just make sure that the bones SPELL the word ten
tke the correct six bones away but spell the word TEN
you have to make the bones spell ten
'Fifteen bones of ancient men, Take away six and still leave ten.' It's not the answer you think. It's physically impossible to take six away from fifteen and get ten. That is, if you're counting. Read between the lines. Or, in this case, the BONES. People who can hear things and understand them right away are better with this puzzle. It means to simply take away six of the bones, so that the remaining bones spell TEN. Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy. If you think it through.
"Fifteen bones of ancient men - Take away six and still leave ten."When Pan says there is more than one way to 'read' the bones, he means that you are not leaving 10 bones, you are leaving the ones that spell the letters T, E, N.Take away 3 bones from the left group to leave a T, take away one from the right of the next bunch to leave an E, and take away the top and bottom from the last group to leave an N.
The ghost of Pan directs you to the puzzle that says "Fifteen bones of ancient men, take six away and yet leave ten." You remove the three bones from around the first set of five, leaving only the two that make a T. You remove the one from the right side of the next set of five, leaving the four that make an E. Then you remove two bones, the top and bottom ones, to leave the three that make an N.
"Fifteen bones of ancient men - take away six and still leave ten." What Pan's ghost is telling you is that you have to "read" the bones, as in letters. Remove 6 of the bones, leaving the remaining 9 bones to spell out the capital letters T-E-N.(2 bones make the T, 4 bones make the E, and 3 make the E)
What you do is take away the excess bones. When taken away, the left over bones should spell TEN.
so you have 15 bones right? take away 6 bones from the pile and make sure it still ten. so take away some bones till it says T E N.
The object is to remove 6 of the 15 bones, but leave behind the nine bones that form the letters T-E-N.Remove 3 bones (left, bottom, right) from the first group of 5 bones, leaving 2 that form a T. Take away 1 bone (right) from the second group, leaving 5 that form an E. Take away 2 bones from the third group (top, bottom) to leave 3 that form an N.If this is still unclear, see the related link below.
You remove 6 of the bones from the fifteen on the table, but you "leave ten" : the bones that remain spell the lettersT-E-N.Take away three bones from the first five, leaving the two that form a T.Take away one bone from the next set of five, leaving four to make the E.Take away the top and bottom ones from the next five, leaving three that make the N.
In the maze (labyrinth), you are told to remove 6 bones from the 15 and still leave 10.The answer is to leave the 9 bones that spell out the word TEN.
You take-away the bones and leave the bones that say: TEN