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Hidden Colors

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Hidden in each sentence is a word. For example, in the sentence: When I grow up, I want to be a ranger. (Hidden animal) The hidden word is BEAR from "to BE A Ranger". Now, try to identify the hidden colors in the sentences below:

I agree not to eat all the food.
Bob decided to jump in, knowing that this is his only choice.
The sunset makes Cairo seem magnificent.
Some states ship lumber and coal on canal barges.

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

This composition is slightly tricky because of the constant threat of mate on c1. Next week, we will start our tribute to the recently deceased former world champion, Boris Spassky.

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Multiple Choice Questions

Games / Brain Teasers /

What are your answers to the respective questions so that your answers to all the questions are correct?

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Question 1
The answer to Question 2 is:
A. B
B. C
C. A

Question 2
The first question with correct answer B is:
A. Question 3
B. Question 1
C. Question 2

Question 3
The only answer you have not chosen yet is:
A. A
B. B
C. C

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Agents in Action

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The Agents of F.C.I. have amusing anagrams to match their characteristics, for example, AGENT SOUL, whose name anagrams to LANGOUSTE, likes seafood.

Try to determine the Anagrams for the following Agents.

AGENT DEE is very young.

AGENT YIP specializes in Pharaohs and Sphinxes.

AGENT MIC has attractive abilities.

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Black to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

On of the common themes in chess appears here.

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Equalizing

Games / Brain Teasers /

P is to L.
M is to OK.
Hence, D is to ___

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Creative Slicing

Games / Brain Teasers /

How can you divide a pizza into 8 equal slices using only 3 straight cuts?

Hint: Think three-dimensionally!

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

A very instructive king and pawn ending.

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Word of Letters Four

Games / Brain Teasers /

I'm a word of letters four with close ties to snow.
Just half of my first my third letter will show.
One fifth of my fourth my first you may call.
Of my second 'tis best to say nothing at all.

What word am I?

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Choice Chide

Games / Brain Teasers /

What do the following words have in common?

CHOICE
CHIDE
OBOE
BOX
OXIDE

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CAN BYE BOO

Games / Brain Teasers /

What do the following words have in common, besides the fact that they're all three letters long?

CAN
BYE
BOO
TOM

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

Not all mating attacks begin with a check, but the checks do follow.

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Love Is All You Need

Games / Brain Teasers /

Which does not belong?

LOVE
ZILCH
GOOSE EGG
EPISODE
NIL
DUCK

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Weird Numbering

Games / Brain Teasers /

What comes next?

0, 15, 30, 40, __

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White to Play and Draw

Games / Chess Puzzles /

One of my favorite Richard Reti studies. White can’t promote right away because of the bishop check, so what does White do as the Black pawn intends to run.

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What's the Good Word?

Games / Brain Teasers /

Which of these words does not belong?

EMBARASS

WIERD

PRONUNCIATION

OCCURANCE

DEFINATE

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Footnotes

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A, who knows only French, publishes an article in an English magazine. At the end of the article are the following 3 footnotes:

1. I thank my friend B for translating the above article into English so that it could be published in this magazine.

2. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

3. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

Why are there only 3 footnotes when logically, A will have to go on forever to be able to thank B properly???

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

For a Mate in Two Monday, we took this from the exceptionally instructive and entertaining classic, The Mammoth Book of Chess by Graham Burgess. Should be on everyone’s bookshelf.

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Fun with Geometry

Games / Brain Teasers /

What drink does this represent?

180 degree arc
360 degree arc
180 degree arc
A

180 degree arc
360 degree arc
90 degrees lines
A

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HEA wooden stick VEN

Games / Brain Teasers /

What phrase is represented below?

HEA wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip VEN

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