagon C Tetradecagon D Pentadecagon

s2#043-Family Ties

In a family there is a grandmother, a grandfather, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sonds, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law, and a daughter-in-law. How many in the family?

s2#044-Opochtli

Whilst the city celebrated, Opochtli wandered out alone to the surrounding mountains. Looking for a place to rest, he spied a cave at the base of the tallest mountain. Entering he found the walls were carved with intricate symbols and emblems. He recognised several of them: this was a dedication to the goddess of hearth fires and volcanoes, but he could not remember her name. To whom are the carvings dedicated?

s2#065-Who Are You

Each phrase is an anagram which takes its letters from the names of two charcters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A Chief Hastens Crqoquet Here. "No! Peachy Girl." Harsh Deuces Charm. Go So Ruled; "Eat Me" Dr. Tom: Locked Out! 'T Has the Tag "For A., Drink Me" Bribe All With Price: A Tart. Name all the characters.

s2#066-Born Free

Hollywood is full of stars from around the world, but it can often be surprising to learn which countries they're really from. Can you match these actors to their correct nationalities? Kim Cattrall Mel Gibson Russell Crowe Jean Reno Audrey Hepburn Charlize Theron Michael J Fox Belgian New Zealander South African Canadian American English Spanish/Moroccan

s2#067-Pick Up Sticks

I recently came across the Earth game Pick-Up Sticks. Each set has 30 sticks; 11 yellows, 1 black and equal amounts of red, blue and green. I played first and this is how the game looked after my turn. How many points did I score? PICK UP STICKS Gather the sticks vertically in one hand that's placed on the table, keeping the black stick to one side to be used as a tool to pick up other sticks. Release quickly to allow the sticks to fall on the table. Player one then picks up sticks one at a time. This continues until they move any other sticks on the table other than the one they are trying to remove. It is then the second player's turn and play continues in exactly the same manner. Keep track of scores referencing the chart below. The winner is the first to reach 500 points. SCORING Blue sticks 50 points Green sticks 40 points Red sticks 25 points Yellow sticks 10 points

s2#068-Inversions

If you eat it, you will die. It is greater than God, yet more evil than the Devil. The rich need it. The poor have it. What is it?

s2#069-Roundabout

What is the answer?

s2#070-Penguin Sums

How many penguins are there in a family if each male penguin has one fewer female relatives than he has male relatives, and each female penguin has two male relatives fewer than twice the number of her female relatives?

s2#071-The Cattle King

Bill had invited his flatmates Rob and Corey around to his family farm for the holidays. Having spent the day with his family whilst the other looked around the grounds, Bill was now sitting on the front porch relaxing and sipping a glass of pinot noir. The sun was just starting to set when Rob and Corey came up to him looking somewhat concerned. "We've just been out by your cattle pens. We noticed that you'd used 17 fences to create 6 equal sized square pens. But the fences are all looking very worn and rusty. Won't it cost you a lot to replace them all?" "We'll be fine. We worked out a way to build 6 pens of equal size, though not necessarily the same size as the current pens, using fewer fences." Whats the smallest number of fences needed to build the new cattle pens?

s2#072-Cubicals

Which two of the six patterns above could be cut out and folded up into cubes which are identical?

s2#073-Satellites of Love

Can you match the names to these orbiting adventurers? International Space Station Sputnik Voyager 1 Giotto A. Still being built. The project's first part was the Russian Zarya module, launched on November 20, 1998. B. The first artificial satellite sent into orbit, launched by Russia on October 4, 1957. Its name means "Fellow Traveller". C. Launched by the USA on September 5, 1977. It is still operational, and is now officially interstellar, having left our solar system when it reached a distance of 14 billion kilometers from the sun. D. Launched by the European Space Agency on March 13, 1986, in order to investigate the last pass of Halley's Comet.

s2#075-PXCPD

PERPLEX CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT Citizen: do you have what it takes to be a PXCPD Volunteer? Tackle this puzzle and give us a call. Remove all these numbers to reveal our phone number - Anything larger than 3 on the smallest grey circle. - Anything larger than the product of two consecutive primes whose sum is 5 - All square numbers greater than 1 - The number of trunks on an elephant, from all but the outer circle - The number 3 on the outside circle and its opposite - The number of points on a pentagon on all the red circles.

