Puzzle 749
Find three common nine letter words that can be formed on an upside-down calculator.
Assuming you have one of the old-fashioned calculators that can show 9 digits!
What is the longest word which could be formed?
Puzzle 750
Nursery Playgroundall logic puzzles
At the local nursery school, I was chatting to my daughter's friends and noticed a number of things.
Frankie has mousy coloured hair and the girl with black hair was wearing a green t-shirt.
Lucy is not blonde and Lauren does not have brown hair, Chloe was wearing a blue t-shirt.
The blonde girl was not wearing red and Lauren was not wearing green.
I can't remember who was wearing a yellow t-shirt.
Can you work out the colours of the t-shirt and hair for each child?
Puzzle 751
Each of the following sets of letters can be made into a real word by adding three letters to the beginning, and the same three letters in the same order to the end.
ertainm
iscove
row
ioxid
rocos
For example:
iperspir
??? + iperspir + ???
ant + iperspir + ant
antiperspirant
Puzzle Copyright © Elliott Line
This puzzle appeared in Mensa's EnigmaSig (203.08) and is used with permission.
Puzzle 752
The local CD shop operates an unusual discount policy. The discount on the next purchase is worked out on the current purchase in the following way: for every whole pound spent you get 0.5% discount on the next purchase. For example, if you purchased £8.99 on the first purchase, you would then get a 4% discount on the next purchase and so on. You can make as many purchases as necessary.
You need to buy 7 CDs, costing, £11.50, £12.00, £12.00, £12.50, £13.00, £13.00 and £14.50. What is the cheapest method of buying them?