What is it that the person who makes it doesn't need it. The person who buys it does not need it for themselves and the person who uses it doesn't know it?
[Ref: ZZRT]
Hint: Hopefully you won't need one for a very long time.
Answer: A coffin.
Puzzle 3
Cen yee rell wrer er wreng werr rrer peregrepr?
Er ferrr glence yee mey rrenk rrer jerr rre vewelr reve preblemr, ber ne!
Rrree cenrenenrr elre reve preblemr, rrey reve been repleced werr rre lerrer R, ber wrecr ener ere rrey?
Hint: It's not just the vowels that have a problem.
Answer: H, S and T.
The sentence should read:
Can you tell what is wrong with this paragraph? At first glance you may think that just the vowels have problems, but no! Three consonants also have problems, they have been replaced with the letter R, but which ones are they?
Puzzle 4
A bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopaedia to the last page.
The bookworm eats in a straight line.
The encyclopaedia consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order.
Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?
[Ref: ZPZW]
Hint: Mentally try to see the set of 10 volumes on a shelf.
Answer: He eats through 8,000 pages.
Remember, when the encyclopaedia is in the correct order on the bookshelf, the first volume is on the left, so the first page is not on the extreme left, nor extreme right. And also remember that he's eating from the first page to the last in a straight line, so doesn't eat either of these 2 pages.
The answer will also remain the same if you consider each sheet of paper to be two pages, he will eat 4,000 sheets of paper, which is still 8,000 pages.
Puzzle 5
At the local sports club, some veteran members were photographed together for the annual awards ceremony. In the photograph, each member has a different coloured T-shirt on. Obviously, the number of awards each has won over the years counts towards their status within the club, however, it is also significant to let other members know how many relatives of theirs are eligible for membership. From the information given below, can you determine the positions of the five members in the photograph, their T-shirt colour, their age (40, 48, 60, 65, 74), the number of awards they have won (40, 75, 96, 125, 165) and the number of eligible relatives (5, 9, 30, 46, 60)?
The person who is wearing red, has 25 relatives more than Jeff and is not next to the person wearing blue. Jim is wearing orange and has 40 awards more than John. John has 51 awards more than his age and Jeff has 5 relatives. Jake has 75 awards and is 65 years old. The person on the far right has 37 fewer relatives than John, and is 40 years old. Jack, who is the first, is 60 years old, and has 20 awards fewer than his age. The person who is next to the person who has 46 relatives but not next to the person who is 60 years old, is wearing yellow, and has 96 awards. The person in the centre has 46 relatives, is wearing blue and has 125 awards. The person who is wearing green, has 30 more relatives than the person to the left of him.