s2#097-6000 words

Can you identify these 6 books from the pictures below?

s2#098-Issue 4 - The Body

"2am." "It didn't take long to find my mystery contact." "I need to buy some time." "I could use a nearby engine to switch the wagons and hide the body in the tunnel." "The wagons attach to each other and either side of the engine" "The wagons are too big to pass under the footbridge, but the engine can." "I need to switch the wagons and get the engine back to its starting point." "What's the fewest times the engine must pass under the bridge?"

s2#099-Countered

26 Pieces Remaining Instructions You can swap horizontally or vertically adjacent pieces to form rows or columns of 3 or more identical pieces. When you do so, these rows or columns will vanish and any pieces above will fall down. If this creates a new row or column of 3 or more identical pieces, these too will vanish. If a piece simultaneously forms part of a row and column, each of 3 or more, the piece counts in both directions. What is the fewest number of swaps required to make all pieces vanish?

s2#100-To The Power

CONSIDER THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET LET A=1 AND LET THE REMAINING LETTERS BE EQUAL TO THEIR POSITION IN THE ALPHABET RAISED TO THE POWER OF THE PREVIOUS LETTER'S VALUE THEREFORE, B=2 A =2 1 =2, C=3 B =3 2 =9, ETC. WHAT IS THE EXACT VALUE OF THE EQUATION? (X-A)*(X-B)*(X-C)*...*(X-Z)

s2#101-Par Ardua Ad Astra

Which combination of folds makes the origami travel furthest when thrown? - - - Mountain Fold --- Valley Fold A) 1,3,4 B) 1,3,5 C) 1,3,6 D) 1,2,3,4 E) 1,2,3,6 Remember we expect all puzzles to be tested under rigorous scientific conditions. All paper planes should be made with the same size and weight pieces of paper.

s2#102-Portrait

Who?

s2#103-Bush Bakery

In anticipation of a hard day's prospecting, Bob is preparing some damper for he and his mates to eat. The damper will take 30 minutes to cook in the campfire's ashes. Bob doesn't have a watch, but he does have two spare fuses from his explosives. Each fuse takes 40 minutes to burn completely when lit, but neither burns at a constant rate. How can Bob measure 30 minutes using the fuses?

s2#104-The Pickle King

Rob the pickle king loves pickles. He keeps a large collection of them in his larder in carefully labelled jars, including a jar of regular pickles, one of sweet pickles, and one that contains a mixture of both. Unfortunately his flatmates Bill and Corey played a trick on him one day and mixed up the labels on these 3 jars so that every label was wrong. Rob hated to waste pickles, but really wanted to put out some sweet pickles for a party that evening. He quickly realised however that he could work out which jar was which by tasting a single pickle from just one jar. Which jar did he pick?

s2#105-Home Town

The card reads: "In which cities did these cars originate?" and the 5 licence plates read: NOK-9O1 (with a circle of stars and the letters FIN beside it) WR35 STR 1129 CNT OR-14-GE DNE 414 H12 YWD (with a picture of the state of Florida behind it)

s2#107-A Question of Sport

Lots of unusual words and phrases, such as albatross and ape hangers, are featured in sports around the world. Can you match up the sports to the unconventional terms below? 1. Hog Line 2. Bully 3. Lona 4. Cesta 5. Chukka 6. Double Diamond 7. Mulligan A. Jai Alai B. Golf C. Curling D. Polo E. Hockey F. Kabaddi G. Croquet

s2#129-Topologic

If one object can be mapped onto another via a continuous bijection that has a continuous inverse, the objects are said to be topologically equivalent. For the non-mathematical among you, this is the same as saying you can turn a stretchable model of the first object into the second by moulding it, but without tearing or joining parts together. Group the marked objects in this picture into sets that are topologically equivalent.

s2#130-Golden Duck

IN ONE INNINGS of a cricket match, the bowling analysis was as follows, not necessarily in the order of bowling. O M R W ANDERSON 9 0 24 1 BASSETT 4.1 0 33 4 COX 8 3 41 4 DAWSON 3 2 5 1 There was only one bowling change at each end. The last three wickets fell at the same total. The fourth wicket fell in the 12th over Which bowler took the first wicket?

