Blog Post #173: For super Susanna😊and her whole delightful family ❤️

You can’t afford to close your eyes when playing Chess with Super Susanna
because she’s smart and sneaky!! 😁
Benjamin, Tabitha, Joseph and all of Susanna’s siblings have great talents too ❤️

Eyes closed at a Belgian Chess tournament prizegiving ceremony a few days ago was permissible…
because I didn’t have to play Susanna then!! 🤣😂
James & Paul are two of my kindest friends.
Amigos para siempre = Spanish for “Friends Forever”😊😊

James’ wife, Eliane, invited me to their home yesterday evening in early celebration of James’ birthday which is coming up shortly. So is the birthday of James & Eliane’s youngest child…Super Susanna! 😁

For other readers to enjoy as well, I now offer the following original, fresh puzzle in honour of the whole delightful family ❤️

Fun Puzzle starring Jolly James 😁 and Super Susanna 💕

Here are the key facts (in which S, N & A represent positive whole numbers) :-

James’ birthday is in N days from now.

On her birthday N years ago, Susanna turned N cubed years old.

The very next year, Susanna turned S squared years old.

On her birthday exactly N weeks from today, Susanna will be A years old.

On his birthday this year, James’ new age will be exactly equal to the sum 1+2+…+A.

You don’t have to be anywhere near as talented in Mathematics as Benjamin (who’s adjacent to me in the very first photo (see above) in this blog post) in order to now solve these puzzle questions…

  1. What is Susanna’s exact date of birth?
  2. What is James’ exact date of birth?

As always, I thank God with all my heart for giving me such wonderful, dear friends, and for also giving all the beautiful puzzle ideas in their & His honour 💕

I will conclude this blog post with the following important Bible verse from John 17:3

This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

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Author: Paul A. Motwani

My name is Paul Motwani, but my colleagues, my students and their parents mostly call me "Mr. Mo"! My middle initial, A, stands for Anthony, because I was born on the official feast day of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of miracles and of lost souls. I love teaching Mathematics and Chess, and giving fun-packed talks and shows in schools and clubs. The popular ingredients of Math, Chess, Mystery and Magic are my "Fantastic Four", and I give prizes too! I am an International Chess Grandmaster, and (loooooong ago!) I was the World Under-17 Champion. I am the author of five published chess books and hundreds of newspaper articles. I live with my wonderful wife and son in Belgium. I also love music, movies and puzzles. I blog at paulmotwani.com. My e-mail address is pmotwani141@gmail.com. You can find me on Facebook, too.

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