Puzzle 1
Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The castaways luckily landed on a remote desert island.
There was enough food for the 135 people to last four weeks.
Nine days later a rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an additional 36 people stranded on the island to now share the original rationed food.
The food obviously had to be re-rationed, everyone was now on three-quarters of the original ration, so how many days in total would the food last, from the day of the original sinking?
Puzzle 2
By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.
Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?
Therefore, what now reads 'vokahliuppw' will become a real word.
oval
post
skin
malt
when
slab
miss
fund
aped
sped
sway
Puzzle 3
On the charts I remain number one,
This position cannot be undone,
If I burn, you may get
Just a little bit wet.
In a zeppelin, I am no fun.
Puzzle Copyright © Alan Stillson
Website: www.stillsonworks.com
Puzzle 4
Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
-e-er
--eue
--o
ma-
-p-a-e-
-erso-
---k-am-on
-ouse
-a-
-ur-
---igent