2002 Qualifying Test Solutions

1. Major Champions (Will Shortz)

Answer: HAVERS

2. Equations (Erich Friedman)

Answer: 731, 965, 824

3. Shark Attack (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: 5

4. Battleships (Moshe Rubin)

Answer: A4, A8, I1, I3

5. Tile (Sidney Kravitz)

Answer: 17

6. Palindromic Clock (Nob Yoshigahara)
Answer 6.1: 9:59:59 - 10:00:01
Answer 6.2: 15:55:51 - 20:00:02

7. 18 Holes (Nancy Schuster)

Answer: PNNOIR, CIOTOA, PFAARE

8. Tiger in the Woods (Nob Yoshigahara)

Answer: RRRR,L,R,LL,RR,LLL,R,L,RRRR,L

9. Broken Calculator (Nob Yoshigahara)

Answer: 43, 9, 387

10. Balancing Act (Erich Friedman)

Answer: 8,3,4,10,7,5,1,2,6,9

11. T It Up (Craig Kasper)

Answer: C8, D3, F6, H3, H9

12. Sunday Drivers (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: B

13. Triangle math (Erich Friedman)

Answer 13.1: 6,7,1,3,8,2,4,5,9
Answer 13.2: 2,9,6,3,5,7,8,1,4

14. Corral (Dave Tuller)

Answer: 33

15. Letter Box (Ken Duisenberg)

Answer: CEB, AIF, HGD

16. Four or Five Easy Pieces (Robert Wainwright)

Answer: xxxx, xxxxxx, -xx-xx, -xxxx, ---xx

17. Dyslexic Division (Craig Kasper)

Answer: 3124/64=48

18. Railroad Tracks (Craig Kasper)

Answer: 5,2,3,1,1,3,1,4

19. Crazy Eights (Craig Kasper)

Answer: KERCHIEF

20. Hot Cross Sums (Michael Rios)

Answer: 9,3,3,2,7

21. Musical (IN)Directions (Dave Tuller)

Answer: PRESTO

22. Path Battleships (Erich Friedman)

Answer: B5, D6, F6, H5

23. Fences Variation (Dave Tuller)

Answer: 23

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