Puzzle 273
Looking at a usual clock, how many times …
… does the minute hand pass the hour hand between midday and midnight?
Puzzle 274
The BrainBashers golf world tour is well underway and Fred is planning the journey to each location.
Unfortunately, the BrainBashers atlas is playing up again and has worked out the mileage incorrectly, as shown below.
Birmingham 47,000
Oslo 18,000
Chicago 32,000
Manhattan 42,000
According to the system, how many miles is it to Sydney?
Puzzle 275
At the annual BrainBashers puzzle discussion conference, 20 people attended.
At the start of the conference, each person shook hands with every other person, how many handshakes took place in total?
Puzzle 276
Two fine fellows were working very hard all day at the local coal mine.
One of the fellows managed to get a really dirty face, but the other fellow managed to stay clean.
When they reached the end of their day and re-joined the surface in the lift, the fellow with the dirty face simply went home, however, the fellow with the clean face rushed off to wash.
Why?