Today's puzzles involve three topics related to data interpretation and language. The first puzzle asks for a scenario in which a new school syllabus improves every student's grade while the median grade falls from C to D when pupils are ordered by performance. The second puzzle presents poll results from two market research firms, each with 125 respondents, showing differing support levels for a government policy among men and women; one poll reports 84 percent of men and 80 percent of women supporting the policy, while the other reports 22 percent of men and 20 percent of women supporting it. The third activity, called Anguish Languish, is a word game in which an English sentence is rendered as a string of similar‑sounding English words, with the example sentence translating to a familiar story about a boy named Peter. Participants may submit a sentence for a chance to win a copy of the book You Don't Know What You're Missing by Kit Yates, which is available through the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50. The puzzle column has been published on alternate Mondays since 2015, and readers may suggest puzzles by email. Solutions to the first two puzzles will be posted at 5 p.m. UK time.