Puzzle 5
What comes next in the sequence:
red orange yellow green blue indigo {?}
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Hint
A very common sequence.
Answer
Violet.
From the colours of the rainbow.
Puzzle 6
Place the words below into pairs.
You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of at least one other word.
Can you find the 5 pairings, and at least one anagram each?
peer
time
date
wall
june
tone
snob
seat
pale
veil
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Try: pale + tone, veil + june, peer + date.
Answers
pale + tone = antelope
veil + june = juvenile
peer + date = repeated, departee
snob + wall = snowball
time + seat = estimate, meatiest, teatimes
Puzzle 7
If cat and a half can catch a mouse and a half in a day and a half how many mice can 3 cats catch in 3 days?
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How many mice does one cat catch?
Answer
Six mice.
1.5 cats catch 1.5 mice in 1.5 days.
so
1 cat catches 1 mouse in 1.5 days.
1 cat catches 2 mice in 3 days.
Therefore
3 cats catch 6 mice in 3 days.
Puzzle 8
Entry Exam Section B - Logic Puzzles
Here is a snippet of section B of the curious multiple-choice entrance exam into the exclusive BrainBashers puzzle club.
Q1. The answer to Q2 is:
A. B
B. A
C. D
D. C
Q2. The answer to Q3 is:
A. C
B. D
C. B
D. A
Q3. The answer to Q4 is:
A. D
B. A
C. C
D. B
Q4. The answer to Q1 is:
A. D
B. C
C. A
D. B
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Can Q1's answer be A?
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1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
Reasoning
The easiest way to solve this puzzle is to use Q1 to check the logic.
If Q1's answer was A, this tells us that Q2's answer is B, which tells us Q3's is D, which tells us Q4's answer is B, which tells us Q1's answer is C. A contradiction.
If Q1's answer was B, this tells us that Q2's answer is A, which tells us Q3's is C, which tells us Q4's answer is C, which tells us Q1's answer is A. A contradiction.
If Q1's answer was C, this tells us that Q2's answer is D, which tells us Q3's is A, which tells us Q4's answer is D, which tells us Q1's answer is B. A contradiction.
If Q1's answer was D, this tells us that Q2's answer is C, which tells us Q3's is B, which tells us Q4's answer is A, which tells us Q1's answer is D. Which is correct, and therefore the correct answer.
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