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One Plus One Equals? #2
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In this teaser you are required to find a word relating to mathematics hiding in consecutive letters within each sentence. Have fun!
Example:
"They knew that they had done the wrong thing."
Answer: ADD located in: "...hAD Done..."
1. The governor gave the budget a cut everywhere possible.
2. It is rumoured that Capri men often marry Naples women.
3. He drove his new Mustang entirely too recklessly.
4. Groucho and Harpo were two of the Marx brothers.
Example:
"They knew that they had done the wrong thing."
Answer: ADD located in: "...hAD Done..."
1. The governor gave the budget a cut everywhere possible.
2. It is rumoured that Capri men often marry Naples women.
3. He drove his new Mustang entirely too recklessly.
4. Groucho and Harpo were two of the Marx brothers.
Answer
1. ACUTE (A CUT Everywhere)2. PRIME (CaPRI MEn)
3. TANGENT (MusTANG ENTirely)
4. POWER (HarPO WERe)
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That was hard
Hard but fun
Pretty easy. But I'm a math person.
Once I got 'acute', which took a minute, I got the hang of it and got the others easily. Fun!
Way too early for me
Maybe another cup a coffee?
Another cup of coffee would not have helped me. Math is not my thing, but then when I looked at saw that it was one of Jazz's teasers, I knew I was doomed. Great job, Jazz. Thanks for posting.
I am a math person, and I still found it hard. I guess I was looking in the wrong places. Very good one. I like this one a lot. Good job, Jazz, as usual.
Good teaser, Jazz. Got them with some thought, which is the point. Thanks for posting.
I like these; they're cute .
Not hard at all...
Couldn't find prime. Good teaser.
When I saw "mathmatics" in the introduction, I thought I was a goner, but I'm good with words.
It was easy and fun! Thanks!
It was easy and fun! Thanks!
I found this ine harder than it should have been. It was a good one though.
Fun and easy. Got hung up on power for a bit, mind fart I guess.
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3 days in a row. Is our Admin ok? or on vacation?
I got them all!
acute took a minute to find, but the others were easy
I got all but one. Not a bad teaser and it made you think a bit which is good.
#3 also has ROOT in reverse. ;)
#2 also has TEN
#4 also has TWO
(These are bitwise operators
aka logic functions)
#1 also has NOR
#4 also has AND
And all of the sentences have "e"
(base of natural logarithm)
(These are bitwise operators
aka logic functions)
#1 also has NOR
#4 also has AND
And all of the sentences have "e"
(base of natural logarithm)
Yeah, I thought about mentioning TWO, but it isn't really hidden.
I worked it again and this time got all but one once again, except I might have got them all if you think for # 3 that 'less' works. In subtraction you say "four less three is one" So maybe I got them all after all
A couple of them have several words that have mathematical meanings hidden in them. Other than that it was a good teaser.
Four for four.
nice and easy
Like avonma, I'm good with words, not so much math. I got this easily, like proofreading, just reading it as a string of letters.
Fairly easy but fun!
Took me a few minutes, but I found them all. My first thought was that I was going to have a hard time when I saw the category, because math is not my strong suit, but it was actually a word puzzle. This was fun, looking forward to more in the future Jazz.
Easy teasy, but fun. I found most of the solutiosn by looking for the awkward part of each sentence. Worked for most. The Marx Brothers sentence was not awkward at all, so I could not tell what part was forced. Made it a bit harder. I thought the hardest was the example, which I tried to solve without reading ahead (being almost blind makes that easy for me).
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