Forty years ago, Tetris was a popular arcade game, followed by Wordtris and Super Tetris and other variations. In Wordtris,
players were to form words from falling tiles.
In this puzzle, you are to place the 17 tetris tiles below into the 7 x 10 grid in the usual interlocking style, so that ten 7-letter math words
are formed reading left to right. The 17 tiles will take up 68 of the 70 spaces, so the letters V and X have been placed for you.
I wasn't certain how difficult this would be so I have given you three of the ten words to help you get started:
HEXAGON
ELLIPSE
SEVENTY
When you send in your answer, you may just send a list of the ten words in order from top to bottom.
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Solution to the Problem:
Here is the solution:
from Colin Bowey
Correctly solved by:
| 1. Diana Kennett | Bastrop, Texas, USA |
| 2. Colin (Yowie) Bowey | Beechworth, Victoria, Australia |
| 3. Ivy Joseph | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| 4. Dr. Hari Kishan |
D.N. College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 5. Davit Banana | Istanbul, Turkey |
| 6. Dani-jo Ward |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 7. Raygan Ball |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 8. Courtney Spillman |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 9. Marely Lopez Serna |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 10. Autumn Chapman-Jaeger |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 11. Richard Thacker | ---------- |
| 12. Eva Hull |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 13. Yatzil Fregoso |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 14. Justice Espinoza |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 15. Sawyer Pidcock |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 16. Shyann Page |
Central High School, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA |
| 17. Kelly Stubblefield | Mobile, Alabama, USA |