SECOND ANSWERS
The minute hand goes twelve times as fast as the hour hand. As we learned in puzzle 11, the two hands coincide eleven times during every twelve-hour period. Therefore the time between any two consecutive coincidences will be 12/n or 65
and s/n minutes, which is the same as 65 minutes, 27 and 3/n seconds. The answer to the question is that after 12 o’clock the two hands will again meet precisely at 65 min utes, 27 and 3/n seconds past 1 o’clock. Back to lunar shuttles. Each ship travels a constant speed of 20,000 mph. On one tragic occasion, when two ships were exactly 83,000 miles apart and going opposite ways, the radar system on one craft malfunctioned. This put the ships on a straight-line collision course. How far apart were they fifteen minutes before they crashed?
The paragraph contains every letter of the alphabet except e, the last letter of “time.” Now go back and study the original narrative. Some where in the text is a block of letters which taken forward spell the last name of a top science fiction author who has written about time travel. There may be spaces between letters, as for example in the word “fat” that is hidden in the second sentence of this paragraph. After you find the last name, look for another sequence of letters in the narrative which taken backward spell the same author’s first name. What is the full name?
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