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Old 01-31-2012, 05:57 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate View Post
I am having a contest for an audience that has a varied ethnic background... for most english is a second language. So if I gave word puzzles, those that do have english as their first language would have the advantage, which I am trying to avoid.

So the puzzles I'm thinking of are things like sequence puzzles;
23, 45, 89, 177, __
1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, __
7, 5, 8, 4, 9, 3, __
1, 2, 6, 24, 120, __
I know it's not what you're looking for, but the self-referential aptitude test is very well done.

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