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One warm sunny afternoon I was sitting eating my sandwiches, and I noticed four vehicles in the parking spaces outside four buildings across the street.
The taxi was picking up a passenger next door to the barbers, but not outside the bank. The large tractor wasn't occupying the parking space outside the third building. The motorcycle was parked outside the building next to the bank. The book delivery van had been lucky enough to find a parking space right outside the bookshop. The bakery was somewhere to the left of the parked tractor.
Can you work out which vehicle was outside which building?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and cannot be clicked, but the grid can be printed or you can take a screenshot.
Hint
Find anagrams of the words in this order: EIGHTH, BARNEY, FIDGET, DARNER, NAPPED, DOCILE.
Answer
CHANGE.
Reasoning
The initial letters are HNGEAC, which is an anagram of CHANGE. eighth becomes heightbarney becomes nearbyfidget becomes gifteddarner becomes errandnapped becomes appenddocile becomes coiled
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Puzzle 4
Using exactly four straight lines, without taking your pen off the (virtual) paper, can you join all nine dots?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and cannot be clicked.
A Charming Puzzle, Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book, A. Cyril Pearson.
Answer
Start from the top left dot, and go past the top right dot, and then diagonally down to the bottom left dot, back up to the top left dot, and diagonally down to the bottom right dot.