Puzzle 173
My local greengrocer is a would-be mathematician.
She likes to arrange the apples in nice rows.
When she lays the apples in rows of 3, she has one left over.
And, when she lays them in rows of 5, she also has one left over.
Remarkably, she also has one left over when she arranges them in rows of 7 and 9.
But 11 seems to be the magic number, because in rows of 11 there are no apples left over.
How many apples does she have?
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Puzzle 174
By changing the second letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?
You have to change each word such that the second letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.
Therefore, what now reads 'craihruane' will be a real word.
icon
crew
farm
oily
chop
arid
fund
wait
gnat
tear
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Puzzle 175
Training Stars #1 – Logic Puzzles
The first group of trainee astronauts are all sitting around the table, waiting to start their first day of training.
From the clues given below, can work out where everyone sits?
Seat 1 is next to Seat 2 and Seat 8, etc. Seat 5 is across from Seat 1, and Seat 7 is across from Seat 3, etc. Seat 2 is a higher seat number than Seat 1, etc.
William is next to Alisa and Nick.
William is across from George.
Amanda is next to Sarah.
Sarah is across from Eric.
Nick is next to Eric.
Sydney is in Seat 4 and sits next to George.
George has a higher seat number than Sydney.
Alisa is not in Seat 2.
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Puzzle 176
Using the clues below, can you find 8 four-letter words?
Once you have placed the words into the correct order, you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter.
For example, FARE may be followed by FIRE, etc.
Additional items
Insufficiently heated
A female equine
Insufficiently cooled
Pottery
A bump on a toad?
The middle of an apple
Insulated electrical wire
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