How many minutes is it until 6 am if 50 minutes ago it was 4x as many minutes past 3 am?

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Site update: We’ve made some progress building out the profile component: Avatars are now up and running. You can now upload a graphical image.

It’s been several months since we saw the last antique French puzzle card, so figured I’d bring another out.

Thanks to slavco23 for providing the translation: “Where is he, that who says that I’m a bad cater, me, the first prize winner in the whip contest!… Come on, where is he?”

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Lately, I’ve been dismayed by the many young patients (35-45) I’ve come across who’ve had heart attacks and strokes. Some have been physician colleagues of mine who eat well and do not drink or smoke.

Since heart attacks and strokes are basically the same thing (tissue dying due to clogged arteries), figured many would find this information helpful:

Earlier medical research has shown that

• Depression and
• Hostility

are both associated with heart attacks.

Now, a new study indicates that Chronic Anxiety is an additional important risk factor for heart attacks.

Can negative emotions twist, deform, and hurt your body? Perhaps so….

Reference: Shen B-J, Avivi YE, Todaro JF, et al. Anxiety characteristics independently and prospectively predict myocardial infarction in men. The unique contribution of anxiety among psychologic factors. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2007.09.033

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This next flash puzzle design (over 2 months in the making!) is a neat twist on the jigsaw puzzle concept. Since we’ve been going kind of heavy on the math/logic brain teasers lately, this should be a nice change of pace (more of a visual-spatial challenge).

If you enjoy this kind of puzzle, and would like to see another on smart-kit in the future, please let me know. Additional feedback & suggestions are always welcome too. Thanks

[ "Olla Podrida' was inspired by the work of Alex Palmer, who created similar puzzles in the 1960's].

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The missing word that completes each sentence below comes from the transposed letters naming one of the objects pictured above.

John was ______ to get it.

The bridge rests on four ______.

It is wrong to ______.

How the lambs ______.

Mosquitoes are great ______.

Hear the wind ______.

Get the ______ and put out the fire.

The ______ is a very small insect.

They are scarce, and he has none to ______.

[any answers submitted below in the 'comments' section will be unmasked Thursday, thanks]

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There are no "hidden objects" for this puzzle; to better understand how to solve, see this picture puzzle

[submitted answers will be revealed in 1-2 days, thanks]

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