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Here at The Braintenance Blog we work you hard. We don't just supply mind agility games (as Lumosity does), but we make your mind work in a myriad of ways through a myriad of channels. A great way to have some lowbrow [nothing to do with beer] entertainment (as opposed to brain entrainment) is to create anagrams out of colleagues' and friends' names, or, if you are either a conspiracy theorist or merely an angry person who'd like to find "hidden meanings" or hilarious re combinations of brand or product names, this is your chance. If you are not familiar with anagrams, here's the Wikipedia definition, description and an example or two: An anagram is a type of word play , the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse . Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist . The original word or phrase is...

Our challenge of several days ago was to use intellectual "brute force" (very rapid, iterative trial-and-error ) to find out which arithmetic operations were being performed on the numbers in the equations which follow. Instead of using the common symbols, I had substituted the letter "n" for any operation. Let's crack the code, Oh Braintenancers . Find the missing signs which are all represented below as the letter "n" in the following simple equations. I'll have answers for you within the next two days. You have plenty of time. Put away the crossword and Sudoku , and give this exercise a whack. Have at it, then. Answers are posted in red . A ) 9 n 3 n 3 = 30  The first n is multiplication, and the second n is addition . B ) 7 n 5 n 3 = 9  The first n is addition, and the second n is subtraction . C ) 12 n 3 n 1 = 5  The first n is division , and the second is addition . Have fun. By the way, are you doing mathematics, arithmetic or something el...