Puzzle 173
At the annual BrainBashers puzzle discussion conference, 20 people attended.
At the start of the conference, each person shook hands with every other person, how many handshakes took place in total?
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Puzzle 174
Jam Making Contest - Logic Puzzles
At the recent interdepartmental jam making contest, four lucky candidates took part to make the juiciest strawberry jam.
As it happens, the person who came last was the oldest.
Glen was three years older than the person who came second.
Drew was neither the oldest nor the youngest.
Emery finished ahead of the 27 year old, but didn't win.
Alex was also unlucky this time, and didn't win either.
The ages of the contestants were 24, 27, 30 and 32.
Can you work out who finished where, and how old they were?
Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone
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Puzzle 175
Below are ten words that have been split in half.
The first column has the first 2 letters, and the second column has the last 2 letters.
Can you pair the letters and remake the ten common words?
bo af
br re
fo ne
go af
ho ke
jo ew
le ud
lo am
lo nd
so pe
Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone
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Puzzle 176
Last night, I was looking at a road sign and could see that Leeds was 13 miles away, Stoke was 13 miles away and Leek was 10 miles away.
Unfortunately, it was too dark to see how far it was to Manchester. Can you help me?
Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone
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