The GCHQ Puzzle Book: Perfect for anyone who likes a good headscratcher

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Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson. These are the original members of One Direction - a 1D name! After 6. The first line is numbers with three letters, the second line is numbers with four letters, the third line is numbers with five letters. Beaugas scored a total of 20 points against Apocrifal and Dewbius, and got one bonus point. This must have come from one of: j) First 3 letters of US States, reversed: BEN/NEBRASKA, LAC/CALIFORNIA, LED/DELAWARE, NET/TENNESSEE, NEP/PENNSYLVANIA, NIM/MINNESOTA RAM/MARYLAND, REV/VERMONT, SAW/WASHINGTON, SEW/WEST VIRGINIA

TEN- homophones: TEN-COMMAND-MINCE (TEN COMMANDMENTS), TEN-ERR-REEF (TENERIFE), TEN-GALLOW-GNAT (TEN-GALLON HAT), TEN-NESSIE-WILLIAMS (TENNESSEE WILLIAMS), TEN-NIECE-ELBOW (TENNIS ELBOW) a) D - the sequence is the Roman Numeral letters contained in the names of the months in French: JAN VIER, FÈ VR IER, MARS, A VR IL, MA I, JU IN, JU ILLET, AOÛT, SEPTE MBRE, O CTOBRE, NO VE MBRE, DÈ CE MBRE In (j), the 1961 Kurosawa film Yojimbo is also known as The Bodyguard, the English translation of its title. a) Chinese Years: 9 + 5 + 4 - (11 + 1) = 6 = Snake. We’ve started with Rat = 1, but the answer is independent of how you start the numbering.NOEL. Reading left to right, the first letters of each item spell out PERFORM FREQUENCY COUNT. If a frequency count of the letters in the items in the list is performed it will be found that all letters are present save L, that is, there’s ‘no L’. a) Anagrams: AGREES/GREASE, ASPIRE/PRAISE, CHASTE/SACHET, ENLIST/SILENT, ENTRAP/PARENT, LATTER/RATTLE, NEURAL/UNREAL, PALEST/STAPLE, PRIEST/STRIPE,

Synonyms of the names of the Seven Dwarfs: SHY/ BASHFUL, SURGEON/ DOC, STUPID/ DOPEY, SURLY/ GRUMPY, CHEERFUL/ HAPPY, TIRED/ SLEEPY, SNUFFLY/ SNEEZY plus SNOW WHITE Each author has written a book (or in one case a poem) with a title containing a character’s first name but no last name. The initial letters of these characters’ names form the question ‘WHAT LINKS THEM’ to which the answer is the previous sentence. b) All 98 letter Scrabble tiles are used, plus an extra C and T, so that if blanks are used for these (thus using all 100 tiles) the score of CONTEMPORANEOUS is also 17. BABY (for example) fits between OIL and BALL. All the words in the list can be preceded by words beginning C-: in particular CA-, CH-, CO-, CR- and CU-; for each of these digraphs there are 7 words of lengths 3-9 letters, one word of each length. a) DOT, or any word that remains a word with 2 I’s inserted: FaUNa, bABbLE, OccUR, BIddER, BeReAVE, COffIN, gRUDgE, ShEATh, iDiOTi) Rudolph Valentino = Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla b) COO, or any word that remains a word when reversed with 2 H’s inserted: NIL/LIaNa, DEMO/bOMbED, DAY/cYcAD, NAME/dEMANd, SPILL/eLLIPSe, UP/PUff, READ/DAggER, COO/hOOCh

Can be preceded by a US city to form the name of a US newspaper: ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, BALTIMORE SUN, BOSTON GLOBE, COLUMBUS DISPATCH, MIAMI HERALD, SACRAMENTO BEE, USA TODAY, WASHINGTON POSTa) APED, AT (or any other word beginning with A that can be preceded by NE to form a word): H-AIR, HE-ART, LI-ABILITY, BE-AVER, B-ANGLE, C-AMBER, N-ACRE, O-AT, F-ACTOR, NE-APED j) Ellery Queen = Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee = Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky BULBS, COUCH, DEPTH, EASEL, GENII, HOPED, JAMMY, LABEL, MAIMS, NIECE, PATHS, QUOTE, SEATS, TITHE, VERVE, YACHT WISCONSIN (9): W-I-S-C-O-N-SI-N, W-I-S-C-O-N-S-IN, W-I-S-C-O-N-S-I-N, W-I-S-CO-N-SI-N, W-I-S-CO-N-S-IN, W-I-S-CO-N-S-I-N, W-I-SC-O-N-SI-N, W-I-SC-O-N-S-IN, W-I-SC-O-N-S-I-N