Puzzle 265
Can you find a word that can suffix (go after) each of these letters:
re
deva
rein
over
inter
under
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Hint
The missing word is five letters long.
Answer
State.
restate
devastate
reinstate
overstate
interstate
understate.
Puzzle 266
Last night, I was looking at a road sign and could see that Leeds was 13 miles away, Stoke was 13 miles away and Leek was 10 miles away.
Unfortunately, it was too dark to see how far it was to Manchester. Can you help me?
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Each vowel (AEIOU) counts as 2 miles.
Answer
27 miles.
Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 2 miles and consonants are worth 3 miles.
Puzzle 267
Which is the odd one out:
CAT DOG GOLDFISH HAMSTER COW
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This is nothing to do with pets.
Answer
Goldfish.
All of the others are mammals. If you suggested Cow I will let you have half a mark!
Puzzle 268
In Farmer Donald's hay loft there are a number of ants, mice and chickens.
There are ten times as many ants as there are mice, and there are four times as many mice as there are chickens.
Altogether there are 1,806 feet.
How many chickens are there?
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Think about the number of legs.
Answer
There are 7 chickens, 28 mice and 280 ants.
Reasoning
For every chicken (2 legs) we have 4 mice (16 legs) and 40 ants (240 legs) = 258 legs.
So we can divide the total number of legs by 258, giving 1,806 ÷ 258 = 7 (chickens).