Puzzle 57
10
100
1,000
10,000
Which number comes after 10,000?
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Puzzle 58
Boat Club Boats - Logic Puzzles
At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.
There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour: red, green, blue, and yellow.
Each friend owned two boats, and no friend had two boats of the same colour.
Alex didn't have a yellow boat.
Billie didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.
One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat.
Another friend had a green boat and a blue boat.
Charlie had a yellow boat.
Drew had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.
Can you work out which friends had which coloured boats?
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Try to find Drew's boat colours first.
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Alex Red + Green
Billie Green + Blue
Charlie Yellow + Red
Drew Blue + Yellow
Reasoning
By (3), Yellow and Blue went together (Combination1: Yellow + Blue).
By (4), Green and Blue went together (Combination2: Green + Blue).
By (2), Billie had Green. By (5), Charlie had Yellow. By (6), Drew had Blue. Giving:
Alex
Billie Green
Charlie Yellow
Drew Blue
By (6), Drew had Blue, but not Green. This can't have been (Combination2: Green + Blue), so must have been (Combination1: Yellow + Blue):
Alex
Billie Green
Charlie Yellow
Drew Blue + Yellow
By (2), Billie didn't have Red, so Alex and Charlie must have had Red:
Alex Red
Billie Green
Charlie Yellow + Red
Drew Blue + Yellow
Which means that Billie had (Combination2: Green + Blue), and Alex had Green:
Alex Red + Green
Billie Green + Blue
Charlie Yellow + Red
Drew Blue + Yellow
Puzzle 59
I recently gave a new carriage clock to my friend for a very special birthday.
However, as usual with my presents, it was quite useless as it loses 6 minutes every hour.
I set it using my own accurate clock at midnight and the clock now shows 10:12am.
I know that it stopped 2 hours ago, so what is the correct time now?
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How many clock minutes pass in a real hour?
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1:20pm.
Reasoning
The clock now shows 10:12am, so we know that 10 x 60 + 12 = 612 clock minutes have passed.
Since the clock is losing 6 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed the clock will show 54 minutes.
So, 612 ÷ 54 ≈ 11.33 real hours have passed.
This equals 680 minutes, which is 11 hours and 20 minutes = 11:20am.
The clock stopped 2 hours ago, therefore the time must now be 1:20pm.
Puzzle 60
The legendary BrainBashers calendar had a recent bug. Here is a listing showing the number of days in each month:
January 107
February 68
March 135
April 15
May 133
June 104
July 104
August 16
September {?}
How many days did it show for September?
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Look at the first letters of the months.
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199.
Take the first letter of the month, and find its position in the alphabet: S = 19.
Then take the number of letters in the month: September = 9.
January 10-7
February 6-8
March 13-5
April 1-5
May 13-3
June 10-4
July 10-4
August 1-6
September 19-9
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