Nicolas Cage would have no trouble with these puzzles:
The first one is from the Mensa “Genius Quiz-A-Day Book”
Each of the following four words has had the same vowel removed. At least three of that vowel are missing from each word. What are the reconstructed words? PRMAT … RHARS … TNAGR … FORSR
The next one below has a single word as an answer. No other clues!
Good luck!
The following three puzzles are from the daily puzzle calendar “USE IT OR LOSE IT.”
Question 1
Doubling the perimeter of a triangle, keeping the shape the same, multiplies the area by how much?
Question 2
A woman has a job that requires her to work eight straight days and rest on the ninth day. If she started work on a Monday, the twelfth time she rests will be on what day of the week?
Question 3
The following words were in a sentence in the following sequence:
XYere; ZYere, Xere.
What letters do X, Y, and Z represent?
A handful of rebuses for your Monday morning.
The celebration of Eid ul-Fitr will cause a slight delay in my Monday puzzle post. Expect an update later this afternoon/evening!
UPDATE
Okay, here it is. This weekend featured a lot of westerns, a lot of football, and a lot of holiday merriment. So this week’s puzzle requires you to decrypt the 3 westerns, 3 football teams, and 3 holidays pictured below. Good luck.
I recently went on a bender of random Korean, Chinese, and Japanese movies and every now and then you’d get these hilarious translations of the original into English. It’s the “Engrish” lost in translation. It reminded me of an Oscar acceptance speech by Dutch filmmaker Mike van Diem, who said that the award ought to tell you that his film had damn stunning subtitles.
With the Toronto International Film Festival in full swing, now is as good a reason as any to test your knowledge of foreign subtitled movies.
See how well you can identify the country and title of these foreign movies. Good luck.
Inflatable Raptors Mascot
