About Bernard Hawkes Expertise Please read my Policy Statement. Puzzles and brainteasers. Ask and I will help! That said, I`m best at pure logic puzzles. E.g. You have twelve apparently identical coins of which one is counterfeit, being either slightly heavy or light. Determine the counterfeit coin, and whether it is heavy or light, in no more than three weighings using a balance scale. Rebuses and riddles I`m less good at, but will generally get the answer given time. Requests for oddball facts (e.g. What was the second most common girl`s name in 1900? [genuine example - answer: Ruth]) I regard as outside my remit. However, you are welcome to ask, but I may not be able to help you.
Experience Member of Mensa. Solution to "gry" riddle.
Question My niece had presented me with a puzzle that she needed the answer to for school but his has now become a personal goal for me to find the answer to it. The puzzle is that you need to create a grid that consists of 5 columns and 5 rows. Then you need to spell out the numbers 1-8 and place one letter in each individual square. You may overlap letters and you may spell them forwards,backwards, up, or down.But you cannot leave out any numbers or letters and you cannot bend words.
Answer Hi Reuben
I did send this before but maybe something didn't work somewhere, so I'll send it again.
Bernard.
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Third and last reply! If you allow diagonals there *is* a solution:-
EIGHT
FOURW
SIX O
SEVEN
THREE
Best wishes,
Bernard.
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Hello again!
This puzzle got under my skin so I've made a concerted effort to crack it this evening. My approach has been to write a program to try all the permutations. I believe it to be working correctly but it doesn't find a solution, though it has found 1596 ways of doing the numbers one to seven!
I would like to confirm that diagonals are EXCLUDED. Though if they are, then I think I'm stuck! If not, i.e, if diagonals ARE allowed, then I'll continue searching.
Best wishes,
Bernard.
Best wishes,
Bernard.
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Hi Reuben
This is just to let you know I *am* working on this. I do expect to solve it but it may take a few days.
