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Puzzle #136: What colour of the rainbow is Lise’s favourite?

By Katie Steckles

20 October 2021

#136 Narrowing the spectrum

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Marie: “What’s your favourite colour of the rainbow?”

Lise: “That would be telling… its name is made up only of letters that occur in the names of the other six colours of the rainbow.”

Marie: “But there is more than one colour that rule works for!”

Lise: “Ah, but if you just look at the colours that fit that rule, it is the only one that can’t be made from the letters in the other members of that set!”

What colour is it?

#135 You don’t know jackpot

Solution

The jackpot setting is Cherry, 7, Cherry.…

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