s2#131-The Thin Red Lines

What does this image represent?

s2#132-Rescue

3 months ago an officer was caught and sentenced to life in a Russian gulag. The navy would not leave a man behind however, and word soon reached him of a daring and dangerous rescue mission. The would come for him through the icy waters of the north. He had only to reach the meeting point on the coast to be free. After escaping the gulag and battling his way across the barren, frozen landscape, the officer came at last to his destination. As the wind lashed across his face he caught sight of a ration pack weighted down with a rock. Inside was a note that chilled him to the bone. What did the note say?

s2#133-Irrationality

Can you match the phobia to its description? THE PHOBIA! A. Triskaidekaphobia B. Blennophobia C. Coulrophobia D. Venustraphobia E. Syngenesophobia F. Pogonophobia G. Optphobia 1. Fear of beautiful women 2. Fear of relatives 3. Fear of beards 4. Fear of opening one's eyes 5. Fear of the number 13 6. Fear of clowns 7. Fear of slime

s2#134-The Restaurant King

Corey wanted to take his flatmates Bill and Rob out to the best restaurants and bars Manhattan has to offer, all in one evening. He'd picked out the 5 best places, but now needed to work out which order they should visit them in. Corey knew he wanted to start at Ace Bar and end up back there at the end of the night, and he also wanted to make sure they spent their money at the restaurants, not wasting it all on cabs. Over the years he'd learnt how much it would cost to get a cab from any location to any other. It didn't take him long to figure out the cheapest route for the evening. Ace Bar - Sparks Steak House - $10.15 Ace Bar - Corner Bistro - $6.95 Ace Bar - Zum Schneider - $1.25 Ace Bar - Lombardi's - $3.30 Sparks Steak House - Corner Bistro - $9.55 Sparks Steak House - Zum Schneider - $10 Sparks Steak House - Lombardi's - $12.40 Corner Bistro - Zum Schneider - $8 Corner Bistro - Lombardi's - $6.05 Zum Schneider - Lombardi's - $4.45

s2#135-Cats of Harbin

The cat herders of Harbin have a long tradition of animal husbandry. But every year, they suffercertain amount of natural wastageas cats stray from the fold. Over the centuries, these mathematically gifted herdershave calculated the minimum size for a profitable herd. SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT FORM THIS TRADITIONAL HERDERS SONG: In Harbin the cats I declare, They numbered one third of a square, If a quarter then strayed' Still a cube will have stayed. How many, at least, must be there? (O, how many, at least, must be there?)

s2#136-Which Way Now

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s2#137-Animal Magic

WHICH COUNTRIES DO THESE ANIMALS COME FROM? FRANCE . ICELAND . CHINA . KOREA . GERMANY . RUSSIA A. (top left) - I-GO-GO B. (top right) - KIKERIKI C. (centre left) - WANG D. (bottom left) - GROIN-GROIN E. (centre right) - MJA F. (bottom right) - GAE-GOOL

s2#139-Invoice

Each year I consult the same accountant for help with my tax return. She doesn't appreciate it when I bring in my receipts all balled-up in plastic bags, but up until last week, I thought we got on fine. Imagine my surprise when my accountant's latest bill arrived! How much does she want me to pay? Text from bottom "page": Laid out in a table, with columns marked £ s. d., and rows as below: "Friends" spin-off series Kingdom from "The Princess Bride" Queen's headwear A leatherworker Pavarotti A concert piano Below the table, it says Total __________

s2#151-"I'll Get You"

Several Earth video games are starting to make their way into Perplex City, with many titles selling out in hours. Can you identify the popular games these quotes are from? 1. Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle! 2."She smiled till the end" 3. 'Hey, listen 4. All your base are belong to us 5. 'Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!'

s2#161-Show Your Cards

s2#162-Melting Pot

Each of these pictures represents a number in a foreign language. Which is the odd number out?

