Puzzle for the day

[Rakhal]

Oh well, I got a muffin for myself anyway :)

Unscramble the letters in the four anagrams below. Each one is missing a letter and that letter is the same for all of them. Solve the four anagrams and find the missing letter.

1:JCBAE
2: RSCMIIA
3: IEFUDLO
4: ORIKCHAE

[Rezantis]

I saw them, but when I tried to cut and paste them to notepad, I got a row of question marks myself.

On a random technical note, notepad can't handle international character sets.

Wordpad you may have more success with. Moot point now, though.

[Rakhal]

Depends on your notepad I guess. Mine certainly can. I use notepad as a scratchpad when constructing Japanese test-data to work with.

[Prince Herb]

1] Abject
2] Scimitar
3] Outfield
4] Artichoke

Missing letter is T

[Rakhal]

Well done!

Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 15 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1

[Rakhal]

Rachel has six more brothers than she has sisters, her brother Ryan has three times as many brothers as he has sisters. How many boys and girls in the family?

[Edward]

Two girls.  Seven boys.

[Rakhal]

Yes indeed. 9 sprogs in total :)

Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 15 + 2 muffins
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1

[Rakhal]

1>
Which of the words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables

TOMATO  APPLE  PEAR LETTUCE


2>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters can be used to complete the sentence below?

Bon had such bad luck fishing alone that he hired a special _____ to go with him to help him learn how to catch _____

3>
Solve the following anagram: ACEEINRS

[Ragnar]

1> Lettuce. It ain't a fruit.

2> Trout - Tutor

[Prince Herb]

3) Increase

[Rakhal]

2 cookies for Ragnar and one for Herb. Congrats.

Getzeye: 24
Prince Herb: 16 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1

[Rakhal]

Joe met his mother-in-law's only husband's only son Bill

What relation was Bill to Joe

[Jon]

Brother-in-law

[Rakhal]

Quite correct. Another cookie is ripped from my tremulous grasp...

Getzeye: 24
Prince Herb: 16 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Jon: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1