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Puzzle #205: Can you work out what the ninth shield will look like?

Can you solve this week’s arithmetical puzzle, Buried shields? Plus the answer to puzzle #204

18 January 2023

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#205 Buried shields

Set by Peter Rowlett

The burial chamber of Queen Count-M-Up of the Mat e’Matic people has been discovered! Archaeologists know that her people greatly appreciated diversity in life, and they believe she was buried with a set of painted shields that illustrate this by displaying all possible combinations of three colours (gold, silver and blue) in four sections.

Opening the tomb, they quickly find seven complete shields and one broken one. What colour is the missing section? And when they discover the ninth shield, what will it look like?

Solution next week

#204 Think of a number …

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