Head Games; June/July 2007; Scientific American Mind; by American Mensa; 1 Page(s)

Take the number of playing squares on a chessboard, divide by the number of railroads in Monopoly, subtract the number of face cards (jacks, queens and kings) in a standard deck of playing cards, multiply by the number of dice in classic Yahtzee, then add the point value of the letter "E" in the U.S. version of Scrabble. What is the final number?

If you spell out whole numbers in sequential order (one, two, three, and so on), how high do you have to go before you reach a number that contains the letter "a"?