Larry D. Nichols Larry D. Nichols Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer. He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including 'The Nichols Cube Puzzle' (1974), patent US365520. He has lived with his wife Karen in Arlington, Massachusetts since 1959. In 1957, 17 years before Dr. Rubik’s invention popularly known as the “Rubik's Cube”, Dr. Nichols conceived of a twist cube puzzle with six colored faces. It was a 2×2×2
Word Sum Puzzle alphabet: A, a = 1 B, b = 2 C, c = 3 D, d = 4 Z, z = 26 A curved part of a path: _ _ (7) _ _ _ _ (25) The first line of the puzzle presents a clue; in this puzzle, "A curved part of a path" is the puzzle’s clue. The other lines of the puzzle are its hints. This puzzle has two hints: FIRST HINT _ _ (7) This hint indicates that the first two letters of the answer make a sum of 7. Hence, the first two letters can be: A