Puzzle 1
Which word is the odd one out?
erah reed yenkom tibbar tac tesomram gip
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Hint
Try reading the words backwards.
Answer
yenkom.
Reasoning
The others are the names of animals spelled backwards:
hare, deer, rabbit, cat, marmoset, pig.
But YENKOM is not quite the reverse of MONKEY.
Puzzle 2
Imagine a bottle recycling skip, empty other than one lonely bottle.
Every hour, on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip.
The first hour, at noon, one person came and put a bottle in.
One hour later, two people each placed a bottle into the skip.
An hour later, four people each placed a bottle into the skip.
This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the skip was finally full.
When was the skip exactly half full?
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Remember that the bottle count doubles each time.
Answer
10pm.
Reasoning
The skip started with 1 lonely bottle.
At Noon: 1 person came along and added a bottle, making the total 2 bottles.
At 1pm: 2 people came along and each added a bottle, making the total 2 + 2 = 4 bottles.
At 2pm: 4 people came along and each added a bottle, making the total 4 + 4 = 8 bottles.
At 3pm: 8 people came along and each added a bottle, making the total 8 + 8 = 16 bottles.
Therefore, the number of bottles in the skip is doubling every hour, as it was full at 11pm, it must have been half full at 10pm.
Puzzle 3
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 4
How should these words actually be spelled, without using a dictionary.
bizz-ness
com-it-ee
sin-seer-lee
ark-ee-ollow-jist
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Be careful with the middle of the last word.
Answer
Business.
Committee.
Sincerely.
Archaeologist.
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