Greetings and salutations! Have you solved this month’s perplexing puzzle? If you think you have the answer, click on the image below.
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Greetings and salutations! In addition to determining the desired numerical sequences, this month’s puzzle asks you to build equations. Complete the grid so that each row and column contains every digit from 1 to 6 (as you would with a sudoku). However, the numbers in each shaded area also form an equation. The total is …
Did February’s coin code make any cents to you? Here it is again: How It Works To decipher this code, first arrange the coins in presidential order: Washington (quarter), Jefferson (nickel), Lincoln (penny) and Roosevelt (dime). Read the letter at the bottom of each coin, then move clockwise to the next set of letters until …
Complete the grid so that each row, column and three-by-three box contains the letters CHIRPTONE. (You can’t have any repeated letters in a line or box.) When you’re ready, click on the puzzle to reveal the solution. If you’ve solved the sudoku correctly, two words will appear in the shaded row. Hint: It’s a …
Growing up on a farm in Senlac, a tiny town in Saskatchewan, Canada, Curtis lived and breathed hockey. “I started playing hockey when I was 4 years old,” Curtis says. That year his father built a backyard skating rink. By the age of 5, Curtis was playing on an organized team. Curtis did everything he …
Could you crack the perplexing pairs in the May code? Here is the secret message again: UH OV TN OR IR YS DO UH BR MI NO TE SH ED AR How It Works This code is easy to write but difficult to break. Split the code into pairs of letters. For the first pair, …
Did November’s flag code leave you seeing stars? Here it is again: How It Works Replace the stars on the stripes with letters using the key below. To put the letters in order, look for the missing star in each row of blue. Since the sixth star is missing from the first row, put the …
Greetings and salutations! Have you solved this month’s perplexing puzzle? If you think you have the answer, click on the image below.
Greetings and salutations! Have you solved this month’s perplexing puzzle? If you think you have the answer, click on the image below.
Greetings and salutations! Have you solved this month’s perplexing puzzle? If you think you have the answer, click on the image below.
Every Christmas wish list is filled with toys possessing a “wow” factor. The “wow” can be a reaction to a new technology—such as Webkinz or Liv Dolls—that interacts with an online world, or to clever mechanisms—like Transformers or Bakugan Battle Brawlers. Of course, not everyone reacts the same way to a toy. Manufacturers originally rejected …
Greetings and salutations! In addition to determining the desired numerical sequences, this month’s puzzle asks you to build equations. Complete the grid so that each row and column contains every digit from 1 to 6 (as you would with a sudoku). However, the numbers in each shaded area also form an equation. The total is …
Puzzled by the code in our April issue? Here it is again: How It Works: This is one of the oldest codes around. It looks like a gate and is called the Pigpen Cipher. To bust it, all you do is locate where the symbol is on the code key, and use the letter indicated. …
Did you dust off a solution to April’s code? Here it is again: How It Works First, count how many letters appear in the message. In this case, it’s nine. Spell out those numbers (from one to nine) and arrange them in alphabetical order. Here’s how Matthew did it: eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, …
See if you can solve the problem! Did you find all those math problems at the end of the Jones & Parker Mystery in September 2011 issue of Clubhouse magazine? If you didn’t, here they are again: How It Works: If you’ve been busting codes for long, you’re probably familiar with this simple code key …
Having trouble with the odd message from the September issue? Here it is again: ELETDTSUYHCUS How It Works This is another sequence code—you already have the letters, you just need to put them in the correct order. Start with the middle letter, then move outward (left, right, left, right) until you reach the edges. E …
Do you “gnow” the answer to December’s gnome code? Here it is again: How It Works Split the alphabet into two groups, depending on if the capital letter contains a full-length, vertical line. Please note: — half-length lines (such as G or Y) don’t count; — slanted lines (such as A or W) don’t count; …
[This story describes the 2016 MLB season.] It was the moment Ben Zobrist had dreamed of and probably feared at the same time. The small-town boy from southern Illinois was one swing away from lifting his beloved Cubs to a World Series championship for the first time in 108 years. In the 10th inning of …
Did you struggle to crack October’s code? We’ve got you covered. Here it is again: How It Works Cut out the green key card. Then cut holes in the white spaces. Rotate the card 180 degrees and lay it over the letters in your magazine so the X on the card covers the X in …
Did the June code turn out to be harder than you thought? Here it is again: How It Works For each wheel, start with the line at 12:00 (or “north”). That line is the letter A. As you count clockwise, go up one letter in the alphabet for each line you cross until you hit …