Quento

While cleaning up old newspapers in someone’s house I came across a puzzle called “Quento” in the Dutch newspaper “Algemeen dagblad”.

The basics of this puzzle are simple calculations. What sets it a bit apart from other puzzles is that the answers are given, and that you have to find the exercise.

Example:

You have to find a calculation for each of the numbers on the right by going from a number to a + or – sign and on to another number. If necessary, you may add additional +/- signs and numbers, as long as you don’t use the same number or sign twice.

What you may do:

Not allowed is:

Of course there is a website, and an app for both Android and Ipad. Personally I think the exercises are too easy, though no doubt they can be increased by adding size and moving to higher numbers, as shown in our 4th problem. In the app I did see higher numbers, in the sense of multiples of 3, 4, 5 , and so on, but I didn’t see larger sizes, as in our fourth problem. That may be because I didn’t purchase the app and just used the free version.

Quento 2^*/*****