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Puzzle 1
Gardener's Spring Fayreall logic puzzles
At the recent spring fayre, four keen gardeners were displaying their fine roses.
In total there were four colours and each rose colour appeared twice.
From the clues below, can you tell who had which colour roses?
Gardener Green had a yellow rose.
Gardener Yellow did not have a red one.
Gardener Red had a blue rose, but not a green one.
Gardener Blue did not have a yellow one.
One person with a red rose also had a green one.
One person with a yellow rose also had a blue one.
One of the persons with a green rose had no red.
Neither of the persons with a yellow rose had a green one.
No person had two roses of the same colour.
No two persons had the same two colour roses, and their names provide no clues.
Puzzle 2
Can you find three consecutive prime numbers …
… that equal 409,457 when multiplied together?
Puzzle 3
Below you can find 8 words that have had their beginnings and endings removed. In each case, the same two letters can be found at the beginning and the end. For example REspiRE.
--qui--
--yli--
--tat--
--gib--
--liv--
--rmi--
--ifi--
--alg--
Puzzle 4
Below are seven clues to seven words.
When arranged in the correct order, longest to shortest, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed.
capital of France
snake
long root vegetable
single article
twisted ankle
coarse file
equally