Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN WANTMOREPUZZLES? ANSWERS Also available The Puzzling World of Winston Breen G P PUTNAM’S SONS A division of Penguin Young Readers Group Published by The Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, U.S.A Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2009 by Eric Berlin Drawings by Katrina Damkoehler All rights reserved This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, G P Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 G P Putnam’s Sons, Reg U.S Pat & Tm Off The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content Published simultaneously in Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berlin, Eric The potato chip puzzles / Eric Berlin p cm.—(Puzzling world of Winston Breen) Summary: Winston and his friends enter an all-day puzzle contest to win fifty thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text [1 Puzzles—Fiction Contests—Fiction Mystery and detective stories.] I Title PZ7.B45335Po 2009 [Fic]—dc22 2008033698 eISBN : 978-1-101-02479-9 http://us.penguingroup.com For Rita and Joel Berlin Also, a world of thanks to Katherine Bryant, Ana Deboo, Francis Heaney, Dan Katz, Susan Kochan, Lance Nathan, Trip Payne, Scott Purdy, William Reiss, and Will Shortz CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE TWO KIDS sat in the living room The coffee table held the remains of an explosion of puzzle magazines, snacks, and drinks The television screen displayed a dingy castle dungeon Two armorclad knights advanced on each other, waving their swords “Okay,” Brendan Root said, fiddling with the joystick “How I play?” WANT MORE PUZZLES? CARE FOR SOME DESSERT? Six more puzzles by Dmitri Simon I’ve got six puzzling desserts for you! The first five puzzles have a word as their answer The sixth, “Make Your Own Sundae,” will tell you how to combine all those answers The result will be a very sweet treat—exactly what you deserve! Apple Pie What’s as American as apple pie? This puzzle, that’s what Each of the clues below leads to a word or phrase that contains the letters USA, in that order The shaded letters, reading down, will spell out a clue to a six-letter word Fruit Plate Sure, cakes and cookies are yummy, but don’t pass by the fruit plate! You can find seventeen kinds of fruit in the grid below, reading up, down, left, right, or diagonally After you’ve found them all, the leftover letters, taken row by row, will spell out a clue to a six-letter word APPLE APRICOT BANANA CHERRY GRAPE KUMQUAT LEMON MANGO MELON ORANGE PAPAYA PEAR PERSIMMON PLUM RASPBERRY RHUBARB TANGERINE Jelly Roll This jelly roll is filled with a bunch of yummy letters Answers go in two directions—in and out The starting and ending numbers for each answer are given to you If you get stuck on the In clues, try the Out clues By working back and forth, you should be able to fill the entire jelly roll When you’re done, the circled letters, following the inward path, will spell out a word Candy Sampler There’s a wide variety of candy in this box Each piece contains a word, and each word (except for one) is the answer to one of the questions listed below Answer each question, and cross off its answer—the last word remaining is the one you need Which word becomes a kind of sea creature when you take the last three letters and move them into the middle of the word? Which word becomes a new word if you change the last letter to the next letter in the alphabet? Which word becomes a new word when you put the letters FI at the start? Which word becomes a new word when you put the letters ICY somewhere inside it? Which word becomes a new word when you tack a Z at the end? Which word becomes a part of the body if you move the first letter into the third position? Which word becomes an animal when you put a W at the front? Which word becomes a color if you add a letter to the front and the back? Which word becomes a country if you add an A and scramble all the letters? 10 Which word becomes the name of a planet if you scramble its letters? 