Today’s Wednesday Wordplay challenge at the mentalfloss.com Brain Game asks you to choose between four commonly-misspelled words that end with the letters “ABLE.” Three are spelled correctly; one is not. Good luck!

Just ONE of the four words in the following list is misspelled. Identify the culprit:

CHANGEABLE
EXCITEABLE
MANAGEABLE
NOTICEABLE

Good luck with today’s mentalfloss.com Brain Game Tuesday Test Time challenge:

Only two U.S. states have capital cities
whose names begin and end with
the same letter of the alphabet.

Name these states (and their capitals).

Here are the ANSWERS.

To moms everywhere, we dedicate today’s Monday Math Square mentalfloss.com Brain Game challenge.

Place the digits 1 through 9 in the white blanks so that the mathematical equations work both across and down. Each digit 1 through 9 should appear only once in the main grid (the red square).

The mentalfloss.com Brain Game. Free-for-all Friday. Have at it!

Here’s an alphabetical list of five words:

BLACKED, PACKAGE, POLLACK, SLACKED, TACKIER

Which one of the following four words
best fits in with the above group, and why?

BACKLOG, CRACKLE, CUTBACK, QUACKED

Can you win mentalfloss.com Brain Game Think Thursday challenge? It’s a gamble!

In the betting game known as craps, the player starts by rolling two dice and combining their values. On the first roll, 7 or 11 is an automatic win (a “pass”), while a roll of 2, 3, or 12 is an automatic loss (“craps”). Every other roll is called a “point” and allows the roller to keep rolling in an effort to match that point.

On the first roll of the dice,
what are the odds of a craps roller
rolling a point instead of a pass or craps?

Today’s mentalfloss.com Brain Game Wednesday Wordplay challenge is a Word Ladder puzzle named after an old Ned Miller song. Good luck!

By changing one letter in each step to form English words, and leaving all other letters in their original positions, convert JACK into KING in the fewest possible steps.

J A C K
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
K I N G

Geography is a common subject for the mentalfloss.com Brain Game‘s Tuesday Test Time challenge. Maybe we’ll change the name to Tuesday Travels. What do you think?

Name the 5 independent South American
nations whose short-form English names
end with the letter A.

Here are the ANSWERS.

It’s the first Monday in May, so merrily mull over this Monday Math Square as today’s mentalfloss.com Brain Game challenge. Good luck!

Place the digits 1 through 9 in the white blanks so that the mathematical equations work both across and down. Each digit 1 through 9 should appear only once in the main grid (the red square).

Good luck with today’s mentalfloss.com Brain Game Free-for-all Friday challenge:

Examine the 4 pro baseball game scores that follow,
then figure out the score of the 5th game:

Chicago 1, New York 0
Philadelphia 5, Miami 2
Cleveland 2, Baltimore 0
Los Angeles 3, Kansas City 2

Seattle ?, Oakland ?

Here’s a new mentalfloss.com Brain Game Think Thursday challenge for your consideration. Enjoy!

What’s the missing number in the sequence below?

3, 7, 8, ?, 50, 60