Blog Post #125: Happy Easter and happy birthday

Dear Readers,

My family and I would like to wish everyone a very happy Easter and, particularly for young Super Sigurd, a really happy birthday today, too ♥

Happy birthday to Super Sigurd, the youngest of three children
in a lovely Norwegian family that are dear friends of mine ♥

Vilja, Ask-Johannes and Sigurd all love puzzles, and today we’ve got a full feast for them ♥

We’re sending love and big hugs to you ♥♥♥

If you’re on top form, you’ll breeze through today’s brainteasers! 😊😊😊

SUPER Word Puzzle!

‘SUPER’ is quite a special word because if we repeat any one of its five letters, we can, in each case, rearrange the resulting letters to make proper six-letter English words.

For example, SUPERR can be rearranged to make PURSER.

Your fun word puzzle is to rearrange each of

SUPERS

SUPERU

SUPERP

SUPERE

to make proper six-letter English words.

SUPER Number Puzzles!!

The number puzzles will involve a special focus on the decimal number 14.4, in honour of Super Sigurd’s birthday on 14 April today ♥

Let’s also quickly check, here in Blog Post #125, that everyone is comfortable with the mathematical meanings of ‘cube root’ and ‘square root’.

The square root of 25 is 5 because 5 x 5 = 25.

The cube root of 125 is 5 because 5 x 5 x 5 = 125.

I am now thinking of a specific whole number, N. It’s the day number in November of Vilja’s birthday. It’s also the age that Ask-Johannes will be on his birthday this year. Remarkably, the cube root of (14.4 x N) is a whole number. Exactly what number is N ?

2. I am now thinking of another specific whole number, S. It’s the last two digits of the year in which Super Sigurd was born. Remarkably, the square root of (14.4 x S) is the new age that Sigurd is on his birthday today! Exactly what number is S ?

SUPER Chess Puzzle!

As Sigurd’s favourite number is 4, enjoy solving the following chess puzzle in which it’s White to play and force checkmate in 4 moves.

I will round off by again wishing everyone a very happy Easter ♥♥♥

With kindest wishes as always,

Paul Motwani xxx

P.S. = Puzzle Solutions!

SUPERS→PURSES

SUPERU→PURSUE

SUPERP→SUPPER or UPPERS

SUPERE→PERUSE, PUREES or RUPEES

N = 15. Then 14.4 x N = 14.4 x 15 = 216, and the cube root is the whole number 6 because 6 x 6 x 6 = 216.
S = 10. Then 14.4 x S = 14.4 x 10 = 144, and the square root is the whole number 12 because 12 x 12 = 144. Super Sigurd was born on 14.4.2010 and is now 12 today. Happy birthday again, dear Sigurd ♥