Puzzle 1
Alex can eat 27 chocolates in an hour, Billie can eat 2 chocolates in 10 minutes, and Charlie can eat 7 chocolates in 20 minutes.
How long will it take them to share and eat a large box of 120 chocolates while watching a movie?
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How many chocolates can they eat in one hour?
Answer
2 hours.
Reasoning
In one hour, Alex eats 27 chocolates, Billie eats 12, and Charlie eats 21.
A total of 60 chocolates.
Therefore, 120 chocolates would take 2 hours.
Puzzle 2
My special BrainBashers clock works in a very unusual way.
It only ever shows the reflection of the current time!
So when it shows 7:15, what is the correct time?
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A mirror might help.
Answer
4:45.
Puzzle 3
In the following line, cross out nine letters such that the remaining letters spell a well-known animal.
e n i l n e e p l e t h t a e n r s t
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Simply cross out nine letters!
Answer
Elephant.
Cross out the letters 'nine letters' to leave the letters 'elephant'.
Puzzle 4
Which are there more of …
… fathoms in a kilometre …
… or hours in a month?
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Hours in a month.
Reasoning
A fathom is 6 feet, which is 1.8288 metres.
So there are 1000 ÷ 1.8288 ≈ 546.8 fathoms in a kilometre.
The shortest month has 28 x 24 hours = 672.
So even the shortest month has more hours than there are fathoms in a kilometre.
