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  Puzzle 101
Can you find the eleven hidden colours in the following paragraph:
Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.
 
[Ref: ZAXQ] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.
 Puzzle 102
Using the letters EEIIIISSSTTT complete this grid. The grid reads the same across as down.
[Ref: ZIMZ] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
The words are stir, tire, iris, rest.
Puzzle 103
Below, 10 nine letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters. These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice and all chunks are used. Can you determine what the 10 words are?
ely rec ant htn fer ort
ent cer por sin lig ian
lio row use rar lib ive
tfo sca ing ing far eth
som dif est dig imp mho
[Ref: ZDBX] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
Different, digestive, farmhouse, important, librarian, lightning, portfolio, scarecrow, sincerely, something.
 Puzzle 104
Once upon a time, and old lady went to sell her vast quantity of eggs at the local market.
When asked how many she had, she replied:
Son, I can't count past 100 but I know that.
If you divide the number of eggs by 2 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 3 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 4 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 5 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 6 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 7 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 8 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 9 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 10 there will be one egg left.
Finally. If you divide the Number of eggs by 11 there will be NO EGGS left!
How many eggs did the old lady have?
[Ref: ZFMU] Copyrighted
25,201 eggs. This puzzle has a few different methods for finding the solution, one of which is:
Find a number X into which all of the numbers from 2 to 10 divide evenly. You can do this by simply using 2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9*10, but you can find a smaller number by finding the prime factors, a subset of which can be used to form any number from 2 to 10. 2*2*2*3*3*5*7 will do. This comes out to be 2520, and is the lowest number into which all the numbers 2-10 divide evenly.
We can add 1 to this number to satisfy the first 9 constraints of the puzzle (the remainder of 2521/2, 2521/3 ... 2521/10 is one), but this does not satisfy the last constraint, divisibility by 11.
Fortunately, we can multiply X (=2520) by any integer and add 1 and we will still satisfy constraints 1-9. So what Y do we multiply X by so that (X*Y) + 1 is divisible by 11. 2520/11 has a remainder of 1. Thus two 2520s divided by eleven would have a remainder of 1+1 = 2, and so forth...so ten 2520s divided by 11 would have a remainder of 10. This number plus one would divide eleven evenly, as well as also satisfy the first 9 constraints - thus 25201 is the answer.
Puzzle 105
Using the BrainTracker grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the central M 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: 16 words. Good: 12 words. Average: 8 words.
[Ref: ZXXT] © Kevin Stone [Protected Puzzle]
Common words: em, hem, home, me, mere, mesh, mew, more, mow, mower, ohm, seem, some, SOMEWHERE, whom, worm.
All words: em, eme, emeer, emeers, emes, ems, hem, heme, hemes, hems, herm, herms, hm, home, homer, homers, homes, me, meow, meows, mere, meres, mesh, mew, mews, mho, mhos, mo, mor, more, mores, mors, morse, mos, mow, mower, mowers, mows, ohm, ohms, om, omer, omers, oms, rehem, rehems, rem, rems, rom, roms, seem, seemer, seme, shmo, smew, some, SOMEWHERE, whom, worm, worms.
 
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