11 Which word is hiding a musical instrument backward inside it? Chocolate-Chip Cookie Instead of chocolate chips, this cookie is packed with letters Before the cookie fell and broke into pieces, the letters spelled out all the months in the year but one Can you figure out which month is missing? Make Your Own Sundae Now you have five words, one from each of the previous puzzles Carefully follow the directions below, and if you your job right, I’ll give you something really sweet Alphabetize the words and number them to Write the words out, all in a row, in this order: 2nd, 3rd, 1st, and 5th Oh wait I forgot to tell you: The 1st word in that row of words should be spelled backward Remove the last letter In fact, remove this letter wherever it appears Double the 12th letter Remember the 4th word? We haven’t used that yet Delete all these letters, as many times as each appears, in your letter string Switch the 1st and 2nd letters Switch the 8th and 9th letters Switch the 11th and 12th letters Cross off every other letter, starting with the 2nd letter Read what remains! CARE FOR SOME DESSERT? Answers Apple Pie Captain Hook, for one, is a PIRATE Fruit Plate The remaining letters spell out COLDEST SEASON, a clue for the word WINTER Jelly Roll Inward answers: SPACECRAFT / RAP / ADAM / OGRE / DICE / RAW / ABUSE / ELF Outward answers: FLEE / SUB / AWARE / CIDER / GO MAD / APART / FARCE / CAPS The circled letters spell out the word SPIRAL Candy Sampler STRAYING (STINGRAY) HIDEOUS (HIDEOUT) REPLACE (FIREPLACE) UNCLE (UNICYCLE) QUART (QUARTZ) BELOW (ELBOW) EASEL (WEASEL) AGENT (MAGENTA) INCH (CHINA) 10 HEART (EARTH) 11 EGGNOG (GONG) The unused word is TIN Chocolate-Chip Cookie The missing month is AUGUST Make Your Own Sundae After Step 3, your word list should look like this: ETARIPSPIRALAUGUSTWINTER Step 4: ETAIPSPIALAUGUSTWINTE Step 5: ETAIPSPIALAUUGUSTWINTE Step 6: EAPSPALAUUGUSWE Step 7: AEPSPALUAUUGSWE Step 8: APPLAUSE ANSWERS Page BRAT RACE ACES TEST CODE OVEN DEED ENDS PASTA ASHES SHARK TERSE ASKED Page 14 One jockey and one horse together have six legs, so 108 legs would mean there were eighteen horses in the race Page 23 Crossword puzzles Page 27 WISECRACK ASTRONAUT CHOCOLATE PARAKEETS QUALIFIED TRADEMARK Reading down the fifth and eighth columns reveals the phrase COOKIE CUTTER Page 32 PLATE, PASTEL, STAPLER, PLANTERS Page 37 All these words are the names of colors with the first letter removed: EBONY, PEACH, PINK, BLACK, OLIVE, GOLD, GRAY, and ORANGE Page 41 STRESSED and DESSERTS are the longest words that spell another word backward Page 56 Page 80 Page 84 Page 90 EBW: elbow or eyebrow JYK: jaywalk or joystick KAP: kidnap or kneecap LYX: lynx or larynx QUZ: quiz or quartz VYL: vinyl or volleyball VDO: video or voodoo HZL: hazel or horizontal YGT: yogurt or youngest HCF: handcuff or handkerchief Page 119 The three values are $21, $35, and $44 Page 137 Page 169 • I have one eye and a sharp toe What am I? NEEDLE • Sometimes I have two eyes, and sometimes I have four, and my life often hangs by a thread What am I? BUTTON • Most people put me out at night yet not lock me out What am I? LAMP • My coat is very thin indeed, but you wear me around the house What am I? PAINT • I get shorter the longer I stand What am I? CANDLE • You must break me before you can use me What am I? EGG • My legs are strong, but I will not run and play You sit upon my lap for hours every day What am I? CHAIR • Scratch my head and it’s no longer red What am I? MATCH • I’m round in the daytime and long at night What am I? BELT • If you beat me, I will yell What am I? DRUM • I will not burn in a fire, and I will not drown in the water What am I? ICE • Sometimes you can’t make a move without me What am I? A DIE • I’m the end of time and space In fact, I’m the end of everyplace What am I? E • If you turn me around, I can no longer see What am I? MIRROR • Throw away the outside, cook the inside Then eat the outside and throw away the inside What am I? CORN • I’m full all day but empty at night What am I? A PAIR OF SHOES • I may be small, but I fill my house from top to bottom What am I? SNAIL • I am full of holes, but I can still hold water What am I? SPONGE Page 216 ... homework due the next period You could tell that’s what they were doing—they had a wide-eyed, racing -the- clock air to them, and they gripped their pens so hard that blood stopped flowing to their fingertips... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berlin, Eric The potato chip puzzles / Eric Berlin p cm.—(Puzzling world of Winston Breen) Summary: Winston and his friends enter an all-day puzzle contest... row He made the first batches of his now-famous potato chips in a pizzeria’s kitchen He started off by selling them to delis and other stores out of the back of his car People loved them, and he