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Puzzle 525
What letter comes next in this sequence:
A · E · H · L · O · S · ?
Puzzle 526
What word most logically goes in the brackets:
EASY [HEAD] HARD
OOZE [----] FACT
Puzzle 527
If I give you seven apples, you will then have five times as many as I would then have.
However, if you give me seven apples, we will then both have the same number of apples.
How many apples do I currently have?
Puzzle 528
Golf House Mischiefall logic puzzles
Five men, whose names are Bob Edison, Tom Stevenson, Marty Brown, Jim Davis, and John Alberts were questioned by the police for a crime committed in their local golf house.
Detectives investigated, they questioned the suspects, the witnesses, and people who know the suspects, and they collected physical evidence from the crime scene.
They collected the following 14 clues, but have not been able to solve the crime.
So, they have called on you to help. Can you examine the clues, and solve the crime for them?
No two suspects have the same hair colour, weight, height, wife's first name, or colour shoes. Can you find the culprit?
The suspect who has red hair weighs 140 pounds.
Bob Edison is 5 feet 3 inches tall.
The culprit has a wife named Mary.
The suspect who weighs 150 pounds is not the one who is 5 feet 9 inches tall.
The suspect who has a wife named Pam is not the one who has blonde hair.
Jim Davis was wearing orange shoes.
John Alberts has black hair.
The suspect who has a wife named Betty weighs 200 pounds.
Tom Stevenson weighs 210 pounds.
The suspect who weighs 200 pounds has no hair.
The suspect who has a wife named Cathy weighs 140 pounds.
Marty Brown has brown hair.
The suspect who has black hair has a wife named Mary.
The suspect who has no hair is not the one who was wearing orange shoes.
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