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Ho, so they were anagrams of the last word of the books title – head palm, never occurred to me!!!
Re: GCHQ Challenge 3, it might help if I had got the puzzle statement right! I blame lockdown fever. An astute reader notes that it should say:
If RED+RED+BLUE=YELLOW in Australia and GREEN+GREEN+PURPLE=RED in Canada, what does PURPLE+PURPLE+ORANGE equal in the UK?
Apologies for the GREEN/PURPLE colour/color blindness in the original post.
Harry
Any hints, Harry?! I’m embarrassed about how long I’m spending on this, especially as it’s only meant to be level 2!!
So far I have tried using keys such as:
– colours of the rainbow
– snooker
– american pool (my gut tells me it’s this, given your “colour/color” reference above)
– trivial pursuit
– monopolybut nothing that seems to yield a satisfactory solution!
The penny has finally dropped! The benefits of taking a break from a puzzle to go (socially distant) grocery shopping – sometimes when you’re not consciously focused on it, that’s when your brain makes the connection!
Purple + Purple + Orange = [Yes it does, Harry]
Very Clever – this took me some time I have to admit
Purple + Purple + Orange =
[I don’t think so, but if you post an explanation I will check it, Harry]
[Explanation:
I looked at the hint and if you go anticlockwise from Go and mark each colour group with a number (so Purple = 1, Green = 2, and so on until Brown = 8), Green + Green + Yellow = Blue, as 2+2+3=7! I used that to work out Purple + Purple + Orange = Blue (1+1+5=7).][Ah, very cunning, but not what the Puzzle Master had in mind. It would be a great answer to the question “What do Purple +Purple+Orange equal in Monopoly, but here we need the answer for in the UK. Good try though, Harry]
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