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The Most Difficult Tasks (page 249)puzzles, riddles, mathematical problems, mastermind, cinemania... These are the tasks listed 2481 to 2490. |
CINEMANIA: Guess the movie title
See negative of movie scene and guess the title. Length of words in solution: 4,4 Chess Knight Move
Find the title of novel, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is T. Length of words in solution: 3,6,2,3,5. Calculate the number 2014
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 2014 using numbers [6, 8, 5, 2, 32, 796] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. 
Drunk driver?
A cop waited outside a popular pub hoping to nab a drink-driver.
At closing time, as everyone came out, he spotted his potential quarry.
The man was so obviously inebriated that he could barely walk.
He stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes looking for his car.
After trying his keys on five others, he finally found his own vehicle.
He sat in the car a good 10 minutes as the other pub patrons left.
He turned his lights on, then off.
He started to pull forward into the grass, then stopped.
Finally, when his was the last car, he pulled out onto the road and started to drive away.
The cop, waiting for this, turned on his lights and pulled the man over.
He administered the breathalyzer test and, to his great surprise, the man easily passed.
The cop was dumbfounded.
'This equipment must be broken,' exclaimed the policeman.
'I doubt it,' said the man. 'Tonight I'm the designated decoy.'
Calculate the number 3280
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 3280 using numbers [5, 9, 9, 1, 41, 232] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. Calculate the number 8546
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 8546 using numbers [4, 9, 4, 9, 92, 594] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. Chess Knight Move
Find the title of novel, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is T. Length of words in solution: 3,12,4. Calculate the number 3534
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 3534 using numbers [1, 7, 5, 5, 78, 517] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. Find a famous person
Find the first and the last name of a famous person. Text may go in all 8 directions. Length of words in solution: 5,7.
