The Puzzle:

Only for the brave, this one!

Write the 1st table on the board.

This square has eleven letters missing, which you have to replace:
Every row, column AND the main diagonals contain all the letters in the word "BRAVE".
That reminds me, I must see the Postman about all those missing letters.

The Puzzle:
You can only use any letter once, what are the largest and smallest numbers that you could write down in

words?

Example: EIGHTY, But not NINETY as N is used twice

Our Solution:

Largest: FIVE THOUSAND

Smallest: ZERO or NOUGHT

Or: MINUS FORTY (allowing negative numbers)

Alphabet Spaghetti
Spaghetti is famous for the way it all gets tangled up on the plate. Those of you who
think they know their alphabet are bound to get all tangled up with this puzzle too,
unless you read it and think about it very carefully!

What letter of the alphabet is the one which comes eight letters before the letter which
comes five letters after the fourth appearance of the first letter to occur four times in
this sentence?

Our Solution:"r"

You get this by working backwards through the puzzle: the first letter to occur four times
is t: WhaT leTTer of T....

Five letters after the fourth "t" is the letter "p", and eight letters before that is " r".

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