Contest Puzzles

Contest Puzzles

Current Puzzles:

Previous Puzzles (with solutions):

Current Puzzles:

Current puzzle 1

Submitted by: gacase@tpg.com.au

Crypt

Basic instructions for one needing a cigarette early in the morning.

Enter two words (5,5) in alphabetical order with a hyphen.


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 2

Submitted by: gacase@tpg.com.au2

Crypt

Priest let go out - to exorcise one?

Enter an 11-letter word.


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 3

Submitted by: gacase@tpg.com.au3

The previous puzzle about a priest has the wrong answer.

Sorry about that, Chief.

Enter the correct 11-word answer here.


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 4

Submitted by: notknown@unknown.com

         ALOOSET

Hint: -- ----- ----

Spaces to enter.


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 5

Submitted by: Marie.Boileau@tbs-sct.gc.ca (A)

How about a WORD WARP ??

You know the rules by now.

final+
entrance+       (4)  +___________
oral+

target+
football+       (8)  +____________
law+

+package
intensive+      (4)  +____________
+Bear

FINAL ANSWER    (6)   ____________

Enter four words with commas


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 6

Submitted by: FORD@AOL.COM

couple wordies:

     CJRUEMEPD
Hint: ---- -- -----

     RLIEFALPE
Hint: ------- --- ---

Enter all 6 words with spaces


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 7

Submitted by: FORD2@AOL.COM

wordie:

     all   all
     few   FEW
     YES   yes

Hint: --- --- ----
Enter with hyphens


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 8

Submitted by: FORD3@AOL.COM

wordie again:

     o     o     o     o
      o   o       o   o
       o o         o o
        o           o
        o           o
        o           o
Hint: ------




There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 9

Submitted by: FORD4@AOL.COM

Last one:

      N  N
     U CO FINED

Hint: ------ --
Enter with hyphen


There is no answer to this puzzle because it is still in the contest.


Current puzzle 10

Submitted by: roadster@mit.edu

this puzzle had some problems, so I've changed it. Just put in "3" 
as an answer.


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Previous Puzzles:

Previous puzzle 1

Submitted by: gacase@tpg.com.au

Crypt

Connected pair, being drunk, likely to fall over?

Enter two words (8-5) in alphabetical order with a hyphen.


Answer: 
Accident-prone (anagram: "drunk")


Previous puzzle 2

Submitted by: gacase@tpg.com.au2

Crypt

Two girls into running around to create a pattern

Enter a 12-letter word.


Answer: 
Tessellation
Tess + Ella + anagram of "into" (running around)


Previous puzzle 3

Submitted by: flash@ludd.luth.se

Triangle ABC has sides x, x+1 and x+2.
x < 1million, and is integral.
One of ABC's heights is integral.
x is at maximum.
Enter ABC's integral height and ABC's area: height-area.



Answer: 
x=524,173.
This makes one height = 453,948
and area = 118,973,869,476 (524174*453948/2)



Previous puzzle 4

Submitted by: jenny@site.com

A wordie:
       CCAHUILCDKREONN
       CCAHUILCDKREONN
       CCAHUILCDKREONN

Hint: - ------- -- ----- ---
Enter with spaces.



Answer: 
a chicken in every pot.
"chicken" is IN word "cauldron" (a pot)
for 3 times, hence "every".



Previous puzzle 5

Submitted by: gac@in.com.au

Another time crypt?

It will be one already if you don't get a shift on.

Enter two words (11,4) in alphabetical order with a hyphen.


Answer: 
Exclamation Mark (on standard keyboard)


Previous puzzle 6

Submitted by: borrisd@magi.com.PART 1

Well, no gocarting or similar travels this week.
I wanna lay some of these "crazy wordies" on you.
Got 3 of them; freshly made up.
And I'm trying something new; set them up 
as 3 puzzles, like part1, part2 and part3.
Don't you simply hate it when you have to 
submit alpha solutions to 3 or 4 different 
things within the same puzzle!
You can have 1 word wrong out of 10-15, 
and no idea which: #!@*
^%$#(*%#
Crazy Wordie Numero Uno:
  LETGETLET shall  (pretend letters in "shall"
                    are really really small)
Hint: ---'- --- --------, ----- --?
Enter 3rd word only.



Answer: 
Let's get together, shall we?
2 "let"'s and "get" are together.
The word "shall" is wee (we).


Previous puzzle 7

Submitted by: borrisd@magi.com.PART 2

Crazy Wordie the second.
  THICORRECTNGS
Hint: ----- -- --- ------ -- ------
Enter the first and last words; word,word




Answer: 
Right in the middle of things.
Correct = right;
and placed in middle of word "things".


Previous puzzle 8

Submitted by: borrisd@magi.com.PART 3

Le 3ieme Crazy Wordie.
  FO UR TEEN TEEN TEEN TEEN = ...5
Hint: ---- ---- -------- ------ ----- ----- ----
Enter 1st, 2nd and 6th words; word,word,word





Answer: 
Four into fourteen equals three point five.
Four is "in two" parts (into)
Teen is there 4 times (fourteen)
There are 3 points (three point)


Previous puzzle 9

Submitted by: lbaum@nwlink.com

OK, what song is this line from?

----- ----- --- -- --- ------ -- ----
  1     2    3            4        5

-'-- ----- - -------- ----'- ------- -----
       6        7               8      9

(actually 8 and 9 should be connected by a hyphen).

Clues:
1: Gee
2: horse
3: a little bit
4: core
5: where some people live
6: establish
7: a great place to live
8: music was suppposed to get River City out of this
9: geometry homework

Just enter the name of the song (words separated by spaces)


Answer: 
Up on the Roof 

Lyric: 
Right smack dab in the middle of town
I've found a paradies that's trouble-proof.

Clue explanations:
1) Gee - command to a horse to turn RIGHT
2) Horse = heroin = SMACK
3) a little bi = DAB
4) core = MIDDLE
5) some people live in a TOWN
6) establish = FOUND (as in a college or town)
7) it would be great to live in PARADISE
8) ref to The Music Man: TROUBLE (starts with T which rhymes with 
P and that stans for pool!)
9) geometry homework = PROOF


Previous puzzle 10

Submitted by: tsubrama@hotmail.com

  _______________
 |1  |2  |3  |4  |    Across : 1. Ingredients of popular soup.
 |___|___|___|___|             5. Comfort.
 |5  |   |   |   |             6. Make fun of.
 |___|___|___|___|             7. Affirmatives.
 |6  |   |   |   |    
 |___|___|___|___|    Down   : 1. Step backwards.
 |7  |   |   |   |             2. Alien creature in after thought.
 |___|___|___|___|             3. Favourites.
                               4. Caresses.


Answer: 
Solve the crossword given below and write the answers for the Across 
clues
seperated by comma.
  _______________
 |1  |2  |3  |4  |    Across : 1. Ingredients of popular soup. 
(peas, 'P's)
 |_P_|_P_|_P_|_P_|             5. Comfort. (ease, 'E's)
 |5  |   |   |   |             6. Make fun of. (tease, 'T's)
 |_E_|_E_|_E_|_E_|             7. Affirmatives. ('Yes'es, 'S's)
 |6  |   |   |   |    
 |_T_|_T_|_T_|_T_|    Down   : 1. Step backwards. (STEP spelt backwards 
is PETS)
 |7  |   |   |   |             2. Alien creature (ET) in after 
thought (PS). 
 |_S_|_S_|_S_|_S_|             3. Favourites. (PETS)
                               4. Caresses. (PETS)



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