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Puzzle 5
Place the digits 1 to 8, into the grid. The numbers you can see are the totals for the surrounding numbers.
Puzzle 6
Downhill Mountain Bike Raceall logic puzzles
At the recent BrainBashers downhill mountain bike race, four entrants entered the challenging slalom event.
Alex finished in first position.
The entrant wearing number #2 wore red, but Drew didn't wear yellow.
The person in last place wore blue, and Stevie wore number #1.
Glen beat Stevie, and the person who finished in second wore number #3.
The entrant in yellow beat the entrant in green.
Only one of the entrants wore the same number as their final position.
Can you determine who finished where, the number, and colour they each wore?
Puzzle 7
Painter Pete, our local DIY expert, is renovating the local hospital.
He has to number each of the rooms in the hospital with plastic numbers.
However, he has run out of the number 9.
Unfortunately, he has no spare 6's available, which certainly would have been useful.
How many 9's must Pete buy in order to number all 1,000 rooms?
Puzzle 8
Can you make this equation correct by moving exactly one matchstick?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the matchsticks cannot be moved. The matchstick layouts for each digit are:
