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Post by Kimmy on May 19, 2010 11:27:19 GMT
Puzzle 189 If I buy a melon and a coconut, the cost will be £1.19. If I buy a melon and a pineapple, the cost will be £1.45. If I buy a coconut and a pineapple, the cost will be £1.40. What are the individual prices?  |
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Post by Kevin THFC on May 19, 2010 19:18:46 GMT
Melon 62p
Pineapple 83p
Coconut 57p
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Post by liz on May 20, 2010 8:48:29 GMT
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Post by Kimmy on May 22, 2010 17:48:28 GMT
Pineapple = 83p, coconut = 57p, melon = 62p.  |
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Post by Kimmy on May 22, 2010 17:49:20 GMT
Puzzle 190 How many different numbers can you find which, when written, have as many letters in the word as the number itself? For example, SIX has 3 letters.  |
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Post by BC on May 22, 2010 21:06:07 GMT
Puzzle 190 How many different numbers can you find which, when written, have as many letters in the word as the number itself? For example, SIX has 3 letters. I can only find one: FOUR. I did consider MINUS NINE. But, of course, that has 9 letters, not -9 letters!  |
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Post by Kimmy on May 24, 2010 7:44:42 GMT
There is only one number with this property - FOUR, which has 4 letters. |
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Post by Kimmy on May 24, 2010 7:46:22 GMT
Puzzle 191 This equation contains the numbers 1-8. Can you complete it? 6* ** x ---- **** Beats me.  |
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Post by Kimmy on May 26, 2010 10:45:11 GMT
64 * 58 = 3712.
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Post by Kimmy on May 26, 2010 10:48:30 GMT
Puzzle 191 A business man was in Kimmypops Village for a meeting. He had time to spare before the meeting, so he decided to get a haircut. He looked at a street map and was surprised to find that there were only two barbers in town, right across the road from each other. He walked across the village and came to the two barber shops. He went into the first one and was shocked by the dirtiness and the hair everywhere. The place was a mess! He looked at the barber and the barber had a really messy haircut all in his face and uneven. He went across the street to the other barber and saw the place was immaculate, clean and shining like new. The barber was nicely dressed and had a dazzling haircut: it was perfect. However, the man walked across the street and got his haircut at the shabby barbers. Why?  |
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Post by BC on May 27, 2010 2:44:46 GMT
Puzzle 191 A business man was in Kimmypops Village for a meeting. He had time to spare before the meeting, so he decided to get a haircut. He looked at a street map and was surprised to find that there were only two barbers in town, right across the road from each other. He walked across the village and came to the two barber shops. He went into the first one and was shocked by the dirtiness and the hair everywhere. The place was a mess! He looked at the barber and the barber had a really messy haircut all in his face and uneven. He went across the street to the other barber and saw the place was immaculate, clean and shining like new. The barber was nicely dressed and had a dazzling haircut: it was perfect. However, the man walked across the street and got his haircut at the shabby barbers. Why? The barbers cut each others hair.  |
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Post by Kimmy on May 27, 2010 9:21:26 GMT
Since people can't cut their own hair and there were only two barbers in town, the two barbers must have cut each other's hair. As the messy barber had a poor haircut, it must have been from the clean barber. The good haircut was therefore performed by the messy barber. |
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Post by Kimmy on May 27, 2010 9:23:19 GMT
Puzzle 192 What word goes in the brackets: FOOD [ROAD] HARD WEEP [....] FALL  |
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Post by BC on May 27, 2010 11:30:07 GMT
Puzzle 192 What word goes in the brackets: FOOD [ROAD] HARD WEEP [....] FALL I think I know, but I won't leap in just yet - give someone else a chance. |
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Post by Kimmy on May 27, 2010 21:21:28 GMT
LEAP: from the third letter of the second word, plus the third letter of the first word, plus the second letter of the second word, plus the fourth letter of the first word. |
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Post by Kimmy on May 27, 2010 21:22:54 GMT
Time on your hands. Puzzle 193 You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 24 minutes every hour. It is now showing 3:00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 1 hour ago, what is the correct time now? |
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Post by liz on May 28, 2010 7:07:10 GMT
193. 5.12am
