Answers: Exeter Trail Mail

Well done on completing the Exeter Trail Mail challenge! How did you do? Take a peek below to see the three answers.

Easy Peasy

Q: Add together all the letters in the names of the first three women and remove that total from the year they died. What does that equal?

A: 1640. Temperance Lloyd = 15, Susannah Edwards = 15, Mary Trembles = 12. 15 + 15 + 12 = 42. 1682 - 42 = 1640.  

Mind Twister

Q: Only one of these four-letter words can’t be seen on the plaque: ITCH, CUTE, RAFT, LICE, LAND, BEEN, TREE, WARD, CELL. Which is it?

A: BEEN.

Brain Buster

Q: Line 1 = 2; Line 2 = 3; Line 3 = 7; Line 4 = ?

A: 5. To get this answer, you need to count up the number of closed spaces in the letters from that line - e, o, d etc. So, for line four: Susannah Edwards