Brain Teasers and Puzzles 

Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the ocean.

The castaways luckily landed on a remote desert island.

There was enough food for the 220 people to last three weeks.

Six days later a rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an additional 55 people stranded on the island to now share the original rationed food.

The food obviously had to be re-rationed, but everyone was now on one-half of the original ration, so how many days in total would the food last for, from the day of the original sinking?

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Many years ago, befor modern educashun in the new millenium, one problem in skools was baseic speeling and grammer.

To conbat this and rays acheivement, teechers were adviced to start at the very begining, at the yungest age.

Once they had managed to breath new life into leessons, progres came quickly – sucess was then garanteed.

How many speeling errors would modern skolars identify in this passage?

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Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury.

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

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Bog Snorkelling - Logic Puzzles

Four friends were competing in the internationally renowned BrainBashers Bog Snorkelling competition.

As usual, the judges were a little careless and once again, they managed to lose the results.

Luckily, a number of spectators were able to remember the following snippets of information:

Only one person wore the same number as the position they finished.
Gary, who didn't wear green, beat Barry.
Larry beat the person who wore yellow.
The person who wore number 3, wore green.
The person who wore number 2 finished first whereas Harry came last.
The person who finished second wore green, Barry wore yellow and the person wearing red beat the person wearing blue.
Can you work out who finished where, and the number and colour they wore?

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