Puzzle 625
Below are five phrases that have been altered. Rearrange the words so that when they are read aloud they will sound very similar to the required phrase. For example "Ducks Sits Hound Fa Mill Ear" = "Does it sound familiar".
crows dose my off wind
cab chalk clicks fizz lie lye ox soft
a crowed fall jest lobe Rick oath yell
beef four heap luck Yule
dud rough wharf whorls
Puzzle Copyright © Carl Ginnow. Used with permission.
Puzzle 626
Jam Making Contestall logic puzzles
At the recent interdepartmental jam making contest, four lucky candidates took part to make the juiciest strawberry jam.
As it happens, the person who came last was the oldest.
Glen was three years older than the person who came second.
Drew was neither the oldest nor the youngest.
Emery finished ahead of the 27-year-old, but didn't win.
Alex was also unlucky this time, and didn't win either.
The ages of the contestants were 24, 27, 30 and 32.
Can you work out who finished where, and how old they were?
Puzzle 627
What four related words are merged here:
swas puri uinm nttu mger mner
Puzzle 628
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.
Puzzle Copyright © David Leithauser