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Which Number?

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Which of these numbers does not belong with the others?

31,556,926
234,567.876
525,948.766
8,765.81277
365.242199
52.177457
12

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White to Play

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This tenth instructional game is special for me since I knew the winner. Herman was a magnificent storyteller at dinner and very jovial. I met him in the 1970s, almost 30 years after this game was played. Miguel Najdorf was one of the greatest players in chess history, so Pilnik beating him was no small accomplishment. Pilnik,H. - Najdorf,M. (...

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Naming Rights

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Amy was pregnant with her 7th child. Everyone was excited. She had named her children Sandy, Adam, Denton, Edward, Dina and Ira, in their order of birth and according to a specific rule. She knows her 7th child will be a girl. Which of the following names is she likely to use, and why?

Mary
Kimberly
Rachel
June
Yolanda

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Number Sequence

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What number should finish this sequence?

23, 14, 19, 6, 20, ?

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Four Doors

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You are an expert on paranormal activity and have been hired to locate a spirit haunting an old resort hotel. Strong signs indicate that the spirit lies behind one of four doors. The inscriptions on each door read as follows:

Door A: It's behind B or C
Door B: It's behind A or D
Door C: It's in here
Door D: It's not in here

Your psychic powers have told you three of the inscriptions are false, and one is true. Behind which door will you find the spirit?

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White to Play

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The ninth in our series of instructional games. Black makes a classic error. Will you find the winning line? Dobkin - Grinberg (B18) Tel-Aviv, 1944 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 Nd7 7.Bd3 Qc7 8.0–0 Ngf6 9.Re1 e6 10.Ng5 Bxd3? (Better was 10...Bd6) 11.Qxd3 h6?? (SEE DIAGRAM) A fatal mistake. Why?

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Number Patterns

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What is the next in this pattern:

104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 89, 47, 13, 18, 33, 85, 79, 4, 5, ?

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Qoucorrian Math

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While on your interplanetary vacation, you decide to stop at the planet Quocorri, a planet known for its many mathematical achievements.

While there, you decide to pick up on some of the Quocorrians mathematical variations. The Quocorrians won't tell you exactly how it works, only that it has some relationship to the Standard English math. They also give you four, true, Quocorrian math problems. They are:

2+2=9
4*1=1
5-2=16
-3+2=64

So, according to this system, what is 6/2?

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White to Play

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The eighth in our series of instructional games. Both players had opportunities to win. Several mistakes were made. Well worth going over to test your tactical sense at several points in the game. Hanning - Langerner (C80)Berlin, 1926 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Nxe4 6.d4 exd4? (Best not to open the e-file when you aren't ...

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Number Code

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Consider the following,

Mine = 456
His = 768
Hers = 523
Yours = 908

Now what phrase can you get from the rebus below?

4 7 5 8
5 6 2 0
6 8 3 9

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Heat

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What are the last three letters in this series?

S, L, S, A, P, A, L, B, L, H, M, R, T, M, M, M, M, L, S, ?, ?, ?

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White to Play

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The seventh in our series of instructional games. We’re going to comment more on this one for the less experienced players as there are lessons throughout rather than just after the diagram. Przepiorka,D - Patay,J. (B06)Meran, 1926. Here’s the game: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 d6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Bd3 e6 5.0–0 Ne7 (These days known as the Hippopotamus.)6.Be3 0...

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Number Series

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What are the next three numbers in this series?

1, 3, 6, 55, 66, 171, 595, 666, 3003, 5995, ?, ?, ?

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Palindrome

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A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator). How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

Footstool

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Football

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The scores were completely tied in the last few seconds of a football game, and a player was lining up the goal in his mind. He pictured himself scoring and the crowd cheering as he won the game. He kicked the ball, and it just dropped under the crossbar, yet his team still cheered, as they had won the game. How?

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Black to Play

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The sixth in our series of instructional games. Albin,A. - Bernstein,O. (C50)Vienna, 1904. The game is pretty level for a while until White forgets a basic principle: get castled! 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nc3 d6 5.d3 Nf6 6.Bg5 Be6 7.Nd5 Bxd5 (Better was 7...Na5 To get the two bishops.) 8.Bxd5 h6 9.Bxc6+ bxc6 10.Bxf6 Qxf6 11.c3 Rb8 12.b4 ...

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East of the Mississippi

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Smarty was born and grew up in Massachusetts, but he never traveled east of the Mississippi River. How is this possible?

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The Olympics

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The Netherlands normally dominate in speed skating in the Winter Olympics, yet in 1944, they didn't win a single medal. Who did?

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Black to Play

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The fifth in our series of instructional games. White starts out with an odd fourth move, for which we give instruction in the notes, but still manages to get the better game. Black uses his one chance—the f-file, and it becomes an exciting king hunt as the White king marches up the board to his fate, which is a great lesson in itself. The ...

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Letters and Numbers

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Using a combination or letters and/or numbers to sound out the answers, can you solve the clues? (The first one is free)

1. Not difficult - EZ (Easy)
2. Unoccupied
3. To do better than others
4. Defeated
5. A number (use only letters for this one)
6. A sport
7. Freezing

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