Question 1 says. "These clocks show a four-letter word. Can you work it out."
My initial thought went to the fact that the question is using the clocks to represent a word. I wondered if that was a clue in itself? I thought, are the clocks representing the answer by simply being clocks. I therefore wondered if the four-letter word is, "TIME"
If the answer is TIME, I had to figure out how I might get to that word via the times shown on the four clocks. I may have worked out the answer to Question 1, but kind of did it backwards?:
Clock one = 8pm
Clock two = 9am
Clock three = 1pm
Clock four = 5am
If we turn the four clocks into 24-hour clocks, and use that displayed 'time' (number) to represent letters of the alphabet, does it look like this:
* Clock one, 8pm. 8pm = the 20th hour of a 24-hour clock. The 20th letter in the alphabet = T
* Clock two, 9am. 9am, simply the 9th hour, therefore the 9th letter in the alphabet = I
* Clock three, 1pm. 1pm = the 13th hour of a 24-hour clock. The 13th letter in the alphabet = M
* Clock four = 5am. 5am, simply the 5th hour, therefore the 5th letter in the alphabet = E
TIME
At the top of the card in my post #2, it says, "The seven questions below each have a one-word answer which can follow 'Christmas'. This kind of makes sense to me, Christmas Time.
Who wants to look at question 2?
