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Puzzle 245
Complete these three-letter words, the first letters form a word reading down, and the last letters form a word reading down.
The two words reading down are closely related:
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Puzzle 246
Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central R and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?
| T | A | E | R | O | B | O |
| E | T | G | S | T | N | W |
| R | N | E | E | A | I | E |
| I | N | U | R | E | F | R |
| N | B | U | O | E | E | E |
| B | S | E | A | E | V | E |
| I | D | H | T | S | G | N |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be clicked.
Puzzle 247
GreenJack Round #3all logic puzzles
You find yourself playing a game of GreenJack with your friend.
It is played with a deck of only 16 cards, divided into 4 suits:
Red, Blue, Orange, and Green.
There are four cards in each suit:
Ace, King, Queen, and Jack.
All Aces outrank all Kings, which outrank all Queens, which outrank all Jacks, except for the Green Jack, which outranks every other card.
If two cards have the same face value, then Red outranks Blue, which outranks Orange, which outranks Green, again except for the Green Jack, which outranks everything.
Here's how the game is played: you are dealt one card face up, and your friend is dealt one card face down. Your friend then makes some true statements, and you have to work out who has the higher card, you or your friend. It's that simple!
Round 3:
You are dealt the Red Queen and your friend makes three statements:
My card could lose to a Blue card.
Knowing this, if I am more likely to have an Ace or a King than a Queen or a Jack, then I have an Orange card. Otherwise, I don't.
Given all of the information you now know, if I am more likely to have a Jack than an Ace, then I actually have a King. Otherwise, I don't.
Who has the higher card, you or your friend?
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Puzzle 248
Clown Partyall logic puzzles
Four clowns were getting ready for the evening's performance. From the clothing department, each clown had to get their socks and shoes.
There was one pair of shoes in each colour, and one pair of socks in each colour.
Can you tell the colours of their shoes and socks?
The red socks went with the blue shoes.
Baba had yellow shoes, but not yellow socks.
The clown with green shoes did not have blue socks.
Boba had neither red shoes nor red socks.
Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks.
The clown with red shoes had green socks.