Puzzle 457
At a local village gala, the entire population turned up, 500 people.
The event raised £3,000.
Tickets were priced as follows:
£7.48 men
£7.12 women
£0.45 children.
How many children were there?
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Puzzle 458
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed a fault, I did a listing of miles from Scotland to particular countries, and here is the result:
England 12,000 miles
Peru 6,000 miles
Egypt 9,000 miles
Iceland 11,000 miles
How far away did it list Ethiopia?
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Puzzle 459
In each of these three sentences, can you replace the missing number, which appears as a hyphenated word. For example, twenty-one, thirty-two, etc.
This sentence contains {?} letters, one hyphen, two commas and a full stop.
Interestingly, this sentence contains {?} letters, one hyphen, three commas and the final full stop.
Finally, this sentence contains {?} letters, one hyphen, three commas and one full stop.
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Puzzle 460
Paintballing Weekend - Logic Puzzles
During an exciting weekend of paintball, four friends were having great fun.
The paintballs came in blue, green, yellow and red.
Coincidentally, the four friends had T-shirts in those same colours.
Blake used blue paintballs.
The person in the green T-shirt used yellow paintballs.
Charlie was not wearing a red T-shirt.
Drew used green paintballs and wore a blue T-shirt.
Alex was the only person who used paint which was the same colour as their T-shirt.
Can you tell which colour paint they each used and the colour of their respective T-shirts?
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