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  Puzzle 1
Imagine a small chess board, 3 by 3. If you place a knight on the top left hand corner, how many different squares can the knight reach less than four moves?
 
[Ref: ZQUE]
7 squares: all but the centre and the bottom right squares.
 Puzzle 2
Below is a grid which should contain animals. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid? Each animal begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
[Ref: ZMDW] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
Puzzle 3
My trustworthy BrainBashers electronic world atlas has been up to its usual tricks again. I wanted to know the population of some major countries and here are the results:
USA 130,000
England 410,000
France 340,000
Peru 200,000
Brazil 340,000
Greece 300,000
Japan 270,000
How many people were listed as living in Tibet?
[Ref: ZGGP] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
270,000 people: each vowel is worth 3 and each consonant is worth 7, these are added together and then multiplied by 10000. Therefore, Tibet has 2v + 3c = 2 * 3 + 3 * 7 = 27, therefore 270,000 people.
Puzzle 4
What is represented by this BrainBat?
Schubert's Symphon
[Ref: ZIAF]
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
Puzzle 5
The four clowns in this puzzle all competed for the much-prized 'Clown of the Year' award recently. There were 30 clowns in total who entered the competition and each had to make the judges laugh.
From the clues below, can you work out each clown's name, the town he or she came from, what place each clown was awarded and the most comical moment of each clown's routine?
1. The Budsworth clown finished one place lower than Strumpy who is not from Witfield.
2. The judges roared with laughter as one clown cycled across a tightrope, wobbled, screamed and fell head first into a pool of water. He finished two places below Boo Boo who was not from Witfield.
3. The clown who finished in 7th place lost points when her big red nose fell off during her manic routine. This involved being hit with a giant rubber mallet by her assistant who was supposed to hit her on the shoulder but unfortunately had something in his eye at the time and accidentally bashed her in the face instead.
4. Tambo was disappointed when his usually masterful custard pie antics failed to impress the judges sufficiently to secure the award. He was not the clown from Stockville whose final placing was lower than the Shrimpton clown.
Clowns: Boo Boo, Grego, Strumpy, Tambo
Towns: Budsworth, Shrimpton, Stockville, Witfield
Position: 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th
Routine: Custard Pie, Flower, Rubber Mallet, Unicycle
[Ref: ZPQT] © Rodins Ltd
Name Town # Routine
Boo Boo Shrimpton 2nd Flower
Strumpy Stockville 4th Unicycle
Tambo Budsworth 5th Custard Pie
Grego Whitfield 7th Rubber Mallet
The positions that the four clowns could finish are 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th. The Budsworth clown finished one place below Strumpy (1) so Strumpy must have been 4th and the Budsworth clown 5th. The (male) clown on the unicycle finished two places below Boo Boo (2) so must have been 7th or 4th. Since the clown who came 7th was female, the clown on the unicycle must have been 4th and is Strumpy and Boo Boo came 2nd. Tambo (male) is not the clown who came 7th (3), 2nd (Boo Boo) or 4th (Strumpy) so came 5th with his custard pie act (4) and Grego came 7th with her rubber mallet so by elimination, Boo Boo's act involved the flower. The Budsworth clown (Tambo) came 5th, neither Strumpy (1) nor Boo Boo (2) came from Whitfield so the clown from Whitfield was Grego (7th). The Shrimpton clown was placed higher than the Stockville clown (4) so came 2nd and the Stockville clown came 4th.
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