Puzzle 21
Below are safari animals, however, each letter has been replaced by its position in the alphabet, but the spaces between the resulting numbers have been removed.
For example, DOG = 4-15-7 = 4157.
What are the safari animals?
18891415
3181531549125
79181665
38552018
12515161184
89161615
512516811420
2216611215
1291514
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These are the first letters of the animals: r, c, g, c, l, h, e, b, l.
Answer
18-8-9-14-15 = rhino
3-18-15-3-15-4-9-12-5 = crocodile
7-9-18-1-6-6-5 = giraffe
3-8-5-5-20-1-8 = cheetah
12-5-15-16-1-18-4 = leopard
8-9-16-16-15 = hippo
5-12-5-16-8-1-14-20 = elephant
2-21-6-6-1-12-15 = buffalo
12-9-15-14 = lion
Puzzle 22
Can you find at least 10 different colours hidden in the following paragraph? Can you find all 15?
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 nibbles, earwigs, or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and can look like a sublime ogre, enter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful plumage, which looks fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.
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One of the colours is ORANGE.
Answer
Red, olive, orange, pink, corn, indigo, yellow, blue, brown, black, lime, green, pea, plum, violet.
Many inju[red] animals are invited t[o live] at the 'Toront[o Range]'. Sto[p in K]angaroo [Corn]er and marvel at the lovely creatures with[in. Dig o]ver the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't [yell! Ow]ls can be found swooping fo[r ed]ible nibbles, earwigs or perhaps [blue]bottles in the undergrowth. The [brown] bear, Ro[b, lack]s grace and can look like a sublime o[gre, en]ter at your own risk! [Pea]cocks can be found showing their colourful [plum]age, which looks fantastic when viewed with our ultra[violet] torch.
Puzzle 23
Frankie the Squirrel can find one acorn in 15 minutes and Glenn the Squirrel can find one acorn in 12 minutes. As autumn approaches, they both work all day and all night.
However, Alex the Squirrel is eating their collection! It takes Alex 20 minutes to eat an acorn, and Alex eats all day and all night long (and starts on yesterday's acorns).
How many extra acorns will there be at the end of a 24-hour day?
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How many acorns does each find in one hour?
Answer
144 acorns.
Reasoning
Frankie finds 4 acorns every hour, Glenn finds 5 acorns every hour and Alex eats 3 acorns every hour, so the nett total per hour is 4 + 5 - 3 = 6.
Which is 6 x 24 = 144 extra acorns in a day.
Puzzle 24
Clown Party - Logic Puzzles
Four clowns were getting ready for the evening's performance. From the clothes trunk, each clown had to get their socks and shoes.
There was one pair of shoes in each colour, and one pair of socks in each colour.
Can you tell who had which colour socks and which colour shoes?
The red socks went with the blue shoes.
Baba had yellow shoes, but not yellow socks.
The clown with green shoes did not have blue socks.
Boba had neither red shoes nor red socks.
Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks.
The clown with red shoes had green socks.
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Try matching the sock colours to the shoe colours.
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Baba
Blue socks and Yellow shoes.
Boba
Yellow socks and Green shoes.
Bilpo
Green socks and Red shoes.
Babil
Red socks and Blue shoes.
Reasoning
We had these colours: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green.
We had these clowns: Baba, Boba, Bilpo, Babil.
Let's match sock colours to shoe colours.
By (1) Red socks went with Blue shoes.
By (6) Green socks went with Red shoes.
By (3) Yellows socks must have gone with Green shoes.
Therefore, Blue socks went with Yellow shoes – confirmed with (2).
In summary:
Socks : Shoes
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Red : Blue
Green : Red
Yellow : Green
Blue : Yellow
By (2) Baba had Blue socks and Yellow shoes.
By (4) Boba didn't have Red socks or Red shoes (and Baba had the Blue socks), so must have had Yellow socks and Green shoes.
By (5) Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks – we only have Red & Green socks left, and Blue & Red shoes. Therefore, Babil's socks can only have been Red (with Blue shoes).
Leaving Bilpo with Green socks and Red shoes.
Double-Checking
1. The red socks went with the blue shoes [Babil].
2. Baba had yellow shoes but not yellow socks [had Blue].
3. The clown with green shoes did not have blue socks [had Yellow].
4. Boba had neither red shoes nor red socks [had Green shoes and Yellow socks].
5. Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks [Red].
6. The clown with red shoes had green socks [Bilpo].
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