Chris Maslanka

1. PPPAPOPP - what comes next?

2. What's the smallest number of 'p' you can only pay by using 4 coins of the realm?

William Hartston

3. How many '9s' are there in the numbers from 1 to 1000?

Val Gilbert

4. These are clues to a three syllable word:

• Feline little Kathleen
• Lace rubbish
• Note pick-me-up
• ZONKED (clue to whole word)

 What is the word?

Panel Beater - Irene Edwards of Aylesbury

5. What do the following words have in common?

• Itch
• Ash
• Art
• Antic
• Easy
• Orate

David Singmaster

6. There is a word that has 4 consecutive letters the same. What is?

Chris Maslanka's listeners' puzzle

7. My old calculator's started to wear out. It gave as an answer to 2x2, 3.9! Down at the market I saw a sign 'Calculators - under a £'. I know a bargain when I see one so I bought hundreds of them.

When I got home I couldn't wait to try them out. The first calculation I did was to check I'd paid the right amount of money ie number of calculators times the number of pence each one cost.

Everytime I type in 2,3,5 or 7 the letter 'p' is displayed ie 37=pp, 25=pp etc.

Number of calculators comes out as ppp

multiplied by cost (number of pence) pp

= ppppp

If you multiply the number of calculators ppp

by the first digit of the cost pp

The answer is pppp

If you multiply the number of calculators ppp

by the second digit of the cost pp

The answer is also pppp

How many calculators did I buy and what did I pay for each?

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