Puzzles!

Sequences

Here are a series of clues, all of which are connected in some way, forming a sequence. Can you deduce what fits best in the final bracket?

1. [Maids] [Ladies] [Lords] [Pipers] [ ]

2. [Alexander the Great] [Aristotle] [Plato] [ ]

3. [P = 1] [N, B = 3] [R = 5] [ ]

4. [Toe] [Knee] [Shoulder] [ ]

5. [Uranus, 27] [Neptune, 14] [Mars, 2] [ ]

Letter Scramble

Find words that correspond to the clues, made up of only the letters from SPRINGTIME.

1. Twins in the zodiac (6 letters)

2. Typographic error (8 letters)

3. A substance used to color is a (7 letters)

4. To set something on fire (6 letters)

5. Zebras have many of these (6 letters)

Answers

Sequences

1. Drummers (gifts in “Twelve Days Of Christmas”)

2. Socrates (Teaching lineage)

3. Q = 9 (Chess pieces and their point values)

4. Head (The children’s song backwards)

5. Earth, 1 (Planets in order of decreasing number of moons)

Letter Scramble

1. Gemini

2. Misprint

3. Pigment

4. Ignite

5. Stripe

Iori Yamamoto