Puzzle 141
Combine the word fragments below to produce pairs of words that have opposite meanings. There are 9 pairs of words, one pair on each line.
For example, USE REF EPT ACC becomes ACCEPT + REFUSE.
AB ANT RCE SCA UND
WA RY RD BR ICE CO AVE
ETY NG SAF ER DA
ACT AND CO EXP NTR
WN US UNK NO MO FA
TR TE IBU HER GAT DIS
CAL HO RI RTI TAL VE ZON
TIO AL CID EN ENT INT NAL AC
OWL OR KN IGN GE ED CE AN
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Puzzle 142
The legendary BrainBashers calendar had a recent bug. Here is a listing showing the number of days in each month:
January 107
February 68
March 135
April 15
May 133
June 104
July 104
August 16
September {?}
How many days did it show for September?
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Puzzle 143
Exactly how many minutes is it before seven o'clock, if 40 minutes ago it was three times as many minutes past two o'clock?
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Puzzle 144
Home Improvements - Logic Puzzles
After a recent spate of home improvements, four couples were having a dinner party to discuss the additions to their houses.
Alan had not recently had a new bathroom. Kara had not yet done her kitchen, but perhaps would update it next. Brian, who is married to Maud, had not had new windows. Laura delighted in showing photographs of her new conservatory. Neither Charles nor David had a new kitchen. Julie had not had new windows. Alan, who also had not had windows, is not married to Laura and Charles is not married to Kara.
Who is married to whom, and what work had they recently undertaken, assuming that each couple had one improvement and no two couples had the same improvement.
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