Puzzle 5
Below are seven countries, whose letters have been scrambled.
Once you have unscrambled the letters, the first letters of each of the countries can then be scrambled to make another country.
Can you find this country?
AADNORR
AEHIIOPT
CEEEGR
AAAACDGMRS
ANORWY
AAIMNOR
EEMNY
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One of the answers is YEMEN.
Answer
Germany.
AADNORR = Andorra
AEHIIOPT = Ethiopia
CEEEGR = Greece
AAAACDGMRS = Madagascar
ANORWY = Norway
AAIMNOR = Romania
EEMNY = Yemen
A + E + G + M + N + R + Y = Germany.
Puzzle 6
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?
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It's not just the vowels that have a problem.
Answer
H, S, and T.
It 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 7
Gardener's Spring Fayre - Logic Puzzles
At the recent spring fayre, four keen gardeners were displaying their fine roses.
In total there were four colours and each rose colour appeared twice.
From the clues below, can you tell who had which colour roses?
Gardener Green had a yellow rose.
Gardener Yellow did not have a red one.
Gardener Red had a blue rose, but not a green one.
Gardener Blue did not have a yellow one.
One person with a red rose also had a green one.
One person with a yellow rose also had a blue one.
One of the persons with a green rose had no red.
Neither of the persons with a yellow rose had a green one.
No person had two roses of the same colour.
No two persons had the same two colour roses, and their names provide no clues.
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Draw a grid of the two colours each gardener could have.
Answer
Name
Rose1
Rose2
Gardener Blue
red
green
Gardener Green
yellow
red
Gardener Red
blue
yellow
Gardener Yellow
blue
green
Reasoning
We can create a grid of the possible flowers each person could have. Initially, they each have the possibility of BGRY (blue, green, red, yellow) and as we work our way through the clues we can eliminate certain options.
Person F1 F2
Blue BGRY BGRY
Green BGRY BGRY
Red BGRY BGRY
Yellow BGRY BGRY
From (1), (2), (3) and (4) we can reduce the options to:
Blue BGR BGR
Green Y BGRY
Red B BRY
Yellow BGY BGY
By (9) this becomes:
Blue BGR BGR
Green Y BGR
Red B RY
Yellow BGY BGY
By (8) we get:
Blue BGR BGR
Green Y BR
Red B RY
Yellow BGY BGY
Only Blue can satisfy (5), and Yellow is the only person who can have the other G.
Blue R G
Green Y BR
Red B RY
Yellow G BY
By (8), Yellow can't be Y.
Blue R G
Green Y BR
Red B RY
Yellow G B
Since there are only two of each colour, we can reduce further:
Blue R G
Green Y R
Red B Y
Yellow G B
Puzzle 8
Can you create a sentence that contains the word 'and' five times in a row?
With no other word between each 'and'.
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Quite a tricky little puzzle!
Answer
I commissioned an artist to paint a sign for BrainBashers that said "BrainBashers Puzzles And Illusions", however, they made a terrible mistake.
The gaps between 'Puzzles' and 'And', and 'And' and 'Illusions' weren't the same, so the sign seemed oddly out of balance.
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