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What letters replace the question marks in this series?

ABC
?DF
D?L
HP?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

If you did Friday’s puzzle, you have a hint on today’s solution. But don’t forget to do your income tax first! It’s a mate in four.

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Which Planets?

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Below, we've listed the planets in the Solar System in a different order. According to this order, in which order should the two final planets appear?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Mars, Pluto, ?, ?.

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Which Number?

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Which of these numbers does not belong with the others?

31,556,926
234,567.876
525,948.766
8,765.81277
365.242199
52.177457
12

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Naming Rights

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Amy was pregnant with her 7th child. Everyone was excited. She had named her children Sandy, Adam, Denton, Edward, Dina and Ira, in their order of birth and according to a specific rule. She knows her 7th child will be a girl. Which of the following names is she likely to use, and why?

Mary
Kimberly
Rachel
June
Yolanda

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

Many of you will recognize this Sam Loyd classic. I’m having it do an encore bow so as to give you a hint as to next week’s puzzles.

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Number Sequence

Games / Brain Teasers /

What number should finish this sequence?

23, 14, 19, 6, 20, ?

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Four Doors

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You are an expert on paranormal activity and have been hired to locate a spirit haunting an old resort hotel. Strong signs indicate that the spirit lies behind one of four doors. The inscriptions on each door read as follows:

Door A: It's behind B or C
Door B: It's behind A or D
Door C: It's in here
Door D: It's not in here

Your psychic powers have told you three of the inscriptions are false, and one is true. Behind which door will you find the spirit?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

A dazzling display by a minister during the Major Open of the British Championship in 1929.

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Number Patterns

Games / Brain Teasers /

What is the next in this pattern:

104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 89, 47, 13, 18, 33, 85, 79, 4, 5, ?

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Qoucorrian Math

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While on your interplanetary vacation, you decide to stop at the planet Quocorri, a planet known for its many mathematical achievements.

While there, you decide to pick up on some of the Quocorrians mathematical variations. The Quocorrians won't tell you exactly how it works, only that it has some relationship to the Standard English math. They also give you four, true, Quocorrian math problems. They are:

2+2=9
4*1=1
5-2=16
-3+2=64

So, according to this system, what is 6/2?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

A very minimalist position with a charming key. It’s a mate in two.

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Number Code

Games / Brain Teasers /

Consider the following,

Mine = 456
His = 768
Hers = 523
Yours = 908

Now what phrase can you get from the rebus below?

4 7 5 8
5 6 2 0
6 8 3 9

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Heat

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What are the last three letters in this series?

S, L, S, A, P, A, L, B, L, H, M, R, T, M, M, M, M, L, S, ?, ?, ?

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Number Series

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What are the next three numbers in this series?

1, 3, 6, 55, 66, 171, 595, 666, 3003, 5995, ?, ?, ?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

A great Friday challenge for you! It’s a mating attack, which needs forcing moves. The toughest defense makes you go eight moves.

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Palindrome

Games / Brain Teasers /

A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator). How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

Footstool

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Football

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The scores were completely tied in the last few seconds of a football game, and a player was lining up the goal in his mind. He pictured himself scoring and the crowd cheering as he won the game. He kicked the ball, and it just dropped under the crossbar, yet his team still cheered, as they had won the game. How?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

White’s the exchange down and his queen is attacked, so it is necessary to come up with something—quickly!

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East of the Mississippi

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Smarty was born and grew up in Massachusetts, but he never traveled east of the Mississippi River. How is this possible?

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