Puzzle 665
Which is larger:
days in a year
bones in an adult human body
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Hint
Adults have fewer bones than children.
Answer
Days in a year.
There are usually around 206 bones in an adult human body, and 365 or 366 days in a year.
Puzzle 666
On which side of a cup …
… is it best to have the handle?
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It's neither LEFT not RIGHT.
Puzzle 667
You can replace the dashes with the same four-letter word, and create two new words, one that starts with ARM, and one that ends in ING.
Can you find all possible four-letter words that work?
arm----
----ing
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There are 4 possible answers.
Answer
Band, load, lock, and rest, all create new words:
armband and banding
armload and loading
armlock and locking
armrest and resting
Note
Some dictionaries also allow ARMRACK, but others don't. So RACK is a unofficial possible answer.
Puzzle 668
Yesterday I was asked to buy some stamps.
Stamps, in the land of BrainBashers, are available in 2p, 7p, 10p, 15p and 20p denominations.
For three types of stamp, I was asked to buy five of each.
For the other two types of stamps, I was asked to buy six of each.
Unfortunately, I forgot which I was supposed to buy five of and which to buy six of.
I had been given £3.00, which just happened to be the exact money required, so the shopkeeper was able to work out what stamps I needed.
Which stamps did I buy?
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I bought at least 5 of every stamp.
Answer
Five lots of 2p, 7p and 15p, and six lots of 10p, and 20p.
Reasoning
The shopkeeper rightly figured that I required five lots of all of the stamps, which came to (2p + 7p + 10p + 15p + 20p) x 5 = £2.70.
For two of the stamps I needed one more of each, and these must have added to the remaining 30p, so can only have been the 10p and 20p stamps.