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Puzzle #66: Can you work out the pattern from these tiles?

Can you solve this week’s fiendish puzzle Square Tiles? Plus the answer to puzzle #65 set by Hugh Hunt

1 July 2020

#66 Square tiles

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My daughter has made me a puzzle with eight square tiles that fit into a 2 x 4 grid. She tells me there is a connection between the symbols along the rows, and a simple rule that gets you from the symbols on the top row to the symbols below them.

She has put four of the tiles in place for me. Where do the other four go?

Answer next week

#65 Father figures

Solution

The pattern arises if the father’s age is either a multiple of 9 (call this 9N) or is 9N – 1 when…

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