Puzzle 269
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 270
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.
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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).
Puzzle 272
This is an annoying paragraph, in which you try to work out what is unusual about it. This paragraph has a quandary though. A solitary word has found a way to slink into this paragraph, to fox your fun, by going against all my jazzy plans. What is that word? Don't try to run a utility to assist you, that would spoil all of my attempts to absorb all of your avid skills in this mind-blowing prank.
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Is there a missing letter?
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Attempts.
This word contains the only letter E in the entire paragraph, notice how every other letter appears at least once.
Although the letters C, E, J, Q, V, X each all appear once, the longer the piece of text the more difficult it is to avoid the letter E.
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