***************************************************************** ****** Congratulations to all who entered! ******* ***************************************************************** ~ Winners/Solvers of puzzle #422 ~ ***************************************************************** Irina Smoky Hill High school - Colorado jaena kellie Barry Spence Normandeau School - Red Deer AB Canada Kendra Shymko, Kelsey Shymko, Shane Vanden Boer, Brandan Gill and Andrew Rawlings - Grade 5 students St. John Fisher School - Forest, Ontario. Brent MacLachlan, Sean Sweeney, James Sallows, Richard Pickering, Tim Alberti and Tyson Greenbird - Grade 6 St. John Fisher School - Forest, Ontario. Brent DeGroot, Ryan Sweeney, Rob Alberti, Chantelle Vanos, Theresa O'Connell and Jason Kelders - Grade 8 students St. John Fisher School - Forest, Ontario. Jessica and Lauren - class 52 Eastview Public School - Oakville Ontario Canada Cassie Z., me, jessica Crawford C.T.K - lubbock,tx wayne dionne st.benedict - sarnia canada ontario Jena - Mr. Spence's Grade 5 Class Normandeau School, Red Deer AB CANADA ********** U **************************************************** rationale: Y is 25th letter of the alphabet, H is the 8th, etc.. So the numbers represented by letters are: 25, 25, 8, 12, 25, 5, ?, 20, 18, 18, 18, 18 If you take the first four and add them together, you get 70. The last four added together is 72. Therefore, the middle four numbers must add up to 71. The number ? should be 21 which is the letter "U" in the order of the alphabet. Lucy Yuan Elizabeth Ballantyne School - Montreal West, Quebec, Canada Patrick P. & Russel T. , Kristen A Sam Sherrrat Milton Canada ***************************************************************** Compiled by Anne Morrow. ****** Congratulations to all who entered! ******* *****************************************************************