As last week's contest seemed to have been the best-received yet, here are twenty more puzzles, each worth a half-point. Like last time, some are tricky bordering on unfair, but I believe and hope they are all answerable. Hyphenated modifiers are given letters for each of the words: Ten-pound steak would be T. P. S., and such. None of these require any knowledge of me, per se -- there’s nothing like 25 Y. S. F. in M. P. L. (years so far in Matthew Prins’ life) -- but one or more of the puzzles may require or be helped by knowledge of the previous contest. Answers will be crossed out as...etc.
1) 6 P. Other Than T. O. and U. and V.
2) 35 C. on the D. P. to the G. B. T. in the S. H. T. B.
3) 100 C. S. in I. B. O. N. N. C. 4) 12360 K. P. H. S. in a M. P. S. S. 5) 3 B. Whose P. Was T. B. G.
6) 1 S. I S. but Zero D.
7) 49 S. A. C. Falls into the P. O.
8) 3 D. in A. F. B. one Should Usually P.
9) 2. S. of R. in E. B. of R. B. 10) A. 16.9 F. O. in a H. L. 11) 2 B. T. O. D. N. if one I. Z. but D. I. N. N. 12) 3 L. T. G. T. T. C. of a T. R. P. 13) 20 Square Roots of P. I. T. A. B. T. and E. N. I.
14) 33 P. B. This One if one I. L. R.
15) 143 S. in Eight F.
16) 0 O. in a Man. 17) 42 A. P. if one Doesn't Include G. C. T.
18) 50 W. T. L. Y. L. 19) e E. in e S. 20) 5 Visible Knuckles on a M. W. I. W. A. G. on O. O. H. H. and H. N. L. A. K. on the H. T. I. N. W. the G.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
