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[Entertainment] Bi-weekly Brain Teasers 3/20-3/24

Started by Nicadean33, Mar 20, 2023, 10:32 PM

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Nicadean33

Mar 20, 2023, 10:32 PM Last Edit: Mar 22, 2023, 12:58 AM by Nicadean33
Welcome to The Newsstand board! If you are not aware of what The Newsstand is, you can get caught up by going to the pinned post on this board. I am not an editorial person, nor a person who would know where to start on keeping you all informed. I still read the local newspaper each day to get my news and listen to an AM radio talk show. Instead, I will be posting a couple brain teasers 2x a week. Post the correct answer and win 1k in-game! You can either respond with the answer or download the images and write on them to respond. Happy solving!

P.S. If you are interested in posting editorials to this board, please contact myself or another admin to get the rundown on how!


Brain Teaser Monday, March 20th
Eight words associated with springtime have been translated into a random cipher alphabet. Letter substitutions remain constant throughout. Can you decipher them all? A starting hint will be given on Thursday.

1. YXMHVKR
2. ROBINS
3. PKMMWZO
4. CYBIZOQ
5 VXQZVXXYY
6. KPVOZYYX
7. VKNNZOCYH
8. QKJQSWJZ

Brain Teaser Tuesday, March 21st
A changeover is a pair of words like WRATH and WATCH in which a letter in the first word moves to a position later in the word and changes to a new letter to form the second word. Here, the R moves and changes to a C. In each row below, the clues lead to two 5-letter words with a changeover. Write the letter-change pair (such as R C in the example) in the boxes in the center. When you're finished, read the two columns formed by the letter pairs to see how you may have solved this puzzle.

Circus performer __ __ Genetic duplicate
Pay a call on __ __ Panoramic view
Book-lined room __ __ Like good dishwater
Bronze medalist's finish __ __ Exhausted

Brain Teaser Wednesday, March 22nd
In this maze, start on the black circle in the top-left corner and end on the black circle in the lower-right corner as you follow these rules:
1. Move from cell to adjacent cell up, down, or sideways but never diagonally.
2. The cell you move to must contain the same shape (square or circle), the same shading (black or white), or both the same shape and the same shading as the one you're currently on. For example, if you're on a white circle, you can move to an adjacent cell containing a white circle, a black circle, or a white square.

Can you find the path? https://gyazo.com/9ddbfaa4bb5a9a0a4e3b3578d7835bb1

Brain Teaser Thursday, March 23rd
The letters C-A-S-T have been dropped  from the words and phrases below, with all spaces and punctuation removed. The letters C-A-S-T were extracted in left-to-right order, although not necessarily consecutively. For example, EUHRI is EUCHARIST. What are these words and phrases?

1. ETHKECH
2. SOUTMER
3. FRENHTO
4. RONCIY
5. RHDIE
6. SOILI
7. NOEI
8. OSRHO

Brain Teaser Friday, March 24th
Form six 9-letter words by combining two of the three-letter blocks shown below (right) with each ending in the grid. All blocks will be used. If you do it correctly, two of the vertical columns will spell a two-word phrase.
https://gyazo.com/d5efcf62e6d517813179942b0e457ae7

Mazeworker

Mar 22, 2023, 06:54 PM #1 Last Edit: Mar 22, 2023, 06:58 PM by Mazeworker
Brain Teaser Wednesday, March 22nd
In this maze, start on the black circle in the top-left corner and end on the black circle in the lower-right corner as you follow these rules:
1. Move from cell to adjacent cell up, down, or sideways but never diagonally.
2. The cell you move to must contain the same shape (square or circle), the same shading (black or white), or both the same shape and the same shading as the one you're currently on. For example, if you're on a white circle, you can move to an adjacent cell containing a white circle, a black circle, or a white square.

Heh... silly mazes...

(Start)BC R WC R WS D BS R BS U BC R BC D WC R WC D WS L BS D BS D WS L BS D WS L BS L BC L WC D WC R WS R WC R BC R WC R BC(Finish)
BC = Black Circle
WC = White Circle
BS = Black Square
WS = White Square

Nicadean33

Quote from: Mazeworker on Mar 22, 2023, 06:54 PMBrain Teaser Wednesday, March 22nd
In this maze, start on the black circle in the top-left corner and end on the black circle in the lower-right corner as you follow these rules:
1. Move from cell to adjacent cell up, down, or sideways but never diagonally.
2. The cell you move to must contain the same shape (square or circle), the same shading (black or white), or both the same shape and the same shading as the one you're currently on. For example, if you're on a white circle, you can move to an adjacent cell containing a white circle, a black circle, or a white square.

Heh... silly mazes...

(Start)BC R WC R WS D BS R BS U BC R BC D WC R WC D WS L BS D BS D WS L BS D WS L BS L BC L WC D WC R WS R WC R BC R WC R BC(Finish)
BC = Black Circle
WC = White Circle
BS = Black Square
WS = White Square

Great job! 1k!