1. How do the numbers 3, 5, and 8 differ from 4, 6, 7, and 9 in terms of counting?

2. What word changes from present tense to past tense when its first letter is moved and becomes its last letter?

3. Which word comes next in the following series?

ELSE. LESS, ????

4. The following is not an analogy, but the missing word does relate to the other three in terms of two particular letters. The missing word is not unique.

RUNWAY : CINEMA :: ANSWER : ????????

HINTS:

2. It's a three-letter word.

3. It has to do with the letters in ELSE.

4. It has to do with the middle letters of each word.

Answers:

1. The words three, five, and eight change in the teens to THIRteen, FIFteen, and EIGHteen, while the other numbers retain their full names (i.e. fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, and nineteen).

2. EAT - - - ATE

3. SELL .......... The word ELSE contains the letters E, S, and L. ELSE has two E's, LESS has two S's, so a word is needed that has the letters E, S, and L with two L's.

4)

ruNWay : ciNEma :: anSWer : abSEnt

or any other six-letter word in which the middle letters are SE

(resent, unseen, desert, etc.) The middle letters are compass points.