skip to main content


Brain Teasers and Puzzles 


?

Puzzle 457 


You are running in a marathon and you overtake the person in second place.

What position are you now in?

workings hint answer print

??

Puzzle 458 


During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.

The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.

Can you decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?

--.--.-.--.--.-...-..-----.-.-...........-..-....-..---....-
Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:

A .-B -...C -.-.D -..E .F ..-.G --.H ....I ..J .---K -.-L .-..M --N -.O ---P .--.Q --.-R .-.S ...T -U ..-V ...-W .--X -..-Y -.--Z --..

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

workings hint answer print

??

Puzzle 459 


At a local village gala, the entire population turned up, 500 people.

The event raised £3,000.

Tickets were priced as follows:
£7.48 men
£7.12 women
£0.45 children

How many children were there?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

workings hint answer print

?

Puzzle 460 


My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed a fault, I did a listing of miles from Scotland to particular countries, and here is the result:
England      12,000 miles
Peru          6,000 miles
Egypt         9,000 miles
Iceland      11,000 miles

How far away did it list Ethiopia?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

workings hint answer print