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The answer is 343.

The sequence was a series of cubed numbers.

Below is a grid of 5 letter words.  Each word is missing its first and last letter.  The last letter of each word is the same as the first.  No two words have the same first and last letter as each other.  When read from top to bottom, the missing letters spell another 5 letter word.

What are the missing letters?

Here’s the solution:

The answer is Sister.

Mother, Father, Uncle, and Aunt all belong to one generation of a family.  Sister can belong to any generation.

Move three toothpicks to make the fish swim in the opposite direction.

The Solution:

The answer is 40.

Vowels were assigned a value of 4 and consonants a value of 6.

Five coworkers (Brad, Dana, Ingrid, Morris, and Walter) are taking vacations to get away from the cold winter weather.  The vacation dates are January 6th, January 13th, February 2nd, February 15th, and March 3rd.  From the clues below, can you determine where each person is going, when they are leaving, and in which department they work?

3×5 Grid

1. The five coworkers are Morris, the person leaving for vacation on January 13th, the coworker in the Accounting department, the coworker vacationing in Mexico, and Dana.
2. The coworker from Payroll leaves for vacation earlier than Walter.
3. The coworker leaving for Hawaii on February 2nd doesn’t work in the Human Resources department.
4. The person going to the Virgin Islands will be the first one to leave on vacation and is not the coworker in the Customer Service department.
5. Of Brad and the coworker in the Shipping department, one is leaving on January 6th and the other is leaving February 2nd.
6. Dana is going to either the Bahamas or Fiji but is not in the Shipping department.
7. The coworker leaving for the Bahamas on February 15 works in the Payroll department but is not Ingrid.
8. Walter, who is vacationing in Mexico, does not work in the Human Resources department.
9. Morris, who is going to Hawaii, doesn’t work in Payroll.

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The object of the puzzle is to connect the different points on the grid with paths.

Rules:

1. Each point contains a number - this is how many paths can connect to this point
2. Every point should be able to be reached from any other point
3. No more than 2 paths can connect any two points
4. Paths may go horizontally or vertically, not diagonally
5. Paths may not cross each other

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You have a 4 gallon jug, a 9 gallon jug, and a faucet with unlimited water.  How do you measure exactly 6 gallons and in how many steps?

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Stumped?  Here’s a hint:

Start by filling the 9 gallon jug then fill the 4 gallon jug from the 9 gallon jug.

The solution:

Fill in the missing numbers using the following rules:

1. All the missing numbers are between 0 and 9
2. Each row adds up to the number on the right
3. Each column adds up to the numbers at the bottom
4. Diagonal lines add up to the numbers on the right

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The answer is 4.  Double of 4 is 8.  Quarter of 4 is 1.  8 - 1 = 7.