Puzzle 329
What comes next in the sequence:
red orange yellow green blue indigo ?
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A very common sequence.
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Violet.
From the colours of the rainbow.
Puzzle 330
I have a jar of sweets.
There are 234 red, 26 blue, 67 green and 63 yellow sweets.
What chance do I have of picking a blue one with my eyes shut?
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How many sweets in total are there?
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1 in 15.
Reasoning
In total, there are 390 sweets in the jar, and 26 of them are blue.
So the chance of picking blue is 26 in 390 = 1 in 15 = 6.66%.
Puzzle 331
Kevin's mother has three children.
The first was called Alpha, the second was called Beta.
What was the name of the third?
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Make sure that you read the question carefully.
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Kevin, since it was Kevin's mother and Kevin's brothers were Alpha and Beta.
Puzzle 332
What occurs twice in a lifetime, but once in every year.
Twice in a week but never in a day?
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Answer the questions asked.