Puzzle 133
Cake Theft – Logic Puzzles
During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try and identify who stole the prize cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Alex: it wasn't Emery
it was Billie
Billie: it wasn't Charlie
it wasn't Emery
Charlie: it was Emery
it wasn't Alex
Dale: it was Charlie
it was Billie
Emery: it was Dale
it wasn't Alex
It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?
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Puzzle 134
Moving up or right, what is the largest total you can make, using the mathematical signs along the way?
| + | 4 | − | 2 | + | 2 |
| 2 | + | 2 | − | 2 | + |
| − | 1 | + | 2 | − | 4 |
| 2 | − | 1 | + | 1 | − |
| + | 1 | − | 2 | + | 3 |
| 3 | + | 3 | − | 4 | + |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.
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Puzzle 135
Once you have unscrambled the following countries, the first letters can be anagrammed to make a hidden country.
aadnorr
aehiiopt
ceeegr
aaaacdgmrs
anorwy
aaimnor
eemny
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Puzzle 136
Bungled Heist – Logic Puzzles
After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.
Eventually, the police managed to get a confession.
Below is a summary of their statements, and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.
Would you make a good detective? Try and work out who committed the crime.
Alex said:
It wasn't Brook
It was Charlie
Brook said:
It wasn't Alex
It was Dale
Charlie said:
It wasn't Dale
It wasn't Brook
Dale said:
It wasn't Emery
It was Alex
Emery said:
It wasn't Charlie
It was Dale
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