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Answers to the August Newsletter Brain Teasers

Starting with the first answer, the second word from each answer carries down to become the first word of the following answer. With the clues given, complete the puzzle.

Answers:
1. Know How
2. How Come
3. Come Clean
4. Clean Hands
5. Hands Off
6. Off Base
7. Base Hit

Answers to the August Newsletter Sudoku Puzzle

Answers to the Minnesota Lightrail Brainteasers

How many triangles can you count- 14
How many rectangles can you find- 22
Drawing to make 35 triangles-- pretty simple, even though it doesn't seem so- draw a line between A and E, E and J, J and I, I and B, and B and A and you make 35 triangles!

The Answer to the Triangle Puzzle
27 - Don't forget the upside-down triangle!

The Answer to the Who Am I? Puzzle
Walt Disney

The Answer to the Europe Puzzle
Dan Marino/San Marino, which is small country in the northeast of Italy

1. Think of a common boy's name starting with J. Change the J to Sh & you'll get a common girl's name. What are the names? See answer
2. What familiar 3-word phrase, in 14 letter, contains only 2 different consonants, N & G, each repeated several times? See answer
3. What common word contains the letters of NINTH running consecutively backward inside it? See answer
4. What 2 opposites can be spelled by rearranging the letters of UNGOODLY? See answer
5. What 7-letter word can follow both LAW and JAW to complete familiar 10-letter words? See answer
6. Change one letter in the following sentence to completely reverse its meaning: The 79 year old man is in weak physical condition. See answer
7. Take the 6-letter name of a certain dance, switch its last two letters and you'll name a unit of time. What words are these? See answer
8. Can you name four common 7-letter words that start with C and end with TAIN? See answer
9. What common word contains the consecutive letters TANTAN? See answer
10. What common 3-letter word is pluralized by inserting the letter C? See answer
11. The name for a baby of a certain kind of animal rhymes with the name for its father. What two words are these? See answer
12. The name of what major U.S. city is a transposal of ILL-SHAVEN? See answer
13. The title of what #1 Elvis hit is transposal of REDEVELOPMENT minus the P? See answer
14. The 11-letter name of a famous singer, with the initials A.G., contains all five vowels (A,E,I,O & U) exactly once. Who is it? See answer
15. What word becomes its own opposite when you put the letters FE in front of it? See answer

1. Jerry & Sherry
2. Going, going, gone
3. Lightning
4. Young, old
5. Breaker
6. Change weak to peak
7. Minuet, minute
8. Captain, certain, contain, curtain
9. Instantaneous
10. Die, dice
11. Lamb, ram
12. Nashville
13. Love Me Tender
14. Arlo Guthrie
15. Male, female

Puzzle Master Deck — Word Riddles

1. The name of what animal becomes the name of a bird when you change its first letter from M to G? See answer
2. Name a country that when uncapitalized is the name of a food.  See answer
3. Baseball & bolwing both have strikes. Gold & badminton both have birdies. What term, starting with S, is common to horse-racing & billiards? See answer
4. What common, unhyphenated 9-letter word contains 3 syllables — each of which starts with the letter B? See answer
5. The letters GBFRBT represent a familiar 3-word saying with its vowels removed. What saying is it? See answer
6. The 8 letters in the phrase CAGY HURL can be rearranged to spell two opposites. What are they? See answer
7. By adding one letter at the end of OVER you get OVERT. What word do you get by adding one at the end of OVERT? See answer
8. What word becomes its own opposite by adding the letter Y at the beginning? See answer

1. Moose, goose
2. Turkey
3. Scratch
4. Bumblebee
5. Age before beauty
6. Laugh, cry
7. Overtone
8. Our, yours

The Healthy Brain Kit

1. Jim's math teacher asked him to multiply 3 & 4 three times. What is the correct answer? See answer
2. Which month has 29 days in a leap year? See answer
3. In Chicago at midnight it is raining hard. How probable is it that it will be sunny in 72 hours time? See answer
4. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark? See answer
5. A man stopped his car opposite a hotel and immediately knew he was bankrupt. How? See answer
6. Mr. & Mrs. Jones have 2 children who aren't both boys. What probability is it that they are both girls? See answer
7. When I was 14 my mother was 41 and she is now twice as old as I am. How old am I? See answer

1. Twelve each time
2. All of them
3. Impossible, it is midnight
4. None. It was Noah's ark
5. He was playing Monopoly
6. 1/3
7. 27

Genius Number Deck

1. Find 2 numbers so that the square of the first plus to second, added to the square of the second plus the first = 238. See answer
2. What number should replace the question mark? 6 - 8 - 4 - 8 - 7 - 9 - 6 - ? : See answer
3. Express one half, using all the digits from one to nine once. See answer

1. 7 & 13
2. 63
3. 6729/13458