PUZZLES - CRYPTIC CLUES AND ANSWERS

[plaques]

Oh! so the thinking behind not giving the full answer is to increase the tension where I will reveal it first and lose credibility among the rest of the players. Where the answer is so obvious, as in this case, anyone who comes up with it so late in the game could indicate a character weakness that they have cracked under pressure.
PS somewhere in this garbled diatribe is a clue.

[chinatyke]

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Monroe - Charon is a moon not a planet

I've never heard of a planet called Monroe. Come to that, I'd never heard of a US president called Fillmore, was that the origin of filibustering? Mrs May should take heed!

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Will you lot give over pussy footing about and stop going off at a tangent, first railway stations then planets where will this end? If this isn't sorted by lunch time its the nuclear option ie: no answer but another puzzle. That'll serve you right.

Puzzle No 43 Answer. If I had left it any longer i would have forgotten what it was all about.

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Monroe because the penultimate letter in each associated word is what links them together.

[chinatyke]

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Puzzle No 44.

If London has 550 visitors.
Budapest has 500
and Madrid has 2001
how many visitors does Paris have?

[Tripps]

Just the 1.

[plaques]

Correct Tripps, Now you're getting the hang of it.

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Puzzle No 57.

The names of five authors are written in code. Who are they?

TUFQIFO LJOH.

BHBUIB DISJTUJF.

KPIO HSJTIBN.

DIBSMFT EJDLFOT.

HFPSHF PSXFMM.

[Tripps]

Too easy for us experts.

[PanBiker]

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Stephen King
Agatha Christie
John Grisham
Charles Dickens
George Orwell

A simple shifted transposition cypher

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Correct PanBiker. Here's another for your pains.

Puzzle No 59.

Emma drinks Benedictine, she reads a books by Sigmund Freud, and holidays in Miami.

Is her hero Mohammed Ali or George Best?

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Puzzle no 59.

Just to rejuvenate it or perhaps kill it completely This is one I got wrong, actually the right answer 'Mohammed Ali' but with the wrong logic. I was using the Roman letters content but the official answer is different. Its not 'out of the box' thinking more like looking inside Russian Dolls to find the answer. I'll give it one more day.

Later. The official answer is.

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The forth letters when placed together read Emma.

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Spotted on my favourate book stall. GCHQ book of puzzles. price £2. Your answers are save with me PanBiker. I was too tight with my money to buy it so its still there.

[PanBiker]

Mine is Puzzle Book II

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Puzzle No 61.

The following fictitious compound is primarily made up of the following components. Two large components however have been omitted. What percentage does the compound have for Gold and Silver.

Al = 22%
Sn = 10%
Pt = 8%
Fe = 2%

Ag = ?
Au = ?

[chinatyke]

12% Ag 40% Au

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Correct China Our foreign secret agent. Too many IQ's on this site. I'll leave the explanation until later unless China wants to put it up.

Later. China's subsequent post has explained the logic and saved me a job.

[PanBiker]

Where's the other 6% ?

[plaques]

Where's the other 6% ?

Sneaky aren't they. The question doesn't ask the missing lumps to make up 100% just how big they are on the information given. Think Tripps's Occam's razor, 'Avoid assumptions'.

[chinatyke]

Where's the other 6% ?

It just states 'Two large components however have been omitted.'

The difference in the positions of the letters in the alphabet multiplied by 2 gives the percentage of each element.

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Back to school.
Puzzle No 60.

There are eight floors in an apartment building. The fifth floor has the only apartment with two bedrooms. Mrs Barber has a baby and cannot carry a buggy upstairs when the elevator is out of order. Mr and Mrs Elder also find climbing difficult now that they are retired. Mr Archer likes the peace and quiet of living on the top floor. Mrs Cook and her daughter need a two-bedroom flat. Mr and Mrs Hooper live just below Mr Archer. Mrs Cook lives above Mr Gardener and below Mrs Driver. Mr and Mrs Fisher live above Mr and Mrs Elder.

Who lives where?

[Pluggy]

Archer
Hooper
Driver
Cook
Gardener
Fisher
Elder
Barber

Assuming Mrs Barber not being able to get the buggy upstairs means she lives at the ground floor and Mr & Mrs elder actually have to climb stairs. Both of which are ambiguous.

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Pluggy. What can I say. Spot on. You will have notice the terms 'above' and 'below' will also give two options. It gives people something to do while they are having their cup of tea.

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No need of pencil and paper.
Puzzle No 62.

If Henry drives a Mercedes. Tom dries a Honda. Sally drives a Mazda, and Richard drives a Lincoln,
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What car will Brenda drive?

Cadillac.
Ford.
Audi.
Citröen.
Alfa.
Triumph.
Saab.

Much later, Answer:---

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Triumph, The key is the second letter of the name and of the car.

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Diverting a little, actually quite a lot, from the normal word brain teaser the 'Lost Photo' of Thomo's retrieved by PanBiker made me think of the association between the Duke of Wellington and British Prime Ministers.
The quiz therefore is how many Barlick Terrace plaques can you name that are named after Prime Ministers or are associated with them? My personal count is SIX.