***************************************************************** ****** Congratulations to all who entered ******* ***************************************************************** * Winners/Solvers of puzzle 534 * ***************************************************************** Sir Calcalot Margaret Lippitt Brookstone school, columbus, ga USA PETER CARPENTER Formerly of R.W.A., then of Abbott, then of Concordia. Living and working as a professional swim coach in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Jasdeep and Joel, Jen,Kelsey and Elizabeth - class 5/6 Percy Merry P.S. - Milton Ontario Canada Leonard Sun highlands elementary - santa clarita united states Jonathan Pentecost Lugarno Public - Sydney Australia. Killian Pattison Elemantary - Houston, Texas, USA Kassie Park Public School robby Lee Superior Senior high School - Superior, Wisconsin cian seoige Matt Murdough Akimel A-al Middle School - Phoenix, AZ USA M G Hudson, QC MAGESH LITTLE ANDROW SCHOOL - TAMILNADU ****** F U ******************************************************* Lauren Hall Middle School - Corte Madera United States Benji Toronto Liam Gladys Speers - Oakville,Canada Diane C. Spignardo East Coldenham Elementary School - Newburgh, New York nate, adam,dru Tri. Elementary School - Straughn, Indiana USA Grade 6/7 Sacred Heart School - Sarnia, Ont. Liz Brendel South Forsyth High School - Cumming, Ga Danny Walker Georgetown District High School - Ontario Canada jonathan stone twin falls high school - twin falls, idaho, USA Lisa Schechner Weber Middle School- Port Washington, NY Rationale: First subsequence: A_E_I_O_U are the vowels, the second: _ B_C_D_F_ is the English alphabet without the vowels. Daniel Chan Windfields J.H.S. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada ¿iurys Jonas Kaunas Univwersity of Technology Gymnasium - Kaunas Lithuania Andee Holland, MI Liam Michelle Jernigan Jonathan Sanders, Whitney Matthews, mulford waldrop, Carter Staples, Whitni DeNamur, Caroline Jarrell Brookstone School. Columbus, Georgia USA. Emily Shea Beck Brookstone School, Columbus,GA, USA The pattern is every other box is the next consecutive vowel and the alternate boxes are consecutive consonants -box 1 is A (the first vowel) -box 3 is E (the next vowel) -box 5 is I (the next vowel) -box 7 is O (the next vowel) so logically, box 9 is U, the next vowel after O, and the even numbered boxes do the same with the consonants ******** e, w *************************************************** Travis, Elizabeth, Jinquan from Park Public School Georgetown Ontario. We think the missing letters are E, W, The way we got the answer was: From A to B is up 1. From B to E is up 3. E to C is down 2. C to I is up 6.I to D is down 5. D to O is up 10. O to E is down 11. E to W is up 18 so that is how we go the answer. ***************************************************************** ****** Congratulations to all who entered ******* *****************************************************************