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Urban Journey: Solving the Sunday Puzzle
Originally Published 2 years ago — by NPR
In this week's Sunday Puzzle, listeners are challenged to find the names of U.S. cities that consist of one word inside another. Previous challenges included rearranging letters to form body parts and finding a noun that sounds like a two-word phrase with a negative effect. Listeners with correct answers have a chance to play the on-air puzzle.
"Crack the Code: Sunday's Batter Up Puzzle!"
Originally Published 2 years ago — by NPR
In this week's Sunday Puzzle, listeners are challenged to anagram words into words or phrases related to baseball. Last week's challenge involved finding a well-known U.S. city that could be transformed into the name of a beverage. This week's challenge asks participants to name something found on a map of England, with specific letter patterns.
Word Scramble Challenge: Unscramble Two Words
Originally Published 2 years ago — by NPR
In this week's Sunday Puzzle, listeners are given six-letter words and asked to rearrange the letters to form two three-letter words in the same category. Examples include "BEATEN" (insects) and "GENIAL" (alcoholic beverages). Last week's challenge involved rotating letters to reveal the name of a movie character. This week's challenge asks for the name of a famous singer whose name, when a "Y" is added at the end, can spell a possible contribution to a picnic and how it might be served.
Psychology Test Stumps Majority of Participants: Gizmodo Puzzle Results.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Gizmodo
Gizmodo's Monday puzzle features three mini-puzzles from a research paper by Shane Frederick, known as The Cognitive Reflection Test, which measures people's tendencies towards intuitive or methodical thinking. The puzzles require more reflection than expected, and the answers may not be immediately obvious. Last week's puzzle solution involved using a net to find the shortest distance for a gecko to crawl in a cubic room.
Solve Lewis Carroll's Tricky 'Pillow Problem' with Gizmodo's Monday Puzzle.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Gizmodo
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was also a mathematician who created a book of mathematical puzzles called "Pillow Problems." One of his famous puzzles is the "Pillow Problem" which asks what are the chances that the other marble in an opaque bag containing one marble that has a 50/50 chance of being black or white, but you don’t know which color it is, is also white if you take a white marble from your pocket and add it to the bag, shake up the two marbles in the bag, reach in, and pull a random one out, which happens to be white. The solution will be posted next Monday along with a new puzzle.
Crack the Monday Puzzle: Let's Make a Date with Gizmodo
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Gizmodo
Gizmodo's Monday puzzle features a challenge to design two cubes capable of showing any day of the month as a two-digit number. The cubes have a single digit between 0 and 9 printed on each face and can be arranged in a holder. The solution to the puzzle and a new one will be posted next Monday. Last week's puzzle solution involved determining the last four moves in a game of tic-tac-toe between two flawless players.