Puzzle 1
You are running in a marathon and you overtake the person in second place.
What position are you now in?
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Answer
If you think that you are now in first place, then think again!
If you overtake the person in second place, you are now in second place yourself!
Puzzle 2
Are there more inches in a mile …
… or Sundays in a thousand years?
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Hint
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, and 12 inches in a foot.
Answer
Inches in a mile.
Reasoning
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, and 12 inches in a foot.
There are 1760 x 3 x 12 = 63,360 inches in a mile, and around 1,000 x 52 = 52,000 Sundays in a thousand years.
Depending on the day of the week the first day of the year falls, there are either 52,177 or 52,178 Sundays in a thousand years.
Puzzle 3
Below are ten everyday words, each of which has had some letters removed. The letters removed form either a boy's or a girl's name.
For example, if the word was PAN---IME, the answer might be PANTOMIME. Can you determine the original words?
demi----
---ple
absor---t
he---che
sc----r
----ionaire
break---ce
monog---
-----incense
s---ly
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Hint
One of the names is MEL.
Answer
demi---- + john = demijohn
---ple + sam = sample
absor---t + ben = absorbent
he---che + ada = headache
sc----r + anne = scanner
----ionaire + bill = billionaire
break---ce + dan = breakdance
monog--- + amy = monogamy
-----incense + frank = frankincense
s---ly + mel = smelly
Puzzle 4
Can you find a number …
… whose double exceeds its quarter by 7.
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Hint
The number is less than 100.
Answer
4.
4's double is 8, and 4's quarter is 1.
Reasoning
If the missing number is N, then:
2N = N + 7
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4
Multiply throughout by 4:
8N = N + 28
Subtract N from both sides:
7N = 28
Divide throughout by 7:
N = 4
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