Page 98 - (DK) How to be a GENIUS?

BRAIN GAMES

Puzzling pyramid
Fill in the gaps so that each box 120
in the second row up contains
a figure that is the sum of the
figures in the two boxes below.
? 50

44 ? ?

? 14 ? ?

? ? ? 3 ?

TH1NK OF A To find the solutions to
these puzzles, you’ll need
to use math—and a fair
NUM8ER bit of logical thinking.

Some of the puzzles are
straightforward and
should be easy to solve,
while others are more
difficult and will require
more thought. There are
Only one chance also a couple of trick
Replace each of the question marks with the questions to keep you on
numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to make this problem
work. You can use each number only once. your toes. You’ll find the
?? x ? = ??? answers on page 188.

Flower power
In each flower, the four 6
black numbers can be 4 5
added and multiplied
in the same way to
make the white number 2 30 6 10 50 2 7 ? 6
in the center. See if
you can figure out
how you do it. What
number should appear 5 9
in the center of the 8
third flower?

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