PUZZLES - CRYPTIC CLUES AND ANSWERS

[chinatyke]

Answer is not a word.... even weirder!

Not a word could mean not one but many WORDS? I'm trying to make my answer fit!

[PanBiker]

You are all trying too hard, don't read anything into that!

The first Sun is a word the second isn't. If that's the case what's missing? You need the third line of the song for a massive clue. There are no hints at all for this one in the GCHQ book.

[chinatyke]

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
And let me see what spring is like
On a, Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

2nd SUN could be Saturn Uranus Neptune?

So 5 missing letters would be MVEMJ

Penny has dropped but not without a lot of hints! I guess I'm not cut out to be a code cracker!

[PanBiker]

OK so it was line four, sorry. I thought three and four were one line.

[plaques]

Still don't understand the answer. How does the initials of some of the planets become related to the sun? If we are talking multiple suns then this must include all the stars in our galaxy and all the unnamed planets. . . I like my idea best.

[Tripps]

Even I understand it now. The 'clue' was no help at all.


Sun - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars -Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune

[PanBiker]

In a nutshell our solar system, planets in order radiating outwards from the sun.

[plaques]

Puzzle No 64

Picked this one up without actually doing it first. But looks relatively doable. .

Imagine five sign post on a single pole pointing at slightly different angles to give directions.

AMON 13
THOTH ?
HATHOR 10
SET 1
PTAH 8

How far is THOTH

[chinatyke]

12

[plaques]

Puzzle No 64

That's what I've got China. I will have a look at the answers this evening . If anyone has the logic please post it for the others to see.

The official answer is ..

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The number of letters between the alphanumeric position of each of the first an last letters of each name.

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You can get the same answer by summating each distance between subsequent letters with directions A to Z (+) and Z to A (-) ignore any final negative signs.

[plaques]

Puzzle No 33

Some letters are missing from this alphabet. Rearrange the missing letters to form the name of a river.

JCLFV WIRDQ OBMU SKPXH.

[chinatyke]

Should be easy for me!

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YANGTZE

[plaques]

Spot on China. As soon as I saw the missing letters I thought China will get this straight away. You didn't let me down.

[PanBiker]

What comes first in each case and why?

? E L N D J J R 1 ...

? H L B B C N O F ...

[plaques]

What comes first and why.
No 1.

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The letter G From Genesis. The books of the old testament. But there is the letter R (Ruth) missing.

[PanBiker]

Well done, my mistake, now edited.

[plaques]

What comes first and why.
No 2

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The letter H, Hydrogen. The series is from the periodic elements table by atomic weight.

[PanBiker]

Well done.

[plaques]

Puzzle No 43.

If Mercury is linked with Fillmore. Jupiter with Carter. Saturn with Ford and Uranus with Arthur, which of the presidents would be linked with Charon?

LINCOLN.
ADAMS.
MONROE.
BUCHANAN.
HOOVER.

[plaques]

Puzzle 43.

Wake up at there back there. I suspect you are trying too hard, this is not an out of the box puzzle, in truth it would probably just make it into the 11+.
This comment does not hold any clues just a statement of encouragement.

[chinatyke]

BUCHANON?

[plaques]

I take it China that you were having a cup of tea when you can up with this gem. Sorry wrong, but you've used up more brain cells than the real answer.

[PanBiker]

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Monroe - Charon is a moon not a planet

[plaques]

Correct linking (Monroe) but being pedantic what was the linkage between all the others? China was on the right track but used too many letters.

[Tripps]

Fascinating - but it's got me beat. I think Mornington Crescent is much easier.