Open-ended - With worked solutions · SET 17

salt ..... fall
Find a 5-letter English word. Add it after salt and before fall to form two English words, without reordering or deleting letters. Each dot represents one letter. Write the linking word, both results and their meanings.
AI reconstruction — response-format change: explain your word construction for self-review instead of entering a multi-letter answer.

AI reconstruction. All shapes have positive weights, and equal shapes have equal weights. The green bar keeps its weight when turned. Determine the red square’s weight in green-bar units. Then explain whether the two shown balances force one of the pictured choices A–D to balance it. Give two concrete assignments of positive weights if more than one choice is possible.



Original pictured choices for discussion:

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mock movement as in boxing ..... narrowest rule in ruled paper
Find an English word with 5 letters that fits both meanings. Each dot is one letter. Write the word and explain both senses.
AI reconstruction — response-format change: explain the full-word answer for self-review instead of entering a multi-letter response.

AI reconstruction. Discuss how one of the pictured nets can reproduce the two visible patterned faces of the square pyramid. Describe a concrete folding correspondence. Only the two visible faces are evidence; do not invent patterns on hidden faces or claim they are known. Compare the other nets and state the limit of your conclusion.



Original pictured choices for discussion:

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Rearrange every letter in “core plate” to form one English word. Ignore the space; use every letter exactly once. Write a word and show the letter check.
AI reconstruction: provide and check a full-word anagram for self-review; any valid English word using exactly the given letters is acceptable.

Decode the quotation and the author’s name from the letter grid. Explain the reading direction and where spaces belong.

Red is worth more than blue. Yellow is worth more than green and orange, but less than blue. Orange is worth less than green. Assign ranks 1–5, with 5 highest.

Find two English words with same or nearly the same meanings. Write the pair and explain the senses used.
Words: haunt, plaint, ascend, promote, taunt, upbraid.
AI reconstruction: the response is a written explanation for self-review, without automatic grading. Explain a defensible interpretation and mention any limits or alternative senses. If no clear pair works, explain why and suggest a clearer comparison; all original words remain unchanged.

Draw a continuous line from Start to Finish through the maze. AI reconstruction of the unclear movement convention: use only the outlined white cells, move between cells sharing a side, and find a route with the fewest cell-to-cell moves. Blank ungridded regions and black cells are not passages.

Add the same opening letters to —ash, —endour, —ice, —it to form four English words. Explain the worked example. Here prefix means a shared initial string, not necessarily a grammatical morpheme.

Orange and green are both worth more than red. Blue and yellow are both worth less than red. Green is worth less than orange, and yellow less than blue. Put the colours in positions 1–5, with 5 highest.

AI reconstruction for self-review: test this interpretation of the first pair: exchange triangle and square outlines, fill the central symbol, swap the top and lower-right outer symbols, and keep the lower-left symbol. Apply it to Figure 3. Draw or describe the result and check all original candidates A–E. Explain any mismatch; a unique original intended rule is not asserted.

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Find an English word starting with t and ending with m that contrasts with keep or preserve. Explain the intended meaning rather than assuming every context has an exact opposite.

Find an English word of 3 letters that can be added after snow and before age to form two words. Each dot represents one letter.
snow ... age
Write the linking word, both results, and their meanings for self-review.

AI reconstruction: the response format is adapted to an explanation for self-review because the context-free words allow competing readings. All original English words are retained.
Choose a word with the same or nearly the same meaning as MEADOW. Explain your chosen sense and compare possible alternatives.
Words: area, ground, space, lea, grass.

lucky .... bridge
Find a 4-letter English word to put after lucky and before bridge, forming two words or established expressions. Each dot represents one letter. Explain both results.
AI reconstruction: explain a full-word link for self-review; established multiword expressions are allowed, as in the worked example.

Which of the following is not associated with ballet? No complete option list is supplied. Explain what kind of answer is required and give a suitable example.


AI reconstruction — response adaptation: give a written explanation for self-review; no automatic answer is claimed.

For each row a–e, identify the arrangement that cannot be obtained by rotating the other three. Do not turn the paper over or reflect it. If the original drawing does not give a clean group of three plus one, explain the inconsistency instead of forcing an answer.

hose .... dream
Find a 4-letter English word to put after hose and before dream, forming two words or established expressions. Each dot represents one letter. Explain both results.
AI reconstruction: explain a full-word link for self-review; established multiword expressions are allowed, as in the worked example.

ran .... cloth
Find a 4-letter English word. Add it after ran and before cloth to form two English words, without reordering or deleting letters. Each dot represents one letter. Write the linking word, both results and their meanings.
AI reconstruction — response-format change: explain your word construction for self-review instead of entering a multi-letter answer.