s2#163-Trailhead

>System error occurred. >Expelling memory... >Block Exception found. >Retrieving data... >Data not identifiable. >Backtracking data stream. >Fatal error occurred. >System crash imminent. >Printing data log... bottom center and right: data.log page 1 of 1

s2#164-Next in Line

Who belongs next on this list? Homer Aristotle Rembrandt Joseph Heller

s2#165-No Fault of Mine

Imagine a section of a brick-tiled patio as pictured here: The individual tiles are 1x2 rectangles. They are placed into a larger rectangular area. Notice what one might call a "fault line" that runs through the pattern: a dividing line that does not cut any of the individual 1x2 tiles, but which separates the whole rectangular area into two smaller rectangles. What is the fewest number of tiles, excluding the trivial case of 1 tile, that may be assembled into a rectangular area so that no fault line exists?

s2#166-Quintessence

Which symbol is missing from this set?

s2#167-Enrolment

20 years ago the academy began a now annual ritual where a number of the students line up in front of their lockers. The master of the academy blows a whistle and every student opens their locker. The whistle is blown again, and every 2nd locker is closed. On the third whistle, every 3rd locker is changed from open to closed, or vice versa. This pattern continues until the whistle has been blown the same number of times as there are students. In each succesive year the aim is for the minimum number of students to assemble so as to increase the number of lockers left open at the end by one. Given that only 1 locker was left open in the inaugural year, How many students are needed this year?

s2#168-600 Meter Cadence

600 Meter Cadence Snare Drum

s2#169-Appointments

When Von got back to his office one day, he found a message from Garnet. He took one look at the message, glanced at the clock and hurried out of the door. What did the message say? CFTGBHUJM//HJUYG BN//FGTRDCV//UYTYG V//ZSEDCFTGB//DFRE SXC//TRERDX//TFCVGY// GHYTFVB//6TFC//VGYUJ H//XDRFVGYHN//JUYGV //ZSEDCFTGB//9IJN// YUJHJNB

s2#171-1,2,3,4

((The time she's leaving home x The band's days in a week x The white album's revolution / How many years ago today Sgt Pepper taught the band to play) - The people Sunday driving) x ((How much the taxman gets - How old the standing girl is - How many ways a day tripper's ticket goes) x The holes in Blackburn / A paperback's pages, give or take a few) John, Paul, George and Ringo. Four names synonymous with changing the history of music forever. But did you know the band also had an unhealthy obsession with numbers? Check out the lyrics to their songs, and numbers are everywhere--now by using the information on the blackboard, can you solve the equation and name the song it referenced?

s2#172-Dragon in a Dungeon

Oh brave adventurer, slayer of beasts, hero of the realm, your greatest challenge lies before you! As you enter the twisting passages of the dungeon, the lair of the fiercest creature known, you have a twinge of fear. Defeating a dragon is no easy quest... even for someone as valiant as yourself! You question whether a sharp blade and heavy armour will be enough. But hope is notlost, for a powerful wizard, and friend, told you of a magic word with which you could cast a spell to give you the strength you need. If only you could discover the word...

s2#173-Hexscotch

Children in Perplex City often play a schoolyard game similar to Earth's "Hopscotch". A field of hexagons is drawn on the ground with either one, two or three stones placed in each hexagon. A child begins in the lowest hexagon, picks up any stones in it, and makes a single jump to another hexagon. The distance the child jumps is equal to the number of stones he or she just picked up. The child then pucks up the stones in the new hexagon and jumps form there. To win, a child must pick up as many stones as possible. During the game, he or she may not jump to a hexagon that has already been visited. Can you figure out the path of exactly 18 jumps which a child should take to gather all of the stones? Use the letters around the grid to describe the path.

s2#174-States of Confusion

Forty-six of the above states have been assigned a value based on a particular rule. Can you figure out the rule and determine what values should be assigned to the remaining states: Alabama, California, Delaware, and Rhode Island?

s2#175-Highway Code

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s2#177-Inside Out

So you think you know your "inside" from your "out" do you? Of the five coloured dots in this picture (red, blue, green, yellow and grey), which ones are one the same side of the line as this text?

s2#180-District Final

How many unique ways are there to get from the corner of Magine Lane and Dalia Way (in the north) to the intersection of Milamont Parade and The Shift (in the south), moving only south and staying on the purple roads indicated on the map?

