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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. He gave his pet serpent a gondola ride.
2. How did the koala cub end up with the kangaroo?
3. Did the kind entomologist pamper centipedes?
4. The scholarship includes tuition but does not cover textbooks.
Example:
"They knew that they had done the wrong thing."
Answer: ADD located in: "...hAD Done..."
1. He gave his pet serpent a gondola ride.
2. How did the koala cub end up with the kangaroo?
3. Did the kind entomologist pamper centipedes?
4. The scholarship includes tuition but does not cover textbooks.
Answer
1. PENTAGON (serPENT A GONdola)2. CUBE (CUB End)
3. PERCENT (pamPER CENTipedes)
4. VERTEX (coVER TEXt)
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fun. easy too!
Glad you liked it.
easy, but fun. I need more like this.
Thanks
Just as difficult as your last puzzle. But thank you teacher.
Being a Math student, I had no difficulty in solving this. It was fun all the same. Interesting for most people, even to those who aren't good in Math. Keep it up!
"Pi" can be the answer to the last one, too.
easy and fun
I mean I've got it
thank you!
I mean I've got it
thank you!
A good morning brain tease. Easy, but had to think some. thanks
Great!! I love math problems!!!!
great fun loved it good job
great fun loved it good job
Could've used a dozen. Easy is fun.
Smudge - looks like you're awake! I had to read that one a few times to find 'pi'.
Have a wonderful day, all!
Smudge - looks like you're awake! I had to read that one a few times to find 'pi'.
Have a wonderful day, all!
Well, now you know. Math is not my thing. I didn't even get one. I was looking more for things like subtract, multiply, etc. Silly me. Another good one Jazz
Good one. I missed the last one, though. I was never good at math. I tell folks that I'm "numerically challenged..."
Vertex stumped me. I liked the whole clever set up. Thanks
What about 'log' in #3: entomoLOGist
That was nice and easy. I liked how the sentences were so... unique.
Nice puzzle but #3 can be percent and #4 can be Pi
another great one jazz... just perfect for stimulating the brain cells... i found vertex and pi in the last one also!!!
Thanks for the great response. Thanks also for the clues about 'pi' and 'log'. I can assure you they were accidental!
Very easy, but I enjoyed it.
Very easy. I suppose because the answers are right there in front of you.
I didn't get the last one, but it was pretty easy for the rest. Loved it.
Enjoyed it (even though I stink at maths) and gave it a good "fun" rating.
I'm sorta like the working guy who - right before he goes to sleep - sez;
"whew ... made it through another day without algebra !!!"
And, I could add things like .... "not knowing where Kowloon is " ....
(Sorry cutebug .... could NOT resist !!)
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I'm sorta like the working guy who - right before he goes to sleep - sez;
"whew ... made it through another day without algebra !!!"
And, I could add things like .... "not knowing where Kowloon is " ....
(Sorry cutebug .... could NOT resist !!)
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I have never liked math, but had no trouble doing this one and got them all right. I guess because I did not have to use my brain that much.
Found them all rather easily.
Don't forget your mom this Sunday!
Don't forget your mom this Sunday!
Though I have never enjoyed math much, I did take it all the way through high school, even the elective courses and took a few as 'out of faculty' requirements in university.
This made it fairly easy to find not only the words given but pi and log as well.
This made it fairly easy to find not only the words given but pi and log as well.
Another needle in a haystack teaser.
BBO2; next time your in Hong Kong you can take a rickshaw to Kowloon.
BBO2; next time your in Hong Kong you can take a rickshaw to Kowloon.
Fun teaser - this is one of my favorite types of puzzle.
Nice comment, Jaycr! Have a wonderful day and weekend, folks!
Nice comment, Jaycr! Have a wonderful day and weekend, folks!
I never liked math in school until I took Algebra and Geometry. Go figure But I liked this teaser.
Math is one of my favorite things, and this teaser is also one of my faves.
Hey ... BIG contest going on over in #50305. Take a shot !!!
Math words are too plenty, I wasn't sure what to look for! And the example was ADD? But none of the answers were SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, or DIVIDE? I wasn't a fan.
fun, challenging and enjoyable quiz; I got them all but it was moderately difficult because the words were not as simple as we might have thought from the example given.
This was a fun teaser. I am not surprised by Catmom's comment. I became a math major so that I would never need to do arithmetic again.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; I got them all very quickly this time compared to the first time I tried this teaser three years ago.
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