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Puzzle #151: The puzzling challenge of aliens with 16 fingers

Chris Maslanka — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Can you solve this week’s visitation-based puzzle Alien Fingers? Plus the answer to puzzle #150

Puzzle #143: Help figure out Spot’s final resting place

Chris Maslanka — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Can you solve this week's puzzle "X marks the Spot"? Plus the answer to Puzzle #142

Puzzle #131: What is the probability of winning this game of chance?

Chris Maslanka — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Can you solve this week’s fiendish puzzle The Paradise Club? Plus the answer to puzzle #131

Enigma: No 540 – Icarus allsorts

Chris Maslanka — Sat, 25 Nov 1989 00:00:00 +0000

‘IT takes all sorts to make a hang-gliders’ convention go with a whirl,’
confided Icarus Thorns to the Rev E. B. Inept as they dallied over their
tea on a mountain top.

‘You can say that again,’ answered his companion, dipping into the bag
of proffered sweets and adding absent-mindedly another two lumps to his
already sweetened tea. ‘You can say that again,’ echoed the mountains faintly.

‘This puzzle, unlike our jump, needs little preamble. In the (correct)
equation:

ABC-D-E-F-G-H-I-J=100,

each of the letters stands for a different digit. All you have to do
is deduce the value of:

D x E x F x G x H x I x J .’ ————————- A B
C

So saying, the intrepid Inept threw himself down off the outcrop, his
wings glinting in the sun.

Can you deduce the answer before he reaches the bottom?

A Pounds sterling 10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the
first correct solution opened on Thursday 7 December. Please send entries
to Enigma 540, ��è��Ƶ, King’s Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London
SE1 9LS. The Editor’s decision is final. The winner of Enigma 537, ‘The
three sisters’, was Sarah Hubbold, of Stockport.

Answer to Enigma 537

The three sisters

Tora, Tora, Tora!

Enigma: No 536 – A strange encounter

Chris Maslanka — Fri, 27 Oct 1989 23:00:00 +0000

AT A Halloween party I met a strangely beautiful red-haired woman who
was gazing with longing into a bonfire. To my inquiries she replied: ‘(My
telephone number) **2 = AABCCD and the exchange is 04617. I was born in
theyear given by:

(AE) F = EDGE’

I realised that it was one of those ‘letters-for-digits-and-digits-for-letters’
puzzles, but I must have looked confused for she added: ‘The other letters
are HIS.’ So saying she vanished into thin air.

Given that in the above relations the same letter stands for the same
digit and the same digit stands for the same letter; that different digits
stand for different letters and vice versa; and that 04617 stands for the
place where she now resides: Can you solve the mystery and write down the
digits 0 to 9 in the alphabetical order of the letters that represent them?

A Pounds sterling 10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the
first correct solution opened on Thursday 9 November. Please send entries
to Enigma 536, ��è��Ƶ, King’s Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London
SE1 9LS. The Editor’s decision is final. The winner of Enigma 533, ‘An odd
enigma’, was Gareth Richards of Manchester.