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Puzzle 21 



Bog Snorkelling - Logic Puzzles

Four friends were competing in the internationally renowned BrainBashers Bog Snorkelling competition.

As usual, the judges were a little careless and once again, they managed to lose the results.

Luckily, a number of spectators were able to remember the following snippets of information:

Only one person wore the same number as the position they finished.
Gary, who didn't wear green, beat Barry.
Larry beat the person who wore yellow.
The person who wore number 3, wore green.
The person who wore number 2 finished first, whereas Harry came last.
The person who finished second wore green, Barry wore yellow, and the person wearing red beat the person wearing blue.
Can you work out who finished where, and the number and colour they wore?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 22 



Snail Race - Logic Puzzles

At last year's BrainBashers snail race, 10 fine snails completed the tabletop course.

Predictably, as per every year, the results mysteriously went missing.

However, various spectators remembered the following snippets of information:

Orange Berry lost to Zebra Wings.
Zebra Wings beat Orange Berry, Frog Flippers and Apple Pie.
Fizzy Pop lost to Minty Mouth, Orange Berry and CD Player.
Frog Flippers beat Windy Hill, CD Player and Orange Berry.
Top Hat lost to CD Player, Kipper Slippers and Apple Pie.
CD Player beat Top Hat and Fizzy Pop.
Apple Pie lost to Zebra Wings and Orange Berry.
Kipper Slippers lost to Apple Pie and Frog Flippers.
Frog Flippers beat Fizzy Pop, Minty Mouth and CD Player.
CD Player lost to Frog Flippers, Kipper Slippers and Apple Pie.
Top Hat beat Fizzy Pop and Windy Hill.
Minty Mouth lost to Windy Hill and Orange Berry.
Windy Hill lost to Apple Pie and CD Player.
Can you work out who finished where?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 23 



Can you add two lines to complete this sequence of towers?

5 towers with roofs: v-shaped+spire, v-shaped, double-v shaped, v-shaped, u-shaped.
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and cannot be clicked.

Puzzle Copyright © Lloyd King

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Puzzle 24 



In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains {?} X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains {?} R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely {?} E's.
This sentence has exactly {?} letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains {?} letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain {?} letters!

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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