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Pull is the only one without a homophone.
Per post #49365, the next would be Dessert, because its homophone is not a musical term.@Harry, is there something missing in the GCHQ puzzle 15 solution? [I will check, Harry]
16 was pretty easy.
[Position wasn’t important, and you got the right answer. Well done. Harry]Eh? Where is Challenge 15’s answer?
[Apologies, set the wrong page to publish. Have fixed it now. Did you work it out? Harry]
For Challenge 15 – I may be missing something here… I agree that “NCS from Nicosia, the capital for CyprUs” is a
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answer, but the question asks “What is the
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possible way to complete this sequence?” – why wouldn’t, say “TTW from Ottawa, the capital of CAnAdA” or “BSHKK from Bishkek, the capital of KyrgyzstAn” also be valid solutions?
[The point is that the sequence is in alphabetic order of vowels and you need the capital of a country whose name only contains the vowel U. Cyprus is the only option here. The country names that contain only one vowel are, I think,
Bahamas
Canada
Chad
Ghana
Panama
Qatar
Rwanda
Japan
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Madagascar
MaltaSeychelles
Sweden
Egypt
Greece
YemenFiji
Kosovo
Morocco
Togo
ComorosCyprus
Does that makes sense? Harry]
For Challenge 16 [yes, you have found the the missing terms, well done! Harry]
@Harry – Ahhh that makes total sense, thanks for explaining – I hadn’t spotted the A-E-I-O-U pattern! Very clever!!
For challenge 16,
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(but I think I might be being a bit too obvious…?) [Right though! Harry]
18 mins, using Harry’s HintIt depends on whether the letters are allowed to cycle, in order that each string is the same length
[Well done! Harry]
For 17 I have [The right answer, Harry] I feel even sillier for solving this one than […. I did consider combining them, but …. Harry]
For challenge [Yep! Harry]
They are [Yes they are! Harry]
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