s2#182-Transit

s2#193-I'm So Sorry

^_^ Hi there! I just wanted to send you an email and apologise 8(- I was way out of order before 8[` B)- You know it, I know it. B)` B]- 8]` the problem is email :)` 8[- well it's me too, but email is a lot of it. 8]` :]` 8[- Okay I know what you are thinking 8[` 8]` (yep, I'm a mind reader!B0- You think, it's not email it's you B]- B[` :[` B[` Right okay, it;s me 8)- :0` but also it's email, because in email you can't really be sure what anyone means B(` like, how can anyone tell a joke in email? :)` :[- B)` and that means we get into fights B[` B[` yeah fights like this, because who can tell what you mean? 8]` :)- B)- Anyway, so it was my fault 8[- B[` B)` B)- 8)- I should have bee more clear :[- and I shouldn't have made all those jokes B)- 8(- I mean, who makes jokes in email :[- In a serious email anyway? 8]` :]- 8[- 8]` So anyway, it was my fault, and I'm sorry, and can you forgive me now? :)- 8)` I'll really try to me more clear about what I mean from now on, more sense, less jokes, more smileys? 8]` B]- :]~ B(~ well better smiles anyway B[` 8)- All forgiven? :]~ B(~ 8(~ 8]~ See ya soon! =|8P :-C :-$ :-P

s2#194-Artifact

a recent archaeological dig in the tangential desert uncovered this strange, decorated cube it is believed to bear an inscription implied by a series of letter ladders running along its faces it appears to be an early form of puzzle cube, now an established genre of perplex city entertainment, dating from the Rainer period, but the dig team's decipherment adjunct were unable to decode the inscription. WHAT IS THE MESSAGE ON THE CUBE?

s2#195-Travel Writer

Teresina - Augusto Severo - Impfondo - Alicante Apiay - Tanana - Ouango Fitini Trelew - Anderson

s2#196-Marble Loss

A NEW GAME IS POPPING UP AT ALL THE CAFES IN PERPLEXCITY. IN IT YOU HAVE TO TILT A BOARD N, S, E AND W TO DROP A BLUE MARBLE INTO A PIT. HOWEVER, YOU MUST DO SO WITHOUT TIPPING ANY OF THE 3 YELLOW MARBLES INTO THE PIT. WHEN THE BOARD IS TILTED, THE MARBLES RUN DOWNHILL AS FAR AS THEY CAN BEFORE STOPPING (UNLESS THEY PASS OVER THE PIT, IN WHICH CASE THEY FALL THROUGH IT) AND THE BOARD CAN'T BE TILTED AGAIN UNTIL THE MARBLES ARE STATIONARY. IN WHICH DIRECTIONS MUST YOU TIP THE BOARD TO GET THE BLUE MARBLE INTO THE PIT IN THE FEWEST MOVES POSSIBLE?

s2#197-Murder at the Liars Club

MURDER There`s been a murder at the Liar`s club, and as interim sheriff, you are called upon to investigate. Members of the Liar`s Club always lie, and there are at least three members, and at least three non-members (who are always truth-tellers), among the seven people involved (the six suspects and the murdered man) . Everyone involved knows ho is a member and who isn`t, and even who the killer is, but no one wants to get involved, for fear of becoming the next victim. Along with the suspects` statements is a written statement from Hart, the murder victim, which he wrote as he was dying. The case is definitely not suicide, and it is up to you to determine, from the seven statements, who is a member and who isn`t, and who the killer is. Archer: "Davis is a member, and he would agree that Flint would agree that Hart and Edgar are both members." Brown: "Hart would agree that Clark would agree that Archer and Davis are both non-members." Clark: "Davis and Brown would agree that Edgar would agree that the murderer is not a member." Davis: "Hart`s membership status is the same as the murderer`s." Edger: "Clark would agree that Brown and hart would agree that Flint is a member." Flint: "Brown would agree that Archer and Clark do not have the same membership status." Hart: "Archer killed me!"

s2#198-Colourblind

Which two colours in the list are not hidden in the grid using braille notation? Two examples have been found for you already.

