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  Puzzle 51
During a recent plane and train spotting contest, five eager entrants were lined up ready to be tested on their spotting ability. They had each spotted a number of planes (26, 86, 123, 174, 250) and a number of trains (5, 42, 45, 98, 105). From the clues below, can you determine what colour anorak each was wearing, their position, their age (21, 23, 31, 36, 40) and the number of trains and planes spotted?
1. Simon spotted 44 less trains than planes.
2. Keith was 36 years old.
3. The person on the far right was 8 years younger than Simon, and spotted 174 planes.
4. James was wearing a beige anorak and spotted 37 trains fewer than Simon.
5. The person who was wearing a green anorak, was 19 years younger than the person to his left.
6. Steven spotted 105 trains and 250 planes.
7. The person in the centre was 31 years old, was wearing a blue anorak and spotted 42 trains.
8. Alan, who was on the far left, spotted 26 planes, and spotted 72 trains more than planes.
9. The person who was wearing a red anorak, was 4 years older than Keith and was not next to the person wearing a blue anorak.
10.The person who was next to the 31 year old but not next to the person who spotted 26 planes, was wearing a orange anorak, and spotted 45 trains.
 
[Ref: ZJCD] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle] - Created using Brain Cell
# Name Anorak Age Planes Trains
1 Alan red 40 26 98
2 Steven green 21 250 105
3 Simon blue 31 86 42
4 Keith orange 36 123 45
5 James beige 23 174 5
Puzzle 52
Hidden below are eight, 7 letter words. Each word begins with the central S and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?
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[Ref: ZCGQ] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
Sixteen, shampoo, seaweed, sausage, spanner, speaker, syringe, snorkel.
Puzzle 53
You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 20 minutes every hour. It is now showing 8.00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 10 hours ago, what is the correct time now?
[Ref: ZLMT] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
10:00pm: since the clock is losing 20 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will only show 40 minutes. Since the clock shows 8:00am, we know that 480 clock minutes have passed. This therefore equals 720 real minutes and hence 12 hours. The clock stopped 10 hours ago and so the time must now be 10.00pm. QED.
 Puzzle 54
What is missing from this sequence:
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[Ref: ZVUZ] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
neerg: these are the colours of the rainbow reversed.
Puzzle 55
Using the BrainTracker grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the central F and no letter can be used twice, however, 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: 22 words. Good: 17 words. Average: 13 words.
[Ref: ZVLN] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
Common words: belfry, BUTTERFLY, elf, felt, flu, flue, flute, flutter, fluttery, fly, flyer, fret, fry, fuel, fur, furl, fury, left, tuft, tufty, turf.
All words: belfry, BUTTERFLY, ef, eft, elf, felt, fer, ferly, fet, feu, fey, fleury, fley, flu, flub, flue, flute, fluter, flutey, flutter, fluttery, fluty, fluyt, fly, flyer, flyte, fret, fretty, fry, fub, fuel, fur, furl, fury, fytte, left, lefty, ref, refly, reft, tref, tuft, tufter, tufty, turf, turfy.
 
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