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.