s2#199-The Name Game

It had been a long day so I decided to play a game with some of my students, assigning each of their names a value based on a secret rule. I had just told Catherine that her name had two different values, 233 and... when Sente stopped by to ask for my help with a phase adjustment on the Earth - Perplex City link. As I left I called back "You'll have to figure out what Catherine's other value was by yourselves"

s2#200-The Other Famous Cube

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s2#201-Sound Dialogue

The distant drums rumbled. We had reached an impasse. "Where now Sergeant Rutledge?" Harper inquired. Behind us the other explorers began to arrive, one settling himself by a willow tree. "I'm not sure," I replied. "I think we may need to ask one of them," nodding in the direction of the now resting travellers. Harper looked agitated. "Sure that's a good idea? You told them you always know your next move." The kid was right. I had learnt my art in the Green Berets, but the last thirteen days trying to stay one step ahead of them was beginning to test my patience. This was one soldier that wasn't going to get scorched. What am I?

s2#203-Treason

Who is the close friend?

s2#204-Thief in the Night

The slow burn of the bourbon in my gut worked its way up to my heart as I scowled at the scrap of paper on my desk. After this evening's events my brain was scrambled. I knew it had to be a clue, and an important one, but it felt like something was missing... if only I could make sense of it. What did it all add up to? IUNSOFNO UISNAGDA RCNULATN INSUOCIS FIDYMEIT PARKEPID KIBMCALL LAPNOMEC EDITEVET

s2#225-Kidnapped

As a night of violent storms shook the land, the Oni stole into the Emperor's palace and kidnapped his daughter, the princess. Awakened by her screams, the Emperor sealed the palace but it was too late: the Oni and the princess had gone. That very night he dispatched a secret message to the men of the land, offering the princess's hand in marriage to the hero who rescued her. What is the name of the princess?

s2#226-The Great Bomb Chase

Three spies of the enemy, Agents X, Y and Z, are moving across the U.S. over the course of a year, January to December, as Federal agents try to track them down. Each spy stays in one state (of the continental 48) for one month, and moves on to an adjacent state the following month, and never revisits a state a second time.Each spy is also carrying a bomb component, which they hope to assemble. There is a safe house in the one state that all three spies will pass through at some time during the year, where the pieces will be dropped off and put together. For unknown reasons, the movements of the agents depend on such factors as the area (or square mileage) of eah state,the age of the state (when it entered into statehood) and the names of the states (which can be placed in alphabetical order): In which state is the bomb assembled? 1. Agent X always moves to an older state on each move. 2. Agent Y always moves to a smaller state on each move. 3. Only once during the entire year will Agent Z move to a state whose name is alphabetically before the one he is leaving. 4. One agent begins his tour in the same state in which another agent will conclude his tour. 5. Two agents will be in the same state during the same month.

s2#227-Collage

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s2#228-Neography

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s2#229-A Piece of History

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s2#230-Sum Other Way

Consider the following equations: 1 = 0 + 12 + 34 + 5 - 67 +8 +9 2 = 0 + 123 + 4 - 56 - 78 + 9 3 = 0 + 123 -45 -6 -78 + 9 4 = 0 + 12 +3 - 4 + 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 + 9 The numbers on the left side of the equations are calculated by using each of the digits 0 through 9, in any order, exactly once and either concatenating those digits or seperating them with a plus (+) or minus (-) sign. What is the smallest positive number for which you cannot write such an equation?

s2#231-The Fruits of the Tree

On an island that might later be named �the island of subconscious visions� lived the creator of life and he had a tree. ? the creator of life had many, many children. i shall speak of four: apollo, brian, cassandra and daedalus. ? apollo was born on day 1 of the creation, brian on day 2 and cassandra on day ω+1 ? at a special time of celebration, apollo was six feet tall, brian was three feet tall, cassandra was two feet tall and little daedalus was only eighteen inches tall. ? now fathom this: on which day was little daedalus born? and who was his father?

s2#232-Gel Together

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s2#233-Fractured

The fractal maze has infinite identical copies of itself embedded within it, which can be entered. Begin at the minus and make your way to the plus. When you enter a smaller copy of the maze, record the letter name of the copy as you will have to leave this copy on your way out. You must exit out of each nested copy of the maze that you have entered into, leaving in the reverse order that you entered them in. If there is no exit path leaving the nested copy, you have hit a dead end.