Alphactors

[Redfraggle]

I have a child in school who is fantastic at maths - she's 10 years old. She absolutely loves puzzles - especially mathematical ones and codebreakers. Do any of you have any copies of alphactor puzzles? I have all my DVP books locked in the loft so I can't get to them. She's such a sweetheart I want to give her some alphactors as a sort of reward because she helps me in the office each day after school.

[strep98]

Yes funnily enough I just printed 10 off for our new member wyses99 and spent yesterday lunch with her trying to explain them I may have to e-mail them as they are on my external drive, but I will try here first.

[Bunnylump]

I think Cenwulf might be your man here. As I recall he has made loads of them!!

[MBH]

Good point Bunny, but make sure they're the 'checked' versions... I remember a slip-up or two along the way (which can get VERY frustrating).

[Vladikavkaz]

I had a go at a couple I seem to remember... Here's one using forum names from the other place.

I can't vouch for the accuracy, as it's dredged up from an old machine!

ABRYHER 84
AMANDA 76
ANGUA 78
BASSBLOKE 141
BRIAN 59
CLVRLAD 58
EIRIAN 38
FLOUNCE 59
GALENA 55
GILL 24
JF 33
JFH 48
JODIEKEGG 95
LOOBY 44
LUCY 45
MARIANNE 77
MBH 61
NELL 12
PNWARD 54
SCARLETANNIE 109
SCURRA 91
STUFARQ 123
SUEC 58
SUPERSLEUTH 158
THOMAS 96
VLADIKAVKAZ 151
XENO 25
ZOE 23

[LAT]

I'm sure I have quite a few stashed away so I could type some of them out again for you. Just need to find where I've put them.

[Vladikavkaz]

Well, the one I posted is solvable.. I wouldn't put it in the 'beginner' bracket though.

[Vladikavkaz]

Here's one from DVP -


A M B E R 21
B A D G E 48
B E D 28
B E R Y L 38
B R A C E L E T 51
C U F F L I N K 134
E A R R I N G 63
G E M 26
H A I R P I N 80
H A I R 31
J A D E 53
J E W E L 48
L O C K E T 57
O N Y X 57
O P A L 37
O R B 13
P A S T E 41
P A V E 39
P E A R L 41
P I N 49
R I N G 52
R U B Y 40
S T O N E 44
S T U D 53
T I A R A 28
T I E P I N 65

[Redfraggle]

Thank you so much for these. She stopped me this morning and said 'Mrs Acheson, did you get me any puzzles for the weekend?' I told her that I had asked my puzzle friends and they would send me some if they had them. She's going to be over the moon

[Cenwulf]

Here are a few I did for DVP. In 'Alpha' all the words begin with A; in 'Omega' they all end in O. 'Ireland' is self-explanatory.

Alphactor 5 Alpha.doc

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Alphactor 6 Omega.doc

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Alphactor 7 Ireland.doc

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[Cenwulf]

If you want to give her something a bit trickier, try the Prime Alphactor (all prime numbers) and the Dualphactor (each letter appears twice).

Prime Alphactor.doc

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Dualphactor.doc

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[Redfraggle]

Update: The girl has solved 5 of these so far. I will keep coming back on here and taking some more for her. Shae totally gets these puzzles!

[chazzie]

Brill - so when does she sign up here?????

Beginning to think we need a Junior Puzzlebrains???????

[Redfraggle]

OMG that might be good - but one of my main 'loves' on here is that you are MY friends (completely separate from locals)

[MBH]

LOL - you don't want space-hopper stories spreading round school Undersandable

fStill - solving 5 of these is very impressuve - it might be worth selecting individual pages and seeing what else she can do.