DAY 482 

GAMES/World of Puzzles

June, 2025

Todd Kreisman

 

MONEY AND POWER

 

What would come next in the sequence below? The title is a hint.

 

$0.16

$0.15

$3.20

$0.25

$17.50

$1.00

$6.00

$80.00

N/A

$140.00

     ?

 

Answer:

 

$900

 

Beginning with the smallest value of US currency (the penny), the value of each coin or bill is multiplied by the number of the president who appears on it. 

 

Lincoln is on the penny and was the 16th president - 16 x $0.01 = $0.16

 

Jefferson is on the nickel and was the 3rd president - 3 x $0.05 = $0.15

 

Roosevelt - dime - 32 x $0.10 = $3.20 

Washington - quarter - 1 x $0.25 = $0.25

Kennedy - half dollar - 35 x $0.50 = $17.50 

Washington - one-dollar bill - 1 x $1.00 - $1.00

Jefferson - two-dollar bill - 3 x $2.00 = $6.00

Lincoln - five-dollar bill - 16 x $5.00 = $80.00 

Hamilton - ten-dollar bill - never president = N/A 

Jackson - twenty-dollar bill - 7 x $20.00 = $140.00

GRANT - fifty-dollar bill - 18 x $50.00 = $900.00 

 

Q:What comes after $900? 

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A: N/A because Franklin was never president. 

 

  

DAY 481

Q: What is the highest number between 1 and 1,000,000, when written out in words, that has no letter N?

A: 88 (eighty-eight)

 

DAY 480

GAMES Magazine

October, 1984

Ken Fischer

 

What is the arithmetic average of the first one million odd numbers?

 

 Answer:

 

1,000,000 - The average of the first n odd numbers is always n, the number of odd numbers.

 

For example, 1 + 3 + 5 = 15 (average 3)

                        1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16 (average 4) 

DAY 479

If .......

9 + 3 = 15

9 + 7 = 47

8 + 5 = ? 

HINT:

The + sign may or may not mean plus.

Answer:

 

8 + 5 = 27

 

Explanation:

Multiply the two given numbers, then subtract their sum:

 

9 X 3 = 27

27 - 12 = 15, etc.

 DAY 478

There are only 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary numbers, and those who don't.

 DAY 477

Musical Limerick

Jon Saxton

In Colossal Book of Word Play

Martin Gardner

 

A dozen, a gross, and a score,

Plus three times the square root of four,

Divided by seven,

Plus five times eleven,

Is nine squared and not a bit more.*

 

*This limerick can be written out numerically as a correct equation, beginning with 12 + 144 + 20 and ending with 9 (squared) + 0.

 

 

DAY 476

 

From Brainteasers and Mind Benders 

Ben Hamilton

Use all the digits 0 - 9 to make two sums and one product.

HINT:
The product uses four digits.

Answer:

 

7 + 1 = 8

9 - 6 = 3

4 x 5 = 20