DECEMBER 2022

Take a break, pour a drink and grab a pen: it’s time for our monthly instalment of quizzes and conundrums. P A G E S PUZZLE

Q&A

SUDOKU

Level: Easy

#1 Who is the current Prime Minister of New Zealand? #2 What colour and shape is a stop sign in most countries around the world? #3 The famous line “You talkin’ to me?” comes from which 1970s film? #4 Entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar founded which e-commerce business in 1995? #5 What does a funambulist walk on? #6 Chartreuse is a colour between green and what other colour? #7 What do you call the popular Korean dish of mixed rice, meat and vegetables, often served in a stone bowl? #8 Which famous 16th-century literary work begins with the line, “'Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona…” #9 Is a pasodoble a type of ancient coin, cooking sauce or military march? #10 Dogs sweat mostly through which part of their body?

6

3

7

6

6

9 4 8

7

5

3

2

4

1 3

8

5

4

8

2

KENKEN

9 2

8

x120

+8

3

+8

WORDWHEEL

Find as many words as you can with four or more letters in the wheel. All words must contain the centre letter; letters can only be used once; no plurals or proper nouns. There is one nine-letter word.

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-1

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e

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r

+5

x15

r

+12

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Fill the grid so that every row and column has the numbers 1 to 5 once only, and so the target numbers listed in each cage are produced by the mathematical operation provided.

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Target : Good 7, Excellent 10, Stupendous 14

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