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Puzzle 589 


Which sport is the odd one out:

football · polo · badminton · baseball · golf · tennis · cricket · billiards · rugby

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Puzzle 590 


A woman had three old coins: a silver dollar, a quarter, and a dime. Each coin was a little battered and had a piece missing. She found that exactly the same fraction had broken away from each coin.

What fraction of each was missing if the value of the remaining bits of coins was now exactly one dollar in total?

For this puzzle it can be assumed that 1/2 a coin is worth 1/2 of its value.

Based on a puzzle by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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Puzzle 591 


Below is a grid which should contain boy's names. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 592 


You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.

For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.

If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?

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