Higher Than Cube

E4
When all the high intelligence hoopla was just starting to make people swoon over the Rubik's cube many moons ago, I was already light-years ahead of the cerebral swindle. The trick lay in never touching one as long as you lived - even in secret - as some fools did and found they couldn't solve it, and were thus A-list duds unto themselves forever.
In my case, not only will others never know, but even I won't. Ever. It's the same reason I've never been fooled by all those ' Test Your Own IQ' scams.What if it turns out to be less than 200? These days, it's ditto with Sudoku. Hey, who wants to not to be able to finish one in a mess, like this sentence? Meaning, you're like me too. You take the easy problems, wallop the answers out of them and scram to the keyboards shouting "eureka" in Greek or something.
But when you see those other ones that are like hungry tigers ready to rip your brains to bits, you're not going to chance it and go up to them and say "here kitty kitty" are you? This next one is like that. Don't touch it.
A, B and C are three towns, each pair being connected by a network of roads. There are 82 different routes from A to B (including those that go through C) and 62 different routes from B to C (including those that go through A). What is the smallest number of routes from A to C (including those that go through B)? 
DEAR MS
(The leftover problem was: "There's a six-letter word in English that has three 'Y's and no other vowels or semivowels such as h or w. In other words - so to speak - the word is only full of consonants." - MS) 
Y's-Guise-Dept:
A six-letter word with three 'y's and no other vowels or semivowels is SYZYGY. It describes a position when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. It is the singular of the word Syzygies.
- Arya Manoj, arulachu02@gmail.com 
The word is SYZYGY - a straight-line configuration of three orbiting-celestial bodies.
- Siddharth Patkar, &siddhpatkar@gmail.com 
(The second problem was: "Did you know that the rear end of a sliding glacier coming down a mountain often moves faster than its front end [with respect to a fixed point of reference]? But how can that be since it's the same glacier? Do trains have faster moving fronts than backs?" - MS) 
Breaking-The-Ice-Dept:
The velocity of the ice movement varies across glaciers with the thicker parts - the centres - moving faster than the thinner parts - the edges - that experience more frictional drag. The upper part of the glacier moves rigidly, while the lower part flows plastically as individual ice grains move relative to each other.
- Dr K Narayana Murty, &k_n_murty@yahoo.com 
(The third puzzle was about the snake-bitten hunter who got his two identical looking but diff-erent anti-snakebite tablets mixed up, and didn't know what course to take after that. - MS) 
Keeping-Tabs-Dept:
He should take one tablet each from both the bottles A & B and consume them. He is now left with four tablets. Break each into two halves. Keep one half of each in one bottle and exactly the same contents in another bottle. Consume contents of one bottle after 10 minutes, foll-owed by similar step after next 10 minutes.
- Ayan Joshi, ayanjoshi@yahoo.com 
He should take one more tablet from bottle A and dissolve all four tablets in water and drink half the water. After 10 minutes, he should drink the remaining water. After 10 more minutes, he should take the remaining tablets from bottle A and B.
- Mohammed Hani Shaik, &hani13may@yahoo.com 
ENDGAME(S) 
1. Where will you reach if you keep going north-east for as far as you can?
2. Icicles are usually formed by snow melting on sloping roofs of cottages. But if it's cold enough for water to freeze (to form icicles), why does the snow melt in the first place?  
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