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Puzzles
THE
CROSSWORD
1677
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8
9
10 11
12 13
14 15
16 17
18 19
20 21
DECODER
Each number
represents a different
letter of the alphabet.
Write the given letters
into all squares with
matching numbers.
Now work out which
letters are represented
by the other numbers.
As you get the letters,
write them into
the main grid and
the reference grid.
Decoder uses all 26
letters of the alphabet.
22 23
©THE PUZZLE COMPANY
ACROSS
DOWN
6. Distinctive mushroom found in 1. Road safety device introduced
New Zealand (3,3)
by police in 1969 (12)
7. Previously (6)
2. Foolish (7)
10. Main ingredient in guacamole 3. Waterway (5)
(7)
4. Maybe (7)
11. Pivot (5)
5. Discovered (5)
12. Successor (4)
8. Last possible moment (8,4)
13. Skilled (5)
9. Area which Abel Tasman called
16. Noise (5)
Murderer’s Bay (6,3)
17. Nuisance (4)
14. Injured (7)
20. Bill English’s given first name 15. Resolved (7)
(5)
18. In the midst of (5)
21. Revoke (7)
19. One of the seven dwarfs (5)
22. Ford which was New Zealand’s
top-selling vehicle in 2015 (6)
23. Bird, also known as kuku and
kukupa (6)
SOLUTION 1676
Across: 1. Heroic, 5. Usurer, 9/10. The Two The Towers, number 11. Hung, game 12. that Stampede,
14. Stanza, 16. Spiral, 19/21. Athletic Park, 22. Number, 23. Ailing, 24. Eldest, 25.
Eleven.
improves your arithmetic
Down:
HOW
2.
TO
Exhaust,
PLAY
3. Octagon, 4. Croissant, 6. Storm, 7. Roe deer, 8. Russell,
13. Associate, 14. Swannie, 15. Ashamed, 17. Impulse, 18. Arrange, 20. Evens.
It’s like sudoku: each
vertical and horizontal
line has to contain
the numbers 1-6, and
the numbers can’t be
repeated in any row or
column.
But it’s sudoku with a
twist: The numbers in
each heavily outlined
set of squares, called
cages, must produce the
number in the top corner.
For example, 5+ means
the numbers add up to 5,
9x means the numbers
multiply to equal 9.
TIP: Numbers can be repeated in a cage, as long as they are not in the
same line or row.
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WORDBUILDER
L E R
U
S
How many words of three or more letters can you
make, using each letter only once? Plurals are
allowed, but no foreign words or words beginning
with a capital. There’s at least one five-letter word.
Good 8 Very Good 12 Excellent 17
Number FuN
2 Digits
15
19
26
51
3 Digits
094
173
194
202
584
606
632
804
4 Digits
1485
1813
5561
9746
5 Digits
17709
49992
50562
59552
7 Digits
1560799
3618378
3825855
5737500
8 Digits
00830397
15037376
40101058
57788731
SUDOKU
344
Fill the grid so that every row,
every column and every 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
SOLUTIONS
Untitled Puzzle
NUMBER FUN
1
4
8
5
5
9
5
5
2
2
0
2
3
6
1
8
3
7
8
1
5
0
3
7
3
7
6
8
0
4
1
5
2
6
1
9
4
0
0
8
3
0
3
9
7
1
5
6
0
7
9
9
5
8
4
1
7
7
0
9
5
5
6
1
KENKEN
DECODER
WORDBUILDER
ers, leu, lues, lur,
lure, lures, lurs,
rue, rues, rule,
rules, ruse, slue,
slur, sue, suer,
sure, use, user.
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 6. Red Cap, 7.
Before, 10. Avocado, 11.
Hinge, 12. Heir, 13. Adept, 16.
Sound, 17. Pest, 20. Simon,
21. Abolish, 22. Ranger, 23.
Kereru.
Down: 1. Breathalyser, 2.
Idiotic, 3. Canal, 4. Perhaps,
5. Found, 8. Eleventh hour,
9. Golden Bay, 14. Wounded,
15. Decided, 18. Among, 19.
Dopey.
SUDOKU
SUDOKU
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 6. Red Cap, 7.
Before, 10. Avocado, 11.
Hinge, 12. Heir, 13. Adept, 16.
Sound, 17. Pest, 20. Simon,
21. Abolish, 22. Ranger, 23.
Kereru.
Down: 1. Breathalyser, 2.
Idiotic, 3. Canal, 4. Perhaps,
5. Found, 8. Eleventh hour,
9. Golden Bay, 14. Wounded,
15. Decided, 18. Among, 19.
Dopey.
WORDBUILDER
ers, leu, lues, lur,
lure, lures, lurs,
rue, rues, rule,
rules, ruse, slue,
slur, sue, suer,
sure, use, user.
DECODER
KENKEN
1
5 7
5 7
6 0
1 9
1 8
5 0
4
1
5
0
3
7
3
7
6
3
6
1
8
3
7
8
5
8
4
2
0
2
0
1 0
5 8
6 3
0 0
7 3
9 9
9 7
1
9
4
2
6
5
9
5
5
2
1
4
8
5
SOLUTIONS
NUMBER FUN
Untitled Puzzle