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Post by BC on May 28, 2010 23:29:50 GMT
Time on your hands. Puzzle 193 You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 24 minutes every hour. It is now showing 3:00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 1 hour ago, what is the correct time now? Real - Clock 0000 - 0000 0100 - 0036 0200 - 0112 0300 - 0148 0400 - 0224 0500 - 0300 So at 0300 on the clock, the real time was 0500 But that was an hour ago, meaning the time now is 0600 or 6amBC |
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Post by Kimmy on May 29, 2010 7:48:38 GMT
6:00am: since the clock is losing 24 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will only show 36 minutes. Since the clock shows 3:00am, we know that 180 clock minutes have passed. This therefore equals 300 real minutes and hence 5 hours. The clock stopped 1 hour ago and the time must now be 6.00am. |
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Post by Kimmy on May 29, 2010 8:00:58 GMT
Puzzle 200 Using the Kimmypops grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the central D and no letter can be used twice. The letters do not have to be connected. Proper nouns are not allowed, however, plurals are. There is at least one nine letter word. Excellent: 62 words. Good: 38 words. Average: 25 words. EST EDY ARY |
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Post by BC on May 29, 2010 21:46:47 GMT
Puzzle 200 Using the Kimmypops grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the central D and no letter can be used twice. The letters do not have to be connected. Proper nouns are not allowed, however, plurals are. There is at least one nine letter word. Excellent: 62 words. Good: 38 words. Average: 25 words. EST EDY ARY YESTERDAY (nine letters) DAY DAYS DATE DATES READY READ READS REED REEDS SEED DEAR DEARS (i.e. old dears) DEER DEERS (?) DEAL DEALS DETER DETERS TARDY YARD YARDS DRAY (horse) DRAYS STEED STEAD TREAD TREADS STEADY SATED DALE DALES DRAT DART DARTS DARE DARES RATED TASTED RESTED DEARY STED SEEDY SEATED REARED I think that leaves 45 answers, so I'll settle for "good". BC |
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Post by Kimmy on May 30, 2010 10:14:16 GMT
Common words: dare, dares, dart, darts, date, dates, day, days, dear, dearest, dears, deer, desert, deter, deters, dray, drays, dry, dye, dyer, dyers, dyes, eared, eased, erased, eyed, rated, read, reads, ready, red, reds, reed, reeds, rested, sad, seared, seated, sedate, seed, seedy, stared, stayed, stead, steady, steed, strayed, tad, tads, tardy, tared, teared, teased, trade, trades, tread, treads, yard, yards, yeasted, YESTERDAY. All words: ad, ads, aedes, dare, dares, dart, darts, date, dater, daters, dates, day, days, de, dear, dearest, dears, deary, dee, deer, deers, dees, deet, deets, derat, derate, derates, derats, deray, derays, dere, desert, deter, deters, dey, deys, drat, drats, dray, drays, dree, drees, drest, dry, dryest, drys, dye, dyer, dyers, dyes, eared, eased, ed, erased, estrayed, eyed, rad, rads, rased, rated, rayed, read, reads, ready, red, redate, redates, rede, redes, reds, redye, redyes, reed, reeds, reedy, reseda, rested, sad, sade, sard, sated, seared, seated, sedate, sedater, seder, seed, seedy, sered, stade, stared, stayed, stead, steady, steed, strayed, styed, tad, tads, tardy, tared, teared, teased, ted, teds, teed, trad, trade, trades, tread, treads, treed, tsade, tyred, yard, yards, yeasted, YESTERDAY. |
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Post by Kimmy on May 30, 2010 10:15:35 GMT
Puzzle 201 Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1? |
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Post by BC on Jun 1, 2010 21:07:30 GMT
Puzzle 201 Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1? I think that it is all in the presentation of the question. If you are deducting the £3 from the £30 (into the guests pockets), you have to also deduct the £2 (into the naughty BellBoy's pocket) from the remaining £27 to leave £25. BC |
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Post by Kimmy on Jun 2, 2010 9:11:18 GMT
We have to be careful what we are adding together. Originally, they paid £30, they each received back £1, they now have only paid £27. Of this £27, £25 went to the manager for the room and £2 went to the bellboy. |
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Post by Kimmy on Jun 2, 2010 9:14:34 GMT
Puzzle 208 Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil. |
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Post by michael on Jun 2, 2010 13:53:36 GMT
Peru
sleeper, under which
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Post by BC on Jun 3, 2010 0:02:46 GMT
Well done Michael - I wouldn't have got that one. |
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Post by Kimmy on Jun 3, 2010 8:48:12 GMT
Peru: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil. |
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Post by Kimmy on Jun 3, 2010 8:50:29 GMT
Puzzle 209 What year comes next in this sequence: 1973 1979 1987 1993 1997 1999  |
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