Brain Games: Try These 3 Puzzles

BRAIN GAMES

Puzzles

BY STANLEY NEWMAN

Illustration of a beach ball on the beach with words that say BEACH plus BALL equals TOSSES

MATH FUN

SUMMER SUM

Each of the nine different letters in the equation above represents a different digit. If S is three times L, and the digit not used is 8, what is the unique sum?

WORDPLAY

Illustration of a document that says NO-INTEREST ANAGRAM

THINK!

Illustration of a red traffic light with the large colored letters K, S, C, R and T next to it

CONSONANT CLUSTERS

Words with five consecutive consonants include BACKSTROKE and POSTSCRIPT. What seven-letter word from arithmetic consists of two vowels followed by five consecutive consonants?

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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

SUMMER SUM 97354 + 9322 = 106676

INTEREST-FREE ANAGRAM I DON’T CARE

CONSONANT CLUSTERS EIGHTHS

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