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Puzzle 101
Can you find three consecutive even numbers that …
… total 85,008 when multiplied together?
Puzzle 102
Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:
As managers, we deny all involvement in the unscrupulous dealings that have come to light in the recent interdepartmental investigation.
Puzzle 103
Can you place a different 3-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words?
finger[---]toe
copy[---]walk
don[---]hole
out[---]trot
every[---]dream
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case
Puzzle 104
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.
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