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Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 9:55 am
by cinelli
What is missing?
AD---CT
CONC---
DIS---
HOR---LAY
TRO---
LI---OAT
N---HT
OUTS---T
P---IKA
SI---AR
TUR---ER
Cinelli
Re: Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 10:14 am
by swill453
---EP
?
(I confess I deleted an earlier wrong answer).
Scott.
Re: Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 11:10 am
by dealtn
swill453 wrote:---EP
?
(I confess I deleted an earlier wrong answer).
Scott.
yes, give me about another 8 weeks or so of this lockdown and I will hopefully celebrate solving it by this with a sweet, possibly minty, syrup drink. Cheers!
Re: Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 11:42 am
by ReformedCharacter
Spoiler:
It must be: JUL
Re: Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 8:30 pm
by cinelli
Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.
I continue to look for really hard puzzles, those which may take days to solve in this strange world we live in.
Cinelli
Re: Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 8:39 pm
by swill453
cinelli wrote:Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.
The first word just jumped out at me and gave a big hint, after that it was just methodical. A different word at the top might have taken longer.
Scott.
Re: Missing
Posted: May 7th, 2020, 10:19 pm
by UncleEbenezer
Am I allowed to invoke my mother's language (Swedish)?
'Cos that gives us a particularly concise answer ---. A word that also exists in English, but is spelt differently and is slightly archaic.
Come to think of it, in English, ---IAN would be particularly appropriate.
Re: Missing
Posted: May 8th, 2020, 6:33 pm
by 9873210
cinelli wrote:Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.
I continue to look for really hard puzzles, those which may take days to solve in this strange world we live in.
Cinelli
Find an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two primes. Or show that none exists.
Re: Missing
Posted: May 9th, 2020, 12:08 am
by UncleEbenezer
Oh my. Is that really how you spell Goldbach?
Re: Missing
Posted: May 9th, 2020, 10:25 am
by cinelli
9873210 wrote:Find an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two primes. Or show that none exists.
Is this one of those mathematical conjectures for which there is a million dollar prize? If so, and if someone here manages a proof, I suggest 10% could go to the Lemon Fool and the rest to the NHS.
Cinelli
Re: Missing
Posted: May 9th, 2020, 12:30 pm
by GrahamPlatt
Correction. Not understood the question.
Re: Missing
Posted: May 9th, 2020, 1:24 pm
by dealtn
9873210 wrote:cinelli wrote:Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.
I continue to look for really hard puzzles, those which may take days to solve in this strange world we live in.
Cinelli
Find an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two primes. Or show that none exists.
Well 4 is the sum of 2+2 or 1+3, both of these sums only contain 1 prime.