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The Runes of Peskil - Answers
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Grading Scale
| Correct |
Score |
| 1-5 |
Blackened sorcerer with an
enfeebled brain and egg omelet. MMM-MMMM! Peskil's favorite! |
| 6-10 |
Still pitiful but at least you
managed to muster enough metacognition to realize that the task was beyond
your meager abilities. You escaped just in time! |
| 11-14 |
You weakened enough of the
runes to break through using your elite magical prowess. |
| 15 |
Marvelous! You didn't even
break a sweat! Not only did you steal the treasure you managed to rewrite
the runes so that Peskil can't get into the cave himself! |
1) Y, W, U, S, Q, ? ? ? - O, M, K -
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a letter moving backwards through the alphabet.
2) T, T, T, F, F, S, ? ? ? - S, E, N - The first letter in the
words ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety.
3) A, ?, A, ?, E, ?A, S? - A, A, N, A - The first letter in the names of
the continents alphabetized.
4) Y, S, H, S, R, ? ? ? - N, S, E - The last letters of the planets
beginning with Mercury.
5) O, T, T, F, ? ? ? - F, S, S - The first letter in the words
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven etc.
6) K, P, C, O, F, ? ? - G, S - Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,
Species.
7) E, E, I, I, N, N, S, ? - T - Letters in the name "EINSTEIN" alphabetized.
8) D, N, O, S, ? ? ? ? - A, J, J, M - The first letters in the
months of the year starting with December and moving in reverse.
9) D, R, M, F, S, ? ? ? - L, T, D - Do Re Mi Fa So La Te Do
10) B, C, D, G, J ? ? ? - O, P, Q - Beginning with "B"
letters which contain curves.
11) A, H, I, M, O, ? ? ? - T, U, V - Symmetrical letters
12) V, ?, B, G, Y, O, R - I Indigo - Spectrum of colors that can be produced
by visible light of a single wavelength. (Indigo is actually disputed on the
basis that its a darker hue than the spectrum tint. Read more on that here.)
13) anthropomorphy, yclept, trollop, paradox, ?
semantical, leptodermic - xanthous, xenophobes, or
any other word that begins with "X" and ends in "S".
14) oxygen, ? dermis mishap ? pencil - gender, happen - each word is
comprised of the last three letters in the previous word and the first three of
the following word.
15) C, O, S, ?, V, ?, X, ? - T, W, Z - Letters whose lowercase and
uppercase are the same, save the difference in size.
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