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Puzzle 1
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

[Ref: ZHZK] Author: Albert Einstein (?)

This puzzle is usually attributed to Einstein, who may or may not have written it. The German owns the fish and the table below details the full answer:
Nationality: Norweg Dane Brit German Swede
Colour : Yellow Blue Red Green White
Beverage : water tea milk coffee beer
Smokes : Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Pet : cats horses birds fish dogs

Puzzle 2
Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

[Ref: ZSJE]

Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top.

Puzzle 3
Here is snippet of section D of the curious multiple-choice entrance exam into the exclusive BrainBashers puzzle club.
Q1. Which is the first question where c) is the correct answer
a) Q3
b) Q4
c) Q1
d) Q2
Q2. Which is the first question where a) is the correct answer
a) Q4
b) Q2
c) Q3
d) Q1
Q3. Which is the first question where d) is the correct answer
a) Q1
b) Q2
c) Q4
d) Q3
Q4. Which is the first question where b) is the correct answer
a) Q2
b) Q4
c) Q3
d) Q1

[Ref: ZVXI] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]

Puzzle 4
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?

[Ref: ZVTU]

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.

Puzzle 5
During the latest round of the BrainBashers triathlon, Keith was fourth. Adrian is not the oldest, but is older than Duncan, who was not second. The child who was next in age to the youngest, finished second. The child who finished in third place is older than the child who finished first. Billy is younger than the child who finished in third place. Can you determine who finished where and place the children in order of age?

[Ref: ZYNI] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]

# Name Age
1 Duncan youngest
2 Billy next to youngest
3 Adrian next to oldest
4 Keith Oldest

Puzzle 6
Here is snippet of section A of the curious multiple-choice entrance exam into the exclusive BrainBashers puzzle club.
1. The first question with B as the correct answer is:
A. 1
B. 4
C. 3
D. 2
2. The answer to Question 4 is:
A. D
B. A
C. B
D. C
3. The answer to Question 1 is:
A. D
B. C
C. B
D. A
4. The number of questions which have D as the correct answer is:
A. 3
B. 2
C. 1
D. 0
5. The number of questions which have B as the correct answer is:
A. 0
B. 2
C. 3
D. 1

[Ref: ZYOT] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]

Puzzle 7
Using the letters AAEEIIMMPPTT complete this grid. The grid reads the same across as down.

[Ref: ZTFP] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]

The words are limp, idea, meat, pate.

Puzzle 8
If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

[Ref: ZVDJ]

Puzzle 9
Can you name four days which start with the letter "T"?

[Ref: ZHIM]

Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow!

Puzzle 10
During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try and identify who stole Mrs Archer's cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Arnold: it wasn't Edward
it was Brian
Brian: it wasn't Charlie
it wasn't Edward
Charlie: it was Edward
it wasn't Arnold
Derek: it was Charlie
it was Brian
Edward: it was Derek
it wasn't Arnold
It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?

[Ref: ZFSC] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]

Charlie committed the terrible crime. The way to solve this puzzle is to look at each clue. We know that exactly one of each person's statements is true. Looking at Arnold's statements, let's check to see 'it was Brian' is true? If 'it was Brian' is true, then we know the other statement is false, therefore it was Edward. This is a contradiction. Hence we now know it wasn't Brian, nor Edward (as 'it wasn't Edward' must be the true statement). Looking at Charlie's statement, we can similarly determine that it wasn't Arnold either. Edward's statement gives us that it wasn't Derek, which leaves only Charlie as the culprit. It is always wise to check this against the other clues. QED.

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